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Yes, there is. The story of Christ in the NT brings us the revelation and promise that if we will allow God's love to act within us and through us to others it will heal us and save us from ourselves, and help us to help others in the same way. It's not about "obedience" or "righteousness". It's...

It depends on how badly one needs to be right. As with any addiction, one's need can greatly overpower fact or reason.

He needn't have bothered with all the moaning and crying. He was forgiven the moment his heart felt sincere remorse.

Why are you asking me that? What's it to you what I want to be or what my "next step" is? Seriously, I'm honestly asking. Because it appears as though you are seeing yourself as being in some sort of 'charge' of my choices, or as if you're in some sort of 'overseer' position, and I don't get...

I expect we're all guilty of that to one degree or another. :)

I find this statement very interesting in that it offers the word "love" but is not referring to the actuality of love, but rather to the actuality of control. And this causes me to wonder if these children were ever shown actual love, or if they were simply shown a need/desire to control them...

I can't help but notice that most of the folks that visit this site are of a common type. That is the type of religious Christian that is usually male, usually quite aggressive and antagonistic toward others, and very 'legalistic'. The kind of persons for whom God, religion, life, people...

Just seeing words on a page will look like "word salad" to a child that has not yet learned how to read them. Fortunately, most children are willing to try and learn how. Not so for some adults.

Your beliefs about reality do not define reality. They are just your beliefs. Your idea of God is not God. It's just your idea of God. This is true of all of us whether we are willing to recognize it or not. Which is why we become dishonest and inhumane when we do refuse to recognize it. As you...

Still doesn't make any of them inerrant. Why are you asking when you don't understand what being inspired by God means? Martin Luther King was clearly a man inspired by God. He was truly a light unto the world. Yet he was certainly not inerrant. Nor was Gandhi or Mother Theresa or anyone else...

It's not about "right or wrong". It's about love or fear, forgiveness or resentment, kindness or mean-spiritedness, generosity or selfishness ... it's about embodying the divine spirit of our Creator that exists within as His creation, or wallowing alone in fear and selfishness. If you're...

"God breathed" does not mean "inerrant". You are just making stuff up to suit your own ego. Humanity was "God breathed" and not one of us has ever been inerrant. It exists in all of us as His creations. As a work of art reflects the spirit and mind of the artist that creates it. All Creation...

Do you really think just repeating your inerrant Bible belief as if it were a fact will somehow make it become fact to anyone else? Do you really think that by continuing to misrepresent what I say you will somehow change my mind? Or is this all you can think to do to try and reassert your...

I think you have way too high an opinion of the US Constitution. It was the first of it's kind and represents an amazing advance in the concept of governance, but unfortunately, it's vague, confusing, and woefully incomplete. Which is why it's needing to be constantly amended, and unfortunately...

And we still have not learned or enacted it's ideals.

God is the great mystery source, sustenance, and purpose of all that is. To pretend that we understand God because we collected some people's writings on the subject and idolize them is to absurdly minimize the reality of that mystery just so we can pretend we 'own' it.

No one knows what will happen next. Putin is under increasing pressure from his political and economic cohorts. He could even suddenly die of a heart attack or something. Who knows? They have their own methods of "impeachment", there. The Ukrainians don't have to win the war, they just have to...

:) Actually, I'm not ANY of those things. I'm an artist! Rituals and traditions have their place. They are useful tools when used appropriately. But they can become divisive totems, too, if one is not careful. I'm not looking for magical experiences. I don't need them. I can see for myself...

It was never going to be a quick fix. The only people that can stop Putin are the Russian people, and they are confused, divided, and have a long history of living in fear of the power of the state. Nevertheless, the sanctions are having an impact. And it's the wealthy oligarchs in Russia that...

It's sad to me that you think my rejection of your inerrant Bible theory is a rejection of God. It's sad because you can't tell the difference between what you believe about God, and God.