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Of course, though I'm suggesting that justice is some part social order and another part revenge for the victims. The exact portion of each for a given crime may vary. For the law to be fair leniency should be limited to the revenge part, as vengeance is for the offended party.

See what happens when you nurture a nation to be cowards. They become willing to surrender their liberties for security. The devil is playing every side in this battle.

Did you know that astronauts trained to walk on the moon at the Mauna Loa volcano?

Some portion of justice is eye for an eye, another part is for social order. The victims of a crime should be able to nullify the eye for an eye part if they are able and choose to do so.

IMO it is wrong to refuse someone the power of forgiveness. Such as when someone commits a crime and a third party decides to go easy on them. Leniency should be a right of the victim.

I believe he needed to sort out some things with his faith as part of running for president, because he knew the questions would come up. It seems wasteful to vote for any of the third party candidates,

Forgiveness is essential, but I'm not convinced that we should forget. We can't forget the knowledge we gained about someone's character, and their weaknesses. If you know what is a temptation for others you shouldn't willingly put them in a position you know may tempt them. What we need to...

If it is reasonable to assume criminals may carry machine guns, law abiding citizens should be able to have them too. Who should be entrusted with the defence of the people but the people themselves, there is no one more motivated to come to someone's defence than their own. Defence against...

I am protestant and take communion twice a year. My denomination considers the bread and wine symbolic. However I feel revitalized after the communion. I believe Christ is spiritually imbued upon the meal. Since his body is real food and his blood real drink I believe it is spiritual...

Don't spare the ruler, ruin the knuckles.

Jonah could have kept running, and defying God. Balaam could have given false prophesy, fortunately for him he had some principles. Saul could have become a blind beggar.

Yeah, that was a big turnoff. I also imagine any revelation of impropriety would be used by the left. He isn't comfortable enough with being a Christian that he would quote or paraphrase scripture to show how all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God.

To be timeless doesn't necessarily mean you become like God with his level of transcendence, existing along with him from beginning to end. Humans certainly had a beginning and the only thing preventing their end is the gift of eternal life. Our beginning came when God spoke the word creating...

I am not aware of theological studies on the subject. I don't know if the new-earth is timeless, but heaven I believe is. Genesis 8:22 “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” These are all time dependent events...

Time is not necessary for actions. If it were the universe could never have been created. I imagine in a timeless situation your actions would become like a part of who you are. For example someone in heaven may be kneeling before the throne worshiping, sitting at the Lord's table, spending...

Re: 1. The financial controller: This really has nothing to do with Ananias and Sapphira. Their sin was not trying to control the Church financially, but being greedy and lying to keep their money. I think a better reference for this concept would be Luke 6:34 "And if you lend to those from...

Along those lines the leadership that seeks only numbers is also a danger. I don't care if your church has 10000 members, that only proves your pastor is a good public speaker. They could be diluting their message for itchy ears. The Holy Spirit may be totally absent, and with greater numbers...

We could go through the list point by point. Compare what it says with scripture and our own experiences.

I'm glad to hear it, God is Good!

Based on my brief research of universal sufism they appear to reject many of Muhammad's teachings. Of course that is not the standard for attaining salvation, one must accept the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ.