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We know of New Testament and Old Testament stories that involve demons. The most obvious example being Legion. This is another one of those marks that I think really distinguishes Christianity from the rest in that the Bible doesn't spend a whole lot of time dwelling on Satan, his demons, or...

I'll definitely be looking at this Rocky. We are going to have a software upgrade here soon and I hope that will cover little details like this; otherwise we'll figure it out!

I think that the ultimate end of prayer is to glorify God. It does this by focusing the mind on God. One of my absolute favorite verses is this: We think of prayer as only asking for needs, desires, and wants, but I think it is supposed to be so much more based on verses like the above...

Fair enough, Tom. My only counter to that is that I have watched the kinds of forums those places develop only splinter off to more people who cannot seem to agree even though they share more than the average amount of fundamental beliefs. We've seen the splintering here and you've been a part...

I [obviously] cannot confirm this person 100% - whatever the name may be - but I've had a string of harrasment the past week or so from a user behind a proxy who has not only attacked this forum but myself and my wife personally. I connected him to at least 3 other problem accounts at this...

Unfortunately, with people like this, it's okay for them to lie and break the rules (sin as they condemn others forum doing since they've had at least one previous account), but it's not ok your you to do that. Only they have the righteousness, of course! I don't publicly state why accounts are...

Unfortunately your response, envolve, was pretty much what I anticipated. (And generally the reason why I don't reply to threads like this one.) A link to an older study I did can be found hereon the 3 earth ages. Elsewhere you may have heard at least a portion of the theory called the "Gap...

Aspen, I think your Franciscan viewpoint would find startling agreement with John Piper. It seems to me that most Christians understand God is amazing, but the true depth of that is often not grasped, myself included. After all, the finite is trying to grasp the infinite. The idea is that we...

I typically ignore these types of posts because 9/10 times (and there are some exceptions noted by 1/10 with no disrespect intended for the OP) there is an agenda behind it and usually involves letting me know how wrong I am. I think the answers to both of these shouldn't be too difficult to...

Well, you want the truth of why this is happening. Even 15, 25 or 30 years ago this was unfathomable. Frankly it comes down to us in basically a post-Christian society. I am not one of those abortion people who get out in the streets with signs. I happen to believe the Bible is clear on...

I lean pretty heavily towards "all truth is God's truth." Back in high school I had a completely non-religious and atheist professor make this statement: "75% of what I will tell you this semester is a lie. By the time you go on to college and beyond, many of these theories and suppositions...

Anyone here into coding/programming?

Not at this time, no.

Tearing your garments in those days was something major. I don't know that we have a modern equivalent, to be honest. Some cultures wail loudly when they're mourning or upset, and that would be the closest thing. Basically it was done as a gesture of deep, deep emotions of grief. There are...

To return to the topic at hand, I belive and testify to a literal flood event. I do recognize that the literal flood event may have been localized to the known world of that era (and I'd point to the Hebrew word used - Cain also said he was banished from the face of [all] the earth). However, I...

Well that's understood in my book; at the core if someone denies this fact then they are denying more than prophecy. Problem is, I feel like if we had to quantifiably state every negative when we make a positive statement we'd be here all day and night. That's one of the legalistic problems...

What does the quote say about Scripture? They testify of the One it's all about...Jesus. Let me try saying this from another perspective. Quit trying to define a person's Christianity by their stance on prophecy. My attempt was to point this out to both sides. We've taken the whole discussion...

I want to throw caution to the arguments about prophecy and line of belief by drawing attention to this caution direct from Jesus: At the end of the day, don't miss the forest for the trees unless it's the tree of life! I love many of you deeply as brothers and sisters in the Lord, but I urge...

Tullius, your post is interesting and it's interesting to see a non-American perspective on the matter. I think conspiracy theories are a comfortable way to explain things. I've mentioned this in other threads, and I will continue to do so, but I don't buy into a single over-arching conspiracy...

Agreed. Everything is not a conspiracy. At times its simply dumb decisions made that seem to take on a life of their own. It certainly doesn't make something right or ok.