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Quarantine is a time tested way to try and keep rapidly spreading infections under control. The Chinese have already instituted aggressive quarantines on their population. Our unwillingness to shut down travel from hot zones is due to greed or political correctness and neither is a good reason...

If by rapture you mean a disappearance of all believers to heaven at some chronological point in time before the visible second coming of Christ to judge the nations as described in Matthew 24 and Revelation 19, correct. Such an event simply does not exist. As far as Matthew 24:40, he...

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For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: 29 that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual[j]immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell. Acts...

Correct. Jesus comes back once, visibly, to everyone as described in Matthew 24 and Revelation 19. The two chapters describe the same event. This has been the historic confession of the church since basically the resurrection, and is still the belief of the overwhelming majority of Christians...

Out of curiosity what is it that you saw/read/whatever that brought you to the place where you felt it necessary to leave? I agree with your decision but perhaps if you share that with her, she will have a similar reaction. As far as attending separate churches, it may take that for a while...

No it isn't. You had justification to leave. My ex-wife filed for divorce and left after I lost my job (corporate merger). Unfortunately people don't always live up to their obligations. I had always wanted a large family (3+ kids) but it is statistically looking less and less likely.

Well, there are two issues here. First, the worker is worthy of his hire. So we should support our pastors financially so they can live appropriately and do what God has called them to do. The question is what is appropriate. However, many are abusing this privilege to lay up treasures on...

First, tongues in Eastern Orthodoxy are defined as the miraculous ability to speak a previously unknown human language for the purpose of evangelization. Period. There is none of the babbling claiming to speak the tongues of angels that goes on in Pentecostal circles. There has never been...

Correct. This sort of thing reeks of witchcraft and spell casting. Even during Jesus‘ time on earth resurrection of the dead wasn’t a commonplace thing. In fact, it was the resurrection of Lazarus that galvanized the Jewish nation and led to the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem on the 10th of...

1. Jeremiah 29:16 may be the second most misquoted scripture in the Bible behind Matthew 7:1. It is a promise to captive Israel, set in the middle of judgement. Context is everything. Jeremiah 29:4 says “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who were carried away captive...

I think you should call Pope Francis. Because this sounds like a job for Pope Francis.

I may have misinterpreted your original post. After reading it, I understood that you had begun to have concerns about the types of entertainment you consumed and that reading the Bible increased your concern about these choices. If you are suffering from some other generalized form of...

There is a great deal of confusion about law, gospel, faith, and good works today. This is largely an accident of history. After the Roman church separated itself from the rest of Christianity in 1054, they held a series of unilateral councils which moved their doctrine ever closer to the...

“Arianism is a nontrinitarian[1] Christological doctrine[1][2][3] which asserts the belief that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who was begotten by God the Father at a point in time,[1] a creature distinct from the Father and is therefore subordinate to him, but the Son is also God (i.e. God the...

Oh, and a few corrections. The Shepherd of Hermès dates to the second century AD. In the 300s AD both St. John Chrysotom and St. Augustine documented that tongues had ceased. Montanists weren’t cessasionists, they were the original Pentecostals who claimed that the sign gifts continued after...

Chrismation As it still is today, and has been for thousands of years. That having been said, it is the universal testimony of the fathers of the church that the gift of tongues was the miraculous ability to speak a foreign language and it ceased very early in church history. Miracles - such...

Can’t say that I have. Did talk to a girl for a while on Christian Cafe though. Pretty, two kids, turned out to be a rabid anti-vaxxer. That was the end of that.

If reading the scriptures is causing you to have anxiety and doubt you may want to spend some time examining the road you are on. The Christian life, well lived, is at heart an ascetic life. “Your best life now” is an attempt to fit Jesus into a modern materialistic culture and mindset that is...

Well, using the parable of the prodigal as a template, is she handling a wayward child in an appropriate way...or is she attempting to step in as a surrogate messiah in Jesus’ stead? If the former, it’s more likely to go well. If the latter, you should probably hit the pause button until...