Recent content by Telerea

(Denver;45532) On the contrary, this is a Christian site, where the authority is established upon the Bible. If you'd like to run a website with contrary intentions, then by all means do so, but this being my website it will be run ultimately by my rules. We're only interested in Christians that...

(kriss;45455) What your not getting here Telerea is this is not Christainity There are many (thousands) of Christianities - what version are you talking about? Please respond without using the term 'truth' or any variant thereof.{I realise I am taking a risk at putting limits on how answers...

Please"]but if you do not understand scripture is the inspired Word of God Inspired? Sure, not a problem with that. Literal and 100% true from a historical perspective? Not so much. Inquiring minds want to know what others believe and think (aka research). And it gives me a chance to better...

Sorry Kriss - didn't mean to misrepresent you.Queries: - how do you (collectively, not aimed at any one individual) know what Jesus actually said? The words recorded in the multitudinous English translations of the Bible are incredibly far from the original... and even that was written (at the...

No. No. No. And Again NO.While I do not advocate abortion as an appropriate form of birth control...I will not condemn a woman to death if she is not capable of surviving giving birth.I will not condemn a person to a life of suffering and pain if they are brought into a house where there is no...

(Red_Letters88;45020) I see the word- Selah used often in Psalms, usually at the end of the prayer or passage, what does it mean? Can you give a specific example? Without looking at the original text, I can't help - transliterations are practically useless for me.

There is no one religion or denomination that has an unequivocal claim on Truth. We just think we do based on our "correct" interpretation of collections of scribbles on a page that were originally written in a language that few of us even know.So, I agree with Kriss, and take the point one...

There is so much more to Wisdom than chapter 2. Consider her words in Provers 8:1 Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise her voice?... 22 "The LORD brought me forth as the first of his works, before his deeds of old; 23 I was appointed from eternity, from the...

In Christianity, apocrypha refers to those books/pieces of scripture that didn't make it into the canonized version of the Bible. Of course, they also vary depending on what version of the Bible you are using (vulgate, KJV, Luther, etc.).The term itself just means 'hidden'.I would consider them...

Out of curiosity, what is the process for that here?

The NRSV is what most academics use - it is pretty close to a direct translation from the Hebrew and Greek.The NET is painfully literal (I've only seen it from the Greek though).Oh, and The Message is a paraphrase, not a translation. You are right to discount it.Of course, reading in the...

(walking4him;44585) This really does annoy me that a new age religion is allowed to have a display like that but Christian themes that were part of the creation of the United States are are taken out. ~~~~~~~~(RaddSpencer;44594) Well, the flying spaghetti monster is actually a jab at the...

(walking4him;44601) I'm very new but where do I/ how would I become knowlegeable of Christian Apologetics? READ! Know what your version of Christianity is first, then start trying to explain and justify it to others (within your denomination, outside your denomination but who are still...

An interesting news story about a "religious" display in front of a courthouse.Excerpt:Funny. Deplorable. Profound. Weird. Those are just several of the reactions one might hear when discussing the Cumberland County courthouse’s newest lawn ornament – the Flying Spaghetti Monster.Thoughts?If...

Really? 50%? Where is that data from?And actually, yes, that does mean something - it means that a whole lot of lifeforms are similar! You know, we are all related etc. etc. etc.... By looking after the Earth, we look after ourselves.Also - there is a whole lot of ground between 50% to...