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What is the more important then, the giver or the beggar? According to this thread, the beggar, but he should be helped through a kind of wellfare organization, although the human element in charge is very prone to corruption. Ben

Now, you have thrown some honey on my mood. I find very interesting this rationalization of yours. Somehow, I find no difficulty agreeing with you. Thanks. Ben

What are the fruits of the spirit if not the truth and how one delivers it? I just showed the Biblical method on how to go about it. Ben

Nothing happened. Just keep your mind open. Ben

Fruits must be born according to the Law and the Prophets, as we have in Isaiah 8:20. If the fruits are not produced according to that method, it is because there is no truth in them. Ben

Nevertheless, of the other nations, the Lord will eventually make an end of them; but of Israel (Judah) He will only chastise as we deserve. That's in Jeremiah 46:28. Why? Because the Lord has promised David in I Kings 11:36 that his Tribe - Judah - would remain as a lamp in Jerusalem forever...

Well, every one has all the right in the world to his own opinion. As far as I am concerned, sex is the climax of an eruption of emotions. Ben

How could I leave the NT aside and consider it irrelevant when its main theme is to preach the replacement of Judaism by Christianity? We have lost many Jews to this Pauline policy already. If a Jew is forbidden to proselytize, at least, to work against that wave from outside, it should be a...

Gam any. I mean, so am I. I desperately loved my wife of 16 years of common life. Ben

And to clarify further, I never say something I didn't mean to. Ben

I don't believe in love for one's neghbour. That's an euphemism for respect. Love is an emotion, and emotions cannot be dictated upon; only controlled by one's intellect if he or she has a strong free will. Respect, yes, it can even be demanded. Ben

To the contrary Dream, in Psalm 16, the Psalmist is talking about the cup of salvation - Psalm 116:13 - and in the Gethsemane, Jesus was trying to get rid of the cup of death. That's an evidence that he had not come to die for no one. And I believe it so because, as a learnt Jew that he was, he...

I can't believe you have put this into writing! "Sex is arguably an emotional experience." There is no stronger emotion than sex. Only Intellect can be stronger in the case of humans, if they are free to will it into sublimations. Ben

I leave you with Ecclesiastes 7:29.

Showme, this time I was caught by: "Judas Iscariot was chosen because he loved money." I doubt it, but, let it go by, for the time being, and give me, if you can, an example of someone who does not love money. Ben

Behold, a post that impressed me, not only for the wise concepts you have exposed to our understanding but also that you are the first Christian to agree with Paul that one can indeed serve two masters. True that it contradicts Jesus' words, but I do agree with you. Not only that anyone has the...