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Hi everyone, I have been a member of the atheist and Christian debate facebook group for the last couple of weeks. I left the group this morning after they pulled my post on the grounds that it was 'non debatable post/unrelated to group topic'. A quick look at the site will quickly reveal that...

I think most of us would agree that God is economical with His words. He says what He has to say in the minimum number of words, as one would expect from someone infinitely intelligent. If God says anything twice, we realise it is very important. The Bible may be a big book, but considering the...

Hosea 1:4 says. Then the Lord said to Hosea, “Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel. God has told Hosea to take an adulterous wife and to name their son Jezreel. Now in 2 Kings chapters 9 and 10...

I would appreciate the views of the forum on these verses from Luke. It is very clear that the generation alive during Christ's ministry had unprecedented light, but to heap all the blood since the creation on them, suggests that previous generations were exempted, even though they killed the...

Hi folks, I have a question about John 12:47-48. “As for the person who hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it. There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will...

Dear friends, In John 13:18 Jesus is predicting his betrayal. "I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfil the scripture: 'He who shares my bread has lifted up his heel against me' ... This is a quote from Psalm 41:9. The 'he' in this verse is Judas and...

The last few chapters of Ezekiel describe a temple that was never built. Some suppose that this is the famous third temple or millennial temple and many Christians see the building of this temple as a prerequisite for the return of Christ, thus making the temple a big deal. I have recently been...

Hi folks, As you may know, the Zorostrian religion is an old one that had its origins in Ancient Persoa and was displaced by Islam in the seventh century AD. This religion is credited with the folloing ideas. Monotheism, dualistic cosmology, that is, a struggle between good and evil, messianism...

Hi folks, Can anyone recommend any academic studies on the subject of demons? I know there are books on the subject, but frankly I am looking for something more detached and objective. Something that examines the facts and documents the results of a detailed and systematic investigation. I am...

Hi folks, Does anyone have any opinion on the bible code? By this I mean the notion of equidistant letter sequencing. There was a book on the subject by a journalist, Michael Drosnin and a more detailed follow up by Dr Jeffrey Satinover. I read these books years ago. ‘Interesting’ I thought...

Exodus 20:3-4 1. You shall have no other gods before me 2. You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything ... I am puzzled about the first two of the ten commandments. Why are there two? Are there really other gods? The bible says not. Many times, for example Isaiah 45:5...

In 2 Kings 15:1-7 we are given a very short description of the life of this king. We are told in verse 3 that he did right in the eyes of the Lord, then in verse 5 that the Lord afflicted him with leprosy until the day he died. In our day we accept that bad things happen to good people, with...

The wikipedia article on the Angel of the Lord (or Angel of God) summarises the appearances of the Angel in the bible but there is no consensus on who he is. In some passages the Angel of the Lord is the Lord. On other occasions he distinguishes himself from the Lord. Some think the angel is...

In 1 Samuel 15:35 we read the somewhat surprising statement that ‘the Lord grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel’. If a human being made such a statement, it would be fine. Saul was not a good king, but how can God say such a thing? Nothing catches God by surprise. God chose Saul...

This is a serious question. Should an able bodied person pray kneeling down? Jesus and Paul certainly knelt to pray, does this mean we should? I find it much easier to pray while walking up and down. Is this disrespectful? Views from the forum most welcome.

In the law of Moses the issue of cities of refuge are mentioned several times. Deut chapter 19, for example tells us what these cities are for. They are places where a man can flee if he accidently kills someone. It makes sense, after a fashion, but to me at least, it seems very odd that this...

Deut 14:21. Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to an alien living in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. But you are a people holy to the LORD your God. This injunction from the law seems to be in breach of the golden rule: Do unto...

I am confused by this subject. In Lev 13:7-8 we are told that a rash that speads in the skin makes the person unclean. This is logical. But in Lev 13:12-13 it says that if a disease breaks out all over the body, from head to foot, the priest is to pronounce the person clean! I don’t understand...

In Leviticus 11:6 God says ‘the rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof, it is unclean for you’. In fact the rabbit does not chew the cud, though it does make chewing movements, so the ancients were fooled into thinking it did. One would expect God to know better. Of course...

Dear members, I posted a thread called ‘Cut off her hand’ that received a lot of replies. LPT has just provided a post that completely explains the verses in Deuteronomy, by looking at the original hebrew, and this changes the interpretation completely. Since there were strong opinions...