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We all value very much the role of women in God's Organization over the millenia! However, those charged with oversight of a congregation are described in the Bible as being males. The 12 apostles of Jesus Christ were all males, and those later appointed to be overseers and ministerial servants...

As a high school and college professor, COVID-19 has not impacted my life much, beyond forcing me to hastily learn how to do distance teaching. Plus, now that I don't drive to work (60 miles a day) and we don't go out to restaurants, I find that I have a little more spending money. For those...

What a sweet thread to start! I am reminded of Proverbs 22:6: "Train up a boy according to the way for him; even when he grows old he will not turn aside from it.” These parents, by example, have slowly lead them step by step in the way of life, until each step has become a strongly set habit...

Because we live in “critical times hard to deal with,” people today are subjected to considerable stress. (2 Timothy 3:1; Luke 21:26) And since all are subject to the debilitating effects of sin and imperfection, it is no surprise that even some God-fearing people, such as your wife, have...

As we all continue to enter deeper and deeper into the “age of the virus,” we would do well to have prepared our Durable Power of Attorney and our Medical Directive/Release Documents. We never know when such documents will become indispensable. We have heard so much about ventilators, but in...

Legitimate questions have been raised about the NIV, but to what are we comparing the NIV? To the KJV? Is that KJV the most accurate Bible? Written in 1611, the translators did not have access to the thousands of ancient Biblical transcripts written, including the Dead Sea Scrolls. Thus...

The Bible says that God is “the Maker of heaven and earth. As regards the heavens, to God the heavens belong, but the earth he has given to the sons of men”—Psalm 115:15, 16. Still, man was told by God to ‘multiply and fill the earth.’ (Genesis 1:28) At the same time, he was given intelligence...

What is the view of the forum about a Christian woman who has "in vitro" from a man, not her husband; would this be considered porneia (fornication)?

Yes, Uncle Joe continues to become confused.

I quite agree; these verses are so funny, yet poignant in their veracity. Yes, we can still have a sense of humor and indeed we must, even though the scriptures and end times are extremely serious. This has been a wonderful thread and thanks to those who have been contributing. I enjoy the...

When foretelling Jerusalem’s destruction and “the conclusion of the system of things,” Jesus showed that pestilence would be a notable feature of the time period preceding the “great tribulation" (Luke 21:10, 11); we will see how this all plays out and hopefully, the warmer weather will...

Jesus was born under the Law and was the only human to live up to them with fidelity. But upon his death, Jesus freed those under the Law (including the basic Ten Words or Commandments) “by becoming a curse instead” of them. His death provided for the ‘blotting out of the handwritten document,’...

I am confused, as I just checked BibleHub and all the versions says 696 years, which was/is my understanding. What am I missing?

Even perfect human bodies are corruptible, that is, they are not beyond ruin or destruction from a physical perspective. As a result, the apostle Paul could say that the resurrected Jesus was thereafter “destined no more to return to corruption” (Ac 13:34), that is, never to return to life in a...

Although not a Christian, Dr. Laura Schlessinger has written extensively on marriage and views it as sacrosanct; her views of marriage also happen to mirror the Biblical assessment of marriage. As one with a Ph.D in human anatomy, she backs up her views with reasoning and statistics from a...

Jesus still had his fleshly body when offering the bread. This body, whole and entire, was to be offered as a perfect, unblemished sacrifice for sins the next afternoon. He also retained all his blood for that perfect sacrifice. “He poured out his soul [which is in the blood] to the very death.”...

Lot took his responsibility seriously to protect his guests and after Lot’s words did not work to convince the sex crazed men to leave, then he offered his daughters to the mob. As to why Lot offered the virginity of his daughters to the men outside his house, one could reason the following...

I feel for any individual who is suffering from voices in one’s head; this phenomenon could result from mental illness (likely) or from demon possession (less likely). True demon possession, although rare, does happen now as in Bible times. In the first century, demonized persons were...