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howdy in love! i think you definitely have some buds around here. although, in your defense, i don't think you missed any of my posts, as i haven't been around for quite some time now. i've been rather busy lately with work and preparations for a huge transition in my life as i leave spain...

best wishes and loving prayers...

this is referring to mynameisstephen's comment that men are prone to making mistakes. this is a very popular question which gets asked to 'believers'. i would say the answer you will most often get will go something like this... the writers of the christian Bible were inspired by God. The...

this also happened in china within the last 50 years. chinese leaders made claims to the effect that absolutely no christians remained in china. people buried their Bibles and relied on memorized scripture to avoid torture and even death. there is a book entitled The Heavenly Man which is an...

i believe the point of the christian Bible, as i assume that is the 'bible' to which you refer, is to explain to man through examples and language he might understand, the nature of God, the nature of man, and the relationship between the two. that is extremely simplified of course but i...

tommy.... from one new kid to another... welcome! :) you have many interesting things to say and what you've said about your experiences has touched me. path of one.... always a pleasure to read your thoughts and insights. your posts have some very interesting qualities that make them...

Come unto Me. - Mathew chapter 11 verse 28

wow... i had just typed up a reply and my mouse has a button that i sometimes hit on accident that the computer interprets as me wanting to go back to the last page i was at. so then when i hit forward again everything i had typed is gone. my computer is about to learn a lesson or two in...

it is my personal belief that hell is the complete separation from God. whether it is a literal fiery pit of damnation i do not know, but i believe the key to understanding hell is that it will be the knowledge of His existence, yet the inability to dwell with Him in spirit. We here on earth are...

i do not see it so much as God giving us the ability to sin, but rather as Him limiting our ability to fully concieve of and know Him. because in my mind giving us the ability to sin is equated with giving us the sin, and i see a difference between the two. He does however give us the tools to...

sangria... tinto verano... spain does have a couple of refreshing bebidas eh? you left a couple of months early though, summer's not fully kicked in yet! anyway. sorry... of the subject... i haven't read enough of the 100+ posts on here to comment on topic. i simply can't keep up! peace be...

lol... i feel the same way. now that'll be the only quote i pull from what you said mostly because it's after 11pm and i got about zero sleep last night and need a few hours before getting up to work at 6:30. still haven't finished laundry!:( about "of God".....when i say of God and not of...

wow... i hadn't seen this thread yet. obviously a bit of a fire starter. path of one...this is a very good closing line. however... i do have my own thoughts on this which perhaps aren't in direct alignment with the rest of your post. but what fun would any of this be if everything were in...

i think i would be looking for the man. while i do not pretend to understand Jesus as God, i believe that i understand Him as man even less. as for events, i would have to say i would most want to be present for the temptation of Christ. from adam, temptation has brought about sin. adam and...

i would agree. i also imagine that christianity without paul would be much easier. perhaps some of the things i struggle with as sin i would not struggle with so much if not for my steadfast belief in the importance of his epistles. it would leave more room for my individual interpretations of...

again i say...Amen brother. i seek only to find an historical setting that makes sense to me, based off of what is, and is not, in the Bible.

hehehe.... regarding cain's birth and cain's fatherhood... as (i believe) bandit pointed out elsewhere in this thread or another, the words used to describe cain's conception and enoch's are identical save the name's of course. and seth's birth, minus the words 'and she concieved,' is also the...

so long as your wife does not read this line it should be smooth seas and steady winds! haha i once thought i ran the roost... until i realized she was running out of the roost from time to time... alas, some things cannot be. interesting we make exactly the same point. i simply make it about...

very good information stephen! as with most of your other posts i've seen, you are very throrough in your explanations and scriptural support for such. i am not saying i see a contradiction in the bible because of this point, i simply see things slightly differently than you do. i said juan's...

interesting point...agree to disagree?:) haha. regardless, i think the important point the creation story is trying to show is God's part in it! believing that, the rest are details which we can pick apart to help examine our other personal beliefs and keep our grey matter going!