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Has your husband ever been tested for Asperger's syndrome? I've dealt with it my entire life. If you're not familiar with it, it basically makes it extremely hard to empathize with the emotions and thought patterns of others that differ from your own. Someone with that syndrome functions...

Sure, if you take those verses completely out of context. It's simply saying not to swear oaths. Historically, they couldn't count on being able to fulfill the promises they made since any one of them could have been killed at any moment. Persecution and all that. That's all these verses are about.

You want God to smite...your psychiatrist. Uh-huh. Well, I'm no psychiatrist myself, but I've studied under a few as a social worker, and I'll tell you right now, the latter half of your post absolutely screams sociopath, and I think that whatever the guy's been trying to do to help you is...

It's difficult because there are so many interpretations. If I wanted to, for instance, I could make a case for...let's say, hypothetically: No hell, gays are okay, premarital sex is okay, no second coming...you get my point. If I focused enough on mistranslation and other human corruption of...

All modern prophets are false. In our age, anyone who claims to speak for God about a future event, is a liar.

That is my new favorite quote. Ever. Of all time. I've been trained in Southern Shaolin for about eight years now, which is enough time to learn the martial applications of Qigong as well as the healing aspects. Knowing the benefits it gives, it hurts to see paranoia around what is often...

Nice. I pose an alternative view, no less legitimate than yours, and you attack me. It's not clear. Mistranslation is a very real thing. Like I said, debate isn't allowed. Do the research yourself, before you condemn a brother in Christ.

EXACTLY. There are circumstances in life that prevent marriage, as has been shown repeatedly by posters in this thread. God looks at the heart and the behaviors, not a piece of paper handed out by the government. Now, just by saying that I run the risk of this post getting reported (it's...

inappropriate contenteia - from Koine Greek, meaning "sexual immorality." "Fornication" as the English translation of this word came about later, and brought about entirely different connotations. "Sexual immorality," from the NT's authors' perspectives, meant pagan ritual prostitution. When Paul said to abstain...

THIS. SO much this. Mistranslation is such a glaring issue in the Abrahamic faiths. It causes our focus to be misplaced from doing good works onto things we imagine are forbidden to us, but which really aren't.

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ForumGuy: In some extremely literal Biblical interpretations, people wonder if Christ perhaps used Qigong as the modality of His healings. Specifically, in Mark 5:30, it is said, 'Jesus felt energy leave His body, and He turned to the crowd and said, "Who touched my robes?"' That "energy," in...

I owe my health to Qigong. I have an autoimmune condition. The medicine for said condition is WAY out of my price range. I can keep the condition under control with Qigong. There's nothing demonic about it at all. It's just a science that hasn't been adequately explored in the West. The heat's...

Parsley: You're so incredibly right about the successful ones being those who can treat their passion like a business. With Youtube, it depends on how you approach it. I'm still not making enough money with the Adsense revenue yet, but I've only been at it for...about eight months now, I think...

Actually, I was. I was raised into music, and have several professionals in my family. I've known this was something I wanted to do since I was eight. Thirteen was just the age when I actually started studying the business of it. Thanks for assuming I don't know what I'm talking about...

Fedele - I'm not as professional as I'd like, yet, but I do have about eight years' intimate insight into the music industry, and let me be the first to say: You can totally still make a living as a musician. It's not true anymore that the income model is...make music, tour to promote the music...

SomeonePleaseHelpMe, can you help me understand something? You've said in other threads you damaged something in your chest, which brought on this pain. Correct? You state also that you got the best anatomical book you can find, I assume with the intent of learning what it is you have damaged...

AHAHA! Great idea, Znr :D

For what it's worth, that's a popular misrepresentation of Gnosticism. I've read some of the Gnostic material myself; it makes for a fun historical study. They're actually far less ascetic than the Medieval Church side of history made them out to be. Modern Christianity is WAY more ascetic than...

Oh...Oh, dear. That's an interesting premise. Spiritual energies, hm? So Christians are...what, empaths? Psychics? I don't think I signed up for that. All jokes aside, I know for a fact that not all Christians (perhaps even "almost no Christians") will agree with you on that point. It is far...