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Recent content by Akita Suggagaki

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    The Big Beautiful Bill shall became Law

    No point in discussing or arguing. Minds are made up.
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    Being embarrassed about Jesus?

    Why do Christians like to say that so much?
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    Former medium warns Christians against the occult: ‘No such thing as a good witch’

    Christianity is the accepted religion. So we see all sort of things mixed in with it, as if "Christianity" makes it right.
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    The Big Beautiful Bill shall became Law

    This is a very sad day for America. Sold out!
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    Why believing in a literal Adam and Eve matters

    The genealogies of Jesus in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke differ significantly, particularly after the time of King David. Matthew traces Jesus' lineage through Solomon, one of David's sons, while Luke traces it through Nathan, another son of David. They also diverge in the number of...
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    Why believing in a literal Adam and Eve matters

    And this is where we assume that we can read Genesis as simply as opening the Book. It is not that easy.
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    What Jesus Said About Adam and Eve

    Don't you see a sequence presented in the creation accounts that culminates in Adam and Eve?
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    GOODBYE, STRAIGHT MEN The real state of U.S. seminaries today

    "Same sex Attraction" does sound a bit better than the "gay" stereotype.
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    GOODBYE, STRAIGHT MEN The real state of U.S. seminaries today

    Just a thought but, if one is gay and religious, it is better in the Church's view to be celibate rather than married or in a homosexual relationship. If one then remains celibate the priesthood seems a holy option. Of course it is about vocation though, not convenience.
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    Why believing in a literal Adam and Eve matters

    I think my Process side is showing when I see most of these as complementary rather than exclusive.
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    What Jesus Said About Adam and Eve

    Yes, without doubt. Especially if it was put into written form after the exile.
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    What Jesus Said About Adam and Eve

    It makes more sense to me to see them as representatives of all those early humans who responded to a sense of conscience and relationship with God.
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    Why believing in a literal Adam and Eve matters

    And they still didn't get it.
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    What Jesus Said About Adam and Eve

    But if one wants to take the Genesis creation accounts literally to argue for historical Adam and Eve, one also must take them as the first since that is the context and intention of the narratives. Or so it seems to me. I can imagine the emergence of moral consciousness in and evolving species...
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    Addressing the Hospital Boarding Crisis in the US—Time to Act

    Boarding, the practice of holding patients in the emergency department (ED) while awaiting an inpatient bed, is associated with myriad harms that are magnified in older adults, who are also at risk for delirium, functional decline, and death.1,2 Nonetheless, older adults are more likely to...
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