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Man was ordered to drain the blood when preparing meat, because "the life is in the blood". Seemingly this was reiterated in Acts (I think in 15 and 27). This seems never to have been repealed. Is it still enforced today? I'd be interested in others' opinions.

Is there a contradiction in the 2 accounts of Judas Iscariot's death. Some say he died from hanging; some say he died from his stomach being ruptured. I think the latter is almost impossible. In the entirety of televised rugby/ football matches, no-one has been killed by falling over and...

I've considered this event. It seems the accusers were obeying the Mosaic Law when bringing the woman to justice. Why did Jesus not fulfil this commandment? Was it because His presence on Earth was issuing in a new legal era? Or something else?

I'd like to hear people's views on this idea, promoted by Sye Ten Bruggencate etc. - that God has somehow revealed His 0existence to each one of us and that "atheists" are suppressing this truth in unrighteousness. A personal anecdote - I wasn't brought up in a religious home, but in my...

This may seem a strangely basic issue to many, as they have this matter entrenched in their mind, but my background makes me unsure of things. I'll briefly elaborate, although at the moment, I'm not thinking as clearly as I otherwise would. I was not born into a Christian (or any other...

I'd be interested to read others' thoughts - whether biblically-based or not - on this issue.

I don't expect this will work, but I've been posting (sometimes long, carefully considered) input only to be told I need to wait, or " I need to post something which has "less than 10,000 characters"!! My posts are not THAT long. Can anyone help?

This is an oft-debated question in Christian circles, but I'd like to bring up a particular situation. Rather than the case of losing salvation through a certain sin or sins, what about when a once-believer loses belief in God/ Jesus - as in - eg - Matt Dillahunty, who was devout Christian and...

I've come across differing views on this and would like to see others' biblical evidence one way or another, if any would like to comment.

Lately, I've heard a few people say that institutions (which includes my brother's) are becoming cashless. This, they say, is because "the people that ('be' - (or 'are' - which seems to be grammatically correct) are)" working to "keep tabs on" people and control what they do. I'm...

Until a few years ago, I hadn't encountered Calvinism, instinctively thinking it was a form of operation, like methodism, rather than a belief system. To me, it seems wrong and counter-intuitive, but sometimes, if I'm bombarded with assertions over and over again, I tend to start to wonder -...

I recently posted a question re. the state of people when they die, before Jesus' second coming - ie - have they gone to Heaven or Hell or are they "at sleep", awaiting resurrection. Whereas I tend toward the latter, I am unsure as to what a careful reading of the whole of the NT would...

One big issue in Christian theology is whether the "dead" are alive in a post-dead state or "sleeping", awaiting judgement. Unless I'm misinterpreting the verse, Peter says in Acts 2 that David is dead and buried and "his tomb exists to this day". This seems to confirm that the latter...

I've had experience of many denominations - trinitarian and unitarian - encountering many, many different doctrines and combinations of doctrines. One major issues in contention is the subject of Hell as a place of conscious torment. There is material in the Bible, on prima facie...

I've come in contact with many different denominations, trinitarian and unitarian, encountering many different doctrines and combinations of doctrines. Having this background, I'd like to bring up one aspect of this disagreement. One thing trinitarians often bring up is passage in the OT where...

Part of the reason that prompted this question is that Pastor Steven Anderson said that "oene" in the NT refers to non-alcoholic fruit juice. I'd be interested in reading others' opinions.

Hi. Regarding the biblical (and generally accepted, by bible-believing Christians) instruction re. the corporal punishment of children - something I've always found abhorrent, 'though I'm not a perfect, wise, all-knowing God! - I've not seen anywhere in the OT ('though there might well be some...