What are we missing?

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1. Comment by Melinda

   Direction! So many people are lost and don’t know which way to turn. This is especially something that puzzles young people and young adults as well. I have found that when I feel really confused and a little lost, I read a scripture and it seems to provide me allot of calm.

2. Comment by Mimi

   I think a role playing type of question/questions would also be helpful. Such as: “You are dealing with a co-worker that you find likes to Gossip about others in the office. She feels that in so doing she has confided her thoughts about others in you. How can you approach this individual in a Christ like way, to show them that what they are doing goes against your Christian Values and at the same time teach them what the Scripture teaches about Gossip?”

   *I need role models from other Christians, it makes Scripture come alive for me.*

3. Comment by Anonymous

   Subjects about marriage, How to deal when your spouse is non believer. How to deal with disobedient children. if your spouse is wasting money by shopping or gambling. What about adultly.
   What are Biblical and godly ways to handle the above.

4. Comment by Matt

   Communion. Why is it so central for some people? To me it’s important, but it it really is only a reminder of what Christ did for me. Awesome yes, but still only a reminder. Is there something I am missing?

5. Comment by Mimi

   To Matt,
   In the Catholic Faith communion is more than a reminder of Christs Death and Resurrection. It is the TRUE Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. His Body, Blood Soul and Divinity, are found in the Eucharist,(communion). The TRUE LIVING PRESENCE. If you want to see it from a Catholic point of view, you can google Eucharistic Miracles and will see some of the amazing things the Lord has done to show us HIS LIVING PRESENCE in the Eucharist. That is why Communion is central to my faith as a Catholic. I hope I was able to help some. Mimi
   “”Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is real food, and my blood is real drink. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me. This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever” (John 6:53–58).”

6. Comment by Robert

   Here are a few issues I’d like to see covered on the site.

   1. The issue of whether or not a Christian should join a political party.
   2. Whether a Christian should take part in a legal strike to achieve or improve rights at work.
   3. How we should view different forms of government such as monarchy, republic, etc.

   I know that none of these issues affect my relationship with God, but it would be interesting to see how I should approach such topics.

7. Comment by Bruce

   how to succumb to God all the way .we knowing his thin line of either giving all or sitting on the fence with Satan throwing every kind of temptation in our mortal eyes. its rough ,its tough ,and unseemingly impossible . but knowing our savior All things are possible

8. Comment by ceseeley

   Robert, Bruce and All;

   Robert and Bruce, taking Romans 12:1-2 seriously in your lives, learning to “Walk in the Spirit” and every thing that you say, do and everywhere that you go should be for God’s Glory, will help a lot to answer your questions in Comments #6 & #7! Also, waiting for the Lord’s guidance through faith and letting Him lead and we follow like Scripture says in Psalm 27:14:

   Psa 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

9. Comment by Corey

   I have just discovered this fantastic website and am very pleased to see how comprehensively you are doing God’s work. I would like to see articles discussing:

   - Whether or not movements such as The Conservative Bible Project are harmful or beneficial to the Christian faith

   - The issue of marital “rape”, and the Biblical attitude to rape in general

   - How to combat the heliocentric model of the Earth that is being promoted by secular scientists in defiance of God’s word. It is shocking to consider how many professing “Christians” are willing to accept Galileo’s lie that thet Earth revolves around the sun

   - How to peacefully protest organisations that are against Biblical principles (abortion clinics, “gay” bars, battered women’s shelters etc) while coming across as godly rather than extremist

   These are the prime topics that come to my mind, but I look forward to hearing other suggestions!

   Christ be with you,
   Corey

10. Comment by Anonymous

    How are we as Christians, view famous persons, Hollywood, pageants and who in the “lime light” Who clam to believers, their actions their attire show quite the contrary.

11. Comment by Robert

    To ceseeley

    I shall reflect on your post and read those passages whilst pondering the questions I raised. Thank you.

12. Comment by Douglas Summers

    Hi,

    The purpose of the Church…The “Full Gospel”. I have not seen anyone comment on The “Full Gospel” yet? “Got Questions” has most of the Doctrines…with some errors, But no one has set it forth in it’s order and purpose…If you know it….start teaching it.

    In Christ
    Doug

13. Comment by Matt

    “How to combat the heliocentric model of the Earth that is being promoted by secular scientists in defiance of God’s word. It is shocking to consider how many professing “Christians” are willing to accept Galileo’s lie that thet Earth revolves around the sun.”

    No offence buddy, but this is an *observable* fact. I suggest that you read up on the issue and when you do you’ll find out that the whole issue was about a new science overtaking an old science, namely the mathetmatical Coopernican science and the Greek-based Aristotelian science which had become church tradition. Unable to defeat Galileo with academic arguments, they turned to church politics to silence him by claiming that his theory was against what the Bible said. Many of the verses put forward by those same academics at the time (for example, the sun rising) but all of those are merely the language of appearance.

    What the church did was to take the science of the day and try to distort Scripture to match (e.g. verses like Psalm 19:6 and 93:1 clearly meant to be poetic expressions were given literal meaning). Then Galileo comes along and says “Hey!” and gets them in trouble with his discovery of the motion of four of Jupiter’s moons and his observations of the phases of Venus that was only explainable by heliocentrism.

    Galileo was also a man of faith as well as a man of science. He, and many Protestants, saw no contradiction between heliocentrism and the Bible; in fact Galileo quoted Job 9:6 and cites the Commentary on Job (1584) by Didacus a Stunica which concluded that the mobility of the earth is not contrary to Scripture. Today, this has been proven by observation.

    Galileo just had the bad fortune of coming at a time of political instability/volatity (with the Reformation just happened) and facing an entrentched and conservative intellectual system that had been accepted for centuries with individuals in the universities who were not at all willing to havetheir jobs and professional reputations challenged, let alone by a mathematican, and who were willing to play dirty to silence him.

    If there is one lesson that we must learn from that incident it is that the church should not distort the Scripture to match whatever the science of the day says. We should also not be so ignorant as to ignore what is an observable and undisputable fact. For example, we can observe the orbits of the planets and moons in our solar system, and they do not orbit the Earth, we see them (and us) orbiting the sun. It is foolishness and an embarrassment to the church to argue otherwise, and counter-productive to the cause of Christ.

    I’ll leave you with the words of St. Augstine on relating true reason to Scriptural truth:

    “If anyone shall set the authority of Holy Writ against clear and manifest reason, he who does this knows not what he has undertaken; for he opposes to the truth not the meaning of the Bible, which is beyond his comprehension, but rather his own interpretation; not what is in the Bible, but what he has found in himself and imagines to be there.”

    Peace.

14. Comment by catherine

    Wow, Douglas, I love your style!

15. Comment by Grace

    thankfully this does not pretain to me or anyone i know, but i have always wondered…..

    Jesus (Yeshua) says in Matthew’s Gospel that if a man divorces his wife or allows his wife to divorce for any reason other than adultery, he is allowing her to commit adultery with the next man she is with.

    what about cases of marital abuse? if a woman is being beaten or abused by her husband, should she have the right to dissolve the marriage? if a husband is being taken advantage of or abused by his wife, should he have the right to divorce her? or is divorce only permissable in the case of adultery?

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