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Impeachment has no effect. Conviction by the Senate does not prevent running again. However after conviction the Senate may additionally bar the person from future office. Conviction requires a two thirds vote. Barring them from office requires a majority. So the answer to the original is that...

China has a mixed record with Christianity. There are lots of Christians in China. But if they aren't up to government standards on patriotism they're in trouble. So there is significant persecution, but not against all Christians all the time. It seems to have gotten worse recently. Here's one...

The argument is basically that competition can't result in a solution if it's less expensive to ignore global warming. Competition will cause companies that voluntarily do the right thing to lose, because it's more expensive. Indeed you can argue that their responsibility to act in the interest...

The most critical long term is global warmin. The most critical now is health. Neither is possible with a Republican Senate.

The scene with 24:47 in it begins in 36. I generally recommend looking at the whole context, and not isolated verses.

There's a parallel in Luke 24:36ff. I think 47 is for the whole church, not just the disciples. In john it's less clear, but I'd assume the same. What does it mean, and how close is it to something Jesus said? The obvious meaning is church discipline. If it were Matthew, I'd say that's...

I admit we aren't certain of the future, but most cosmological models lead to collapse of the physical universe in one way or the other. Possibly even leading to new ones, but no physical beings would survive the transition. Perhaps the new heavens and new earth imply a change so this process...

But I was speaking of a hypothetical world without sin. In that case the repentance side of Christianity would be missing. But fellowship would still be possible. Do you think that sin and repentance so dominates the Christian life that nothing would be left without sin?

In an unfallen world, of course, that wouldn't be his role. But the ideal you see in John's Gospel, and Paul, of a fellowship in communion with him, is still completely appropriate. If Jesus is God's way of being with us, i would think that would be completely appropriate without sin.

I want to be clear that I'm not teaching soul sleep, but I'm not convinced that this is an argument against it. 1) If soul sleep were true, then subjectively one would die and immediately awake at the resurrection. 2) It seems quite plausible to think of both God and the new creation as being...

Sure, but sometimes considering hypothetical questions can help clarify the structure of belief. Unless the EO have doctrines I don't know about, there's no official answer to the question of whether Christ would have come anyway. But thinking about the question might help us think about the...

If it were Italy or Greece I wouldn't object. But Europe is now outsourcing its problem to various third-world countries. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/08/world/europe/migrants-africa-rwanda.html Unfortunately I don't know of a good solution. I don't see how a world can exist with some...

I've heard that story before. It makes it clear that this was not an objection based on Scripture or even Tradition, but simply irrational hatred. That's not to say that no one has objections based on Scripture or Tradition. I trust that's the case with most people who post here. But this...

Unfortunately the consequences of a presidency are to a large extent not felt until afterwards. The economy is being pushed by approaches that can't last forever, and will create an unsupportable deficit and (if continued for long enough) hyperinflation. The next time we have a recession we...

The term "big bang" is unfortunate, because we're not all that sure about the "bang" itself, and it wasn't really an explosion in the sense most people mean it. The development of the universe since the first second or so is pretty well known. There are uncertainties about what happened at the...

No, that's about inflation. That's a theory about what happened during the very earliest part of the big bang. The amount of time involved is less than a trillionth of a second. I'm not aware of any serious alternative to the big bang. What we don't know is how it started, nor what happened...

Global warming actually isn't the most serious issue. Christians can differ on that. The more serious problem is claims about the accuracy of various things in Genesis, as well as sexual / gender issues. Many (most?) traditional Christians think the Gospel doesn't work if there wasn't a literal...

It's an apologetics problem for people trying to reach those outside the traditionalist culture, because we know what the evidence actually shows. For Christians to oppose evolution, the big bang, the existence of global warming, etc, make it look like Christians don't know how to judge...

I agree. Things will replace the church, and in many cases they won't be good things to center your life on. That doesn't mean global warming and other environmental problems aren't real. For so many Christians to deny them is actually a big apologetic problem. But environmentalism as a cause...

There's no question that churches departed over homosexuality. But that's mostly a blip on the larger trend of declining membership. I'm not part of an Episcopalean church but my church has essentially the same characteristics. I think there're a problem trying to maintain a church that accepts...