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I heard on the Moody Radio show today Gnosticism defined as "the belief that knowledge about God leads to salvation rather than faith in Christ." Although gnosticism has become a bad word and I doubt anyone here would admit to being Gnostic, there is at least one member here who seems to fit...

I just finished watching Season 4 of Alone. In this season, they added a twist. Teams of 2 were dropped off 'alone' 10 miles apart. One was given a compass heading. The average team member arrived to find their partner in 10 days. (For those not good at math, that is traveling, on average, 1...

This is a rare exploration by me into foreign Languages. houtos is the Greek word in both verses. It means "this" in English. οὗτος - Wiktionary Determiner οὗτος • (hoûtos), f αὕτη (haútē), n τοῦτο (toûto) (medial demonstrative determiner and pronoun) this (of place) here in contrast with ὅδε...

I came across Acts 18:5 in NRSV that says Proclaiming the word, testifying to the Jews, that the Messiah was Jesus. Is there any other verse that states what proclaiming the word means?

I saw this and thought, "wow!" Japan launches a contest to urge young people to drink more alcohol. Leaders encourage sin for profit.

Last week as a horrifying week. Invited to paradise, as negotiations to relocate evolved, there was an echo in my heart, a variant of the manipulativeness of the devils, "Did God really say?" When I realized the malicious deceptiveness of the exchanges, I realized the devil tempted me with what...

On the radio just before I came to work I flipped to a non-Christian station (something I do less and less these days). A commercial played like a game show, 'Beat The Stigma'. A question about addiction had answers of A, B, C, and D. Like the woman who was answering, my mind went to "E." She...

In 2020, the worship team leader, Daniel, felt called to lead worship elsewhere. Until 1Q2022, there were no more men on the worship team. The lone guy who joined then sang well. In June 2022, during a practice session with the worship committee, he felt 2 pops in his head. Getting a severe...

This thread was inspired by @Aunty Jane. So I want to give a shut out to her insightful comments in other threads? The name of man is not Man and the name of god is not God. Both man and god refer to general forms or species of life. Individual men and individual gods have unique personal...

10 years after beating Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks was homeless. In honor of the Obi Kenobi series starting this weekend, 10 years after beating Vader at Mustafar, Ben was doing menial work eking out a living, sleeping in a cave as a hermit. He was a broken, shell of a man, unable to reach out to...

This article Who was Salvador Ramos, the young man who sowed terror in a Texas school shooting?, identifies certain factors common to such cases: Absent father Played Violent Video Games Troubled Homelife/Weak Mother (the 18-yo was living with grandparents) Victim of Bullying Quite/Loner...

1st, I have to say that I have a lot of respect for JW's that I have met in person and in this forum. 2nd, this question or accusation comes up in many threads and I thought I'd flush it out and by using a poll. If it is not true, why do so many here, and former members call JW a cult? 3rd...

This thread was inspired by another great one by @Aunty Jane in the thread about your favorite English translation. The last part proved again Hebrews 4:12, the word of God is alive; I keep thinking about the Lord's Prayer and Hallowed be thy name. And that begs the question, what is God's...

1 Corinthians 15:23 says Christ is the first fruits and I was wondering how you understand that? First implies the beginning of a series of like. For instance, one does not say someone is their 'first' child when, in fact, the child is their only child.

In John’s Gospel @ 1:31 and again @ v 33, the Baptizer says ‘I myself did not know him,’ referring to his cousin, Jesus. This is not literally likely, especially since Mary visited for months before he was born. And that begs the question of why did he say it twice? It is a different thing to...

Good Afternoon, I noticed for some time now a thread that I am subscribed to has a recent post but I don't have a current alert. Is that because of a setting on alerts? Or am I missing something? Wrangler

Just finished reading Revelations. I'll add the verses later but it occurred to me why people don't believe and it involves sex and time. Regarding sex; condemnations against homosexuality has to be seen as in the context of the Bride and Wife of the Lamb, who is made up of many men. Regarding...

There are many threads that delve into what the Bible says in its original language (OT Hebrew, NT Greek). English has never been my strong suit, let alone foreign languages of any kind and this got me wondering. I rely on English translations as an English speaking person. Is it even fair to...

I thought I'd start this thread to give a little reminder of Christian history. Some Christians seem to White Wash Christian history as being oppressed by Rome, then followed a never ending flowering of Christian peace upon the world stage. Only if it were so. Politically incorrect, still...

A meme said by not taking the vaccine, she is 100% safe from its side effects and 98.5% safe from COVID. Something to think about. In other threads, people have compared the benefits of taking the vaccine to not taking the vaccine. This is a slanted view, the diagonal of a 2 x 2 matrix. COVID...