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The Scriptural sense does not always support a absolute, as you are inferring here. We, and Scripture, can refer to something in a general way as "always" or "all" while still allowing exceptions. Case in point, Romans 3:23. "...all have sinned and are deprived of the glory of God." All one...

Marks, what you're doing is taking an English translation, which necessarily has errors in translation because of the difference in languages, and trying to figure out what the author intended to say while looking through 21st century lenses. Translation is more art than science. In modern...

Interesting side note... Whenever a woman gets pregnant, regardless of whether she carries the child to term, some of the cells from that child travel into the woman's body and live there her entire life. If the woman gets injured or becomes ill, those cells travel to the problem area and try...

God is not reactive. He doesn't watch us to see what we do in order to then decide will do about it and when to do it. He lives in eternity and sees the past, present, and future in one glance. Whtever happens, He has known for all eternity. It's not something He decides by being reactive...

Satan and his demons cannot read our minds. But, they have angelic intelligence and can sometimes figure out what we're thinking by watching how we act, etc. They can do absolutely nothing without God's express permission each and every time, though.

There are no Apostles alive today. Their successors, the bishops, are, however. The difference between an Apostle and a bishop? The Apostles saw and lived with Jesus. The bishops did not. Both groups have the same God-given authority, however.

God actually, literally comes to earth when He is incarnated and at every Catholic Mass, every day, during the Consecration of the Eucharist, under the appearances of bread and wine.

Well, kudos to you! I wouldn't have had the patience or time to be in such an atheist room for very long. I would probably have shaken the dust off my sandals and moved on pretty early on.

You brought up an interesting point with regard to emotions, etc. There was a influential guy named Frederick Schliermarker, who said that religion was primarily nothing more than an emotional experience. I think this is related to why so many young people are abandoning Christ in our day. If...

But the issue is that reality is not created by our minds. Our job is to conform our minds to reality. We can certainly know and understand some objective truths. The degree that we are able to do so, is the degree that we have truth. To state that we cannot know truth is completely...

Just a side thought... We humans were designed to seek truth, goodness, beauty, etc., but not just any truty, goodness or beauty. We were designed to see perfect truth, perfect goodness, perfect beauty, etc. We all suffer, however, from the effects of Original Sin, namely, darkness of...

My wife and I were talking today, at how fast the people turned on Jesus. Palm Sunday, they were honoring him with palms, then on Good Friday, they were calling for His crucifixion! "Crucify him!"

Darby, I'm old and tired to read that long of a post right now. Can you give me the Reader's Digest summary or at least the Cliff Notes of your post to which you referred? :)

God is the source of all objective morality. Without God, there is no objective morality. It devolves into each person deciding what their morality is at any given moment. We live in a time where much of mankind has gone insane. A good working definition of insanity is to be separated from...

You might add a dash of baking soda to cut down on the acid. (Makes it a little less gassy.)

I'm not so sure we can trust the science at all times these days. Many scientists, for example, sign on to the global warming theory as being caused by mankind. But, it has been claimed by many that the scientists doing the research aren't the top tier scientists. They are the middle tier...

1. Agreed. The culture has been drifting further and further from God and morality. 2. Probably. Sometimes discussions branch off a bit... 3. Yes and no. There is a principle by which, the further we get from God, the less capable we become of seeing truth with clarity. In fact, we can...

The real difference, though, is that cohabitation, fornication, divorce, and adultery are still generally recognized as sinful. The LGBTQ crowd is trying to normalize something sinful and abhorent to God, i.e., trying to make society buy into the lie that it is not only not a sin, but somehow...

"Orientation" is just a sneaky word for "temptation." Everyone is tempted to sin. Without temptation, there is no virtue. But! God always gives us sufficient grace to resist all sin. And we aren't animals, driven to respond to every stimulus that crosses our path. We are made in the image...

Yeah, I knew a guy once, who had a small rapture in his appendix. They ended taking it out. (LOL)