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Both of you strive to love God more than you love one another and you will be loving each other the best you can. Be open to children and never get divorced. The perfect marriage is two imperfect people refusing to give up on each other. God bless.

Up till 1930, all Christian denominations rejected use of birth control. Today the Catholic church is the only church that still rejects use of contraception and divorce. The church predicted exactly what would happen with the use of contraception and here we are today. Divorce, remarriage...

Agreed! :)

All reasonable thoughts. I know my current view of relationships and marriage are based, partly on my repeated failures at marriage but mostly on what God has done for me in spite of my previous invincible ignorance. As I look back now, for myself personally, I now see clearly that what was...

Here's another perspective I like. Love is an act of the will that expresses itself is good deeds toward others. So, in marriage, for example, the correct decision, when things get rough, is to use the will to do the right thing which always involves the good of the other. Secular society has...

I pray you find something helpful in what I share: Pray and repeat the Eastern Church Jesus prayer: 'Lord Jesus, have mercy on me a sinner' (Luke 18:13) Join your sufferings to what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ for the good of His body, the church (Colossians 1:24). Offer your body...

If you understand me correctly, I no longer embrace any kind of Dispensational rapture theory. I simply believe there will be the second coming of Christ. I will admit, one thing I don't have a clear understanding of yet is which verses (OT & NT) refer to the time leading up to the destruction...

Correction to BTW 1). It should read 'the coming of the Lord'...not 'the second coming'.

Hi Randy. Thanks for the offer to reply. I was once a pre-triber. Allow me to share something I recently discovered from minds better than mine and from a simply reading of Scripture. In Luke 17, beginning verse 34, we see additional details not included in Matthew 24. Luke 17:34 (Randy, pay...

Hi Michie, I only wanted to respond to your post to let you know that I am a parent of two children who my former wife and I split up in 1980. My son came to live with me while my daughter stayed with her mom. As a parent in this unfortunate demise, I did reasonably well until age 70. Since that...

Oh, I forgot to include the severe persecutions Eastern Christians have also suffered under Communism.

Your response brought to mind something I heard recently that I had never considered in any practical way. We Westerners readily understand that we were heavily influenced by the Protestant Reformation. We know the Eastern Christians (ie. Eastern Catholics and Orthodox) were spared the...

Yes, we speculate on a lot. We only have our earthly human experience to draw from in an attempt to paint a picture of something that we now hope in but have not seen. Something even the Scripture authors did. Thanks

Here's a small glimpse video discussion (between Justin Hibbard {Protestant convert to Roman Catholicism} and father deacon Anthony Dragani {convert from Roman Catholicism to Eastern Ukrainian Catholicism} ) about the Eastern and Western Churches. Anthony's church is one of the 23 Eastern...

For sure there are verses that can be taken in a 'literal' literal sense but that still falls under the sense of 'what the author intended'. Some things, taken in context with all of Scripture can be taken that way. For example 'Jesus got into a boat and went to the other side'. However, the are...

Please understand that, after all I shared, I understand that we each still must follow our own conscience. I am merely sharing what I have learned and have come to believe as you have done with me. God bless.

It's interesting and fascinating to me to learn how our particular traditions lead us to interpret Scripture differently. In this case, concerning the efficacy of baptism. I began studying such matters almost 6 years ago and it's been a slow process :). Here's what I believe to be the first...

There are 4 senses of Scripture interpretation: Literal, Allegorical, Moral and Anagogical. They are all useful. I like that the literal sense does not mean literal as we think of it today as the man on the street would understand. It's what the author originally intended. For example, as the...

He also did a great job of re-interpreting the OT for the men of His time. He even changed and added to the OT. For example, when the Law of Moses commanded that the woman caught in adultery should be stoned, Jesus basically replied...we're not gonna do that. Or when He said you have heard that...