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We, The USA are desperate for immigration. Actually babies. Because we simply are not replacing the current generations with new ones. We are in negative numbers for live births vx deaths. Have been heading this way since the 60's. More people are using birth control...then there's...

There is no apostolic succession mentioned in scriptures.... AND More importantly, If I can go to God directly through Jesus with my sins for forgiveness and my requests what do I need a priest for? I also know how to read and write...I can study the scriptures using hermeneutics....been...

Do you mean to tell me that you think that people could ask God to forgive their sins without a priest during the Old Testament....Uzziah would be first in line to tell you that this couldn't happen after getting leprosy and starting an earthquake by trying. But all of John the Baptists's...

No...that's not accurate. We believe in John the Baptist "Believer's Baptism" as being washed in a Mikveh that allows us the ability to handle scriptures and to ask God directly for forgiveness of our sins. Jesus later expounded that we could ask for anything in his name and receive it...

Let's not forget Stephen, the first Martyr, who decided that since he was on the way out why not go with "bells on baby". The proverbial mouse flipping the bird at the eagle about to pounce.

I want to be like every good guy in the Bible.... Unfortunately I have way too much in common with the villains of scripture if I'm honest with myself. From Cain, Saul, Esau, Pilate, and even Caiphus and Judas. However, A few inspire me.... Caleb of the 12 spies and later Kirith Arba AKA...

Of course a lot of things you say are true such as the confirmation bias....the way you say them might need to be toned down a tad. But whatever.... However, @Marymog & @RedFan I'm a firm believer in "doing WHATEVER it takes to enter into Heaven" even if it doesn't seem correct to the rest...

Ummmm What happens when someone really takes this advice as gospel and dies? Look, There was a 20/20 special about this woman in Mexico that gave red coffee enemas to cure cancer and a lot if other things that were holistic unconventional medicine.... And the 20/20 special documentary made it...

The expression "formless and void" means that there was literally nothing there. A void is a vacuum. There literally was nothing there but watch the hystrionics try to turn nothing into something. "The Spirit of God was hovering/trembling the waters" There was no water as yet as God had...

Kinda missed on "bara". The Hebrew word requires a material to make the object being created. You can Bara a wooden table a stone table or metal table or plastic table but a material is demanded by the use by the verb "bara". Meaning that because of the use of "bara" in English an implied...

We in the "protestant" camp have pastors instead of priests. The pastor needs to agree with the congregation or else he will be unemployed. It's backwards to the Catholics....even if a few Protestant denominations seem to reflect the same manner but different theology than the Catholic...

Yes...and I agree...but we are now roughly 2,000 years after the writing and in a culture that is very different from Ancient Near Eastern Cultures....so not just translation is needed but a study of anthropology, topography, history, and etc is also needed. Women have "rights" these...

What if.... God and Jesus knew ahead of time that men being their normal sinful selves would horde the knowledge of Christ and keep it from humanity so God had the New Testament written in such a way that the common man could understand it with a bit of study.

No...not exactly with protestants. It started with Queen Elizabeth when she allowed the proliferation of the Geneva Bible and in Germany with the publication of the Gutenberg Bible. But basically the individual person could and would determine what the translated scriptures meant...

@Marymog I am so sorry....I said that the answer was posted above....it is not. I posted a reply to marks in another thread dealing with a similar discussion.... Here's the link: I will build my church, and the GATES of Hades will not overcome it.

Read my above post to Marks....

When Catholics do "research" they are doing it with a previously determined outcome. And I did not suggest doing a theological study of the scriptures....I kept suggesting that you do a study of the geography, topography, anthropology, and history of the LOCATION. Because the location is...

Actually my studies explain something completely different. The gates of a city were the military strong point of a city. If an invading army attacked a city they would build a seige ramp anywhere except a gate. Gates were not as pictured in the movies....gates were military and...

When Jesus said "I will give/grant you the keys" the "you" is neuter which in this context is an equivalent to the US SouthelEastern slang "Y'all" meaning all the Apostles....because this is a lesson that Jesus is teaching. Access to entrance into Heaven at physical death is a foregone...

I think that the completely disinterested look on the girl's faces was so true to life in this scripted skit.... They were completely disinterested about their actions making life difficult for another person....thereby making the janitor to be a "sub-human" and not worthy of consideration due...