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Luther Said: Polygamy Is Permissible "I confess that I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict the Scripture. If a man wishes to marry more than one wife he should be asked whether he is satisfied in his conscience that he may do so in accordance with the word...

@DamianWarS made a post about how our culture should operate when it comes to young men and women, and I thought it was excellent. It can be found here: Should I wait till marriage? While I like the post above, unless there was a complete upheaval of western culture, it's not going to happen...

Just so we're clear I'll state my position. My position is that the Bible doesn't definitively state one way or the other that masturbation is a sin. However, if someone is personally convicted about it, stick to your own convictions. I do have a different take on this topic though that isn't...

Okay, so I'm going to start off by stating my position just so we're clear. I believe the "new earth" theory is nonsense. However, the purpose of this post isn't to debate the age of the earth, but rather, I'm trying to sort out why it matters how old the earth is?? It seems in my experience...

Some of you may not have heard of Peter Kreeft. I find him to be exceptionally intelligent and has a ton of great material for the apologist. :) Here he lays out one of C.S Lewis' favorite arguments for the existence of God, the argument from desire: 1. Every natural innate desire in us...

To me, church is the one place that you should be able to go no matter what your gender, sexual orientation, class, how you talk, dress, etc. (Obviously: This excludes criminal activity within the church, and extreme cases) What prompted this thought: How do you tell a person that their mode...

People seem SO passionate about this topic, more so than others... there are no end to the threads that discuss if it is a sin or not. However, what's the concern with sex before marriage over other sins?? From a Biblical perspective, what do you think happens to a person if they have sex...

So I was thinking about this more as I have seen it come up on various threads (including my own). I don't really know if this is a debatable topic, since the Greek word for wine is the same in John 2, as it is in say Ephesians 5:18 when it states "do not get drunk with wine", yet some still...

I've been in the church a very long time, about 25 years plus a year in Bible college. A consistent theme I have seen both in my experience in the church and on this forum (some will say it's the same thing)... has been the consistent use of what is conjecture, to influence others. So, why, for...

In the creation of my thread on sex found here: Sex... losing a part of yourself!?!? I came across some new bologna I've never heard before... this idea of "soul ties". When I read that I had to do a double take. I've never heard the term used in the Bible, and furthermore, I've never even...

So from what I understand, there are very limited circumstances where one can get a diverse Biblically speaking. I'm not promoting divorse in this thread, and I'm happily married for 13 years at the age of 34... and hope to be married to my partner till the end! :) Now thats out of the way... I...

So, I'm a Christian Libertarian... just wondering if there are others on here who share the same political outlook as I? If you don't understand the philosophy of liberty, I'd recommend checking out: Wikipedia states: "Libertarianism (Latin: liber, "free") is a collection of political...

I swear, Christians can be so freaking weird to me... There seems to be a certain type of Christian obsessed with eschatology, "end times", revelation, and just stuff, that quite frankly... I NEVER think about or care to think about. These same people are the types that won't buy a Dirt Devil...

Jeepers this takes me back! This was like every early 90's Christian kids favorite show. :D

I was having a conversation with my wife about an experience she had in youth group as a young lady. This activity in youth groups was all the rage in the early 90's. She said the youth pastor would have the girls hold a piece of paper while boys, one by one, would come up and rip a piece off...

I was just thinking about this!!! Do you guys remember the Y2K "scare"?? :D I was in high school at the time and I remember thinking my families Christian circle of friends had gone insane. I knew someone who had actually made a bunker with food and water rations. Not gonna lie, I still laugh...

There seems to be a common trend I'm observing on the forum, and that is the idea of sinless perfectionism. That somehow the Holy Spirit has removed not only all sin, but even the desire to sin. That "true" Christians become sinless. A recent thread on CF promoting this heresy: If you commit...

I often see Christian's state: God defines marriage, you cannot alter the definition of marriage. I'd like to suggest, yes that's true, but only for Christian couples. I do not believe God defines marriage for secular unions. So why do Christian's try and impose their definition of marriage...

When people say "fleshly", what the heck are they talking about? I keep seeing people write, that's "fleshly" things!! I'm being serious here... if anyone with some solid hermeneutic skills could fill me in, that would be awesome... because it seems as though people just chuck that term out...

Two things are true: We are not above error Non-believers can recognize that error. YET, I don't know about you, but I get the distinct impression people in the church dislike being called out on their ethics, especially by those not in the church. Western Christendom "seems" to set itself...