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  1. stevevw

    The importance of the apsotle Paul to the early church

    Sorry I forgot to put the link. It was quote from an article that was using Romans 15:16. Here is the section it came from to give context. Paul applied this analogy explicitly even within Scripture: Because of the grace given me by God, [I am] a minister (λειτουργός, [leitourgos]) of Christ...
  2. stevevw

    The importance of the apsotle Paul to the early church

    At present I am in a thread about the early church and happen to be researching on how the early church transitioned from the Jewish Temple and synagouges to the Christ church we know in some part today. It dawned on me how vital Paul was in this transition to the Gentiles and how this related...
  3. stevevw

    Did Jesus Stop Eating After His 40-Day Fast? Some Food for Thought

    All I know is that Christ did pretty good to resist temptation from satans best when He was physically weak which would make most people give in. Wasn't there some sort of meal at the end of a fast they had to break the fast. Breaking the fast itself was a ritual and so it wasn't a case of get...
  4. stevevw

    New belief among teenagers. What do you think?

    I mean when I was young I use to think I was Elvis or Bowie lol. As a young teen your standing in front of the mirror with a fake microphone pretending to be a rock star. There have been groups like the Mods and Rockers or Punks who expressed themselves through a certain iconic identity. To say...
  5. stevevw

    Is honesty a strict requirement, always, no exceptions?

    I think it comes back to the idea that morality is about the best way to behave morally in any given situation. That means lying may be the wrong in one situation but the right thing in another. I don't think moral truths (objective morality) are absolute because we can reason out each...
  6. stevevw

    Child sacrifice, a transgression/ God sacrifices his only begotten

    I don't think God is inconsistent on this. If you think that it wasn't so much that God did not go ahead with Abrahams sacrifice of his son Issac. God was testing him and Abraham was willing if need to that he would sacrifice his son. That was the test and it was the same criteria that God set...
  7. stevevw

    Where Have All The Good Times Gone?

    I could imagine in the past before media, the internet and social media news would travel slow. By the time they got the news something else would happen. I remeber the art of letter writing. There was something about writing a letter that is not present in todays media. Though it was often...
  8. stevevw

    Christianity no longer seems moral to me

    Don't they say science attempts to answer the 'how' questions and religion the 'why; questions.
  9. stevevw

    Hot Button Issue: Can You Be Pro-Choice and Be a Christian?

    You can trace the abortion rate from 1960 where it was around 0.01% and see it rise through the cultural revolutions. Interestingly the rate was 0.71% in 1969 and then jumped nearly 5% in 1970 around the time of the womens and sexual revolutions beginning in the 70;s after the civil rights...
  10. stevevw

    Christianity no longer seems moral to me

    Yes and no I think. I don't think many in the old testament or even in the early church had science or enlightenment to question God. Yet they had great faith even until death. Christ speaks of a child like faith that cannot be answered by enlightened questioning. Faith seems to work no matter...
  11. stevevw

    Christianity no longer seems moral to me

    Thats a good point. Because its not really about objective science or any fact we can point to. Its a matter of belief whether its based in God or some other worldly idea about what is moral. Even if there was evidence this would still be disputed and disagreed upon because its based on a...
  12. stevevw

    Christianity no longer seems moral to me

    I think in todays society its hard to know Gods truth or be still and know God. Theres a lot of white noise going on I think compared to say 70 or even 30 years ago a generation back. Though God and Christianity was becoming less central it was still something that was respected and society...
  13. stevevw

    Pastor arrested for soliciting photos of 11-year-old girl at his church

    What ever happened to the idea that the priest or the representative of God to the people was to be above reproach. Aman of good reputation in the community before they are given such authority. Paul told Timothy not to be too hasty with appointing bishops and priests. It seems like the modern...
  14. stevevw

    Hot Button Issue: Can You Be Pro-Choice and Be a Christian?

    I think that your friend has had an abortion means you have to tread carefully. I don't think she is any worse than any other sinner and though we all have Gods laws written on our hearts I think there are varying degrees of awareness of this depending on several factors including family and...
  15. stevevw

    You’re not a monkey's uncle

    I think looking at whether humans are created by God using genetics is a sort of red herring that distracts away from the real differences that destinguish whether were are created in Gods image or not. I think its to be expected that we should see a lot of similarities genetically between...
  16. stevevw

    Is honesty a strict requirement, always, no exceptions?

    I think as far as the situation at the fair you were just being you and innocent. I think in that situation its nobel. You were not intending to breach your mums or anyones moral code but rather expressing your own and ironically in a relative moral society that should be not only ok but a...
  17. stevevw

    Does Christianity support and/or teach racism?

    I think fundementally this is a battle of ideologies and spirituality which is tied to morality. It seems to me that this has been the emerging theme of church and state battling it out over how we should order society. It use to be the church and then the church got political and power...
  18. stevevw

    How do we discern the voice of the Holy Spirit?

    I think there is the person as an independent being with their own gifts and abilities that may be influenced by upbringing and various reasons and each person is an individual in that sense. Sometimes just as a matter of life experience and problems that may also be influenced by upbringing it...
  19. stevevw

    US has struck three Iranian nuclear sites, Trump says

    I am pretty sure Peter calls Rome 'Babylon' refrring to the ancient pagan Babylon. These symbols of paganism and anti God and Christ nations or entities is real spiritual warfare against invisible powers and principalities. If the end times involve Isreal and specifically Jerusalem in conflict...
  20. stevevw

    UK Christian legal group threatens to sue city council over pride flag display: 'Secular religious ideology'

    I remember reading somewhere recently that as the issue of whether Pride parades were family friendly as part of the marketing the organisers were advised to tone down the sextual content and erotica. The organisers refused and said that 'kink' was an important and integeral expression of...