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If something was important we might have expected God to have thought of it, and made a point to make a note of it somewhere. Maybe in a scroll or something, that could be compiled into a book that would be preserved for future generations to read. Perhaps God just forgot - in all the...

I'm not ashamed of anything. God created sex for husband and wife to enjoy. If Mary and Joseph enjoyed this gift that God created, good for them. How is it any more irreverent for them to enjoy God's gift than it is for my wife and I to enjoy that same gift? I wouldn't specifically ask Jesus...

It really depends on the context. If we believe that we can have an individual calling it's reasonable to say that "God called me to...", which can sometimes be a roundabout way of saying "God told me to..." The key difference is the scope of the thing that God allegedly told them. If I...

It really depends on the context. If we believe that we can have an individual calling it's reasonable to say that "God called me to...", which can sometimes be a roundabout way of saying "God told me to..." The key difference is the scope of the thing that God allegedly told them. If I...

Where Scripture is silent we can conclude that we don't know, which presumably means it doesn't matter. Pointing out the holes in your argument that Mary was a perpetual virgin doesn't mean that she was not a perpetual virgin, it simply means we don't know. People aren't assuming things are...

This sounds like you're saying sex is inherently sinful, when it was God who told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply. Besides, nobody is disputing that Mary was a virgin before Jesus was born. If you're saying Mary had to remain a virgin because otherwise she was somehow defiled that...

Presumably your reasoning would require that once Jesus left that womb of the utterly sinless woman he entered into a world that was also utterly without impurity and sin? In which case there was no need for him to come at all.

I don't know I'd pay $5 for pop. I routinely pay $7-8 for a craft beer, although I don't drink enough of them for the price to be a problem. On a particularly nice trip I took in about 2001 I ordered the Hennessy XO in the bar overlooking the Niagara Falls. I should probably have checked the...

She could want to remain untouched. That doesn't mean she did want to remain untouched. There's a huge spectrum between the modern day permissiveness where sex is seen by some as being little more than a few steps on from shaking someone's hand, and vows of lifetime celibacy. Since God told...

It really depends what the beverage might be and the location. I'd expect to pay more for anything in a big city than in a tiny little diner, and I'd expect to pay more for a shot of Hennessey XO than I would for a glass of iced tea.

On the topic of timing, and the idea that Mary's "I am a virgin" protest indicated that she must have vowed to remain a virgin forever, given the angel didn't explicitly state when she would conceive the Messiah. In today's world where young women could quite conceivable go out clubbing one...

A lot of technology ends up being a bad thing when we rely on it too heavily and assume it will always work. His car has a few sensors so that if you're not looking ahead for more than a few seconds it will beep or buzz or something, and it only works on expressways. I'm not sure how it knows...

Do coffee beans count? In my younger days a few people wondered what was going on with me when I mixed up some coffee powder and sugar and chewed on the mixture. I wanted coffee and didn't have a working kettle available so made do with what I had. Sometimes chocolate covered coffee beans can...

My car is old so a lot of the technology in it is pretty old. I went for a ride with a friend today in a brand new car and the super-cruise mode on it was impressive. We pulled onto the expressway, he activated the super cruise and let the car drive itself. It kept in lane, took corners...

If your theory backed from silence is accurate I wonder why Mary didn't think to say something more like "how can this be, since I am pledged to never know a man". As has been said at least once already, telling a young woman that they will have a child at some point over the course of their...

Nobody is misquoting you. You are making a claim backed by precisely nothing while demanding that every single detail from anyone else's post be backed by something that meets an impossible standard. Then you keep repeating the same question over and over, ignoring answers because they don't...

When it costs more to replace the roof than it cost to buy the entire house 15-20 years ago, it's easy to see why people go for cheaper options.

I guess the idea that virginity = purity is a bit of an odd one, given God explicitly commanded Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply. Hard to do that without shedding virginity along the way somewhere. It's one thing to avoid talking about the details of it - I don't share details of what...

Honestly, I found the apologetic here to be sufficiently comical I wasn't even thinking about pots and kettles. I must admit I'm puzzled why people even care whether Mary and Joseph had sex after they were married and after Jesus was born. But apparently the OP here does, even if it takes all...

Seeing how fast some of the local builders work I'd be surprised if they can't strip off the old shingles and apply fresh ones within a day or two. Hopefully a decent contractor will be able to tell you whether you need to replace all of it or just some of it.