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You have produced NOTHING of fact. You merely repeat the same 2nd century acknowldgements that there were Christians living at that time. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are names attached to anonymous...

Not so: In post #95 you begin your "scripture" claim with "opinions must fall aside when Scripture speaks'. THAT is an opinion.

And you follow in post #99... '... the bible is of no private...

Was it an oversight that you left out the first line of Genesis 2:18 that led Yahweh to create the animals?? "And the Lord God said: It is not good for the man to be alone: I will make him a help...

Am I confusing your response?
You seem to be suggesting that it was MOSES who outlawed incest, and not YAHWEH. And yet Yahweh insisted on incest so that species could be kept 'to their kind'. Your...

Bobby:
Nice response, but it may be a bit outdated: Both Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism allow the ordination of gay men and women, and support civil marriages for homosexual couples... and...

How can you claim that MY comments were "off topic" when YOU were the one who introduced the new thread of biblical interpretation??
And though you claim that verses "rarely" contradict each...

?? Didn't Jesus, himself, violate what the Bible of his day was saying?? He deliberately rejected the Mosaic take on divorce... on the stoning of adulterous women... on violating the Sabbath... on...

Small correction: The Bible does NOT condemn 'homosexuality' (it cannot since the very word was not coined until the mid 19th Century)... but homosexual acts whether committed by homosexual or...

ZackZ:
Sorry, but of all the contradictory statements in the Bible, Hosea is probably the weakest you could have chosen to make your point. for it does NOT refer to the nature of God, or any of his...

Braden 23:
Stop laying an unnecessary guilt trip on yourself. The fact that you WANT to come back means that you are ALREADY back. The father of the 'prodigal son' did not demand any abject...

Not all Christians bow their heads in prayer. Some pray with arms lifted, hands waving, even dancing about. Prayer posture is not dictated in the Bible. The bowed head goes back to the days of...

pah4850:

In order to set your mind at rest on this point simply return to the Gospel accounts of the Last Supper... read them carefully and you will find that JESUS never stipulated ANY conditions...

Authentic faith ALWAYS culminates in action, especially in action toward peace and social justice. It it does not, what matter that two or three or thirty of the 3,000 Christian denominations agree...

Sorry to have to disagree, but "I" generalized NOTHING... I merely quoted the summation of a respected author, theologian, and CHRISTIAN pastor whose qualifications to instruct I find impeccable. For...

I believe you have taken Corinthians 1:28 totally out of context to make a point. Paul's admonition was to the CORINTHIANS, not to the church in general... and it was not meant to judge them...

You make some salient points. The irony is that, in the case of Katrina, the most visible and most quick responders to the tragedy were the Mormons, and the Catholic Church, neither of which is...

Rick:
What do you refer to when you state "Christianity in general"... Protestant Christianity, Roman Catholic Christianity, Orthodox Christianity... Fundamentalist Christianity, ...

You have merely confirmed that you have INTERPRETED Scripture to your own satisfaction. Without interpretation the conflicting reports in the bible have to be taken literally and that turns the...

There is no Black and White in religion that can be taken as Absolute Truth!! Absolute Truth for a Roman Catholic is Papal infallibility... for a Jehovah's Witness it is the idea of a renewed earth...

It is indeed a pity that with so much that can be learned (and used) from the Bible, to improve the condition of our fellow men and women, literalists try to force us to accept idiocies that would...

ONLY if you believe that Yahweh actually tried to find a helpmeet for Adam among the animals... as is suggested when Yahweh realizes "it is not good for the man to be alone" and begins to parade the...

The problem is not, so much, that many Christian leaders have abandoned Biblical teachings, but they have relied on too many subjective misinterpretations of Scriptture to lambast non-believers, and...

You are correct: tipping is a form of recognition for the service rendered... no matter who provides it.

I believe you might find your answer in the angelology of the Persians, rather than the bible. It was the prophet Zoroaster who 'recognized' good angels, bad angels, and equivocating angels who...

Brian McLaren, an evangelical pastor and author of "A New Kind of Christian" writes:
"Sadly, for centuries at a time in too many places to count, the Christian religion has downplayed,...

You seem to be trying to juggle apples and bananas. The Holocaust was witnessed by millions of people throughout the world... many of whom left vivid accounts of their suffering, and the deaths of...

Morality is relative.

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"What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike" ...

The basic flaw in the 'lack of records' argument is that there ARE records of the period and place in which Jesus was alleged to have lived and taught. One of these, Philo Judaeus was living in...

Why do you impute Evil motives to those who do not accept Jesus as GOD. More than two thirds of the world's people reject the notion of Jesus being God, and many reject the idea that he even...

Exactly. You seemed to be reading my mind just as I was preparing my response.

It all comes down to intent... and there is no 'double-standard' involved. Before it became a pjeorative denunciation, the word used was Neger, or Negger... simply signifing "black". Southeners (and...

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It is not of consequence which I prefer: If the entire First Parents scenario is to be taken literally, it can only lead to the inevitable taboo: incest. It has been bruited about that many,...

Cain's wife is a whole other ball of wax. If taken in it's 'literal' sense it leads to one of two conclusions... either there was another set of 'first' parents who settled in the land of NOD, or...

Fr. Chuck:
Chapter 4 of Genesis makes a point of stating: "And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bore Cain, and said: 'I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord." This was AFTER...

There is no such thing as a "free" abortion! One always pays, whether now or later. If not in money, then in mental anguish and guilt. There are many organizations that will help you and your...