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It's so big and comprehensive we will probably not know everything in it and how it will affect our country and its people till long after it is passed and instituted. The big question for me, and one no one but me seems to care about, is how will it be abused and who will the winners and...

That's a good question, how to evaluate it is going to be very POV dependent. For me it usually boils down to the fruit of the tree thing with the lives of the congregation being the fruit of the teaching of the Church in question. How do the lives of the Congregation differ from the lives of...

Lamb, are you sure you aren't confusing me with a different poster? Please re read my posts and direct me to where I am offending you personally, I certainly haven't intended to (or anyone else for that matter) and would like to avoid it in the future if I can. I generally just say what I...

Like all laws, they are well intended when written but subsequently become twisted and misused to accomplish objectives that are actually in opposition to their original intent. When we were banned from establishing a State controlled religion and guaranteed the right to the free exercise of...

Most people mix up Marxism and Communism which is easy to do but not exactly correct. Communism already existed as a political movement prior to Marx getting involved with it (along with Engels) Marx was mostly an 'Ivory Tower' type of academic who wrote social and political theory and Engles...

I didn't address that to you, I addressed it to the general discussion. It was most certainly not intended as anything personal to anyone in particular. And I definitely don't see how it is condescending to anyone here, it was not intended to be, perhaps you could elucidate on that so that I...

At some point maybe we should consider that there is a difference between just sinning and giving ourselves over to sin, calling right wrong and wrong right, calling good evil and evil good, calling darkness light and light darkness. A Christian may sin, even while trying not to, but that is...

When praying this, would you be praying that God's will be done or that God do your will? A serious question, one that should be on our minds constantly while we pray.

I've always thought that we cannot judge whether or not someone calling themself Christian is actually a Christian, that would be something only God can decide. However, we can look at how they interact with the world, their words and actions, and judge that as being Christian or not, in fact...

I've always thought we should strive to integrate the two, such that we can be both in the world and in the Spirit at the same time all the time.

@BruceLeiter: Consider what Jesus meant in > Matthew 10:14 – “If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.”. He didn't tell them to make friends with them and waste time that could be used on someone else. But if you wish to...

I wonder if there is any particular meaning in the number '12' as the number of legions. Of course, it may mean nothing other than lots and lots of angels.

As for me, I avoid this type of person. I gain nothing from the association and he is not of a mind to let me sneak the word in on him through stealth. Here's the situation you, and I, and the Church, now face: Are we becoming the Church of accommodation, seemingly the most popular one...

FWIW: Good lies are almost entirely true to cover up the lie within them. The Best lie, however, is entirely true but cleverly told in a manner that makes one believe a lie.

People should maybe just get used to the fact that every solution to a problem is the next problem we will need a solution for.

A Constitutional function of government, and an essential one to create a livable infrastructure. I do take issue with taking private property from one person and then giving it to another for the sole purpose of private development though. Unfortunately the USSC has approved of this so it is...

What leads you to that belief? (Just curious, I'm not taking a position here)

But why were you seeking God? To find a tool to use to magically accomplish your own will, your own purposes, fulfill your own worldly desires: Or to find your Master's will so that you can do it as a humble servant intent on pleasing his Lord with no regard to personal desires? Two different...

Pre and post Lucy. Same thing happened to Hendrix pre and post. A message in its own right.

An interesting idea, but why would we have been told that if we weren't meant to use it in our worldview? Many places in the Bible tell us to beware of the evils around us and how it can deceive, was this not told to us so that we could judge what is being presented to us by the world to...