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Hardest to understand? The damnation in the Lake of Fire / infinite punishment for finite crimes bit. Especially with the clear indications that is the fate of the large majority of humankind. Not too far behind, though certainly related, is the love and hate, as in "Jacob I [God] loved; Esau I...

All this may sound impressive, and convincing to someone with limited science learning, but the argument you may encounter will be something like life developed on earth according to the earth's capability to support it. Not that life is only possible on earth or on a planet that could be called...

Baptist tradition says that alcohol must be abstained from- a position scripture does not require. Baptist tradition says 'no dancing.' That is not found in scripture, and the last Psalm clearly says to dance and use many musical instruments. Traditionalists, of course, like to point out that...

His betting on the wrong horse in this probably, in his mind, kept him from becoming president. So then the only thing was to buy the office for his sons in progressive order.

It can be seen on a piano keyboard, with those black keys and white keys. Begin with the middle C, then in an octave, you see 2 black keys, separated by one white, then 3 black keys separated by 2 whites, 5 black keys altogether (in the octave), and 8 white keys, making up 13. So you 1, 2, 3...

Do they have any statues of Cortez?

I've recently come across this ad for Action from the 1970's, with Johnny Hart's B.C. characters singing it in an acronym. It's just something thsy occasionally came to mind as creative for decades.

This is funny to me. Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said in an interview after the game last night that he would "be in favor of our team's execution-- maybe they all need to be executed." This was after Florida St. made a tremendous comeback of 18 points in the 4th quarter to tie the game, then...

And if someone has no toenails, should be thankful for that? And thank him for all the snot? Then be thankful for fly swatters and fly paper, or destroy them? Don't forget the hogs and their contribution.

Does Georgia have a Senate election next year, and is that the seat he's after? Who has it now? ed. Never mind. I see what I should have thought of before, that the Democrat elected in that special election last November is running for a full term. Go Herschel!

How is clipping your toenails an act or expression of faith? Blowing your nose? Swatting a fly? Eating a quart of saurkraut? If such actions are sinful unless they proceed as an act or expression of faith, we need to know beyond question that they are.

The only other case I am aware of, when an intruder illegally entered restricted space-- the White House grounds, in this case-- and was fatally shot was Chester Plummer in 1976. He defied an SS officer's order to stop, then a rookie officer, who is not identified in any info about the incident...

If all this 'using justifiable deadly force' in regard to Jan. 6 is true, then the National Guardsmen at Kent State in 1970 were certainly justified in killing a sample of the protestors who shouted threats and profanities at them, some holding bricks and signs with the president's face on skull...

I'm very sorry, Scarlett. My mom passed away almost exactly 20 years before, on the morning of Sept,1,2001 between 5 .m. and 6 a.m. You and your family are in my prayers.

I don't know your purpose here. Hades [Greek] or hell [Germanic].

What word?

Alright, it's possible this passage is only a parable; also possible it ain't. OK, but the NT writers couldn't have said that about themselves.

I didn't say it t was. But is that required of nobody? For that matter, Jesus said to make no vows. But I have great concerns about hording wealth, and how easy that is to do, unless one is stupid or lazy or loves things. Did he really require that of one man only? And even him-- some say he...

In this passage, is it verified as being real, or is the euphamism just extended, as in a morality play, where various human attributes are personified? Is it more or less of a parable, then? Is there a connection? That Lazarus does not seem to have been one to stand at a rich man's gate...

But what rich 'Christian' is not convinced he does not do that? How many would give all their wealth to the poor if Jesus told them they had to? As the one on whom that was required did not, what reason is there to think anyone today would? Do you know for sure that you would? I'm not saying...