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Amen to that. Well said.

Hello Forgiveness, new member here. (Caution: I'm a Quaker.) That is a good and pertinent question. Allow me, as a man who knows what porn addiction is like, to put in my 2 cents. Of course I can not know whether my experiences and point of view will be helpful to you, all I can do is...

Hello dear TimothyGirl, That is so interesting. It is the same for me. (I would even describe myself as *naive* in many ways.) So that seems to be one reason that explains why we are "resonating". My opinion is that it is better to be naive and make a thousand mistakes, than to be cautious...

Hi Mission 21, thanks for the suggestion.

Hello TimothyGirl, That is a very very interesting post indeed! Many thanks for your post. I really like your candidness and honesty. I need a little more time to process your post. You make some very interesting points, on at least some of which I would like to reply. It seems clear that...

Hi all, nice that there is already a thread for this. I like a lot of the fifties and early-sixties films: * The Ten Commandments (1956) Absolutely gorgeous in its presentation of Christianity as Freedom. * David and Bathsheba (1951) * The Story of Ruth (1960) Both about...

Hello Mission21, many thanks for your post. I would define "totalitarian" as: a state in which there is a divide between on the one side the government bureaucracy and on the other side the people, AND where the government and its bureaucracy are intentionally and by design keeping the people...

Or more accurately stated: I do not believe that Jesus was the son of God in a LITERAL sense. The Bible is (I think) clearly full of metaphorical language, even at the level of individual words. Hebrew "son of" is often employed in a figurative sense: If there is some group or tribe, say the...

Hello TimothyGirl, thank you for your reply. Interesting, do you speak Afrikaans? Just call me simply "Joshua" or "Josh", if you like. That is very good indeed. Think for yourself. Please note that I am only a "seeker"; whatever I write is only me brainstorming aloud while seeking. Also...

Hello Oyster67, thank you for your replies, and for expressing the things as you believe them to be without circumlocutions or euphemisms. It seems we have found some very definite points where we differ in views (beliefs). You are correct, I am creating my own version of Christianity -- a...

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Hello all, many thanks again to you all for the friendly welcome. I appreciate it that the population of this forum is not only teenagers (as in most other internet forums) but also includes older people. Deade, out of curiosity, if I may ask, what is the meaning of your username? It sounds...

That is well said.

Hello all! Many thanks to all of you for the very cordial welcome! I will get back to you all ASAP. (Unfortunately I have an important delivery deadline tomorrow which until then will eat up all my remaining time; I hope it was OK for me that despite this I submitted my post on Saturday.) I...

Very good and sensible point indeed. Thank you for this view on things. More thoughts: I general I agree that statements in the Bible should be read in context, i.e. are statements that often only apply only in certain circumstances. The whole problem with the "other cheek" statement, it...

Amen.

Hello Y'all ! New here, just found your forum in an internet search. Thanks for running the forum. I'm new to Christianity since about six months to a year. I currently live in Germany, am originally from the Netherlands, and was raised (as many are in Europe, probably increasingly many) in...