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I think your view of human freedom is missing an important aspect of it's meaning. Jesus did the will of His Father not His own. Yet He demonstrated perfect freedom. Freedom is the ability to do what  ought to be done. Jesus didn't want to drink the fup His Father prepared for Him. He asked...

I Thank you robert for your kind words. I too appreciate your reasoned approach and desire to understand. I profit from your example. It's just that scripture isn't a useful authority if the parties using it don't agree on it's meaning. We have to rely on reason to either come to that...

d No, Im not saying we should or shouldn't be comfortable in a body that dies. I'm saying it's a fact whether we like it or not. That tact is evident. Man is not comfortable with death. Death has always been a disturbing problem for all peoples. t's a question that all religions attempt to...

Viability was a sign of humanity according to abortionist. Discussing the issue with an abortion doctor who claimed the embryo is parasitic so isn't human. It's a parasite he said, so I asked, when did science start defining species according to its stage of development? Ancient pagans believed...

The virgin birth also guarantees the Father of Jesus is God. Jesus didn't just come out and say "Hey folks God here! OTOH HE said it loud and clear enough that the Jews killed Him for it. When He told the High Priest, in reference to Himself " you will see the son of man coming on the clouds"...

At conception the zygote is an individual human being determining it's own growth warts and all just like you and me. Can it live outside the womb? Does it have a rational soul*? Is it a person? None of those matter because they don't define species of individuals. Because from conception...

That' because their bodies are supposed to die. Their bodies serve the law of death. One of those laws is an instinct to survive it's not a problem for them like it is for us. It would be cruel to give the ability to know death for no reason. You missed my point. If we were supposed to die we...

My point is we would be comfortable with a body that dies if that's all we ever had. We wouldn't know there was anything better if we had never had it before. That we even know what we got now isn't what we want, that we know there is better means it once was better. You don't see bears having...

Our flesh serves the law of death obstructing our will to serve God. If a body that dies were natural then the flesh wouldn't conflict with our will. Romans 8, Paul laments ' who will rescue me from this body of death?' How can man yearn to be rescued from a body that dies if a body that lives...

True. We aren't born with a developed sexual identity. That identity only begins to develope after we become familiar with the biological and behavioral distinctions present in males and females present to us in our environment. Preferably a mother and father committed to their particular roles...

Right! In a world in which no one could imagine the male sexual faculty for anything but the womb, what happened to cause the womb to be abandoned? Contraception. The desire for the marital embrace outside of marriage. For that reason I think, the womb was abandoned for the first time. A...

Hi michaelvpardo, so many things I like about your post. And you as well. Especially your understanding of communication and devotion to it's primary function. You seem to know that good communication is not just an expression of unambiguous truth but the love for truth required to receive it...

Now the reason that this topic is in the debate column is because I already know that it's going to bring up a lot of controversy. Now, let me first start off by saying that when I say that I believe in sex before marriage I'm talking about the actual ceremony and wedding certificate. That means...