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I do not see how anyone living in today's world, listening to the evening news could doubt that the Holocaust took place. Look at what happens in North Korea or the nations of the Middle East today, or in the fairly recent past in Cambodia, Africa or the Balkans. It is a common practice for a...

Perhaps the father fears that if she cannot be faithful in her promise to keep herself exclusively for God, she may not be able to keep herself faithful to be exclusively his.

God said it is not good for us to eat blood and fat. Why do we not believe him and avoid those things? There are plenty of other things to eat that are good for us. In Eden, Satan implied that God's intentions were evil in keeping Adam and Eve from attaining the knowledge found in the fruit...

I agree with the above two suggestions. I would also add that the type of love God asks of us is not the warm, happy feeling we usually associate with the word "love". What God wants from us in this type of situation is to wish the other person well, and to help them if they are in need. If...

Sounds like it is strongly influenced by Eastern mysticism and the concept of becoming one with the divine, like a drop of water in the ocean.

You seem to be interpreting the 144,000 very literally. Revelation is a book characterized by symbolism. It would seem that the 144,000 from among the tribes of Israel would symbolize all the Jews as distinct from the peoples of every tribe and nation which refer to everyone else. They are...

What is your definition of "religion"? My understanding is that it involves what we call ritual or organized corporate worship. You say God has nothing to do with this. How then do you explain the book of Leviticus? It is God's ritual directory. Also Jesus gave instruction for a ritual...

I have read that the Jews did not have an established canon until about 100 AD but instead different groups used different sets of texts in their synagogues. The Catholic canon reflects the texts used by one of the earlier groups and the Protestant bible reflects the final canon from 100 AD...

"Proof-texting" or taking isolated verses out of context can make the Bible support any thing you want it to. You can search the Bible to justify what you want to do, or you can search it to find what God wants you to do. It all depends on whether you love yourself or God. Remember that at...

I don't think it is meant as satire, I think they really believe what they are saying is true.

Ellen White was supposed to have seen many visions. She is one of the founders of the Seventh Day Adventists. However, anyone who has visions after having had a serious head injury are always suspect. While her teachings on doctrine do not seem very accurate, her instructions on health...

A very good and timely reminder. Also, "friends, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely ... meditate on these things." Phil 4:8 If our thoughts are of good things, our words should follow.

I agree. We do not have the source of our life within us, every created being depends on God to sustain it. To imagine that God would sustain a being in existence forever merely to torment it is not in keeping with the character of a just and loving God.

Some of the things you list are important like whether the Bible is the word of God, and whether God predestines people to hell. But others are given a false importance. For example the argument over the body and blood of Jesus in the Sacrament of Communion. Jesus told us to repeat the...

With most churches accepting the Apostles and Nicene Creeds, why are we so divided? Styles of worship differ but the essentials seem the same.

Taking the above topics one by one: I have worked as a nurse for many years and have taken part in helping young doctors learn their trade. More than once I have had to tell a young doctor he had overlooked something that would change his diagnosis and course of treatment. Medicine is a team...

Jesus told us to remember him with the Eucharist, not jewelry. I agree with Arnie that it is not intended to be an idol. The problem I have is that it causes the story of Jesus to end at the crucifixion. There is no indication of the Resurrection and as Paul said - if Jesus be no raised from...

Sitting your self up as the instructor of your elders is never a good idea. It would be better to simply join the conversations and let the quality of your posts speak for you.

It would help to know if you have a specific conclusion in mind that you are trying to direct the person to, or if it is an inductive study where the final conclusions are not known.

Agreed. I have often thought that the smaller dinosaurs, those with small front legs look like flightless birds. I read somewhere that the reason the large dinosaurs were not directed to get on the ark is because God knew that they could not survive in the lower oxygen and atmospheric...