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Can non-real things be blessed. Like this website, could this website be blessed. Do only Catholics do blessings? (Isn't baptism a sort of blessing, a consecration, setting me aside to serve God, baptism does a lot of things but isn't that one of them) I am not understanding what a blessing is...

I am looking for content on things like "how involved with my decision to shop at Safeway (a grocery store, I think it is regional so it may need an explanation) or to shop at Fred Meyer (another grocery store). I also need information on what my responsibility is in the decision to shop at one...

I worked the donation door at a local charity and was appalled at the way they received their donations. They dug through the plastic bags of clothes and looked for items to reject, because they were stained, or because they were a pillow and might have lice in them. They would not accept bed...

(warning: this is a little rambling because I am not sure what I am trying to ask) Here is an NASB URL for Hosea 4 Bible Gateway passage: Hosea 4 - New American Bible (Revised Edition) The NASB says "ruin" instead of "die" but what does the statement mean in general? To me it seems like what...

I was listening to some old mp3s of a preacher the other day. He said that "history was already written" and that is why "prophecy works". (he was from Tennessee) OK. I guess. Is everything already written out about my life? Or do I have some say in it? We know what happened to Jonah when he...

I am working on a prayer because I am stymied in my growth. I am following the ACTS format. I have tried to support everything with scripture. For instance, the A in ACTS is Adoration, so I used portions of 1 Chronicles 29:11-13 for my adoration in the prayer. 11 Yours, O Lord, is the...

My friend is a Christian. She has also relapsed. What sort of information do I need? I am reading Mark Shaw's "The Heart of Addiction". Whatever it is you can recommend will need to have scriptural support for its ideas or she will dismiss any idea she does not like "out of hand". She is a...

God picked me before the foundation of the world. So he knew me, or my spirit or soul, or something. Did he know what parents I would get? How I would respond the them? What physical/mental/spiritual limitations I would have? Because it sounds like he does, but how involved is he in this...

(first off, I apologize, some things I cite, some I don't. If your a Calvanist, I assume you have a higher level of training than the average Christian in America. Anyway this question is bugging me so I will hazard it) Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of...

My Google searches have returned plenty of churches in the area but most of them don't have (or at least they don't show) a Wednesday night Bible study. My soteriology is Calvanist, so i probably should look for a church who shares that belief. I work on Sundays so I can't really go to church...

Is there an introductory book to learn logic (or critical thinking) specifically for Christians. I was listening to an apologist the other day and knew I came up short on logic. I followed the apologists argument and even his refutation of the opposing views argument; but knew I could not have...

I did not go to church as a child. All the sermons I have heard have been by Calvinists. So I had not traditions to overcome and all I have heard salvation, grace, and election in nearly every sermon. The other thing I have heard is that you have to deal with the text. Always exegesis, don’t...

This came up after a freedom of religion conversation I had some time ago. Perhaps I should not be so joyful about our First Amendment. I have some legal training and a rabid Republican for a brother. So this stuff comes up somewhat frequently. But I had never thought about the goat demon part...

Scriptural support for question at end. Ephesians 1:4 (NASB) just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. John 6:65 (NASB) And He was saying, “For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been...

I haven't found a church in the Portland Oregon area but I still needed some sort of fellowship. I found your site by searching for "Calvinist forums". I agree with Calvin's (or Paul's, or really the Spirits) soteriology. I don't think I like Calvin's eschatology but I don't know it very well...