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There is definitely some validity to touch starvation. Having worked the same physically demanding job since leaving school, I've observed how my aches and pains linger for much longer without the comfort of physical affection. Growing up as a non-believer, I went through the worldly phase of...

You quoted my last message. I was polite enough to respond. For now, is an unspecified period of time.

Eh? Do you keep losing your train of thought, or are you feeding your responses through a card shuffle generator? The only peril you need to be worrying about is becoming a parody of the "better" follower you think you are.

Six days of creation, no evolution, and no billion-year timelines. And the sun isn't going to burn out in about five billion years, either. Christ will return long before science's fanciful timescales and predictions about what could bring about mankind's end.

That age is the culmination of all things. Past, present, and future marriages (Lord willing) included. Adios, for now.

We're done, buddy. It's impossible to paint the bigger picture with someone who keeps factory resetting mid-conversation.

Welcome to the forums, Evita. Your life in faith has an Author and a Finisher. Stay with Him. Ending your life prematurely would only deny Christ the opportunity to perfect His work in you. When we are anxious and distressed, our feelings and shifting emotions can pull us from pillar to post...

In essence, aren’t those who are single yet hope to marry simply anticipating the unseen? In a sense, doesn’t that mirror the posture of faith itself - holding a patient, hopeful expectation for what has not yet unfolded? Navigating the world of the lost and sleeping is no child's play...

The truth needs no defending here my friend. I know there were giants on the earth in those days, and that they were humanoid. The possible deception I was referring to concerns Dinosaurs. Conceivably, they are a modern narrative for those who've never read the Bible. Fictitious prehistoric...

I concur. The only point I was seeking to make was that giant prehistoric terrestrial reptiles, could be a false, alternative narrative to keep people who've never read the Bible from learning about the true giants of old: the humanoid descendants of the Nephilim.

You hadn't made the distinction (or at least, I hadn't seen you do so) between the real, lived experience of marriage, and those who hope to marry, but haven't found someone to marry. A moot point now, since you've specified what you were referring to. The sheep who marry do well, and the...

Although you initially stated that marriage was abstract, you are now arguing the abstraction applies exclusively to singlehood. That's a deviation from your original premise.

In your own words, you said marriage itself was just an abstract concept, a neutral institution, and now you've changed your tune. Have we established some consensus or are you contradicting yourself? Don't answer a rhetorical question. I thought it would've been painfully obvious, given the...

I make a conscious effort not to be an inconsiderate parker, almost all of the time. The exception being early Spring. I own a Japanese car, and every 日本車 needs to be parked up and photographed under a cherry blossom tree at least once during the blooms peak. No parking signs, private property...

One things for sure, Jesus' nuance in that passage ain't for everyone, just as celibacy ain't for everyone. :)

So, marriage isn't abstract in practice? I'm glad we've cleared that up, because the Messiah made time to attend a wedding in Cana of Galilee. I was beginning to wonder why nobody had told Him that marriage was a worldly distraction, and He shouldn't have been entertaining the deluded guests...

What you thinking? He's a bot who specialises in absurdities, sent to disseminate them with conviction and confidence? Or has his day job, risk management, bled into the entire sum of his substance? All joking aside, I'm sure we'd all want to see him at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. 🙏

That doesn't answer my question. You said marriage was an abstract concept. Perhaps you meant serial monogamy was an abstraction of man? Arbitrariness, in an attempt to evade accountability or consequences? It's reasonable for a single man or woman to hold the conceptual desire to marry. The...

The two can exist harmoniously together without conflict. Confirmation bias in the secular paradigm is the problem. Not the scientific data, which as you say, substantiates how all things are held together (in Him).

Empirical science is a restricted way of pursuing knowledge. Without God, the mind is limited to those branches of study which only seek to explain the material universe. Data gathered through scientific instruments (e.g., telescopes, microscopes) does not account for Creation by the Word: the...