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Of course people have the right to refuse the vaccine.
Just as they have the right to go out into public when they have the measles.
But both choices merit strong rebuke - it is decidedly anti-gospel to needlessly place others at risk.
6God “will repay each person according to what they have done.” 7To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. 8But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.
In many years on...
I am going to start a thread on this topic. It has nothing to do with evolution - the focus is instead cosmology. I plan to adopt the strategy of only responding to those posters who I believe are interested in a serious and even-handed discussion of this issue. Obviously, anyone can post...
I have not posted for a while. But now I have a prayer request for my friends here. My beloved 11 year-old chihuahua, Bagel, has been diagnosed with a liver problem. More tests soon, and this certainly could be very serious. Please pray for her. Thanks.
International climate scientists are more certain than ever that humans are responsible for global warming, rising sea levels and extreme weather events, according to a leaked draft report by an influential panel of experts.
The early draft, which is still subject to change before a final...
Staff note: these off-topic posts were split from Why are Christians mostly Republicans?.
You are, I believe, mistaken in your assessment that "Jesus is not a pacifist" and I am quite confident Biblical exegesis supports this. And your statements about the two Presidents Bush and President...
I have repeatedly presented this bit of dialogue between Jesus and Pilate when the issue of "Christians and the use of force" comes up:
Therefore Pilate entered again into the Praetorium, and summoned Jesus and said to Him, “ Are You the King of the Jews?” 34 Jesus answered, “Are you saying...
This article supports my assertion - if calories burned exceed calories consumed, you will lose weight - no matter what condition you might have. Some relevant quotes (my emphasis):
If a high BMR is induced by the administration of drugs, such as amphetamines, animals often have a negative...
The present kingship of Jesus over this present world is very strongly supported in the Scriptures. In fact, I think it is one of the most strongly supported doctrines in the Scriptures. And yet many Christians in our day, perhaps most, simply do not believe it. The reasons for this are no doubt...
Summary: 2 Corinthians 4 manifests a relation to Psalm 116 that generalizes as a pattern: Old Testament texts often express foreshadowings of New Testament truths, with the truth realized being surprising, yet otherwise Biblically plausible.
Consider this text from 2 Corinthians:
But we have...
There are times in his letters when Paul uses expressions that suggest he believes in “anthropological dualism” – the notion that the human person is constituted by both a body and a soul, the former being the “container” for the latter, with the latter bearing of consciousness. This idea that...
Part 1:
Although widely believed, the Scriptures do not support a “two-part†model of the Christian as constituted by a born-again “inner man†and a fallen “fleshâ€. This model gets used to underwrite seeing Romans 7 as a description of the struggle of these two components in the life...
Another thread I started on this got locked, so I will try again, assuming that as long as we behave ourselves, there is no reason why we cannot discuss who the mysterious vessels of destruction of Romans 9 are.
As some of you will already know, I believe that Paul sees hardened Jews as the...
As I am sure you are all aware, in Romans 9 Pauls refers to "vessels of destructions". Many see these vessels as human individuals who have been "pre-destined" to ultimate loss.
It is my purpose in this thread to argue for a different interpretation - that the vessels of destruction are in...
Many people deployed this text from Romans 3 as evidence that Paul does not really mean what he has written in Romans 2 about ultimate justification by good works:
For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.
Such readers see "the works of the Law" as a...
In this thread, I will try to make an exceedingly careful argument as to why Ephesians 2:8-9 does not deny ultimate justification by good works. People in other threads have been ignoring arguments about this and I am quite convinced that they are intentionally screening arguments that would...
With this admittedly provocative title, I want to expose the “dirty little secret†of so many evangelicals – the fact that they either ignore the Romans 2 teaching about a future justification by good works or, more commonly perhaps, they develop entirely implausible schemes about how, in...
For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.
What was Jesus obedient to? Many think that He was obedient to the Law of Moses. I disagree, and am persuaded by arguments to the effect that Jesus...
This thread is a response to threads which celebrate the technology of death and doing power the world's way - through weaponry. The way of the gospel is not to delight in weaponry but......
And He will judge between the nations,
And will render decisions for many peoples...
Here is an interesting prayer from Daniel 9:
I prayed to the LORD my God and confessed and said, "Alas, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments, 5we have sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly and...
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