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Joseph was an itinerant in the sense that he (or his ancestors) had lost the land to which they had been given a right, and were therefore of the "lower classes". The Jews of the day believed that those without the land of their inheritance had sinned, and God had expelled them, and they were...

As a Christian, here are my thoughts: We are all brothers and sisters in Christ, sharing in the inheritance, and our sins have been washed away if only we will believe and confess that Jesus lived, died for us as an unqualified gift, and rose again. Shall we then fight amongst ourselves, and...

Very well put. This approach to use of dogma as a weapon leads to exclusion, and self-aggrandizement. It is a very easy trap, I think. When we have a life-changing experience, the social animal in us urges us to share it. This is good, but when we find that the sharing does not have the same...

Bruce, I thought the Christian approach these days, as all days, should be to present the fact that Christ lived, died for our sins, rose again and lives today. To add to this that we should become emissaries of scientific facts, some of which are indeed hypotheses disguised as facts, corrupts...

I agree wholeheartedly with Q! And, if the last supper occured at any time but the day of grape harvest (not usually an event associated with Passover), then the "fruit of the vine" HAD TO BE WINE. People can become addicted to anything, that is to say, people can make an idol of anything...

My favorite passage comes from Isaiah 45:7. God is speaking, and He says: This passage first clears up the question, How come there is evil in the world? God is explaining that in order to understand light, and the forming of it, there must be darkness for contrast. A room completely lit...

By the way, the first time grape juice could be stored without becoming wine all by itself was at the beginning of the 20th century, when a Baptist preacher named Welch (!) pasteurized grape juice so it would keep for communion use. In biblical times, the health hazards of wine were far less...

Alcohol, marijuana, nicotine, and other drugs (as well as many non-drug forms of addiction or abuse or simple use) are, in my humble opinion, all similar in one respect: for some, they are seen as acceptable enjoyment of God's bounty, while for others they are seen as "polluting", and therefore...

Hello! I am a friend of Pattimax, and she encouraged me to join this forum. This is the first on-line forum I have been a part of since 1978. Back then, I had a PLATO terminal connected via a 1200 BAUD (yes, That's 1200 Bits per Second!) phone line to the network of mainframes which were the...