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It's frightening all the same. American blood was shed copiously to defeat Hitler and totalitarianism, mind control etc. What is happening?

The teaching of Christ is about mercy. Blessed are those who are merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. I think in the interests of anyone's salvation, it is wisest to walk that path of mercy without discriminating. The Beatitudes also have a Woe section. And those who can't show or conceive of...

Also, some people in the Gospel receive forgiveness from God in Jesus without repenting. For example, many sick people are forgiven their sins just out of Christ's compassion. And so they get well.

I think in one Gospel the Lord says IF you do not forgive others their sins, neither will my Father in heaven forgive you. The wisest and safest course for a clean conscience before God is to forgive no matter what. God is not involved in your petty quarrels. You know that God will set the whole...

Faith is a gift from God. But it is also when it is offered, a question of whether or not you accept the gift. We are not necessarily good teachers of the Word. But if we want to convert people, we have to live the Word, that is, the Word of self sacrificial love, and deep tenderness towards yes...

Hurting children or anyone innocent and unable to defend themselves is sad and sick. I think people have a tendency to accumulate wickedness once they have committed a horrendous sin. They rush pell mell into hell. God probably just wonders when they will stop. Repentance means facing all the...

Perfection is a long way away from us, here in the USA. I see it practically, as positing faith in Christ and carrying it out in your life. Particularly in the commandments, which He says we will follow IF we love HIM. Love God with all your heart and all your strength and love your neighbor as...

God gave men and women free will even in the garden of Eden. For a while, men and women made the choice to obey God and that was their love for Him. At a certain point, beguiled by evil, or the devil, men and women thought they could accomplish more themselves. It is actually quite common to...

I was also very afraid for my Dad who died two years ago and was not a great Christian, although he accepted Christ as his Savior. I think you have to put a lot of trust, to really believe in the MERCY of God. Look at it this way--we are often extremely cruel to one another on various pretexts...

Please, grant amnesty to all those seeking political asylum--WITH their children. Stop harming children in the Name of Christ. I really think we'll be judged for what we did to immigrant children. God nowhere demands papers, visas, passports. Just love, forbearance, tenderness, especially to...

Please, please, don't go in that direction. I do that and it hurts. You know we are also little children of Christ especially when we suffer. <staff edit> We must consider ourselves torn from our Parent when we think of death. I love you and I don't want you to die.

I think there are certain parts of Scripture that are more urgently needed than others. This is a national tragedy concerning children whom the nation is sanctioning the abuse of. Why is this so? Have illegal immigrants committed such a huge crime that they need to be jailed at the border after...

I don't think the Scriptures are clear as a recipe for pancakes is clear. According to the Gospels some people are excluded from understanding the parables. But I think the Word is Alive and so if your heart is pure before God you will see God in the Scriptures.

I'm not adequately informed about this, however, it isn't maybe just a matter of believing in transubstantiation, which is Catholic and Orthodox. But a matter of eating and drinking of the Lord's Body and Blood in soul. Since we all believe in the immortality of the soul--how does this come...

The "saints" are just friends of Christ. In the Gospel, certain Greeks asked James and John to ask the Lord if they could see Him. So the disciples go to Christ who responds that He is being glorified. At another time one of the disciples, I think it is Nathaniel asks another disciple about...

It would be the same as it is, only for some reason, at the heart of it, would be the interpretation that all souls go to heaven.

I don't think God, I mean was unaware of the shape of the earth He created, or that He formed the sun first, but men were. I often think the men who wrote the Bible, because men and their hands wrote it, struggled to gain intimacy with God and His mind and Heart and to hear the Holy Spirit but...

I don't think God was unaware of the shape of the earth, or that the sun formed first. But I think men were. I think men in holy scripture struggle to gain intimacy with God and His mind and Heart, ie. they try to hear the Holy Spirit and can only inadequately do so. Therefore essentially they...

The satirizing of the devil because his power has been taken away from him forever by Christ in His holy ones (saints) is what Hallow Eve is all about, the night before All Saints' Day. There is NOTHING evil in Halloween. Only holiness.

Hallow means holy. Een means eve.