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I’m a new member here, and I’ve been surprised by all the reactionary-like posters who frequent this message board community. It’s a breath of fresh air to see someone else who has wisdom and decency. Glad I’m not alone. I agree with your post. Discriminating against LGBT folks is every bit as...

She meets the profile of a progressive, liberal, Democrat, or whatever you want to call it. What is so wrong with that?

These people seem to think that tolerating LGBT entails the end of the world. How exactly will accepting homosexuals and gender nonconformists destroy the planet? Maybe they think everyone will turn gay and won’t reproduce the human species, lol. Here is a funny study that is very relevant: Is...

Progressives like to preach tolerance, equity, inclusion, diversity, and all the ideals of equality in general. There is no harm no foul in that. Given that her congregation obviously isn’t conservative (since conservative Christians seem to be intolerant towards female pastors), she was...

Please keep in mind that it isn’t always what you say, but how you say it. It’s possible to believe in traditional marriage—whatever that is supposed to mean—but also not provoke hostility towards LGBT people who are entitled to equal civic rights such as marriage.

Our heavenly father, I pray that this Christian will have a successful business. May she prosper and be blessed with the fruits of her work.

Good news to hear. As for myself, I’m starting my recovery from nicotine today. The head pain isn’t too unbearable, and I’ve been able to detox from it like four or five times already because it’s something I can sort of tolerate better than others. But the anger, well, it’s extreme to say the...

Atheists who cite the problem of evil as “evidence” against faith have made a very poor argument, as my original post accurately details. But I’ve heard even worse arguments from atheists who want to indict religion. For example, Richard Dawkins like to dismiss Christians who ask him...

I’m a Christian who has the misfortune of actually knowing Satan (who never leaves me alone). From speaking with him, I’ve learned things that barely anyone else knows about him such as the fact that, contrary to what a lot of Christians teach about the origins of the Devil, he wasn’t really...

The NIV Bible translates that as “our old self.” It’s the KJV that uses the unfamiliar term. It was written in 1611. English today is much different.

The nursery rhyme “This Old Man” was taught to children as a way of teaching them to keep away older pedophiles who might hurt them. At least that is what the lyrics seems to convey, I think. I haven’t heard anyone use “the old man” as idiomatic language for carnal nature. Am I not getting...

The Mosaic Law also says to decimate everyone in an entire town if a small percentage of residents start practicing paganism (Deuteronomy 13:6-18). Here it is: Bible Gateway passage: Deuteronomy 13:6-18 - New International Version Those laws (such as the one I highlighted) you call “a gift”...

Jews are loved by God. They were the first group to adopt God, who was called Yahweh back then, as the tutelary god of their country, history, and cultural heritage. Through them Judaism was born, which paved the road for the birth of humanity’s one and only savior, Jesus. If it weren’t for the...

When I first saw your post, I thought you were referring to a nursery rhyme that teaches children to beware of child predators. Instead you are talking about an intuitive sense of wrongness. It’s hard to reply to your post because you weren’t specific enough. What exactly are referring to that...

Thanks for the advice, but to be fair: I did have a very impactful spiritual experience when I prayed to a saint one time. It was different than prayer to God, but it’s hard to determine which experience is either lesser or higher, to use your terms. It was a very unique thing, sort of like a...

Let’s say there is a Christian widow whose husband recently died, and he was also a believer. Maybe she wants to contact him through prayer and have it returned with the warmth and comfort in knowing that he is okay. Why are you describing an example like this as a “lesser answer”? I get that...

I belong to a mainline Protestant church. Unlike Catholicism, my denomination teaches that praying to saints, angels, and other residents of heaven constitutes a sin. They teach that we’re only supposed to pray to God, but why is praying to anyone else wrong? My personal experiences have taught...

Some Christian bakers have made a big fuss by refusing to bake cakes for gay people. Yet you never see these bakers refusing service to Wall Street professionals for the sin of greed, nor do you see them refusing service to couples who are getting married a second, third, or fourth time (which...

A Christian baker who doesn’t approve of gender bending was sued for refusing to bake a gender transition cake. You can read the scoop here: Christian baker sued for refusing gender-transition cake says Supreme Court ruling puts law on his side Honestly, I don’t have a problem with transgender...

Life is not intended to be a cakewalk. We are all born into a sinful world that is afflicted by so many problems: Poverty, corruption, sickness, unfairness, violence, war, crime, etc. Indeed, the issues that face humanity are so numerous that it would take two or three pages to list every single...