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“If you are going to enter into the suffering of those who have been traumatized, you have to learn how to sit with and listen to fear, anger and great grief with compassion and understanding. You will also have to learn to do it for far longer than you prefer.” (Diane Langberg) When I read...

I was just thinking about how difficult it has been drawing people’s attention to the NonChristian forums. You’ve done a lot over the years to make that happen.

* My level of comfort is gonna be closely tied to what the running mouth was saying right to the bitter end. *

* Can I get it without the fish and the aspergers? *

* Pretty slick marketing to get people to purchase two pair. *

* Conspiracy theory: Coca-Cola Company has something to do with it. *

At the other end of the scale we have this: My position is that both ends tip the scale out of balance.

@TrevorHL it was suggested to me by a Christadelphian in another thread (the thread which led me to start this one for him so that my thread on the gospel of the kingdom wouldn’t be derailed) that paganism (not a personal being) is what (not who) tempts us. Do you think Jesus (Hebrews 4:15) was...

The Christadelphians have some sound doctrine. I don’t believe this particular doctrine is one of them. Shouting that people who disagree with this doctrine on Satan and the devil are pagans isn’t going to persuade, and shouldn’t, very many. Paul needs to mention the devil in every passage...

When the gospel / word of the kingdom is preached, inevitably people show up who say that it shouldn’t be believed. “Jews, don’t you believe the gospel / word of the kingdom. Gentiles, don’t you believe the gospel / word of the kingdom.” Newbies, if you are approached by someone who tells you...

The devil didn’t want the unbelieving Jews and gentiles to hear the Messiah preaching the gospel / the word through Paul and others. In Acts 17:13-14 we see his effort, his counter, to put a stop to it. Paul departed for Athens, leaving Silas and Timothy behind. ”Now while Paul was waiting for...