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I found a documentary about them. Don’t watch it if you’re alone.

I don’t know. Being that it’s Australia, gotta be super scary kind.

* 16. I’ve never owned a horse. (I reckon if I’m going to take the time to tell you and you’re going to take the time to listen, I owe you an explanation of the score.) *

* Scratching my head wondering if it’s a good thing or a bad thing that Snow Season and Spider Season don’t overlap. *

When I think about my native American ancestry, I often remember this scene from The Frisco Kid.

I have. I purchased a copy several hears ago, due to my interest in native American culture. (My great grandmother on my father’s side of the family is 50 percent Cherokee.) If you have a particular passage in mind, I’ll look it up, quote it for you, and let you decide for yourself.

Have you read this translation?

That’s a good observation, and there is a great measure of truth in it. When I told him that I thought I might be able to refrain from speaking about the matter and / or refrain from discussing it with anyone if asked, that didn’t satisfy him. In his eyes, and with a view toward protecting the...

“What about the millions who died before the Good News of the kingdom reached them? Is it fair to exclude them without them having a chance to be saved? How can heaven be a delight for anyone who knows that there are large numbers of people suffering in a hell that they had no possibility of...

I thought about including a link in the OP for the benefit of those who aren’t familiar with him. I decided not to but I know that it will be helpful for many. (I left it simply at him being a pagan who lived in the 3rd century, thinking that might suffice.) I had a student one time who said he...

I agree. Is possible for someone who has never even heard of God to love and obey him?

“The eternal destiny of a very large number of people throughout history who have not had access to the Gospel, and who enter eternity not knowing Jesus Christ, is a pressing problem for theology. It pits access against urgency. If we say there is equal access to salvation for all, including the...

Proposition: There is a way to God which doesn’t involve knowing anything at all about Jesus and God’s promises. Christians buck at that, and not without good reason. Tough break, little old lady in Fiji who lived and died 10,000 years ago? Or was God, despite her ignorance, working in her...

What is the hope (Is there any hope?) for those who - like the hypothetical little old lady in Fiji exercise - lived and died without knowing anything at all about God, or Jesus, or the Bible? Will they simply be lost, thrown in the lake of fire, because they were born in a place and time of...

I don’t disagree with any of that, and I suspect Porphyry himself heard something very much like it from the Christians whom he encountered in the 3rd century. What does it say, though, about the fate of those who lived and died before the Messiah was sent and never heard anything at all about...

I’m still hanging in there with your train of thought, JustMe. Let me give you a hypothetical that is used in many seminary and Bible college classrooms. It is sometimes called “The Little Old Lady in Fiji” exercise, and it goes something like this: There once was a little old lady who lived...