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Unless you've got a track record of making claims I doubt you're considered dangerous, other than being female you're more likely to complain about harassment than another man.

That's entirely possible. If people are concerned that sitting next to you when there's a seat that isn't next to you could be seen as some kind of sexual advance they could be concerned about the implications of upsetting you, your husband, or HR. I remember talking with a lawyer at a company...

I guess context is everything. If you're in a customer facing role and a friend of yours comes in it might be perfectly acceptable to use their nickname if it were a purely affectionate name. If someone's nickname is Noodles or Fonz or some such it's unlikely to cause any problems. If someone...

I'll often work through a book at a time but then sometimes a topic will come up (either in discussion with someone, or a point in a sermon I'm not sure about) and I'll research the topic. I think each method has merits to be honest. The one thing I have no interest in for myself is the daily...

Reading the Revelation I don't see any option other than for it to happen sooner or later. Rev 13 is clear that "all who dwell on the earth shall worship him" (except the ones written in the Book of Life). I don't see any exceptions for people just because they live on one bit of rock rather...

I'm odd in many respects (that's just an advance warning because most people don't seem to think or work the way I do, whether that's a good thing or not is subject to some debate :) ) I was raised in the church, went through the motions of attending church, then experimented with...

I'm not claiming it's useless, I'm just saying that if we repeat anything often enough we can potentially end up just going through the motions without taking time to think about what we're saying. I remember in my much younger years having been taken to the local Church of England church...

If nobody is ever willing to reconsider their viewpoints there's little point discussing things of any more significance than the weather. With respect, if you can't explain why you believe what you do perhaps that's a good sign it's worth rethinking. Some years ago a particular event occurred...

That's a pretty award you've got there.... nice one :)

"It is in the Bible" is a really poor second to book, chapter and verse.

I wasn't sure if you were saying the same thing or not - the first time I read your post it sounded rather like the "God won't let you be deceived" preachers, so I read it again and wasn't so sure. If we're saying the same thing we're good :)

Huh? I'd be surprised if the people on the receiving end of some of the OT prophecies didn't experience negative internal feelings. Feelings just aren't a good way of determining whether something is sound or not.

From what I gather it's a system that worked just fine for some people and caused nothing but headaches for others. The impression I get is that the more you try to do with it the more troubles you'll have with it - certainly most of the people I've known who despised it were pretty hardcore...

If you say anything often enough it's very easy for it to just become a recital without meaning. If you stop and think about it line by line it's powerful stuff, but when it's just a case of "and this is the bit where we say the Lord's prayer" it's easy to just switch off and recite it without...

If "being near" counts then a few people get added to my list. I met the naturalist Chris Packham at an event at a charity he supports. He seemed like a nice guy. I met a few Christian metal bands in the late 80s. One Bad Pig, Whitecross, Detritus, Seventh Angel, Charizma, and probably a couple...

I don't think you can draw that conclusion - I think what Paul was saying there was that if people are speaking out loud in tongues in church the correct procedure is to wait for an interpretation, and no more than two or three should do such a thing. If you're speaking in tongues in the...

There was a specific purpose then and there's no reason to assume that same purpose shouldn't apply now. What's to stop us giving a message in our native language and someone who doesn't speak our language hearing it in their own language? We wouldn't even know what had happened, nobody around...

You still need to be careful here because you'd need to define what counts as "negativity". Some teachers today like to make out that prophecy should only ever be positive. Take a look through books like Ezekiel and Jeremiah and you see a very different picture. I don't suppose what Peter had to...

There is one church founded by Jesus Christ but since there are so many denominations that disagree on different matters it's clear that most people are wrong on some things. We can hope that our particular denomination isn't wrong on the things that matter, but the fact that the gates of hell...

The Scriptures are an objective standard. The wisdom of the church is certainly worth considering but over the centuries some churches seem to have elevated tradition to the status of theology, which is a bad thing. Yep, which is why my signature says what it does :)