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    Is it wrong to be realistic?

    That's a sad state of affairs ... but your future is not. The longing in your heart for familial warmth, for 'goodness', for hope is there for a reason. I would relate that to the God-shaped hole in your heart. It's true one cannot fake faith ... but is there anything in you or your past that...
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    NT texts inspired outside the protestant canon

    As this list is a lot larger than the Protestant Canon .. what were your criteria to consider these 'inspired', and does 'inspired' to your understanding also mean 'infallible' ? In other words, what led to your understanding as such?
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    Not a lot of respect for men

    Navigating life, enjoying or exercising healthy authority is a big challenge when our life journey is fraught with family or parental dysfunction. Parents make mistakes, sometimes terrible ones, and we add our own to theirs. But God is our Father - He is everything our earthly fathers or I...
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    Wake Up Dead Man

    Apart from the entertaining WHODUNIT aspect .. because the crime scene is a Church community, the movie made me think about what a church fellowship should look like, how to avoid the obvious caricatures of bad leadership, dysfunctional servitude, or even unhealthy motives to be there in the...
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    Not a lot of respect for men

    Thanks, I've read most if not all of the common arguments made in the Egalitarian/Complimentarian/Patriarchy debate - rarely do I encounter something new. And the infamous but decisive 'source' word topic hasn't even been discussed in-depth in this thread yet. But just because I've studied and...
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    Wake Up Dead Man

    Thanks .. I was just considering watching it in two hours :) High IMDB rating also ...
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    Not a lot of respect for men

    Your honesty I do appreciate in admitting you set aside instructions/exhortations from the Apostle Paul because he isn't Jesus; I presume you would do the same for the Apostle Peter (who had similar instructions for the husband/wife relationship)? So anything that isn't directly said by Jesus...
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    Not a lot of respect for men

    That would have been terrible, sorry to hear that - did he claim God revealed that to him while being an atheist? In situations like that it may take time to get used to the metaphor of God as our benevolent Father - or deal with positive male authority in general. I wish you healing.
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    Not a lot of respect for men

    As this thread is titled 'Not a lot of respect for men' I think it's wise to never cite this requirement for husbands from Ephesians 5 without also citing the requirement for wives from the same section: 'to submit to their husbands as to Christ' and 'to fear/reverence their husbands'. And as...
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    Hi

    What a unique combination - certainly for the Limburg area :-) What did you take from those studies into Baptist circles? It would bring more flavour in your understanding of the Bible I presume. Welcome .. !
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    AI tells me not to forgive some, is this true?

    It's better to use examples/cases that you can relate to personally - are you struggling with forgiveness for something yourself?
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    Denaturalization

    Removing/deporting a legal immigrant is not denaturalisation - that's only removal of citizenship. Removing/deporting legal immigrants because of fraud or crime committed while being a legal resident is also standard procedure in other countries (a.o. Australia). In several countries where dual...
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    Christmas

    Forget about Santa Claus - only a worry for people in Anglo-Saxon countries anyway; but St Nicholas is an interesting man - Bishop of Myra. He was present at the famous Council of Nicea (325 AD). There is still a St Nicholas Day on the 6th or 5th December in several countries in Europe. His...
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    Qumran cave 7 7q5 Mark 50 AD dead sea scroll fragment

    I still get the same error using this URL ..
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    Lust - You've been misled and it bothers me

    Your statement is correct and has been presented similarly earlier on this forum as well by others - but not everyone agrees to it. Interpreting Yeshua's statement in Matthew 5:28 should be done in the context of what the definition of adultery was in those days according to Torah and given...
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    Porneia, sexual immorality and romantic love, committed love in marriage.

    That is all true yet it remains essential to understand there is no Greek word 'lust' in the NT. In the English the word 'lust' is inherently immoral/bad, but the same cannot be said for the underlying Greek word for 'strong desire'. And even strong (physical) desire within marriage should be...
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    Qumran cave 7 7q5 Mark 50 AD dead sea scroll fragment

    Yes, I can't see it yet .. maybe a permission problem still? Anyway, looking forward to reading it :) Be blessed .. !
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    Qumran cave 7 7q5 Mark 50 AD dead sea scroll fragment

    The PDF link doesn't work with me ...
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    Spending on Welfare is 'unchristian'

    Interesting ... I'm not a USA resident but it can't be a coincidence that exactly from that year the gold-standard for the USD was abandoned (Bretton-Woods) and inflation started to erase the value of money in the USA (and similar patterns have emerged in other currency areas).
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    I feel the church too hermetic..

    Welcome, how is Christianity (the active type, not the cultural/formal type) doing in Albania? Old friends are moving there soon. Have you read all of the TNK/Old Testament and New Testament? Going through that one can develop a good understanding of who God is, what He did in the past, who...
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