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"the children led the way". Exactly. Children should not be leading the way.........their parents should be leading by showing and teaching/training them the right way. We can be understanding and gentle with young children, but not "affirm" something that is wrong. If little Johnny wants to...

They are children for heaven sakes. We should know from the word of God that the devil is seeking who he may devour, and that can mean using human agents and/or other circumstances of life or just a part of the battlefield that the child happens to have inherited or happens to have fallen prey...

Funny, but seriously true. Imagine a world without sex. So much less anguish and suffering for many people. This world unfortunately is a selfish hedonistic cesspool and I will not be that sorry to leave it when my time comes. God foretold a time when mankind would become...

Think I have, when you posted them at an earlier date. But why don't you summarize and make your point? And....have you no response to the things I've been saying? Shouldn't those who claim to follow Christ look to Him and His word about these matters? Do they believe His word? It is an...

What is your point here? People and children may try on all kinds of things for size when they don't yet know what is right and good for them. Loving your child means to train him or her up in the way they should go so that when they are older they will not depart from it. You don't leave...

Amen. Like they are going through life wearing sex-coloured glasses. Unfortunately sex is an idol for many and they are slaves/servants of the god who they obey, and preach/teach its false gospel. Same with heterosexual people as well.........this has become such a sex obsessed society in...

Amen...such a good point. Patterns like impressions/imprints on the mind/soul. Like those who know the Lord have the impression of God's laws/truth imprinted/engraved on our heart/soul/mind. A society that has become detached from the soul's anchor (God's word) is open to any kind of...

Okay, my thoughts on this are these. The bible teaches that the devil is a liar....demons can enter into people and cause them to believe and feel things that are not true. Scripture also teaches that we do not live by our "feelings" but by the truth. It teaches that males should not dress in...

Amen. Parents and churches need to be in prayer for the children....and the bible says to "TRAIN a child up in the way they should go.... " God's word is an anchor for the soul, especially in a society that is no longer fixed upon it and every soul is going every which way that seemeth right...

Not just the things of Abraham though, but the whole bible is a spiritual book full of spiritual lessons for the church/believers. The things of Abraham aren't the only allegories in scripture. There are lots of examples.......the animals in Noah's ark represent lost souls being saved and the...

I didn't mean historical in an academic sense, I just meant in a factual sense, that those things really happened in fact. There is sometimes more than one layer of meaning to things that are written. For example, one layer of meaning might be factual and another layer might be allegorical...

"He spoke to them in parables, and without a parable spoke He not to them." The bible is chock full of "parables", ie, allegory. That is a key to understanding. Most of it is historically factual, ie, those things really happened, but they were written down in scripture as spiritual lessons...

This to me gets into religious organizations and "succession of authority". Nobody "had" to or "has" to do anything...God works through our free will and doesn't generally force people to do or think according to His will. He knew beforehand that this was going to be messy. Jesus even...

Amen. It's useful to understand the biblical context of what was written, as well as the cultural context. And we for sure need to seek the Holy Spirit for understanding. It's funny how we in the flesh and carnal mind tend to often see things "religiously" rather than being sort of grounded...

Exactly. So we need to understand what Paul meant when he wrote that. Don't forget they didn't even have church buildings in those days, they met in homes, from house to house. Surely he couldn't have meant that women weren't supposed to literally ever speak in their own homes or the homes of...

And yet women may pray and prophesy. So it appears we need to understand properly what is being addressed. I read all this as that women may not lead the proceedings and we may not teach or usurp authority over the men in the church, and we may not be disruptive with social chatter when in...

I believe there are both historical as well as figurative aspects of the Genesis account, so this isn't an either/or question. It says in a NT epistle that the first Adam was "a figure of He who was to come". It also says concerning Israel, that "these things happened to Israel and were...

It's all God's TRUTH isn't it brother? It's all God-breathed from the mouth of God. How can we say some of what God says is more authoritative than other things that God says? Does that mean we can pick and choose what things to receive and heed or not receive and heed from His word? And how...

What is the point you are trying to make? That we should not learn from and heed the writings of Paul or the other apostles....that they are not inspired by God and trustworthy? My goodness. The bible is not God, and I certainly agree that we should not worship a book, but they are His words...

Hebrews 13 I suppose brother. " Obey them that have the rule of you...". Jesus chose and delegated the apostles...they were eye-witnesses of His glory and taught by Him." GOD hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets....". And ALL scripture is God breathed, so we are...