Recent content by Dunamite

You must solve your own problems. There is no magical solution and they will not miraculously disappear, even for devout Christians. God never promised that life would be easy. He just promises to be by our side all of the way.Most of the time we make our problems bigger than they are because we...

I was brought up Christian but grew up as an atheist much to the disappointment of my family. I had my own journey to take and it took me the first 30 years of my life to reach an understanding of who God is.The problem with atheism is that it is not the absence of belief. It is the belief that...

Free will is essential because of love. Love cannot be constrained. It must be freely given or it isn't love. God made us as objects of his love. He wants love in return from us. For it to mean anything we must choose to give it of our own free will.It is the same with returning to him. He does...

QUOTE (Mustafah @ Mar 22 2009, 12:25 PM) Greetings,What's the reasoning behind Christian women not being allowed to lead Bible study classes? (Male students). Why does it matter whether it's a man or woman when it comes to knowledge? I found this very strange. Please clarify.- Regards. Churches...

QUOTE (Mustafah @ Mar 22 2009, 12:29 PM) Greetings,I don't understand the concept of a ALL loving God who willing fully sends people to hell if they don't believe in Him. How does it make sense that the god of the bible can hang onto his all loving attribute yet still scare people by saying he...

I am reading Anne Rice's Christ the Lord, Out of Egypt and don't know what to make of it. You may know her work more for her vampire novels which trouble me. She is a Roman Catholic with much time invested exploring in the Apocrypha. All of this leaves me a bit cold. I think that it is great...

America will end when all countries do, at the end of time. However, it can and will change.I believe that the financial crisis was planned in order to realign the world away from America and towards Asia. Capitalism does not care where it makes it money. If you think that capitalists care about...

http://www.marketskeptics.com/2009/03/how-...rs-reserve.htmlRead this insightful article complete with graphs to see the implications of this for America. It is huge! If you want scroll to the end to see how this may affect you.

QUOTE (Lookin'4wardtoHeaven @ Mar 22 2009, 10:51 PM) 9And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. 10And Paul went down, and fell...

Losing one's salvation means that God makes mistakes which is impossible and that we are saved by our own efforts and not grace. I can't agree with either of those two things so I believe in OSAS until I see evidence to the contrary.In the end it does not matter because it is all in God's hands...

I know that we should study scripture, but we should not waste time on inconsequential things when we should be expanding the kingdom. There is no test to get into Heaven. We don't need to know all of the answers. What we need to be able to do is to spread the message of love and hope. Academics...

QUOTE (LostSheep @ Mar 3 2009, 03:56 PM) im sure most of us have noticed strange thingz written in the bible.like why is there a page that teaches you how to sell slaves?why doez it tell us to stone homosexuals to death?does anybody know if these things are to be taken literally?if not, then...

QUOTE (cedarhart @ Mar 1 2009, 06:21 AM) That's the only logical reasoning, unless someone has another. I've thought about this "unfolding" of the Spiritual behavior and intelligence for some time now. In order to understand how Lucifer fell, we must consider what his options would have been...

QUOTE (iesous @ Mar 3 2009, 01:00 PM) Most of the readers of the New Testament like to ignore the mentioned 2 JESUS11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth ANOTHER JESUS, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not...

Does it matter? It seems to me that it is irrelevant. We are what we are. Why should a label be important? To get into heaven you don't join a group but enjoy a relationship. This seems to me one of those "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" questions, which makes it a useless...