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Everything is a "hate" crime these days. The word is all but meaningless.

Mathew 18:20

Sigh, I didn't want to get semantic here, I was feeling pretty anti-semantic, but "altar" might not be the correct word. Shrine? Prayer corner? Whatever people want to call it. There is really no need to get super pedantic about it.

Not sure what this "generic god" nonsense you are talking about is, or how you can say that and yet call yourself a Christian, but if you are as you claim, then your God has a name. Your savior has a name. Your Lord and Master has a name. If you fail to recognize them and you are beset by...

I'm not even sure the scripture supports the trinitarian model, at least not in the sense that most seem to think of. I might so far go as to call it false doctrine.

Your point is well taken, but I was sort of alluding to the idea that they had other children between Abel and Seth that they just forgot to mention.

Genesis is not shy about being absolutely exhaustive about genealogies. To then assume that they just skimped on mentioning all of their children just seems....disingenuous.

There are seemingly two giant plot holes in the first few chapters of Genesis. They have always bothered me. When I was an atheist I was able to point and laugh, but as a Christian there is no satisfactory answers to be found. Anyone that ever tries to answer them ends up making assumptions...

I have been going through a spiritual battle, at least this is what my pastor called it. Seems the more I read and study the word, the more supernatural things assail me. I have been having lots of religious dreams, some beautiful, some scary. The morning I was to be baptized a couple days...

I think I have to side with her on that one brother, your....syntax ..came across fairly snide. Far be it from me to judge what is in the heart of another, but I definitely read "snide." However, offense is taken, not given and forgiveness and turn the other cheek and all that.

1 Corinthians 11:3, 1 Corinthians 14, as well as others. God created Eve to be Adam's helper. It sounds crass, anti-PC, and perhaps chauvinistic to suggest that women must be servile to men, but in regards to spiritual matters the bible is quite clear on this point. I could find more...

I often point to Luke 14:26 to open minds as to what "hate" can mean in the bible. Read that, then dust off your Strong's and get ready.

Eternal security was the first lie ever told by the snake to Eve, the idea that your salvation--your eternal life--is a given, that you may eat of the fruit, disobey God, and still have everlasting life. OSAS is false doctrine that treats your salvation like a checkbox on some government form...

And your implication is what exactly? That there is one true denomination and the rest false? That one person dedicates themself to Christ properly, and the rest do not?

So, I have an altar in my room set up for prayer. It holds my bible, has a couple incense holders (purely decorative), a few unrelated things below, and a tapestry of an angel above. I am thinking I need to remove the unrelated items to properly sanctify it, but I want to know if there is...

There is such a thing as dual citizenship, but not sure about military service. Seems a bit of a false equivalence/dichotomy.

I am reminded of something my pastor told me the other day, and I am paraphrasing, "As long as you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, and believe that he died for your sins, your forgiveness, and your salvation, the rest is negotiable."

Geocentrism was not supported by actual math--which in this parable might as well be scientific scripture. We must beware the false prophets in both our spiritual and scientific faiths.

Well, the Higgs was a theory for 50 years before it was confirmed. The math supported it, but without evidence, physicists had to "take it on faith." I smile at that. DM and DE may be theories only supported by math, and science may have to take them "on faith," but as the Higgs revealed...

Can we steer this thread back on track, please. This is not a place to cast down denominations and proselytize to those that do.