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1. Feelings are not reality and feelings are misleading when given preference over truth and morality. 2. My beliefs are very simple and very constitutional. Every state should decide that for themselves and the feds should butt out of the issue. Unfortunately, the federal government has...

That's all you can do is be the fragrance of Christ. False beliefs can be defended with volumes of hyper intellectualism, but the real Jesus has an appeal that puts to silence all man made arguments. Thousands thronged around him just to be near him, just to hear his teachings, just to be in...

This is where we keep talking past each other. Nobody is saying that we do it alone. Those who take the stance that works are a necessary ingredient to faith and to final salvation aren't making the argument that anyone makes it to heaven by their own merits. There's a span between doing what...

Can you be any more arrogant? If it's true that your tiny little sect that's barely over a century old has the "real Jesus" and the rest of us have the "fake Jesus" then I guess Jesus did a terrible job revealing himself to us not only today but for the last 2000 years. I can't even begin to...

I agree with this assessment. People who exalt themselves do so in sheer ignorance that everything they have was given to them and that the God of heaven holds their very breath in his hand. (Daniel 5:23) Such pride is repugnant to the Almighty. I enjoyed reading your viewpoint on this.

You're not alone in feeling this way. If anything can be gleaned from the "Narrow Gate" teaching by Jesus, it's that salvation doesn't just fall into our laps, we need to strive for it, or as St. Paul put it, run the race as if to win the prize! I think the common mistake is a...

That is an important distinction and I'm glad you pointed it out. Here on earth, men can be put before God which is a textbook definition of a cult. It's when we gaze toward heaven and the things of heaven that we find absolutely no rivalries. Some of the most pious souls in the history of...

My vote is no, but it is an interesting question. Bibliolatry is an accusation I've heard from some fellow Catholics to describe Protestants. It's as ridiculous as the accusation of Mariolatry that SOME Protestants make of Catholics. At the heart of this issue is whether or not the elements...

A man cannot marry a man or a woman a woman for the same reason a woman cannot be a priest. What I mean in saying that is men and women are created for certain roles and when they act outside that role, they're just play acting. Homsexual couples that get "married" are just playing house. It...

Have you ever read the late Pastor Wilkerson's book Sipping Saints? This kind of thinking is nothing new. But you haven't seen nutty until you hear these people rant about how Jesus never drank alcoholic wine. It's actually a little entertaining to see how far people will twist Scripture to...

I'm less disturbed by the man and more disturbed by the following he was able to attract. It really says a lot about society when somebody can take a strong stand for hate and bigotry and people flock to him. It means there's a systemic sickness that goes well beyond just one man.

You're not even following your own conversation, Aspen. I can't help you.

So when Jesus promised to avenge Abel's murder, that was just a parable? Oh, and no I'm not going to revise my post. I meant every word of it.

I find agreement with that to some extent. I believe that Christianity is defined by our unique beliefs. Others think it's certain personality traits, a wellspring of grace, a quickness to forgive, etc. Still others believe it's actions, how we live out our faith. All of them have merit. I...

Thank you for your candor. So now that we've established that the Bible is open to interpretation and we can develop arbitrary criteria for deciding what actually happened and what's just a load of horse manure, where do you propose we draw the line? And what if my line is different than yours...

Let me ask you something, Aspen. Did the story of the Great Flood actually occur, or was it an allegorical work of fiction meant to communicate a moral lesson?

You're intentionally skewing the question for a desired response. Though some take the text of Genesis more literally than others, every CHRISTIAN believes the general principles I laid out. The Catechism of the Catholic Church even details the story of Creation with those essential elements...

The mistake you're making is a common one. I don't comment on anyone's salvation because that's ultimately in the hands of God. But when it comes to being Christian, there has to be lines drawn that define who we are and more importantly what doesn't fall within the definition of Christianity...

I suffer from no delusion that River is a Christian.