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    Matthew 18:9?

    And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell. I continue to struggle with this statement from a Jesus. I would like to hear your insights on how to understand the...
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    Robert E. Lee statue to be moved in Virginia

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/501021-virginia-governor-to-announce-removal-of-robert-e-lee-statue-in-richmond%3famp
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    Do we all willfully sin against God?.

    It is very easy to point a finger at someone else an say that person sins & not only that they have no desire to change. Are you and I any different? I believe we all are guilty of justifing our own personal sins before God and using that worldly justification as an excuse not to change.
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    Is believing in white supremacy in line with following God?

    Some how I see a contradiction, do you?
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    MLK jr.

    Read a recent article about Martin luther King jr. in Christianity today. What a great Leader he was in a dark place in this nations history.
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    Let’s get right to it. Are the Parts of the Bible written by Paul valid as scripture or not?

    Is seems there is a movement or segment of people here on CC who appose or disregard the teachings of Paul. Is this a true statement? If so how is it justified?
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    Natural Disasters and Original Sin

    Are such things as hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, earth quakes , etc. the result of the original sin?
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    The politics of Gay rights.

    It is understandable that most Christians think that homosexuality is wrong according to the scriptures. However, homosexual people do exist in great numbers in this country. Do they have rights that should be protected?
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    Adam & Eve kept from tree of life

    Genesis 3:22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” Why did God have a tree of life in the garden? Many say that Adam & Eve would have...
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    Satan in a perfect world

    Genesis says God created the universe and it was good. God created Adam & Eve & they sinned bringing a curse & sin on the earth. Many would say that before this curse the world was perfect with no death or disease or hardship. Satan was in the world before the fall of Adam & Eve, after all he...
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    Death before sin.

    In Genesis, Adam & Eve clearly died spiritually when they ate the forbidden fruit. They clearly disobied and fell from God's favor. They were the first humans to live and all humans from that point on have physically died. Did they introduce physical death into the world with their sin or did...
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    Were the first Christians Socalists?

    Acts 4 32 All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. 33 With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them...
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    Display of the 10 Commandments

    From time to time Christians display the 10 Commandments in their yards. Sometime they protest against the 10 Commandments being removed from public places such a Courthouses. I understand this is in defense of there faith from a possibly overreaching government. The part I need help...
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    Matthew 5:29-30

    If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you...
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    Did any earthly human join God in Heaven before Jesus?

    My understanding is that before Jesus death burial and reserection not a sole was worthy of Gods presence. Godly people before Jesus went to Purgatory. Looking for scripture one way or the other.