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. I disapprove of what you say, But I will defend to the death your right to say it. The Life Of Voltaire / Evelyn Beatrice Hall The above was at one time a popular motto in the USA; but it's rapidly losing ground to what's coming to be known as a "cancel culture" wherein opposing voices are...

. One has to ask, in point of fact there has been more than one rabbi ponder: How is it that so many of Moses' people were caught up in the Holocaust? Where was God during all that? Why didn't He step in and do something to protect His chosen people? To find an answer to that question one need...

. • 2Tim 2:3-7 . . No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs-- he wants to please his commanding officer. A soldier's primary responsibility is to accomplish the mission assigned by their commanders. They don't give themselves leave to abandon their posts to go off on their...

. FAQ: How was Christ biologically related to Adam without having a biological father? (Luke 1:26-34) A: The woman wasn't a discreet creation, i.e. Eve wasn't a solo specimen constructed directly from dust like Adam was; instead, Eve was made from already created human material taken from...

. • Luke 2:4-7 . . And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, in order to register, along with Mary, who was engaged to him, and was with child. . . . And it came...

. There's been times during my twenty-three plus years of internet forum activity when I've encountered people wanting to know what they're supposed to do now that they decided to become a Christian. A mega Baptist church that I attended back in the decade of the 1970's had a discipleship...

. • Gen 3:22 . . And Jehovah God said: The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Actually, the Serpent had predicted that very thing. • Gen 3:5 . . God knows that when you eat [from the tree in the midst of the garden] your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God...

. The creator, by means of precognition, knew in advance that if He brought human life into existence as planned; He would eventually be destroying much of it in a global deluge. He went ahead and created human life as planned anyway. Also by means of precognition, the creator knew in advance...

. Jehovah had been stiffening Pharaoh's resolve off and on during their confrontation over Moses' people leaving Egypt. Well; the intermissions wherein God allowed Pharaoh time to think about what he was doing were done; it was time to die and just to make sure Pharaoh didn't escape the grim...

. God's free will trumps everybody else's free will, and this fact is very evident in the confrontation that Jehovah forced between Himself and the Egyptian monarch holding Moses' people captive.[/size] • Rom 9:17-18 . . For the scripture says to Pharaoh: For this very purpose I raised you up...

. • Gen 6:5 . . And the Lord saw that the evil of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of his heart was only evil all the time. Man's descent into depravity didn't catch his creator by surprise. After all; not only can God see the future but He can also manipulate it; so He was...

. Hello; Bibles can be purchased at any well-stocked book store like Barnes & Noble. Christian supply stores are another source and can be found listed in the Yellow Pages along with regular types of book stores. Thrift stores like Good Will and Salvation Army usually have some...

. • Matt 1:18-20 . . Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows. When His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit. And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not wanting to disgrace her, desired to put her...

. Eve wasn't made directly from the soil the way that Adam was. She was made of human material taken from Adam's body. In effect then, Eve was Adam's offspring, i.e. his first child. Hence, from then on, even if all of Eve's children had been 100% virgin conceived, they would've still been...

. ● Matt 1:18-19 . . Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows. When His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit. And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not wanting to disgrace her, desired to put her...

. I was christened an infant into the Roman Catholic Church in 1944, and eventually attended catechism to complete First Holy Communion and Confirmation. My siblings are Catholic, my mother was Catholic, my eldest brother entered the priesthood and finished up a Friar. My wife is a former...

. ● Rom 8:9 . . If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. Back in the decade of the 1970's, during my era as a relatively new covert to biblical Christianity, I reasoned that if the Spirit of Christ was actually inside my body, I should be able to detect His...

. Communion services are supposed to be the topic of a brief sermon. ● 1Cor 11:26. . . For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. Below is my favorite communion service homily; perhaps others have a favorite of their own they'd like to...

. The passage below is deliberately misquoted. "The dinner shall be a sign for you, in the houses where you are; and when I see you eating, I will pass over you, and no plague shall fall upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt." (Ex 12:13) No, that's not right. The angel of...

. I feel confident that a knowledge of the origin of Christ's body is essential to properly understanding the Lord's Supper (a.k.a. Communion). His blood began its curious odyssey first by divine edict. ● 1Pet 1:18-20 . . For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or...