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Let's take a look at Acts 17:11 directly: "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." Of course the Bereans could not receive the gospel from...

And HS, if for some reason God requires you (or me) to have to go through hardships, that is not a bad thing. Nobody wants to sign up for hardship, but if it was bad then God would not sometimes require it of His children. It hurts most when we suffer hardship as a result of our own...

David was indeed a sinner. He committed murder in order to cover up his adultery with another man's wife, and then he married her. David was a man after God's heart, but I don't think we want to look to him as the model for how we should live our lives.

Now, in the face of massive criticism, Cardinal Dolan has been invited to pray by the DNC. The mulim prayers will go on, however.

It is certainly not the model God ordained for people. To the extent that men in the Bible had more than one wife, they paid a significant price for it. I don't believe it to be a very good idea.

While the words "sola scriptura" do not appear, it does seem that the noble Bereans practiced prima scriptura. They did so when there was no NT to consult, but they did not accept the words even of an apostle until they compared what he told them with the Scriptures.

I believe you are mistaken, unused campaign money cannot be converted to personal use under campaign finance laws. Where did you hear/read that he can keep unused campaign funds? Or did you just think that out of nowhere? How did Akin's single misstatement hurt millions? And in what way is he...

If God chose to provide some plan of redemption for rebellious angels, that is His business and He has not shared that with us. He is sovereign and He can do what he wills. He can have mercy on whom He will, and withhold is as He wills. It is not for us to know, but we know that the lake of...

Well, I have a little savings and I did buy a couple of gold coins, but I don't look to those things to protect me. Just trying to be a good steward. God will either provide, or He will ask me to sacrifice and suffer a little. Either way, it is all in His hands and everything is going to be...

Well, how did the Jews in the synagogue know that Jesus was reading scripture to them when He read from the scrolls of Isaiah? They didn't yet know Him to be God, yet they knew Isaiah was scripture. How? Now, the word "canon" comes from Greek meaning "rod", which was used as a measuring reed...

Most who subscribe to the sola scriptura belief actually come around to a position of prima scriptura if they think about it long enough. It is clear to me that not all of God's truths are contained in the Bible, although that is not what sola S. or prima S. put forward. What I do not believe...

The "war on women" rhetoric was planned by the Democrats before it ever became public. Remember when George Stephanopoulis was moderating a Republican primary debate and he asked Mitt Romney if a state had the right to ban contraception? Romney looked quite puzzeled and paused quite a while...

Oh no, I don't even know you. But there are lots of statistics on this general dynamic. Blue state vs. red state charitable giving, etc. Lots of data. Doesn't mean every conservative is generous or that every liberal is a stingy tightwad. Just most of them.

Is that the best you can do, call people stupid when they have bested you? Just a word to the wise, that kind of thing doesn't make me and BA look bad. I'll leave it to you to privately reflect on who it makes look bad. In the mean time, how about a substantive comment on your Stephen Colbert...

Democrats refused to invite Cardinal Timothy Dolan to offer a prayer of invocation at the Democratic Convention. Mr. Obama nixed that based on Cardinal Dolan's prolife stance. On the other hand, 2 hours of "Jumah" Islamic prayers are going to be held on the Friday of the convention. Even other...

Fortunately, neither of them is running for anything this year :) Hey, ever since Eisenhower the Democrats have tried to portray the Republican presidential nominee as stupid. It must be on page three of their play book or something. BA, loved your quotes so much I thought I'd offer a few...

And I could do so. It would take some work, but if it is important I will do it. What I have objected to is the religious language we have invented to make a process out of salvation. You know, "with every head bowed and every eye closed, raise your hand up high where I can see it, now repeat...

I know a lot of people who have gotten themselves in some really bad financial situations. I have a close family member who lost their house to foreclosure just a few months ago, and now they are on a vaction for 12 days in Ireland. I really don't get that. I was in the mortgage business for...

Thank you for the reminder, Jeffreyindeed...

First I tell him that he is a sinner and in need of a savior. Until a person recognizes their lost condition they cannot be saved. The person who believes, "I have lived the best life I can, I've strived to be a good person, and when I did I have nothing to be ashamed of" is hopelessly lost...