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What about the woman taken in adultery (John 7:53-8:10)? She didn't have to answer for her crime. I'm not saying that this is the only principle under which a judicial system should operate (obviously, otherwise no-one would ever be imprisoned for anything), but it seems to have played a...

Could this be done in reality?

Hmmm....I'm not sure I'm totally comfortable with the way we're all (including me) reacting to this one. As Christians (and not merely citizens of two Western nations who were mightily injured by this outrage), what role should attributes such as grace, mercy and forgiveness have here...? [ETA...

By the time most of the US BB members are awake, it is highly likely that Abdel Baset al-Megrahi will have been freed by the Scottish Executive 'on compassionate grounds' and en route back home to Libya courtesy of Ghaddafi's private jet. I have mixed but largely unhappy feelings about this, and...

The main problem with the second wave of Spanish flu (autumn and winter 1918) was the cytokine storm phenomenon where the body's immune system basically turns against it, which accounted for the high proportion of fatalities among healthy fit young adults. There is a possibility that the...

But if what you fear is true, then all of us who peg out before the Second Coming are in big trouble because our bodies will rot, including our internal organs as 'firstfruits' (!) of that decay, and if God isn't going to give us new bodies complete with new organs, we're all stuffed.

Yes, but didn't He also apparently walk through walls?

And if your body's rotted away? And what about Mark 12: 25? - there's more than a strong hint here that we will have bodies quite different in character from our present ones. Tie that in with the promise of a new heaven and a new earth in Rev 21 and 'making all things new', and the evidence is...

I'm sure the God Who created Mankind in the first place won't have much of a problem with rustling up a brand new kidney for you without troubling the other guy for his.

We're having ours rolled out next month. Still, that's old-fashioned, inefficient, so-called 'socialised' medicine for you...

Won't you be given a new body? Surely that's what the Resurrection is all about? What if one of your kidneys stops functioning or you lose a limb during your lifetime? Won't God restore those at the Resurrection? If you die and are buried, your major organs will be some of the first parts of you...

Any instance is a cause for concern but as the law presently stands it will be the subject matter of a prosecution. But the thrust of the OP suggests that this is a widespread problem in the UK - that every second GP or hospital consultant is a Jack Kevorkian - and that just isn't the case. I...

The 'Affair of the Two Katies' has become something of a cause celebre over here, not least amongst the journos of the Daily Heil!, whose frothing extreme right-wing fulminations make Sarah Palin look like a pinko moderate and who normally never have a good word for the NHS; how odd therefore...

I'm not sure which of the legion of articles on that website you want us to read....but anyway...I'm less concerned about British doctors breaking the law (if that is indeed what they are doing), although that is serious enough, than I am about the attempted judicial amendment to the law on...

Huh?!? Mega-:confused:

Then that's good to hear.

Someone asked about 'fornication' a couple of pages back. Porneia, used in Matt 19, means any sexual intercourse outside of marriage. Thus it includes the following: pre-marital sex, homosexual sex acts, bestiality and adultery. It's pretty much an all-embracing term. I'm still waiting for...

Keith, thanks for the illumination of your post. I have to say that I'm impressed with the system and idea of town hall meetings - it's a much more direct and participatory form of democracy than anything we have here - with the exception of public hustings during the general election, but the...

Ah, so it's "do as I say, not as I do"? Now that is silliness. Did you really think about the rank hypocrisy you are advocating before you posted?

Well, I suppose they can't really claim to be the 'family values' Party. I mean, they won't be able to bang on about same-sex 'marriage' with an elephant that size in their drawing room.