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The idea of siding with terrorist, open boarders, anti police, and anti US is suicidal empathy. Its siding with known elements that cause destruction and harm to society and ironically to themselves. Once you deny and defy God then you also deny and defy the truth and reality itself. Its a...

Yes thats right. Its clear. Thats spot on. Yes exactly and in some ways similar to the early church who had similar ideology all around them. They had to preserve and seperate the Christian community and families from this secular ideology. Which is not happening today. Rather the church is...

I was responding to another poster who mentioned Paul. I think a couple of people were discussing Paul. No point really. I think it was originally about the role the family played in the early church and Pauls teachings on this. I said that the Christians carried on the Jewish traditions of...

I think there was a mixture. It would have been all over the place because it was new to the gentiles and for some Jews deminishing their traditional beliefs. Thats why Paul was needed. Thats why Christ appointed him His ambassador. He represented Christs words to the gentiles. Acts 17:16-34...

I think there was every reason that Paul was appointed by Christ to the leader to the gentile churhes. To write his letters to the church as the head. To face the high priests and proclaim the messiah had come in Christ. His eye witness testimony. I think Christ knew that Paul would be needed...

Its in Acts 11. Particularly verses 19-26. Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, spreading the word only among Jews. Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and...

I agree that the principles incorporated in the 12 Step recovery program are really life principles that can be applied to more than just addiction. Like step 1 and 2 admitting the problem and surrendering in order to admit that you need a better way. Thats most of the problem that people...

Its not the exceptions. I gave three specific people. But I also gave you an entire church and Christian community in Antioch before Paul. Before Paul arrived, the Gentile Christians in Antioch were converted by Greek-speaking Jewish-Christian refugees (Hellenists) from Cyprus and Cyrene who...

Why do you need a verse. This is historical fact. Christians were established beyond Judea pre Paul. A Christian church was established in Antioch a gentile city before Paul. There's no verse that says "Paul was the first and only person to preach to the gentiles". There are no bible verse...

I think John is a bit different again to the other Jewish disiciples like Peter, James and Matthew. Though also a Jew he seems to understand some aspects of Greco Roman thinking. Ideas like 'in the beginning was the word and the word became flesh'. Or the idea of 'the light'. Contrasting light...

The places the early disciples went were in gentile cities like Antioch. Many gentiles heard the gospel and were saved. But also other peoples from various cultures that were not Jewish. These were not exceptions as many were saved. The churh at Antioch was big and growing fast before Paul. Yes...

Its interesting that there are two types of people out there and then name the dems and rep as examples. I think generally speaking this may be true. You are right that most democratic nations seem to have this left and right divide. Though there are other parties like the Greens or other...

From what I understand the soul is like a 'life force'. Its what philosophers have been grappling with the creation of life itself. When God breathed life into Adam. Some say its consciousness. The knowledge of experiencing life as a reality. As opposed to inanimate objects. Pre enlightened...

I am not sure what you want me to shw. That gentiles were saved before Paul came along. As mentioned we have Cornelius the Centurion in Acts 10 who Peter preaches the gospel to. We have the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8. Phillip preached and baptised the high ranking Ethiopian official...

Many gentiles were saved before Paul came along. It is the Holy spirit and not Paul or any disciple.

I don't think Paul was the only disciple that preached to the Gentiles. As mentioned, Peter a Jew came to realize that the Gentiles were included before Paul. Paul did not come along until around 3 to 5 years after Christ left. Many Gentiles were saved before Paul came along. So, the message...

I also think that the early church fathers (disciples of the disciples) can also add insights into how the early Christians applied and lived out the gospel and teachings. They were growing while some of the disciple's and especially John were still alive. But even afterwards they had the...

Sorry I thought you were questioning that the disciples accepted the gospel was for all after the Holy Spirit came to reveal the truth to them. When you sais "boy I wish that were true". As though it may not be true. There is only one gospel, and Paul was forthright about false gospels. That...

I am not sure where you are from. But most western nations now see traditional marriage and family as discrimination. Of denying other forms of marriage and family. This phenomenon has really only been happening in modern times since the revolutions of the sixties. As a result, many...

I mean Gods marriage of man and women in a lifelong commitment and for the procreation of children. Many churches and denominations allow divorce, and other forms of marriage and family in line with secular society. It was the same when the Christian worldview became the main religion of the...