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I'm at a bit shallower position right now. I just think the way Alister McGrath weaves together words is akin to listening to a symphony.

I just thought some of you might appreciate these words that opened a portion of a new book I am reading. The ability to see beyond the horizon of one’s own location in history is given to few. Who could have imagined, in the gently sunlit heyday of Edwardian England, that the grimmest and...

On CF.com they give you a selection of emogees to click.... all positive. I just now got a "WARNING" for not selecting one they felt I should have used. (I tell you, there are some people there with some very disturbing mentalities.)

Not the best news to wake up to here in the States. Stay smiling as much as you can.

Have you said to God: "Show me how." ?

You will know. Don't go conjuring up "signs."

Yes, make several Christian friends first.... it will help you feel less lonely and ostracized.

We are not saying to be afraid to look at them some (they are often good for a laugh), but just don't make the mistake of using them for any facts.

Well, "Pulpit and Pen " comes immediately to mind. They are Equal Haters...… they can find something wrong with almost anyone.

Sean, As you should know by now, the LAST place you are going to get straight facts about any group is a site that openly declares they are dead-set against them. (I call them "Hate Sites.")

Slowly and carefully read your own post. You, yourself typed out the threats. 2nd Kingdom Hall Meeting.

All you really have to do is read the threats made to see why she said "fear" was being implanted in brains to keep them from leaving the Organization.

My father-in-law, a truly God-Fearing man, actually spit on the ground in disgust when my wife (then in college) tried to explain a Loving God to him. They were lifelong Church of Christ members, who, believe it or not, spent most of their time exclusively in the New Testament.

But, you see, many people don't just "visit" that kind of church. They have been brought up in it... and so have their parents before them, and their parents before that. This is all the entire family... often the entire community... knows anything of. To suggest a God of love would be...

Oh, love abounds where we attend now. But I have lived a long life, (I am 73), and I have seen FEAR preached and taught till it was coming out my ears.

I, myself, was baptized out of fear, nearly 40 years ago. It was really just "Fire Insurance" for me at that stage in my life. It was only about six years ago that I finally met JESUS.

Because that is what they expect themselves. I have said it before that people will find the exact god (Loving or Vengeful) that they are hoping for in the Bible. "Desiring punishment" is deeply rooted in the human psyche. To be honest, not that many people really seem to believe in a loving...

The key word, "correcting" him. Just what is that, and how is it done...….. Biblically? Not many of us seem to really "correct" the same way, or with the same motive Jesus did.

Well, we do have to admit that "fear" has long been the primary motivator of almost all Christian evangelism.

At 17, is this the best you have been taught to present a subject? (Forget trying to read the book I sent you. I doubt you will ever make it through it.) :) :rolleyes: :D