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I spent 12 years in The Church of Christ, and this is the Typical Bible Class I remember: Instructor: "Brother Jones, will you read Verse 1?" Brother Jones reads it. Instructor: "Brother Smith, can you tell us what that verse means? Brother Smith: "Just what it says!" All the Class: "AMEN!!!"...

Good morning, Scoot, Likewise, it is not the original manuscripts I doubt, but rather the myriad interpretations of those same manuscripts I have seen offered. And that often seems to be where the inherent dogmatism found in Fundamentalism usually gets mired down. ("The bible says it, I...

Isn't that really all any of us can have of our creator Spirit?

Yes, I happen to think "Allah" is the same God as our Jehovah. The worshipers of Allah just got themselves sidetracked — giving him the same sort of confused attributes so many of us competing Christians variously give our Jehovah.

Of course I would. Have you ever heard me spouting the line that "God" is only god to the Christians? I personally believe that what most of us worship as "God" probably wouldn't even be recognized by the power that created ALL men, no matter what religion they follow. G-d is still the same...

My Grandmother was Pennsylvania Dutch. Your post took me home.

Usually, things just "dawn on me." And I kind of think, "Oh!... Of course."

Why not just pray nothing more than for you to be made aware of times when God may be doing something in your life?

Hi, Hark.

Phoenix, Arizona is the largest capital city in the United States. With a population approaching 1.5 million people, Phoenix is America's sixth largest city.

Is THAT what you have been expecting? That's what the "suckers" go to the TV guys for. How does the Bible say God will generally move in our lives? Sure, sometimes that happens, but I imagine it is pretty rare in most people's lives.

Haven't you "explained away" lots of so-called "coincidences" in your life? I know there have to be MANY times when something really odd and unexpected happened.

Recently, the city of Boise started a new tradition called the Idaho Potato Drop, where a giant potato is dropped from the top of the Idaho State Capital building upon the new year (similar to the apple that drops in New York). Idaho is the nation's top producer of potatoes.

Oh, I firmly believe our own estimation of how well we can explain away most anything certainly gets in the way a lot of the time.

I assume you received all the requested information that I sent you since there has just been a "flag" on my bank accounts, and the FBI also wanted your personals when they stopped by here a few minutes ago.

Austin is famous for its population of Mexican free-tailed bats. Every year, over one million bats take residence under the Anne W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge to roost and raise their young. Every summer evening, the bats emerge from the bridge to search for insects in hordes of tens of...

Well, since I have never read an original manuscript — and never will — it really doesn't do me much good to assume something totally uncypherable to me actually meant something other than what I gleaned from the pages of the book I bought down at the local Christian supply store. And "what...

I can easily do that into a regular forum post. But when I try it to a PM (a "conversation") reply, nothing shows up. Angelina just showed me a way that I will try in the next few days.

No, not so much the "natural instinct" to reach out to "anything", but the awareness (humbleness?) to be able to accept recognizing an answer when it comes...… in matters both large and small.

But, other things can have almost the same effect on your life and belief. (If you don't just insist on denying them.)