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    Bernie Sanders position on health care

    As a Canadian I consider this a fine start. I wish him well but knowing the sort of opposition he will have I am not terribly optomistic.
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    Mass Shootings

    There is a real difference between cars and guns. Cars are designed to facilitate the safe transportation of human beings. Guns are designed to kill and a great many of them are specifically designed to kill human beings.
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    Whose Son is YHWH, the Christ?

    YHWH is one of the understandings of God in the Jewish Scriptures. Other names used are Yah and El and sometimes Elohim. Jesus was a human person, a charismatic first century Jewish Rabbi, whose followers eventually regarded him as "the Christ" --- but not in the Jewish sense of a "messiah".
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    Genesis 1&2 The Beginning - Scriptural, Scientific and Historical Perspective.

    Over the past several decades I have been following and participating in the debate between young earth creationists, old earth creationists, creation scientists, intelligent designists and scientists. Over that time I have noticed an unfortunate tendency for the rhetoric to become more and more...
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    Liberal Leanings Chipping Away At Church Membership

    Christianity is in the process of reinventing itself. This has happened several times in the past.
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    Mass Shootings

    There is an ancient proverb ---- pray to God but row away from the rocks. Is prayer enough if we do not take action? We are God's hands in this world.
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    Mass Shootings

    Mass shootings, defined as 3 or more, in 2019 have been 248, with 246 deaths, and 979 wounded as of August 4, 2019. How much have "thoughts and prayers" helped at this point? Isn't it time that we take some positive action to prevent this slaughter? Or is it that we have become so desensitized...
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    NIV and missing verses

    We have no original texts. The King James Version of the New Testament was based upon a Greek text (the Textus Receptus) that was marred by mistakes, containing the accumulated errors of fourteen centuries of manuscript copying. It was essentially the Greek text of the New Testament as edited...
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    Weddings in or out of church

    Keep in mind that a marriage occurs when two loving people decide to commit to each other. They marry each other. Church or state are really only formal witnesses to this union. The church did not even mandate formal weddings until the eleventh century. Let the couple decide.
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    Did the ancient Pagan Religions get picked up as 'tradition'?

    The influence of pagan beliefs started long before the Roman Catholic Church. All we have to do is carefully examine the evolution of belief in "the devil". God didn't create Satan, man did. Satan (ha'shaitan) occurs by name in the Old Testament in the Book of Job, and here it's clear that the...
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    Having Hemorrhoids currently!

    Too much information!
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    Why did Jesus have to die?

    Why not? This would seem to tie God's hands and make him less than God.
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    Why did Jesus have to die?

    According to Christian mythology in prehistory some angels rebelled and were defeated and cast from heaven. But they weren't really defeated and started attacking mankind. Then at the cross Jesus defeated Satan/Lucifer/devil. But no, not really. Your question is well taken. Perhaps this might...
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    JOHN 7:1 JESUS HAD BROTHERS

    It is very interesting to me to note that Paul makes no mention of the circumstances surrounding the birth of Jesus except to mention that it was "according to the flesh". Here we have a strong inference that the birth was perfectly natural. The next author Mark does not both to mention the...
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    JOHN 7:1 JESUS HAD BROTHERS

    I have no problem with the fact that Jesus was the first born of a family of at least seven siblings. The Bible names them as James, Joseph, Simon and Judas with sisters in the plural. Extra-biblical sources name his sisters as Miriam and Salome. It puzzles me that people have trouble with a...
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    Favorite verse in the Bible

    Micah 6:8 He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God.
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    The World Doesn't Owe You Anything

    Society is what we as a free people decide it is. We have as a society decided to provide certain services to our citizens --- military defense, police services, a justice system, fire services, water supply, transportation infrastructure, etc. Some societies decide to collectively deliver other...
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    The World Doesn't Owe You Anything

    The world does not owe us anything but the society we live in certainly does. If not, what use is a society?
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    School Shootings

    Certainly gun control is not "the solution" but it is certainly part of the solution. We need to find a way to prevent people with criminal histories, with mental problems with histories of association with extremist views from easy access to guns. We also need to rethink what sort of weapons...
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    The distinct persons of the Trinity

    Holy Trinity is not a description of God, but a description of a human experience of God. The Holy Trinity is a doctrine, adopted by the Christian Church in the 4th century CE, as a way of processing and understanding their experience with God. It is a product of dualistic Greek thinking which...
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