Quote (charity @ Oct. 04 2008,19:56)“Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago” Robert A. HeinleinMen tend to forget everything, otherwise the race would have died out long ago. Tim

Quote (t8 @ Oct. 03 2008,21:25)As for repentance that is obviously something that God requires. But I also think that some sins are overlooked if a person has no knowledge of it. Not sure if this fits in with Lot's situation. But God chose to save him for a reason.Is the sin of not knowing Jesus as your saviour overlooked if a person has no…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ Oct. 02 2008,06:22)Hi Tim4, God is sovereign.Should we judge His motives?Hi Nick,who is judging His motives.God said that He did not want man to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil because then his eyes wouldbe opened and he would know the difference between good and evil.God said that is why he forbade eating from…[Read more]

God did not want for us to use our “free will” to choose between right and wrong, good and evil, because He did not want for us to know the difference between the two.Didn't He forbid Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil so that they would know?Tim

Quote (Not3in1 @ Oct. 01 2008,04:44)Read the story of Lot again for me, will ya?  Please tell me why God would completely destroy a town for homosexuality and Lot's wife for looking back……and not destroy Lot for incest (which was clearly against God's provisions).Or for that matter, why Lot was considered righteous to begin with. He offered…[Read more]

Hi Theodore,But wasn't Lot saved because he was the only righteous person in Sodom?Tim

Quote (Lightenup @ Sep. 26 2008,04:00)Hi t8 and Tim,I go to a church, a Baptist one, and I disagree that all churches exist to feed itself.  Good grief what a judgement!  The church I go to reaches out to missionaries with financial support and physical support all over the world, lots of them and to each other.  We have survived over two years wi…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ Sep. 26 2008,06:51)Those who do not want you to grasp the WORD want to offer their lies instead.Hi Nick,A lie is a deception with the intent to decieve others.I have no such intent.Where can you show that I have lied? The only statement that I made other than about my relationship with God was that I felt that we were…[Read more]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ Sep. 25 2008,12:25)Hi Tim4, What INSTITUTION is this you speak of? His family is not an institution.Neither is the Body.You are absolutely correct Nick.Unfortunately, the physical building that we call the church has become a “for profit” institution. It is in existence solely for it's own growth.Tim

Hi Mandy,You said “But nothings happening and I don't “hear” anything either. I'm beginning to wonder if God only talks to those who talk to him? Like you, I'm beginning to wonder if he wants me at all and is more happily contented with the likes of those who never question.”The strange thing is that I do seem to hear God communicating with me,…[Read more]

HI Nick and worshippingJesus,Thank you for your prayers.Tim

Quote (Not3in1 @ Sep. 24 2008,19:17)Two words come to mind:  bite me.  Forgive me, but your arrogant attitude is too much sometimes.David, I have studied for 5 years!!!  When I say “studied” I'm not talking casually.  I'm talking for 5 to 6 hours A DAY!!!!It does take effort to dig and dig and dig……massive amounts of effort.  Please don't thin…[Read more]

Hi 94,I think you missunderstood.I was certainly not criticizing you. I truly admire you.Tim

Hi Mandy,I am not sure where I go from here.All I am certain of is that I still see God in His creation. I love Him for all that He provides for our continued existence. I think some ancient people got a glimpse of God and have expanded on that rudimentary understanding. The bible contains a little of there understanding along with a lot of…[Read more]

I should have included Gen 11:7 where God siad that He was going to go down and confuse their speech.Genesis 11:7-9 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech….. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: Tim

Quote (Nick Hassan @ Sep. 16 2008,08:30)Hi not3, God is not a God of confusion so trust him and not your understanding.Hi Nick,Then what was the purpose of the story about the tower of Babel?(Gen. 11:8-9) – “So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. 9Therefore its name was…[Read more]

Quote (t8 @ Sep. 16 2008,14:46)Hey Stu, I just noticed in your signature that you said “The white tile remains unexplained by the mods”. Have you thought about the possibility that your avatar is evolving and perhaps the white tile reflects just enough heat away for the icon to remain at an optimum cyber-temperature.I mean anything is possible in…[Read more]

Hi 94,I admire how you are able to sanitize the butchery of the O.T.You will make a good preacher. The only sermons that I ever heard in church were the sanitized versions.But from what the bible says, the Jews were not an agricultural community.At least not until after they were through taking the farms and land from the people who really owned…[Read more]

Hi Nick,There are many who do not listen to God.If these people practiced no moralism, where would we be as a society?Tim

Hi 94,Thank you for the time that you put in to studying this issue.I am afraid that it doesn't help me to feel any better about God condoning slavery though.So God said that the Hebrews could basically make slaves out of anybody else on earth except for other Hebrews.That just sounds like something that the Hebrews would say, not God.I have to…[Read more]