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You said something similar to me in another thread... why is a sense of humor a bad thing? Also, Jesus tells a joke in the passage you're discussing. Maybe you SHOULD be laughing.

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Building your entire theology on a Greek preposition seems like a bad idea. Greek prepositions are notoriously vague and overloaded in meaning.

"I'm Sorry Dave, I'm Afraid I Can't Do That" My name isn't Dave... what's up with that?

Yep. I'm no master, but I'm a decent enough plumber. But I recently called a pro. When you have back-to-back toilets and you try to snake a toilet, the snake just wants to go across to the other toilet. I tried from the roof down as well but didn't get anywhere. You need the fancy-schmancy...

...that you know of. We both grew up in an era where a young man would probably rather have cut off his left ear than admit such a thing.

What a story. Man... that is my pet peeve... when you try to help someone and they turn around and critique what you did. I typically tell such people "you're welcome" in response to the criticism. This is a lesson I try to teach at my house - be a graceful receiver of gifts. Even unwanted...

15th century BC.

You didn't quite answer the question... perhaps the question is flawed, though. :shrug: So as you see it, or as I read the chapters you cited... homosexuality occurs in people who are already affected by some perversity of character. Is that a fair summation? I struggle to square that idea...

Some of the words in those verses aren't very clear in most translations... if I were to translate the Greek in modern words it would look like... Don't you know that [the] unrighteous don't inherit God's kingdom? Don't be seduced - neither man-whores nor temple-prostitutes nor...

Would you say that homosexuality is strictly a matter of nurture - i.e. upbringing? Is there any room for the thought that nature - i.e. genetics - might be involved?

That's a modern way of looking at it. As nearly as I can tell, the Bible says there's exactly 1 group of people who will be saved - Abraham's children. But it doesn't reckon group membership based on physical descent. It reckons Abraham's children to be those-who-believe-like-Abraham...

Ah yes, the good old days when one could reasonably expect to fix their own car or air conditioning. Even the A/C here got too complicated for my limited mechanical skills. The newest unit is a roof-mounted York Heat Pump that has high and low settings of A/C, the panel wants some special tool...

As much as I fight with it, they are very convenient. Ours mostly functions to (a) control lights, (b) play music, and (c) function as an alarm clock. If my son is bored, sometime he asks it to tell jokes or riddles. They are always terrible, and then I have to hear them a 2nd time when he...

"Trees" in the Bible frequently function as emblems of kings or nations. For instance, Paul uses the olive tree as an emblem of Christ as King, and the nation made up of those 'natural branches' and 'grafted branches' attached to Him. (Romans 11) In the gospels, the fig tree appears to be an...

We have an Alexa personal assistant at our house. I HOPE my kids are watching, because I fight with that damn thing all the time.

Was reading about a new AI just yesterday. It learns all about a person who is deceased, and then takes over their social media, providing the illusion that they haven't died. "For the mental health of the loved ones." I'm sure THAT won't be abused at all.

I don't believe him. The arrangement of the people uses the same negative space as the painting. That said... the painting ALSO includes some pagan symbology. It's not crazy to postulate that Jesus and the Disciples in the painting have been arranged in the form of some pagan revelry.

God forbid that we should have a sense of humor, eh?

Man, how do I get that job? Paid to troll idjits sounds like a fun gig.