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Support Israel Or Hamas

As far as can be determined Israel is a nation and Hamas is a political organization. If I were to ask: which do you support, Canada or the republican party, in the US? What answer could any reasonable person give? Here are a few categorical statements. I oppose any entity that occupies other peoples land. I oppose any entity that imprisons and kills children. Finally, I oppose any entity that thinks that the occupied people must accept occupation with resistance, by any means. More importantly, I know that The God who created this universe also opposes any injustice and is against those who perpetrate and support such injustices

Life Before Creation

An essential attribute of The God, The Creator of the universe, is absolute knowledge. That is, His knowledge is not learned knowledge or knowledge acquired through our very limited understanding of the means of gaining knowledge. And indeed, Gods knowledge is not simply comprehensive or is made better with the passage of time. God knows every detail about everything, before anything was created! And even in stating that reality, our minds find great difficulty in managing the notions of absoluteness and infiniteness. Yet, by purely inadequate and inappropriate human speech, God is absolute in every way!

Rape Pregnancies God's Will

The politician's comments are clearly nonsense, but it reflects a growing thought pattern among many who call themselves christian and republican. The truth is, the polician spoke what he knew many professing christians and supporters believe. However, more importantly are the facts on the matter of rape. There are about 200,000 rapes committed in America every year. That means that more than 500 women are brutalized in the most horrendous way. And amazingly, the society still presents itself as an example of virtue for the rest of the world! God help us!

Pro-Life And War

Mark V: I am disappointed in you. I have learnt my American history, in America and from good, christian Americans and American books. Resorting to name-calling as those who are not able to pursue an issue reasonably and factually is functioning less than your best self. From you, I expected solid reason, contrary facts and thoughtfulness. That is far more helpful than unnecessary appellation and extreme references. That is disappointing! History does not have to be pleasant. It is what it is!

Pro-Life And War

Mark v: I know that this is difficult for you, but do this. In the last 70 years, name the countries that America has freed and compare the number of countries invaded and number of people killed, for the same time period. And while you are doing that, please define freedom? And please think dispassionately about the idea and the experience of freedom, in America, today. And all of this must be viewed in the context that within that same 70 years, tens of millions of American citizens were not free, in America?

Pro-Life And War

Patricia, your statement:"This great nation the USA that was founded on the word of God" Suggested that you do not realize that more than one-third of the American population were slaves and were enclosed on reservations. And those millions of people were not considered nor treated as human beings. And wonderful statements like, "We hold that all men are created equal" obviously did not apply to the millions of blacks and Indians within the country, the USA. I believe that God's standards and His expectations of those who claim faith in Him are much loftier and are never discriminatory, on the basis of race.

Pro-Life And War

"The reason you have freedom is because many have died for you". So, if I lived in Canada, Iceland or New Zealand, would I be as free since those countries are not known for their military, killing sprees? "We (USA) don't take over other countries". You just invade, occupy, kill and plunder. "We (USA)are the biggest country in the world who stand for Freedom". It would be more accurate to state that America is the loudest noise maker for freedom, but while it is making the freedom noise, its own citizens are not free, and of course, the killing sprees and the plundering have never stopped. It is a good ploy. Mark V: All of the above quotes are your words.

Is China A King Of The East

I read the comments on this question and not one comment expressed sympathy, empathy or even the recognition of our common humanity with the Chinese people. Additionally, it is very ineteresting that western christians and those who are taught by western christians, exclude all western nations from God's punishment. And as one commnent stated that God will punish wrong doing, in China. The suggest is that God will exempt western europe and America's killing sprees and destructive rampages across the world. The truth is, God is not an American and He is not a western european. Moreover, God is just and His justice is not influenced geography or religious profession.

Pro-Life And War

Instead of calling me names, I would like to suggest that you take your history books and name any four-year period that America was not in a military conflict, in the last 70 years. In addition, list the countries that America has invaded and count the number of deaths that have been caused by those invasions. When that is done, compare that record with any country you choose. Let us see what freedom is. Every means of communication is monitored, every dollar spent is known by the government, every move is observed, children are not safe in their own homes, much less so, outside of it, and all public events and travel are subject to searches and criminal attack. I would take another look at what freedom means.

Pro-Life And War

The history of America is one of a marauding force that kills and plunders, at will. Many may chose to ignore that bloodthirstiness, but it would very interesting if anyone could name a country that has invaded more countries and has killed more people than the USA, in the last 70 years. Or name a country that has been in more military conflicts than the peace loving, USA. Further, name a country that has spent more on war and the preparations for war, while some of its ex-service men live in poverty than the USA. When one speaks so loudly and so often about virtues, an attempt should, at least, be made to match the rhetoric with the action.

Pro-Life And War

Jed: There is no need to direct your vitriolic verbiage at me. If a military carpet bombs a city, who do they intend to kill? And if preserving and protecting life are the expressed objectives, how is it that tens of millions of men, women and children have been killed? I would never describe myself as pro-this or pro-that. I am man, created by God, imbued with a magnificence that impels me to see magnificence in other people, even when their views differ from mine. Since WWII, the American military has killed tens of millions of people and professing christians are the biggest supporters, in those killing sprees across the world. Is that the example that Jesus set?

Pro-Life And War

In the eyes of those who call themselves pro-life, any disagreement with position, immediately cast the individual into the wrong. Life is precious before it is born and it is should, at least, be as precious after it is born. Ist Cliff, you raised a very relevant point: should professing christian be as passionate about the lives of the unborn as they are about the lives of the children and the adults that are already here? And what would Jesus's position be? The Gospels have answered that last question in the most demonstrable positive fashion.

What's The Importance Of Church

For most professing christian republicans, issues like abortion are merely political, divisive and vote-getting issues. When 1 in 4 of Americas children are living in poverty, hundreds of thousands are homeless and when America leads the industrialized world in the number of divorces, the number of murders and the number of school dropouts, one must ask, where are the pro-life republicans? Indeed, professing christian republicans are the biggest the supporters of war and global militarization. And since WII, professing christian republicans have supported Americas killing sprees across the world in which tens of millions men, women and children have been killed. Is that the position of people who claim to be pro-life?

Was Man Ever Immortal

Most professing christians have been so thoroughly indoctrinated with the idea that the evidence for freedom is the ability to choose that they do not realise that the Bible does not teach any such connection. Freedom is never a function of political, economic or religious systems. And to say that or to imply it, is to disregard biblical teaching. Today's christianity and Christians are defined more by their politics than by their faith in God and their practice of the Principles of Grace. So, within that unholy confusion, a good American is a good Christian, in that order. And the perversion does not end there. For evil and wickedness are defined by political and economic structures and not by unrighteous and immoral actions.

Was Man Ever Immortal

American christianity has always associated the notion of being free and freedom with the idea of choice or the ability to choose. What is significant, in this issue, is that the Bible does not state or imply, in any way, that freedom means the exercise of the human will. There will not be much agreement with this, but take an honest look it. Most American christians have used their peculiar, political notions of being free and of freedom to impose those peculiarities on the interpretation of scripture. Human beings experience true freedom only when his mind is free of fear and of worry and only God is the giver of that kind of freedom. An absolutely free will is a human invention.

Was Man Ever Immortal

I read several comments with regards to the use of the word, "perfect". However, the phrase Very good was used to describe Adam. And Adam was the best of what it meant to be human. He was pure and he was sinless, but he was always human. Perfect or perfection presents the notion of incapable of being tainted, defiled or changed. Moreover, perfection embodies the ideas of immutability, omniscience, omnipotence and so on, and these qualities are the attributes of God, the Creator of the universe, alone. Man, at no point, possessed any of these qualities and therefore, could not have been perfect, in the same sense, that God is perfect. Adam, before he sinned, was the ideal human being.

Is Global Warming Harming Us
	-jerry6593: Honest people can and do disagree with the interpreted of the same data. However, your invitation to "bring it on" suggests the mentality of a schoolyard bully and the desire to a brawl. I must tell you that I do not brawl and neither do I entertain the taunts of brawlers. My object is a little more lofty and my methods are a little more rational.

Is Global Warming Harming Us
	Is global warming a political hoax because human beings and the things they do are not harming the planet? It is rather interesting that global warming is seen, by so many Americans, as a political hoax, but they came to that conclusion based on their political views of the universe and an inexplicable desire to remain ignorant of the factual evidence.

Is Slavery Immoral

It is very disappointing to read so many equivocal christian comments about a simple and real question. Well, here is my answer to the simple question: slavery has always been wrong and ungodly and God, the Creator of the universe, has never instructed and in any other way, implied that enslaving another human being was anything, but evil. For all of those who still wish to be evasive and to vacillate about the issue of slavery because of America's sordid history, study the Character of the immutable God and perhaps, clarity may be brought to this issue as well as to many others.