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I'm avoiding the whole Hell part of this but when in comes to 'pre-ordained' or 'pre-destined' issue I kind of like C S Lewis' explanation in the Screwtape Letters; it goes a bit like this 'God exists outside of time as humans experience it, He experiences all of time like Humans experiance the...

The honest answer is I don't know. the following is just an opinion and I can only defend it with 'it feels right to me'. Like you I was brought up a Christian and I've since left the church. My feeling is too many Christians and denominations concentrate soley on the crucifixion, resurection...

If I've understood the original question correctly-who is Lord of Lords- isn't the simple answer to that God? Getting into it a bit deeper with the Trinity Wouldn't it be acceptable to call all 3 parts of the Trinity (Father, Son, Spirit) Lord of Lords collectivly and 'individually', which would...

Thanks to Faithfulservant and Blaznfattyz for two concise and easy to understand answers (and both saying the same thing which helps) to my question. 1 more question (but I don't promise to go away and stop asking any more...) Faithfulservant equates him with 'the angel of the Lord' who wrestels...

Do you mean Jesus as spirit or Jesus as physical, flesh and blood? Because if the latter-if he had a flesh and blood body from before the Garden Of Eden-why would he have needed to be born of a virgin etc? I always understood there to be a veil of some sort (be it mist, burning bush or whatever)...

Ah, got what you mean now- wasn't sure so had to ask. Thanks.

Aleternativly- Why did God make Eve second? He didn't want someone looking over His shoulder and telling him what to do while He was making Adam...

Unfortunatly Mel Gibson got other people to do some very accurate research for him for that film. About 15 years ago, before I got interested in Sumer, I was fascinated by the Aztecs and 'very annoyed' with the Conquistadors for what they did to them. That was while I was reading about what a...

What period of history would I visit? One with indoor plumbing?Early Sumer fascinates me- I'd love to see the invention of the city, writting, the change from nomadic to settled... Also the chance to meet the real King Gilgamesh (I think the literery one is the best example of a 'mythical' hero...

Yep, rule are rules and I don't believe it's right to discriminate against some one because of their sexuality. It's my opinion that the Roman Catholic Church is sticking to an outmoded, irrellevant civil law from the Bible. But it's also a part of their belief. It seems to me the ruling that a...

I have a question. Why are the Sumerians being ignored in all this? They pre-date Egypt by quite a bit; show a steady rather than dramatic technological progress, their written language shows the same from very simple 'accountancy' origins up to writting the first (known) epic poem/novel. Their...

I believe Church and State should be seperate. To me that would mean a Roman Catholic (or member of any other group that, in this case, found the idea of a gay couple adopting a child offensive) working within the State Adoption Service should not be allowed to discriminate against a gay couple...

Did that '10 tracks on random thing' and yer know? half my mp3's memory is taken up with Fields Of The Nephilim (and off-shoots)-not one turned up. A few of the embarrising ones did make an appearance tho... 1st;Run to the Hills, Iron Maiden. 2nd;S.O.S, ABBA. (yeah, wot u lookin' at me like that...

This flood of information rapidly led to the first concerted efforts to produce a structured history of the ancient Egyptian civilisation. (A Test Of Time- David Rohl). 'That was ice cubes,' Groat whispered. 'Got 'em from the mortuary but don't you worry, sir, they was hardly used...' (Going...

On other threads I've had good experiance of Silas. I love nothing better than a good argument (meaning and exchange of views, opinions etc, not the nasty, shouty kind...). Part of the problem was also me- on a seperate thread an argument with Silas was degenerating into the shouty kind...

A wise man is just a fool who's learnt from his mistakes.

'You hurl your frail bodies out into the void... If you Earthlings knew the true nature of the universe you'd hide for it in terror'- Ming The Meciless.

I love this thread to (nearly didn't when I found out some one else had already used '...when a plan comes together', but I forgive them).

I'm finished with this thread-this is the second time I've taken one 'off topic' and I don't want to get a rep here... the answer to you question is Jesus is important to Christianity because you all believe he fulfiled the OT prophecies of a messia, you belive he suffered and died to pay for...

I understand the concept of Jesus sacrifice- although (and I hate to admit it) that has to be one of the best and easiest to understand explainations I've heard so far. I thought the joke was obvious with the 'punch-line'-sending God a strongly worded letter (I never claimed it was a funny joke).