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Gender is also a major factor in trends.

If aren’t going to contribute to topic at hand, then get off my thread mate. Don’t hijack people’s threads with your ranting.

And into the garden a serpent did come.

The whole point of the Written Word of God is to receive the Word of God Incarnate, Jesus Himself in the Eucharist and receive His Life. When we eat Jesus Flesh and drink His Blood in the Eucharist we abide in The Word and The Word abides in us. We receive direct Life from the Eternal, God...

You will find the highest levels of security are believers, because they have to take separate qualified oaths, further to the one they already took. The first thing they establish is that an oath means something vital to you. It’s not just a great legal peril they want you to feel. They want...

People get their arms and legs tangled up with their testicles on these moral questions, when it is actually quite simple.

Wrath sure, but dispassionate Justice is perfectly fine. I remember the WWII flamethrower guy clearing Japanese defences saying, “ It was just a job “. He didn’t have any malice in what he was doing. His cause being established as just, repelling the Japanese invaders, it was simply a case of...

And yet they were referring to the same Jesus we do. Like Luther calling those that raped nuns and burned their convent, “ Holy warriors “ of Christ.

When Anabaptists murdered people and burned towns to ashes, because God commanded it, was that the same God as the atheist and Christian? Unfortunately, yes, it was the same God they were referring to. Many have done horrible things in the name of the same God people refer to.

Through circumstance and history you have had the benefit of literacy and education and cultural enforcement and affirmation to precisely form and inform your conscience. You will be judged by that informed refined conscience. Others will not be judged by your conscience. Don’t be so hasty as...

You appealed to the authority of your 40 years of examination of certain things, ironically. Besides, you haven’t truly examined the first question. I’ll spell it out. As Joes example points out. When Sam Harris an atheist says he doesn’t believe in God and we say we do believe in God. We...

The first question requires bother, and people can’t be bothered with it, so they scurry to the second question and start proof texting the hell out it. Easy, Lazy, and preaching to the choir. It is hard to be disciplined here, but it is doable.

No, the ancient Israelites were not Trinitarians, nor are the Jews today. You are not disciplined enough to stay on the first question but have gone on to the second question.

Joe seems to me like someone who is encouraging more rigorous thinking, especially on Paul’s teaching here. Sarcastic is not a word I would assign him. People forget that Catholics have been dealing with Muslims for well over 1000 years. Lots of words have been exchanged, not to mention certain...

Is that all. What you need is the 1000 to 2000 year perspective that ancient Christian tradition gives you. The same hope extended Muslims, is the same hope extended you. Fact is, we are all God’s creatures, made in His image and likeness, but for the Grace of God we could be one of them in...

No, you are a Scripture alone guy. Catholics are Word of God alone. The Word of God comes in two forms. The Spoken Word of God, and the Written Word of God. “But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached /spoken unto you.” The Spoken Word of...

No, what you reject is any interpretation of Scripture that differs from your interpretation of Scripture. Once you made yourself Pope the final arbiter of Scriptures interpretation and meaning, it’s hard to give up the crown. Even every other Bible aloner is stupid or deceived if he disagrees...

Yes. By both Protestant and Catholic definitions. I was “ born again “ in Catholicism at Baptism, which accords with majority of Christianity today, and universally in Christianity for the first 1500 years. But I also had a powerful encounter with Christ as an adult professing Him in Faith as...

The hubris is hastily jumping to conclusions without understanding that there are highly intelligent people who have examined the actual question. Even William Lane Craig jumped from the first to the second question for easy goal kicking. Everyone knows there is a difference in theology and...

No. I have a low opinion of people’s ability to really think things through. Just see fast lazy conclusions. And attention spans in general are garbage. These kinds of questions are a great opportunity and deserve long term thought and prayerful reflection of Scripture. There is nothing wrong...