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Jesus Begins to Preach • 4:12 When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee. 13 He left Nazareth and went to live in Capernaum, a town by the lake of Galilee, at the border of Zebulun and Naphtali. 14 In this way, the word of the prophet Isaiah was fulfilled: 15 Land of...

Jesus tempted in the wilderness (Lk 4:1; Mk 1:12) 4 • 1 Then the Spirit led Jesus into the desert, that he might be put to the test by the devil. 2 After Jesus fasted forty days and nights he was famished. 3 Then the tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, order these stones...

There are lots of Syrian refugees in Europe, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and a host of other places because their country is torn apart by civil war and foreign troop incursions. It's been that way for seven years. There is no end in sight to the violence. In old testament times Israel was commanded...

Jews of our era read the old testament as their bible because they reject the new testament and Muslims of our era read the old testament and new testament as corrupted revelation from God that Jews first and then Christians changed and corrupted to take away the true message of God which...

What if the Pope tweeted like Donald Trump does? What do you think would come of it?

It is almost time to sing about frozen ducks and snow! Just remember that Anglican carols are better :smirk:

Here's a video from PBS NOVA on the old testament. I think it is interesting.

People have two brains connected by a thick nerve-cell cable which enables each brain to talk to the other. A little bit like two computers talking to each other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8 But I want to speculate and since this is the speculative theology forum this looks like...

Scandinavia is wonderful - they have a registered religion called Copyism (Swedish spelling is kopimism) - in which the central act of worship is file sharing. I believe the religion was started as something of a joke. Somebody applied for registration and because it met all the criteria for...

What does it mean in practice for a person to believe in God? The answer is to adhere to God himself, entrusting yourself to God and assenting to all that God reveals because God is Truth. Do you also think it means to believe in one God in three Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit? I do.

How does man respond to God who reveals himself? Enabled by divine grace, we respond to God with obedience and faith, which means full surrender of ourselves to God and acceptance of the truth revealed by God because God is Truth itself.

I like some of the middle ages chants - and some of the chants by Hildegard von Bingen

The second commandment prescribes respect for the Lord's name. Like the first commandment, it belongs to the virtue of religion and more particularly it governs our use of speech in sacred matters. Among all the words of Revelation, there is one which is unique: the revealed name of God. God...

What exactly do Christians believe? Well, lots of things and sometimes they cannot agree on what they believe. Some christians are so vague about beliefs that one wonders if they believe anything specific at all. Yet there are a few beliefs that all Christians who can be called orthodox (with a...

Lowliness is assured by majesty, weakness by power, mortality by eternity. To pay the debt of our sinful state, a nature that was incapable of suffering was joined to one that could suffer. Thus, in keeping with the healing that we needed, one and the same mediator between God and men, the man...

The first three Commandments treat our relationship to God. The last seven concern our relationship with each other. The First Commandment calls us to have faith in the true God, to hope in him, and to love him fully with mind, heart, and will. We respond to God, who has created and redeemed us...

I put this post in this part of the forum because it is about number and numerology in a way :P I've posted more than ten thousand posts in CH! Now don't you go checking how many were in the counting threads. I want to live in the fantasy land of Oz where every post counts! Oh, and the...

Since we have a thread about flat earthiness I thought a thread about spherical earthiness might be a good counter-point. :smirk:

Pushing "the party line" against "the opposition" even when not invited to do so and when the topic needs no rebuttal is one way to kill an idea. It's a sort of murder. Not a crime. Just destructive - like the republican vs democrat thing in the USA.

Jesus then said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." They answered him, "We are descendants of Abraham, and have never been in bondage to any one. How is it that you say, 'You...