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“Yeah, I missed that memo about how I wasn’t entitled to an opinion”

humblegunner, humblegunner..... you should of come out of the box by now! Yes...sigh...you can have an opinion, but remember, we need to base our opinions on something tangible...like facts.
There was this time in history when everyone believed the world was flat. Now, since we know the world is round, we don’t have to debate this anymore! See how that works? Same thing with your opinions. Once someone showing you facts and logic prove your opinions to be bogus, (1)you can say “yea-that does makes sense”, or, (2)you can be like the robin in the spring that keeps pecking the window. Don’t be the robin!

Teachers spend more time with students than their parents. If you don’t have the heart to teach, the students results will not be changed by merely money. Kids always know what’s real and what’s not.

You’re right, parents are stupid!! How arrogant of them to even think they know anything. When more than half of your classes are on classroom management and teaching methods, Don’t you even stop to think about the way education is going?? Think outside the box your in, my friend.

Economics is an elective?? or even offered? The Declaration of Independence is not memorized?? I could go on and on, but let this suffice; You’ve successfully taken the work out of school and replaced it with entertainment, leading to the current demise of the greatest nation on earth.

Angels gave glory to God in the highest, Simion and Anna had waited for the day. The “fulness of time had come- yet one clear directive from our Lord Jesus Christ, “This do in remembrance of me.”

Perhaps the “anti-Christmas spirit” is an attempt to place the emphasis on why Christ has come, or to guard the antithesis between the world and the bride of Christ.

Sad to say it may even be (hopefully not) an arrogant, self serving pride to be different.

Maybe this would be the top of the fence...On Christmas-lets rejoice that Christ has come, give thanks for what he has done, and look to the heavens for Him to return.

Thank you for the article- Blessings on Christmas to you

Well, considering that God killed the first animals for skins to clothe Adam and Eve, and there will be the new heavens and the new earth, humans will no doubt still have the responsibility to subdue the earth. Killing an animal isn’t sin or God wouldn’t have done it. Therefore, pack your bow!

liscences= liscenses
resterants= restaurants
accross=across

maybe someone needs a edjumacation in mitchegon

There you did it. You really need to understand Detroit. where do I start? A muslim call to prayer in some districts? Or the # on welfare, unemployment, or working for the federal Gov’t? If we only could dig a trench around detroit and give it to Canada, Michigan, aside from da yoopers would be one of the reddest states on a political map. Two counties from me, the last election, constituents voted 96% conservative! Second in the nation for inland lakes, second for # of Bow liscences, almost more churches than resterants, need I say more? Employment isn’t the greatest right now, but once the medical field is established, prosperity again. I may be disqualified to really know what’s out there seeing when I take my vacation, I stay in my home state, but with church and friends accross town, hunting out the back door, fishing just down the street, and work, I’m not going anywhere!

Maybe a little peed of at the attitude that someone is more sucessful than me, so I’m unhappy and they should share their money with me. Most buisnesses have started taking huge risks and hard work. I just hate the whining from the - I’ve worked fourty years loading semi’s with a hi-lo at $30 per hour, with benefits, three months of paid vacations and the world owes me everything mentality. No concept of starting a buisness, running a buisness, expanding a buisness.
I don’t care for the global market, especially with Americans standard of living. That’s really in jeopardy, we need a way to protect it, but its not slamming a company or the one who started it.

Bill Gates is not the evil one here, people!!! You talk the talk of complete socialists. Bill Gates has “way to much money, he wants to make more money, so penalize him!!!” Is this not the very freedom we all enjoy in this country? I am a firm believer in capitalism, hate greed, but c’mon, trade agreements, real education instead of 25million dollar football fields, tax incentives, etc... would probably be something to talk about instead of smashing microsoft or Bill Gates personally- since you’re smashing at American ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness..... or does it read- life, liberty, and the pursuit of Bill Gate’s money?

You know, the people that have to see terminal pain and suffering really comment the least seing how “you don’t really know how you will think until it faces you.” My dad is paralyzed from the neck down, and hooked to a ventilator. He was “supposed to die” three times. The last time was close to a year ago, and since then, I have enjoyed talks(him also) that never would have happened had he been “normal”.

I had my dad begging me to unplug the venilator(didn’t know if it was him, or the drugs). I didn’t do it, having the same conviction as you, and the family did agree to stop all extra procedures - God obviously didn’t want him to die, and he recovered from his lungs full of fluid. These matters are diffucult ones to face even if you are fully convinced when you are well. But, I still believe we should sustain our lives as long as it is feasable. Life is a precious gift, and should not be viewed along the thought processes of “quality of life, productive member of society, etc..”

and... for the record of those who don’t believe in talking while on a trache, its called letting the cuff down.

Long past by may be true, but you forgot the phrase will exist to all eternity in the life to come. good night

Can species alter and adapt to their enviroment? absolutly.
The real problem behind all this debate, is that rational, finite man attempts to explain things clearly seen (Romans 1)without an infinite, eternal God who has created all things for His glory. He is not bound to our “discoveries”, He has created them. Let’s let God’s Word be true in all parts of our lives, and live out this understanding. This is the proper way to view all things.

The second I hit post, I knew what was coming! The problem with that, is that the Creation accounts are written very clearly grammatically. Simply the evening and the morning was the first day and so on. Your belief in the intepetation of Scripture must 1. be to let Scripture interpet Scripture. All things must be viewed through the lens of Scripture. Science will not save us, nor has it addressed social problems. God created, because He said He created.

Obviously not to be taken literally. Intended meaning- to shrug off the contents as unquestionally binding, absolute truth- bearing on all men universally- then it is no longer the Bible.

If my belief is -one word in the Scriptures is not God breathed, then I become God-I have written my own Bible.

I understand all the development and translations which took place in church history. I also don’t take all things in the Bible (Old and New) as literally. (Jesus said “I am the door”)
However, the Old Testement does contain deep truths of God, historical facts, examples for us etc..... and cannot be shrugged off as a burden.
That being said, “We see through a glass darkly, but then face to face”. have a good night.

Sorry, my computer is archaic! I can’t respond any faster. Perhaps you could dictate a moral law then, since God’s is obsolete.

As for the difference between the koran and the scriptures, the cross (a symbol of God the Son dying for His people) and the man on a white horse with a sword(believe in what I say or die) would be a start.

If believing in the infallibility of the Scriptures, repenting and believing is wrong in the end, I won’t have lost much. However, if unbelief is wrong in the end, then all is lost.

I apologize if I have offended you, truly. It is not my intent. I do believe in a strict literal interpetation as it refers to grammar. Such as word structure, word meanings, sentence structure, metaphors, hyperbolies etc. The translations are not inerrant, but they are the best we have. Therefore, it is imperitive that our understanding in english be derived from the language in which the Bible was written, Hebrew and Greek. For example, the word “love” in Greek has seven different meanings, from a eternal love to a brotherly love. I only believe the clearest interpetation of what the Scripture says, and desire to conform my life to that.
As to believing what you want, we cannot fall into the trap of postmodernity which shrugs off absolute truth- You believe what you want, I’ll believe what I want. There must be absolute truth, or there is no distinction between us and animals - survival of the fittest. The Scriptures are clear, God created.

God also said he could raise up children from stones, and in Ezekiel, God breathed into dry bones, but he also said the evening and the morning were the first day, the second day,.....etc.

Also, I find it extremely difficult to extrapolate a 4 billion year old earth and evolution from “with God, all things are possible.”, when He clearly states he created. Don’t use the scriptures for your ideas, take your ideas from the scriptures.

If you do belive in evolution and Jesus as you say, perhaps you would entertain Genesis 1:26 “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness”. Other texts would include Hewbrews 1:2, Colossians 1:16 and others. Now the Bible speaks of Jesus Christ involved in creation. What will you believe?? If you choose to throw out these texts, then you become the author of the Bible. If it is just a reference book, then throw it away, just believe in your self. If you choose to believe, then submit your self to the entirety of scripture, and view all things from an eternal perspective.

Sounds like liberal justice to me. The crimnal then involves the police in a pursuit, smashing into an innocent family's van, sues the old lady for bad brakes on the car he just stole, sues the police department for brutality, and goes to prison for seven years, getting out in four months due to overcrowding and good behavior, back at the same wealty community to steal another elderly person's car.

Shoot'em Grandma!!

Justice is not going to a place where you recieve more benefits than middle-class Americans. I've worked at a meat plant packaging steaks, yes steaks, for prisons. They can get a collage education, play cards, go to the library, weightroom, play sports, all on my tab??? while I work for my food??