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You mentioned the Catholic Church during the Holy Roman Empire era. That was when a religious organization, the Catholic Church, exerted control over political affairs. That was a very different situation than it is now. There is no chance of that happening here in the U.S. because the U.S...

What's the problem here? We're not a theocracy, but our government has never been purely secular either. Religion, specifically Christianity, has been intertwined with our nation from the beginning. Many U.S. presidents have called for national thanksgiving and prayer. Every president since 1952...

Oil is not a bad thing. Modern civilization as we know it couldn't currently exist without it. All the products and food you buy at the store were brought by ships and trucks, which run on gas. But oil is not just important for making gas; it's used in so many applications. Even the clothes you...

I think aliens may be part of the end-time deception in some way, whether they be real or imagined. I have given this some thought before. If they are real, they may be extra-dimensional rather than extra-terrestrial. It may be that what the Bible calls angels are more corporeal than we imagine...

Tertullian went so far as to call 1 Enoch scripture, and Jude 1 spoke of the prophecies of Enoch. There are no other recorded prophecies of Enoch that I am aware of except the Book of Enoch. At the very least, it should be regarded as important commentary as it puts Genesis 6 into context and...

How do you know it wasn't?

@Aunty Jane I simply don't have the time to respond to every point, it would take way too long. Even atheists and non-believers have had NDEs. So, it’s not faith dependent. The fact that they have a common theme should be telling. The most simple explanation is because they're true. I would...

Sure, but my point was, it doesn't make sense that everyone who is dying would see the same or similar things. Dreams are random; NDEs are specific. I would make a distinction between the brain and the mind/consciousness for reasons already stated. The fact that it's universal is telling...

This has been proposed before, but some experiences were involved when there was no brain activity at all, such as in the case of Pam Reynolds. Regardless, there is simply no other logical explanation for someone who seen or heard something while they were clinically dead and it was later...

This particular topic has become a recent interest of mine. The idea that we are our brains has yet to be proven. We understand in part how the brain works, and we can detect brain waves, but it's still a big leap to go from understanding how neurons fire to understanding how the brain produces...

That is the question, isn't it? By what metric does one judge what constitutes a miracle? A miracle for one might not be a miracle to another. I personally don't believe a miracle has to necessarily defy the laws of physics to be a miracle.

True, but it doesn't make it an inaccurate translation either. There are many instances where gods (plural) are mentioned. One example is Psalm 136:2: "Oh, give thanks to the God of gods! For His mercy endures forever." It wouldn't be accurate to say "God of Gods" because there is only one God...

Different culture, different customs. They were betrothed during that period, which was considered like being married. But they don't actually consummate until a year later or so after they have the wedding ceremony. So there is a brief window where they could be married but not have had sex.

NASA is pretty much obsolete at this point. They have to rely on SpaceX, a private company, just to get people to space. I'll also add that the cost to keep such a grand conspiracy going would be astronomical, far outweighing any monetary gains.

I have brought this up before, and it's one of the biggest issues I have with it. For it to be true, it would require a massive global conspiracy of epic proportions. The logistics of such an operation alone would be staggering and costly. It would mean that governments, scientists, politicians...

Okay, I'll bite. To the claim of stolen land, there are three considerations. First, North America is vast. The native population in what is now the United States was roughly 3-5 million, as opposed to the nearly 350 million it is now. That means there were huge swaths of land that were...

In fairness, the NT, or the OT for that matter, doesn’t have much to say about a great many things, including the inner workings of heaven or the spirit world. Its primary focus is on earthly matters. There are many mysteries that remain as of yet unanswered. As the Apostle Paul said, we see...

I haven't done a deep dive into that, so I can't say for certain. But some of it may be different names to describe the same thing. There's also the idea that hell is comprised of different compartments. If that is true, then "hell" is a broad term that encompasses those individual compartments.

No idea, but no one thinks they're evil, everyone thinks they're on the side of good.

There are such things as just wars if the objective is to stop evil, such as during World War 2. If evil is allowed to proliferate, it causes untold suffering, misery, and death. The only way to stop evil is by force. That's true even at the micro level when combating crime on the streets...