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OMC: Well thought out. (My comments apply only to the realities I see in North American Christianity.) Unfortunately, 21st Century Christianity is a road with two paths that diverge. One is an easy path and the other a much more exciting but challenging one. In one path, let's call it rubber...

When I see the word "jabs" I know we are in a political sphere not a scientific one. Here is the requirements for school age kids in NY Students in New York must receive a total of five core vaccine disease groups (comprising multiple individual doses and shots depending on age and grade level)...

As a life long scientist (microbiology) and later computers scientist, I can clearly state that all valid scientists live in a world of humility. We know we are on a voyage of discovery where facts evolve via experimentation and continuous debate. The very beating heart of science is our...

Cameron143: The portions of the Book of Daniel considered by scholars to be later Greek additions—absent from the traditional Hebrew and Aramaic text—are Susanna (often labeled Chapter 13), Bel and the Dragon (often labeled Chapter 14), and The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy...

Where does I Corinthians 13, where Paul says it does not matter the power of you faith, if you don't have love - horizontal and vertical - your faith is in vain? Where does Galatians 5 fall in- these are the fruits (proof) of the Spirit? Remembering Jesus analogy that the unfruitful will be cut...

Perhaps the real "lesson" is that we are citizens in God's kingdom. It has nothing to do with human politics. Every time we attempt to graft on God's Kingdom to a human political/ethic/values - The Kingdom of God is debased. Souls are lost, the innocent crushed and morality becomes whatever is...

Fillan: As I have noted, some Hebrew Bible prophecies were written after the fact, looking back and pretending they were forecasting the future. This is especially true about the book of Daniel that has both old stories about the Babylonian captivity written much later and additions to the book...

OMC Well said. We have a biblical window of what men have written about what God has created and who He is in the minds of people living and writing 2,700- 2,000 years ago, but not an infinite description of how God creates. We can wake up as I do, early in the morning and wonder at what God has...

After a bunch of contradictory quotations, the reality is the same. You can "claim" saving faith because you believe the story of Jesus and you have "faith" it is true. If what you claim as "faith"is "fruitless" and undistinguishable by your life, you may have a form of what your denomination...

A definite possibility. However, they are courched in such archaic and symbolic language that it might be a tough chore. It has been a popular bible passtime for generations.

Watchman22 and OMC I think it important to distinguish the process a bit more because IMHO we purposely conflate two words with very different meanings into one word that is inaccurate. Our faith journey does not begin with faith, it begins with belief. Belief is a purely a mental process. If...

CS1 - It is only the two of us in this conversation. If seeing your knickname repeated is something important to you, I will be glad to include it.

I believe you may have conveniently bifurcated sin. There are two broad categories of sin. One is personally violating God's will and Jesus example. The second and perhaps the more important kind of sin is the sin of never taking up your cross, never being converted into the love of both God and...

Fillan: Based on the last chapter of Daniel, which was added to an existing older text, one can very accurately determine that this text was written around 167 BC - based on the idea that whoever wrote Daniel was looking backward for much of the text incorporating stories from the Babylonian...

Your item #4 is completely lacking any recommendation at all..a nothing burger "Currently, the local Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) determine coverage of gender reassignment surgery on a case-by-case basis. We received a complete, formal request to make a national coverage...

I provided no data from whoever the APA is. The data I provided comes from the Center for Disease Control and Protection, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Institute of Health. There is one primary federal oversight body (the Children's Bureau under the U.S. Department of...

At least 532,000 children are confirmed victims of abuse and neglect in the US every year, with parents responsible for nearly 85% to 90% of these cases. Because many instances go unreported, broader public health tracking by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that actual...