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Recent content by Bob Crowley

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    Who were all the Herods in the New Testament?

    I heard in a sermon last week (Christmas) by one of my wife's Baptist pastors that the Romans had a saying about Herod the Great that "It is safer to be a pig in Herod's household than one of his sons". Herod wasn't Jewish, but he tried to encourage relations with the Jewish religious leaders...
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    Conversion Stories

    I didn't know the answer myself off the cuff so to speak. Tom D's post prompted me to check for myself which is the only reason I looked it up. It's not something I normally would have considered.
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    Conversion Stories

    I went looking for "once a year confessions in the early church." An AI summary gave the following feedback which I assume is reasonably correct - While there were instances of "once in a lifetime" confession, they were for specific reasons. It wasn't the norm.
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    The Bible’s Mystery Woman The last and most mysterious book of the Bible describes a woman who is the center of much controversy

    To back up my assertion about Mary and the demonic, I found this item on the net - https://catholicexchange.com/the-role-of-mary-the-saints-against-demonic-attacks/
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    The Bible’s Mystery Woman The last and most mysterious book of the Bible describes a woman who is the center of much controversy

    The fact that Mary is regularly invoked by Catholic exorcists lends credence to the woman's identification as Mary. The Catholic exorcist Pedro Barrajon was interviewed 20 years ago about Catholic exorcisms. http://www.signandsight.com/features/530.html I've got a couple of books by Catholic...
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    KJV

    I still use the terms "thy" and "thou" when I'm saying the "Our Father" (Lord's Prayer for Protestants), and the Haily Mary (as a Catholic). The reason is nothing other than boring old habit as that is how they were said when I was learning them. But I don't use them at any other time -...
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    Head of Iran's Bank resigns amid protests. Reports of security force and protestor deaths. Trump: if Iran "kills peaceful protesters," we will come

    They also have a major water crisis, with a possibility of zero hour for water supply in Tehran, which has a population of nearly 10 million people. There has even been discussion of evacuations but not much detail about where the people would go. Instead of looking after their own people...
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    Trump announces strikes on ISIS targets in Nigeria

    Matthew 10:34-36 NSV - 34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person's enemies...
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    JFK's granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg dies of cancer aged just 35

    This brings back some memories for me as my sister died from Acute Myeloid Leukemia in 2005, which is the same disease that caused the death of Tatiana Schlossberg. I had a bit of an "advantage" I suppose in that my Presbyterian pastor predicted well before he died himself in 1992 that "I don't...
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    Critical Theory and the Politics of Divine Love, Part 1

    We're talking about two different things here. The topic I'm talking about is a system for the fair distribution of goods and services in overall society, whether they are Christian or not. At the time of the Russian Revolution, there were socialist parties all over the place. But what...
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    How old was Mary when she gave birth to Christ?

    For what it's worth, the "sense" I seem to get is that she was about 16, and Joseph was late twenties or early thirties. It's a "sense" and that's it. As the previous poster pointed out we don't know.
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    Can You Sin in Heaven?—Apologist Sean McDowell Gives Surprising View

    I assume we agree the ten commandments are the guideline for our life on earth - I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy...
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    Critical Theory and the Politics of Divine Love, Part 1

    In my post above #2, you might wonder why the pastor made the statement "... given through a Jew" in his comment about Communism being God's idea viz. "It surprised me then when he said in one of our discussions "I think Communism was God's idea, given through a Jew." From an AI extract -...
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    Critical Theory and the Politics of Divine Love, Part 1

    I'll throw a spanner into the works here. I've often quoted my Presbyterian pastor who died in 1992. He was conservative to his boot laces. I doubt if he voted for the (Australian) Labor Party in his life. One of his sons said he thought he used to go to National Party meetings - he would...
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    Trump announces strikes on ISIS targets in Nigeria

    Something had to be done. I can understand the Nigerian President having his hands tied. The northern part of Nigeria is Moslem, and the south is Christian. Both north and south take their respective religions seriously. The biggest seminary in the world is in Nigeria.
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