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[Off-topic] My wife's been to Vegas and she's convinced that it is The Other Location...[/off-topic]

Abortion is homicide. That's your starting point. Now, there may be mitigating circumstances about the mother's condition which may, just may, mean it's manslaughter rather than murder, but it is still the unlawful (well, it jolly well should be) taking of human life. If you don't start there...

Actually, Shinninglight, Kim Jong-"Very"-Il is known as the "Dear Leader". Kudos to Slick Willie for pulling this one off. Maybe he gave the Dear Leader a set of DVDs he didn't already own?

Thank you all for your helpful comments. I still wonder whether there is something lacking in my 'spiritual formation' eg: I wonder whether like the Rich Young Ruler, Jesus would say to me: "one thing you lack" etc. I wonder whether I do lack something and what that something is?

I guess I feel like I'm doing my bit as best I can (although I'm sure there's room for improvement!), but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of reciprocity from the Holy Spirit. That's why I asked the question of DHK above; for me, the changes which have occurred with me have been (as it...

Thanks. What though would you say was the cause of that change? Eg: did you just think, "well, now I'm a Christian, I shouldn't behave like that anymore", or would you say it was the action of the Holy Spirit?

OK, I can agree that. [ETA - so it's a kind of Catch 22 situation - if you're worried about it, it's nothing to worry about?]

Can you put some 'flesh on the bones' for me, there, please? It sounds to me that you're talking about salvation by faith+works, not faith alone, and I would be interested to know more.

I meant 'steak'! What about the role of the Holy Spirit and grace; your post implies that it is more or less dependent on effort on our part - which sounds like Pelagianism or at least semi-Pelagianism to me...

Thanks for the answers so far! I guess the other thing I'm wondering is the extent if at all to which I should be experiencing some kind of ontological or other qualitative change within me as a result of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and His sanctifying work. Is it all 'pie in the sky when...

The question and scenario posed in the OP is only semi-hypothetical; I suppose what I'm asking is "should I feel or do anything differently?" Apart from some charismatic experiences in the 1990s which I'm now a bit dubious about, I don't feel that my life has changed drastically since I...

Okay, so I believe and trust that Jesus is God the Son, that He became incarnate as a man being born of a virgin, died on the cross in my place so that my sins may be forgiven, rose from the dead, ascended into heaven and will one day return to judge the living and the dead. I've even prayed...

Surely it's "an heretick"?

I don't think Baptists have to swim anything - water "just gets you wet", remember?

So, were you joshing with us on page 1?

So what's your solution to the problem? You're above post sounds like many I've seen Catholics make, BTW...

I'd be surprised if he's swum the Tiber or the Bosphorus

I suspect Billwald was yanking your chains...

JSM17, the Church of Christ is just another denomination, so surely it's part of the problem that your OP lays out?

No, no, no! Mars was just the relay station for Sutekh's imprisonment; he was really from Osiris.