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I’ve read in John Wenham’s well researched “Easter Enigma” That far from being poor ignorant peasants, the disciples Peter and Andrew, and probably John had a prosperous family fishing business. John 18:15 shows that probably John had a high status, being known to the High Priest. Some NT...

Like the writer above says, because of the shape of the wing as the wing moves through the air, the air above the wing has to travel further than the air under the wing. So the air above gets thinned, so the pressure below is higher, causing lift.

We are indeed scorched, constantly blasted with the cosmic microwave background radiation left over from the Big Bang. But things cooled down long ago and by now the microwave background is only strong enough to heat us up by a minute fraction of a degree Kelvin.

The reason is that the 17th century translator of the KJV believed in unicorns, and when he found a word in the original Hebrew that no one knew the meaning of but obviously meant some kind of big strong animal, for want of anything else he translated it as “unicorn”. Later translations guess...

I do! Morning and evening on Sundays for nearly the last 50 years. Love it! Good preaching and good Christian company. Also the midweek meeting too.

Try the opening of Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana”, or Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man.” These are very rousing and emotive.

Job 12:23-25 "He makes nations great, and He destroys them. He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and makes them wander in a pathless waste. They grope in the dark without light; and He makes them stagger like a drunken man."

I've heard it put that the head covering requirement is purely a cultural thing of the time. It was generally regarded as improper for a woman to have her head uncovered, much like in early 20th century Britain. In Paul's time having her head uncovered would be something like a girl attending...

Apparently marriage doesn’t exist in Heaven, except that we’re the bride of Christ. But the Bible doesn’t seem to say that male and female differences will cease to exist.

No but he just lost Greenland and Denmark.

Hell exists for at least a couple of good reasons. 1 Sending evil people to Hell is perhaps the most loving thing a loving god can do with them. Think about it. For a sinful soul to spend eternity in the presence of a holy God would be like standing in a blast furnace for ever. In sending...

C S Lewis used an odd definition of “myth”. Myth is usually thought of as a mere story that isn’t true. If I understand it correctly, C S Lewis’ usage of “myth” was along the lines of a story that was “true” in the sense of accurately And more profoundly depicting reality, but in a figurative...

God knows best what we really need. Sometimes experiencing suffering is good for us because it pulls us away from our merely earthly life. Besides which, God is certainly not there simply as a sort of good luck charm when we need Him. The Bible tells us that suffering is part of our common lot...

It’s been built already! See 1Cor.3:16; 6:19; 2Cor. 6:16 and Eph. 2:21 for starters.

There is no “Leap of Faith” in Christianity, about the soul or anything else. The Bible presents reliable evidence, good authority and clear argument that should lead us confidently to belief.

“Science” is too broad a term in this context. Sciences such as archaeology certainly constantly prove Bible descriptions to be accurate. Sciences like chemistry and electronics are completely neutral. If you read New Scientist magazine, a leading popular British science publication, many of its...

That Jesus was born on December 25 (no one knows Jesus’ birthday, probably nearer summer.) That there were three wise men. (At least three gifts, at least two wise men) Three kings at Christmas. (Wise men, not Kings) Shepherds and wise men all together at the nativity in Bethlehem. (Wise men...

It reads like a description of what Laban did, rather than an endorsement of it.

G K Chesterton’s “The Everlasting Man” is a powerful and thought provoking argument for the divinity of Jesus. Well worth reading. But apart from the Bible no book has moved me more in my Christian life than C S Lewis’ “Mere Christianity”. I read this a few months after becoming a Christian and...

Simply because He is God, the Lord, and you are His creation.