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If this statement was ment as a joke, it certainly was less than funny. Condoning acts of violence is tentamount to committing them yourself, in my mind. As has been mentioned before, with Christ came a new era of Grace, and therefore much of the harshness of the Law was laid aside...but it...

Quite right..I couldn't get the 'off topic' smiley to work :wave:...

My turn to 'sigh'...when invisible friends actually start to talk back (and it's not due to a mental illness ;)), what then? I'm guessing most supporters of other religions, apart from the Bible, will think this would be a great thing, perhaps since a 'helpful spirit' has been reached...but to...

Quite right...err mostly...now let's get the full picture... Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. Rom 1:17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith...

Warning: Very long post!! :sorry: (let's see if we can find some scriptural answers to some of the questions floating around this post lately...) Luk 12:51 "Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? I tell you, no, but rather division; Luk 12:52 for from now on five...

Almost left before i saw this post, lol... This is the word, taken from Strong's numbers, for your personal ease of reference: H7523 רצח ratsach (953d); a prim. root; to murder, slay: - killed (1), kills the manslayer (1), manslayer (18), murder (7), murdered (2)...

This is where people get the wrong impression of Christianity. God isn't so much doing the punishing, as we are to ourselves...if we refuse to believe, and follow God, in the way He has decreed, then He has decreed that there is no place for us within His Kingdom....only outside of it :eek...

Details?...it was a mistranslation, period, and has been fixed in later translations...it's kinda sad that pervious translations don't really bother to make corrections :scratch::cry::sick: ...and it's not really a change, as much as it is a fix...but it does put the rest of the Old Testament...

:repost: I'll remind several people of something, who seem to be contributing to this thread, and ignoring one simple point; The commandment reads as follows: "You Shall Not Murder" ...it is not, "You shall not Kill". This was a mis-translation, that worked it's way into the KJV, etc...

LOL..try Thou shalt not Murder...

...herbal medicine, etc, no...God gave us things like this, for our health...but if someone were to worship them, or put them before God ;)...or if, say, combined with spirit worship of some sort :sigh:... ...meditation is a different matter, depending on how you describe it. Eastern...

In so many ways, lol...we live under Grace now, not under the Law. We were told to destroy anything that could turn us away from God in the Old Testament, but the New Testament tells us we don't have to anymore, and to share this 'good news' with them ;) :D....

Christanity as we know and love it today, yes, but Judiaism predates written language, and it is this God we are speaking of, the God of Abrahm, Isaac and Jacob. It is also true that many forms of paganism also predate written language. I believe what my God says, that it was He Who created...

The many translations of the Bible are a big stumbling block to many. However, if one takes the time to actually study the translations, you'll find some interesting things. Some are most assuredly only out to make a dollar, and so peddle the Word for profit, and so have 'translated' the Bible...

Sure...the Bible makes it clear that there are many 'false gods' running around, playing at 'Being God', and fully able to deceive others into thinking they are following 'the right path', as it were. But, to have faith in the God of the Bible, means that you have to believe all of it, not...

..yeah, and pretty good ones, too. In the Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek it most certainly is defined metaphorically, but it is in a way that seems universally understood, then and now. 'Heart' is defined not only as the actual organ, but also the inner-most part of your being, the center, and most...

....yup..quite right, on many counts, there...is why we have 'testing the spirit', as per '1 John 4' ;)...

Hey, I've been watching this thread for awhile now, and I've been meaning to post a few 'testamonies' of my own, when I found the time. I have environmental illness myself, though it is leaving me as I learn to follow God more and more. A leader in my church is no longer plagued by this...

Unfortunately, I must agree Myah. This guy hasn't got a very tight reign on scripture. Let's see what some other scholars have to say on the subject: Also, the fellow seems to have forgotten the next verse ;) : Mat 8:13 And Jesus said to the centurion, "Go; it shall be done for you as...

Yup..this is why we have the five-fold ministry (:topic: , sorry). If we see the minister doing EVERYTHING, he quickly gets burned out, and nothing truly gets done. That's what it's like here, for the most part, but my church is working to put forth a different model, one centered on deep...