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This place is so well run by the admins and mods that I fear I spend a little too much time here. :joyful:

Double AMEN!! Nice post There are so many variables at play in giving. Even if a person has no allergies, etc., you can turn a homeless (or even simply poor) person inside out trying to feed them healthy stuff sometimes. The human body is designed to do the best it possibly can to survive on...

It's in the Bible, right before the part that promotes the sin of perversion known as homosexuality to the rank of "minority," indicatinging that it is somehow holier than sins of perversion involving children and animals. .

It is just as you have said, Sis, to my way of thinking. And there seems to be no shortage of scriptural evidence for it, as you have shown. We have raised our children this way, and have suffered nothing evil that I can recall. My son is probably the most generous out of all of us—he...

Welcome, Welcome, Welcome!!! :hearteyes:

This is a very interesting insight to which I didn't pay enough attention when I first read it. :) .

Lol - my dad volunteered for duty on Guam twice to avoid shipboard assignment. They finally put him on The Midway in The Indian Ocean 2 years before he retired tho. :p .

Thanks, Old Pal!! :tiphat: .

As may or may not be obvious, we're getting as much preparation done as we can today so we can enjoy the blessings of the Sabbath and get to bed early tomorrow night (shameless 4th commandment plug). I like to be on the road well before sunrise (Thanks, Dad :cool:). .

@marks and @CadyandZoe, I'm gearing up to leave for a badly-needed 5-night excursion to Myrtle Beach (it's our secret hiding place from the world) on Sunday, so I may not be able to give your thoughtful replies the attention they deserve right away, but I'll do what I can.. :Broadly...

As long as we're letting our guards down, as it were, I would concede that if I were to err (which is certainly likely to some degree) it would be on the side of caution, perhaps otherwise perceived by many as legalism. Not in the sense that I would consciously give way to any notion that my own...

God has always been trying to do His New Covenant work on men's hearts, but to assume that everyone knows right from wrong intuitively begs the question as to why law is ever given, and why Paul says in Romans 5 that sin is not taken into account where there is no law. Moral law is not...

Consulting the context of nearly any of these law loophole proof texts readily shows the error of their misuse. Just one verse before the "death reigned" text, Romans 5:13 clearly says that "sin is not taken into account where there is no law." Unfortunately for the case you are trying to...

. Gotta go get the car once-overed for our trip to Myrtle Beach. Not fun, but necessary. :) I see the water's not blue anymore. That's kinda sad, but we'll still have a ball! .

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In eating of the forbidden tree, they broke the first commandment, whether you like to draw from 10 or 2. And, in breaking one, we break them all. "Every word that proceeds..." :hearteyes: .

I'm afraid this just looks like an over-complication to a simple man like me who grew up with 10 simple rules to follow. Granted, they are more finely tuned principles than that from which they stem, some of which you include, but it seems unreasonable to me to have so much to say that goes in...

Yeah, being decidedly apolitical and also not wanting to hijack the thread, I wouldn't care to. But your kind reply is appreciated. :) .

Hi, Dan! :waves: But aren't you just making a distinction without a difference here, and then countering with a straw man of your own? The absence of antinomianism that holds to an ambiguous law is, to fallen human nature, little better than anarchy. After all, who, among those who oppose...

I'm not one to say that national Israel plays a big part in end-time events as so many seem to do, but I'm constantly amazed by the magnification people put on remarks to formulate an accusation. Talmudic racism? That's a new one on me. If I were a big magnifier (and it wouldn't take much), I...