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I'm not even talking about ignorance in that context (but let's not get into that). I'm just saying mankind has no innocence left other than in children. We are not innocent, mankind sins every single day, know it's wrong, and does it anyway. We bring about our own destruction so how can anyone...

Caring about someone, the act of caring about someone's welfare - whether they live or die, is never wrong. And it's just fantastic how you assume every christian wants to stop your insurance coverage from going to your partner or vice versa, like we're all financial vampires trying to suck the...

Haha, yeah. Whenever I get on the bus to go to church wearing the headscarf no one will set next to me because they're too bothered with themselves trying to figure out if I've got a belt of TNT under my coat. :) Imagine the uproar strapping yourself with gluesticks would cause. Makes for some...

How can a sexual orientation be your ENTIRE life? That's like saying heterosexuality is my life, but that's ridiculous. Your life doesn't revolve around homosexuality and my life doesn't revolve around heterosexuality. Is your heart filled with nothing but homosexuality? I don't think so...

Why don't you stop beating around the bush and just proclaim you don't believe in ANY of it and stop leading others into error already? Children get heaven automatically anyway, and it probably was to prevent them from encountering something MUCH worse. God is merciful, and like I said...

The tradition was strong and didn't wither away. The sacred tradition of the Orthodox Church includes the Bible, I would hardly call that incomplete. Of course you can see the kingdom, the kingdom is in you. And you talk to God through prayer. So, I fail to see how the point has changed...

325 is prettttty early.

Who cares, as long as they love Jesus and know that Jesus loves them, the rest will come later.

I agree MW, let's get rid of nukes altogether. It's funny that the US tells everyone they can't have them and then they scare the population that they are going to get nuked by terrorists (which isn't fully outside the realm of possibility) even though we're the only country that's ever used it...

Of course I mean love of Jesus Christ (of course we need it, not sure why you are telling me that), but love of everyone else as well. That is what Jesus teaches us.

The trinity is a truth. Take it or leave it. This label of " mystery " isn't time period specific, it applied to the early Christians as well. The message didn't change from then until now. It was probably somewhat less of a mystery for the early Christians since some of them physically...

Well, I don't blame you for not trusting the US, hah I don't either, and I almost don't want to know if there is a worse agenda in hiding, you know. I really hope we don't go into Iran, but I have a bad feeling it is coming. It frightens me also how minority groups seem to assert so much...

When I say " America has a sucky agenda " I don't mean that you or I has a sucky agenda, I mean the government itself that we somehow put into power time and time again.

This reminded me of a time at church when we were having a discussion about reading the Bible and what to do if we don't understand what we're reading, and my priest put it this way from a text we were reading that sometimes "what the mind doesn't understand, the heart will". That's basically...

Although, that doesn't mean that you shouldn't try to understand it.

A lot of the old testament stories have children being killed. But it's not like God WANTS to do it " hey I'm just gonna go kill some kids ". The people during the time of Noah (if you want to believe it literally) lived a ridiculously long time, got constant warnings to save themselves (for...

Generally children are not perceived to be wicked, and are the beloved of God, so there most likely wasn't any around in that place.

My previous joke was meant to lighten the mood, not to hurt, but I do apologize if it did. The voting patterns of evangelicals in America can't be depended on to represent Christians. But, at the same time you also cannot expect someone to be okay with your lifestyle when in their religion it...

I think you misunderstood me. I meant it like you're never going to be able to clear-cut rationalize how 3 are 1 in trinity, some part of it is always going to be beyond us even if we do see it as part of the divine message and therefore truth, that's why it is called a mystery. The...

Do you mistrust America or distrust it? Mistrust kind of gives way to the fact that America has a hidden agenda, but it's not exactly hidden, it's out in the open and generally just sucks.