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I think Jesus was speaking to the Jews, not unbelievers of today. We are commanded to love our enemies. I think the problem in these lies within these reasons. Churches that are overprotective, believe they should be over protective and this is God's way of doing things. Churches that are...

You can't take much into heaven. It is pretty strict 'airport security'!

A good friend of mine was once working as a Personal Assistant to the wife of a major Christian mission organisation that I admire greatly. My friend was very good at her job and enjoyed it. She became very close to her boss. However it was an extremely difficult job. At times the pressure to...

so it is a matter of measure, rather than the capabilities in themselves?

Haven't apes been trained to reason and show love? I suspect it is more than this.

Aronofsky’s movie Noah attracted a lot of attention and comment when it first came out. It seems like he initially did a great job getting Christians on side only to disappoint them when the movie came out. There was one thing that he got right, in the biblical picture of the time of Noah, the...

I have some friends that never let you pay for anything. They never want you to do anything for them because they don’t want to feel ‘in debt’ to them. I find this quite sad. In Gen 4 we read the story of Cain and Abel and how sin uses Cain’s feeling of rejection to strike out in anger at his...

I didn't know about this book / movie until I read this. http://christandpopculture.com/christians-respond-heaven-real/ I found it quite helpful.

Although done in a poor way, the idea that false teachers should be given tolerance is certainly Biblical. Unfortunately today, tolerance, and the internet, have paved the way for all sorts of dodgey doctrines. There appears to be very few people who understand what is key in historical...

I really don't know why people want to put into the scripture a dispensational view that just isn't there. Why make up a frame work which puts meanings to passages that just aren't there? Why can't people just read the Bible and accept what it says?

It is always a bit of a concern when 'Jesus taught me the truth' about a passage. PArticularly when that meaning could not have been the meaning of the original author.

So the 'prince' displaces the king? And although God can do anything he wants to, he doesn't want to be 'king' at the moment?

So you pick and emotive poll? How did that work out?

So you can't see the creator in creation? Seems Paul thought otherwise (Rom 1:19-20)

Death can mean separation, not just the opposite of life. On the day Adam and Eve sinned, they 'died', but they didn't lose life. They were separated from God.

So He is not ' with you always, to the end of the age'? (Mat 28:20)

I don't have a problem with the word missional. While others were in the past, I suggest the church lost this for a long time. Anything that gets people focused on expanding the kingdom, and not on their own needs, I think is a good thing

I suggest pride which puts others down is sin. Pride in what God has done is not. Is there something I'm missing?

Are there any real practical differences in believing in ONLY the Penal substitution? Or a more complex atonement method? In the end how is going to make a difference to the way people live out their faith?

So if Jesus isn't King, is there no kingdom now?