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Sanctuary cities (also called cities of refuge) were established in ancient Israel to provide temporary protection for someone who accidentally killed another person. The law recognized that emotions run high when someone dies. The avenger of blood (a family member of the victim) might...

Not without due process. They must be convicted of a capital crime before the government can kill them at all and even then it would be weird for the government to send out a posse to just kill them on sight, especially if it were a large number of them. 1 Thessalonians 5:22 Abstain from all...

I agree that it can be used as a figure of speech in that not every crime it's used in reference to has anything to do with eyes, but don't you agree that if someone causes someone else to lose an eye because of either negligence or overt criminal behavior that the offender must forfeit his own eye?

Those two conditions are loaded with meaning that imply other conditions as well. In order to be saved one must believe the following things... God exists and is the Creator of all things and He is perfect, holy, and just. We, having willfully done evil things and rebelled against God, who...

He is definitely a Mormon. I don't care where he went to school.

As promised.... Why Morality is Absolute!

Why Morality Is Absolute—and What That Actually Means Christians often claim that morality is absolute, but they rarely explain why. Indeed, most don’t even know why and would be very hard-pressed to explain why if challenged to do so. Even most pastors would have a hard time giving more than a...

Definitely, hard core, prepper style Mormon!

Well, then if you're agreeing me then I guess I'll stop arguing! :cool: (That's a joke, of course.) It doesn't look like there's much of any real disagreement at all! (y)

My biggest surprise when reading Lewis' work is the degree to which he believed in not only several Augustinian doctrines but the degree to which he gladly gives credit to Aristotle and Plato for them as if it's entirely natural that pagan Greek philosophy should be made a part of Christian...

It seems to me that you guys are more or less talking past one another because one's response is formulated from a different paradigm than what it being responded too. Criminal justice is about just that, JUSTICE! God has given it to the governing official to enforce justice - not vengeance...

I suppose that my real point was (is) that it isn't quite as simple as your post #2 makes it seem. When it comes to the markets, the simple fact of life is that the vast majority of people are wrong about which way its going to go. The masses tend to buy the tops and sell the bottoms and it is...

I had Chat GPT help me write that opening post in such a way that, if you've read that post, you've got a really good understanding of the arguments Lewis makes in the book. I'm writing a similar summary of Lewis' "Miracles" now.

Well, of course you have to make the argument! Just because something is absolute, doesn't mean that its self-evident. "Absolute" and "Self-evident" aren't synonyms. Even if they were, saying that something is self-evident does make it so either! Never treat any issue as though it's axiomatic...

I stopped focusing on eschatology many years ago so I could be wrong about this but I always had the impression that the antichrist wasn't just an evil guy like Barrack Obama but was someone who was "possessed" by Satan himself. It seems like it would be rather difficult to repent of that but I...

I speak from personal experience. I suppose my 401k may have been different. It was several years ago now but I have basically three options which were basically various mixes of stocks and bonds. You picked based on your risk tolerance. I certainly had no ability whatsoever to move the money...

The vast majority of people who have 401K's have little or no ability to move their funds into something other than the stock market. They might have some limited choices in regards to how aggressively they're exposed to risk but most people don't understand enough about it to even know what it...

Well, that's just the point I'm trying to make. Our interpretation of prophecy is one thing, it's actual fulfillment is quite another and, on top of that, prophecy is not prewritten history. Take Isaiah 53, for example. We can see in hind sight that it is quite an explicit prophecy about a...

I mean that to simply say that it's absolutely wrong doesn't make it so. It's easy to make the claim but can you make the argument? I'm not disagreeing with you but am prodding you to make the argument. What is it that makes something right or wrong?

Why?