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I've heard facsimiles of this many time and I can never agree. The torment of hell is the absence of God, not the flames and spewing sulfur? Throw someone into a lava flow and see if they scream about 2000 degree heat or whether they sing the Doxology.

That's what I was looking for here-- parables have an "application." If you go outside that application and try to prove finer doctrinal points, you can get all kinds of cultic doctrines.Did the farmer who planted a vineyard actually have the weeds planed 'behind his back' and didn't know about...

I have written a book of short stories about a fictional singles' class in a fictional Baptist church in a fictional Texas town. I tried to submit it for publication years ago, but had no success. Now, just in the past couple of weeks I have begun writing the characters again as an aid to a unit...

Somebody wants to use parables to prove a point of theology? You must think Jesus was a liar, then, as he said the mustard seed is the smallest of seeds. It ain't. Ye or No: Was Jesus lying when he said the mustard seed is the smallest of seeds?

Somebody wants to use parables to prove a point of theology? You must think Jesus was a liar, then, as he said the mustard seed is the smallest of seeds. It ain't.

That's very similar to what I have proposed on a few sites, dealing with wedding planners or bakers who have been forced to violate their beliefs. Inform any same-sex couple that engage their services that they will donate __% to the American Family Association or some similar group. If that...

Social Security is an involuntary socialist insurance program. Most workers have no choice but to contribute, so if they live and work to the required age for full benefits, you can say they've earned those benefits. The disability part is more involuntary insurance, and seems to be quite...

Explain how people "who are in work but can't afford to live" are alive.

Minneapolis Cop Shoots Woman (in Pajamas) Who Called 911 for Assistance Why would a cop answer a call in pajamas?

I put a ? after the topic because it is a bit controversial; though perhaps not so much as in years past, but that may be just my own perception. Anyway, I am in a class in which that is the subject, and I think the only thing shown so far is that many people have not made up their minds as to...

Yep. And it does not authorize violence to further the gospel. It did to the Israelites taking the retaining the land, even to the point of genocide. Have you ever told God he was wrong there? I am for equal treatment of differing beliefs. Meaning it is absolutely preposterous to arrest anyone...

Yeah, how much dumber are you?

Let's imprison any baseball fan who yells "Kill the umpire!"

No, but you are quite obviously fine with a "holy book" that says the kill the infidels if they refuse to be converted. This whole thing is so preposterous that it's hard not to say the brits deserve the deaths they are going to face, and have faced. Why do you want everyone except mizzlumms...

Would you defend the 'rights' of the authorities to come and arrest you for saying Islam is a false religion. After all, that's offensive (ain't it?).

A black eye for this country? I thought it was for Japan. And we ended what they started, didn't we?

"It's easier to condemn than to leave it to God,." Where does anybody get the idea that any of us have any power to condemn, and even to cross God's prerogative? Take someone from long ago, such as T. Jefferson, and look at his nonchristian ideas, and saying he's most likely tormented in Hades...

We cannot do otherwise but that. Still, a good tree produces good fruit. The fruit he produced was more unbelief.

Was it Wrong to Drop the Atom Bomb on Japan? No; it popped, didn't it?

You know that's no answer to the question I posed to you. You talk about praying for justice or salvation, and because you have the gift of miracles, it happens. Well, use that gift for every person in the world to be saved. Then question people you see randomly to see if you worked your...