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Actually, your assessment of not only ChristianForums.com, but also ChristianForums.net is pretty accurate.

I worked for 8 years with a JW. We spent many weeks on the road together, and I attended several Tuesday night meetings with him. I found it to be mainly a time of training indoctrination to teach how to get the better of the "unchurched", especially, and doctrine Christians too. I even...

I'm sorry, but all I see is people actually doing nothing to protect children. All they seem to be doing is demanding their vindictive pound of flesh AFTER they have stood by and allowed all this to take place. And we have known about this problem at least for my entire life (I'm 73).

I don't think she is even on the air in our area.

Give it a rest. Most people have never heard of her and have no idea of who she is. That was just a talking head to most people.

Everything is said with that one word, "EX-Member" of Westboro.

In Behavior Modification classes, we taught that same writing out a "bomb" letter also. But, the difference was that it did not get erased. The client had to rewrite it, and rewrite it, and rewrite it, and rewrite it, and rewrite it, until it was a rational piece of correspondence that...

My biggest problem with that feature is the fact that I might be reading something I think is outstanding, and then, just about the time I want to :LIKE: the post, the writer goes and parrots some dumb stuff they were sold in Sunday School, and ruins everything they said previously.

Pretend, or not, it is what all countries in the world have chosen to make their means of exchange..... and it works.

Frank! Did you really say that???

I have often said that if a verse really means something to us, we should easily be able to tell someone else what the verse means in everyday English that the person we are talking to can fully understand. But, it so seldom seems to be the case. That is where this came from...… Typical Bible...

Often I just shake my head in puzzlement, and go watch some TV, or go to the gym. I get tired of people trying their best to sound so "Holy", that they no longer even make any sense.

That is exactly what I am saying in the case you bring. People don't "hear" a strange sound (either in their head or their hearts) and have to sit there confused, thinking "I wonder what all that odd noise means?", until The Holy Spirit comes to them and says, "Here it is in English, so you...

Why would you take a verse speaking about "PROPHISIES", and try to make it about something else? Your verse says that the old Prophets didn't just invent the words they told people. It has nothing to do with "tongues."

The Bible doesn't say they understood a heavenly language, and interpreted it, translating that language into their own native language. The Bible plainly says that each of them actually, individually and directly, "heard" their own language.... no interpretation necessary, nor involved, at all.

A little weak. Each of the hearers at Pentecost recognized that other foreigners present there were hearing the sermons in their own known tongue...… but the sounds being made by the speakers were "unknown" to all of them, even the ones speaking them. One voice was not speaking all 15...

That is one of the things we have the Bible for..... to read it for a few years, and begin to see. Don't be so hard on yourself, Peter was with Jesus, day and night, for three years, and had still not come to a full understanding.

Unfortunately, "at some level " is not what God asks of us. Remember that the Bible says even the Demons believe "at some level." Jesus asked Peter, three times, if he loved Him, to help him see that he did not yet understand the level of love Jesus was asking for.

I have little trouble with people not posting "proof scriptures" with every thought they present, as long as "their opinions" coincide with, and are in harmony with, the major themes I understand from the entire text of the Scriptures. The truth is that anyone can "prove" we are to hate our...

It's not hard to see that there is some major confusion as to what "believing in Christ" means. It doesn't mean to even believe He existed as a man some years ago. It means to TRUST ourselves, our lives and our futures to Him, NOW, and TRUST that He is going to be able to orchestrate our lives...