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The Isr. Parliament passed a measure that would require Pal. who marry Israelis to live separate lives or move out of Isr.! This law would prevent Pal. from the West Bank who marry Arab citizens of Israel(there are many) from obtaining residency permits in Israel. When these sorts of laws...

Like any set of directions, they must be carefully followed or the destination indicated may never be reached. I hope (I pray!) that the US Road Map for Middle East Peace will be followed but I am pessimistic. Here's why: 1. Sharon's administration has no intention of giving up all or even a...

Now don't get irritated with me: actually I'm quite harmless. I've enjoyed some profitable discussions with my Calv friends on a variety of issues, but I was wondering. I know this will strike some of you as the ravings of a lunatic Baptist, but..... Is there nothing at all in this marvelous...

if I like the way it is normally taught and explained. Perhaps we have need of clarifying Who God is and His wonderful plan of redemption. We cannot have a doctrine of the Trinity as defined by our ancestors in the Faith unless we understand WHO JESUS IS. He is the final and clear and...

Honestly, I don't understand this passage. I've done everything but stand on my head and read the text(don't tempt me). Some believe that between His death and res Jesus went to the imprisoned spirits(fallen angels? people who lived during Noah's day? both?) and preached to them. Preach what...

Some believe that it is Pride, that which motivated the Devil and our early parents to overstep the bounds God had established. If the highest virtue is love (ICor.13:13), perhaps it's opposite is the refusal to love: I talk about love , but like the Parable of the Good Samaritan, it is too easy...

The Doctrine of God, that is: since the early Fathers were not infallible, we may need to humbly take issue with some of their views, eg. Augustine created some major problems with his belief that God existed outside of time (the Bible simply teaches that God is eternal). He borrowed this idea...

A lot of people would love to see those words in headlines in their daily newspaper! A real answer to prayer, huh? After all, he has refused to condemn the suicide bombings, especially in Arabic, so his own people would knock it off, right? Well.... Even before his statement on April 13...

Twenty nine Palestinian students were in injured in Jaba, near Jenin. A student was playing with an explosive device found outside the school, took it into the classroom before it detonated. When is it ever gonna end? Shrapnel from suicide bombs ripping into bloody bodies, Palestine homes a...

We justly recoil at the reports of the oppressive regime of Iraq: surely Saddam H. is Joseph Stalin revived, come back to terrorize his people. However, while we are shooting the daylights out of the Iraqui forces, we seem to forget that we have cozied up to a very oppressive regime and...

Don't get me wrong--no doubt about it, "sin entered the world thru one man"(Rom.5:12). This guy and his better(?) half had everything and threw it all away, and, voila: the world as we know it!! However, we are NOT held responsible for Adam's sin. He did pull down the curtain on Eden and...

It seems to me that we can go to our study carrying a pile of Bible translations, study helps, CD Roms, etc., but make glaring errors in interpretation. I believe the missing ingredient is often CONTEXT. 1. Near context: what was the writer or speaker saying just before and after the passage...

When a Palestinian blows himself and surrounding civilians it gets everyone's attention and it should. When Israel uses its military to demolish houses and its Mossad to torture Arab detainees, well, HO-HUM. The reason that Israel is so expert at terrorism is their history: Israeli terrorists...

In 1953 W. Germany agreed to pay Israel $715 million, most of it in machinery and goods over the next 12 yrs as partial reparation for material losses incurred by Jews during the Nazi regime. Other European countries have been expected to ante up for their complicity in the horrors of the...