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Man, chatting with you is really rewarding—you're so remarkably thoughtful. It was a long and defiant process that got us to the isolated, detached, and yet interdependent state in which we now find ourselves. We are being visited by the sins of our fathers to the 3rd and 4th generations, so...

A person could easily drive himself crazy trying to get the absolute best quality food possible. And then there are other considerations: When to eat exactly; how much exactly; what kind of exercise to do and when, to aid optimal digestion; whether to drink or not with meals (dilution of gastric...

The Interweb is so packed with AI-generated Bible information websites containing typical AI-liable misinformation that folks practically need a degree in AI Technology to decipher them. I read one just today comparing the KJV to the NKJV that was so obviously buggy I gave up less than halfway...

Encouraging someone to eat the best quality of food they can afford is a doctrine of demons——Got it. Now, shoo! :

I'm just using the words in the OP. So, the purpose of the thread was to help you recover from (rather than celebrate) the benefit of your own retention of the biblical emphasis of your religious upbringing? Am I understanding you correctly? :)

Do you feel like you've been successful in celebrating your own retention of the biblical emphasis of your religious upbringing? A serious question for which I wouldn't mind a serious answer. :)

Boy, you could feed a lot of starving kids with $66M. And prevent the Vitamin D deficiency that will surely result from dimming the sun—which they're not very likely to succeed in doing anyway. strs

I couldn't agree more, Sister! I read posts here that I really want to respond to, but so often it seems I'm barely speaking the same language as some folks. People quote me and respond with answers to questions I haven't even asked. The big isolator seems to be Christ, Himself. Start a...

I'm so glad that Jesus took the pain for us, so we can identify with Him and He with us, which makes the pain so much more bearable. The refiner's fire is thus a genuine part of the "easy yoke" and the "light burden" of Christ. It is by faith only. But it is not masochism. He has said that in...

The words that Christ speaks, they are Spirit, they are life. If we don't realize and internalize them as such, we are dry, formal, dead bones. If what we love most is to be accurate and correct about what His words say, so that we can correct others and hope to win arguments with them, we are...

I don't disagree with this in any substantive way. I also don't see how it addresses what you've quoted from me. Either there is a counterfeit for the genuine love of the Bible or there isn't. Either way, it's a person's prerogative to believe as they wish. I'm not interested in coercing...

This is where we have a definite divergence of views and I have to agree with this: However, having said all that, This is a gross misunderstanding. Idol worship involves counterfeit love. Some of the meanest people I know say they love the Bible. It is quite possible to have a Spiritless...

Within whose reason? strs

It's okay, though, because he hates other bad stuff. Christianity is, for most people, all about finding something to attack and criticize. You ask these people what they think of Jesus, and you can easily make out the sound of crickets chirping. It's like this: Matthew 22:41-46 NKJV —...

You added the word "once." It's what you want to believe, regardless of what is true. You are an expert in evil surmising. Luke 9:54-55 NKJV — And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as...

I think it's interesting to note that Christ expected "the teacher of Israel" to understand new covenant regeneration (John 3:10). Kind of a fly in the ointment of dispensationalism. strs

This is, as @St. SteVen has said, really great stuff! I believe we really need to be reminded to let God out of our tidy little boxes. It's immensely interesting to me that Jesus said "When you are converted/returned" (Like 22:32) to Peter—who had been by His side for 3 years. This tells me...

John 17:3 — “And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent." Are you saying that the less we know about God, the better? (rhetorical question, right?) :p

Antisemites can call me a Zionist all they like, but I make a definite distinction between the Israeli government and Jews as a people or religion. And conspiracy theories are like rectums: Everybody's got one and... :

'We simply hate them with our thinly-veiled words,' am I right? :