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You will never be able to avoid the fact the push to create a homeland for Jewish people, which predated WWII, assumed it would be realized on land Palestinians had occupied for centuries. Like so many times that national powers entrenched in colonialism, e.g. Great Britain, decided to carve up...

I also think it has been magnanimous and gracious on his part. Knowing them, I doubt they have had a change in understanding. If that is the case, he's being much more gracious than they because he has entered back into relationship knowing what they think about his relationship. Still, it is so...

He didn't do anything evil. He couldn't help his own orientation and femine tendrncies. That's a horrendous evil they committed in the nane of what's right. That's an extreme case, but the root assumption is always the same. I've seen parents try and changed that, and it's always based in the...

Too bad God is not powerful enough to save all of God's own creation, right? If there were such a thing as an all-powerful God of love, that would have been great. There is another problem with your assessment. There is a difference between God creating creatures that die/ordaining the death of...

I don't know why you think I would disagree that Hamas should go from what I wrote. Of course Hamas should go; they're horrible. But as I did say, you cannot identify Hamas with the Palestinian people in general. People should try to put extreme views aside and think clearly about what is just...

We should all thank God for the sewer system. Evolution took a good turn there. Mysophobia was a true nightmare prior to pipes and gravity.

Touche.

I get it. And, I definitely agree. It's the way of the world. The world's kingdoms crush evil by force. The kingdoms of this world operate by force, violence, and war. That is not the way of Christ. His power so far exceeds the destructive power of human force that he can let humans kill him and...

Extermination is not the best policy, my mother used to say.

It's almost as if God wanted to make sure folks wouldn't fall into idolatry. Ha! *We'll find a way around that*

Okay, let's assume for the sake of argument that they wrote exactly what God wanted them to write. Why do you assume what God wanted them to write would be without error? There is nothing humans do, ever, that is free of some degree of error, i.e., it's all less than perfect. In fact, being less...

Fair point, but you know the IDF top general is not giving an unbiased assessment.

You want the extermination of a set of people, but "personal attacks" are an issue. Yes, this is war. The goal is peace not more war. You seem to think they need exterminating. They don't agree; they want life and claim oppression. There are two sides to this particular issue, both of which need...

Um, that wall of text should be against the rules. Why not just make your point or post the chapter and verses? TL; DR.

1. News outlets are in a sketchy business so grain of salt with all of them, but CBN is hardly reliable. No one of them these days are Walter Cronkite, but CBN is smitten with agenda and should be treated as such. 2. Your commensuration with the destruction of humans is gross and not at all...

I'm thinking the terrorism has been coming from both sides for decades. Nonetheless, Israel is the more powerful side and the poor Palestinians are trapped. Hamas cannot be equated with the Palestinian people. Of course, all Israelis cannot be equated with the Israeli gov't. It's a mess of...

There's no problem with understanding that the scriptures are divinely inspired, human texts. You must believe the same, right? God used flawed humanity to communicate Christ to us through the witness of the scriptures under the power of the Holy Spirit. I don't understand the supposed problem.

Who cares what preachers say? We each have the Spirit to know what is good and just. Modern Israel is not by default always right. Both sides in this war have decades of history doing horrendous acts to the other side. Christians should pray for peace, first and foremost, and for what is just...

One last time: the text in Genesis 1 does not say God is the light. You are not taking the text literally in that case but giving an interpretation of "light." That's fine, but you have left the realm of literal and have entered the realm of metaphor. Next time you question another's reading of...

You said God is the light. Now you're changing your position. That's fine. It doesn't seem you've thought it through, which is also fine. These things aren't as a simple as "God said it; therefore, I believe it." That is an inane, thoughtless position. Like Barth said, I take the scriptures too...