John Yurich USA wrote:
It is false to state that the Catholic Church supports homosexuality. The teaching of the Catholic Church is that homosexuality is sinful and an abomination.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
The Taser. Now I know a few British don't want to see their police force armed with more of these, but I would certainly like to see more American police have these available.

Concerned wrote:
I hope I didn't make you feel bad. I do enjoy your reasoning and arguments on some topics.
For the record, a few of the men have changed their handles when attacking as well, but oddly, their IP's are anonymized or spoofed. Makes one wonder...
Looking forward to reading your always interesting and sometimes intriguing posts. We need the balance that comes from the female points of view.
: )

Concerned wrote:
Noname writes:
Is Fetter your real name? Don't post under any other name it's not allowed on this site
Get off this site Phoebe

KJB Believer wrote:
"come out of her"

Angela Wittman wrote:
We need to be more careful when judging whether others are saved or not... We can't read hearts or minds. But I do believe that a Christian will seek the truth and sometimes he/she will have to leave a church in order to find it.

Unprofitable Servant wrote:
The church is not a public forum for any and all to express their beliefs. I would find it hard to believe that an atheist group would allow a Christian to come in to their meeting and preach either.

Think of it like this: Christians talk of free speech as being a God given right - is this correct?
However AT CHURCH Christian's don't demand the same rights.

Where the 'atheist' came in was where I said: I wonder if atheists have noticed?

That is, the atheists outside the church who hear Christian's demanding their God given right to free-speech in the world.
And then I said: Doublestandards.

John UK wrote:
Both are beneficial, Phoebe.
John said:
Matthew 3:11 KJV
11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

John UK wrote:
You speak in riddles woman. Why do you never say what you mean and mean what you say?
If you have a defective view of the atonement (which you have), it becomes all of us on this site to assist you and preach to you the gospel of God, which is Jesus Christ as a propitiatory and substitutionary sacrifice of atonement, where he took in his own body the wrath of God due unto sinners.

John UK wrote:
Good evening Phoebe
No I don't speak Maori, nor have I ever been to the South Pacific, much as I would love to. But I was merely trying to obey the following scriptures....
1 Corinthians 9:20-22 KJV
20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
Sure, I have failed. But surely it is better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all?
I went to all the trouble of looking up Maori dictionaries, and tried to evaluate what you were saying. Ah well.

John UK wrote:
1. No charge intended nor made; you must have made that up.
2. Oh dear. What then? We cannot obey the Bible in case we make mistakes, being fallible and all.
3a. No, of course not. The welfare state does, and makes a right mess of it.
3b. In my wisdom, I went out fishing for bass twice last week. I hoped to get a fish big enough for a local (unsaved) family who are living on scraps, one for my Bible teacher who I cannot support with cash as I have very little, and the third (if I was lucky) for myself.

Neil wrote:
But you haven't defined "poor," either. If it's such child's play to answer my question, then find one & get back to me with his answer. Or better yet, find several. Then it'll be fun trying to reconcile their replies.
rhymnrzn, I have to wonder if you actually understood my question. I wasn't asking for another sermon, I was asking for a specific answer. What is "rich?" What are "much goods"?

Unprofitable Servant wrote:
I apologize for my ignorance I don't have a clue from where you are coming. Anything we have been blessed with is due to the graciousness of our God in whose hand are all our ways. Your previous post, unless I did not understand it either, implied that Christians limit the speech of atheist and pagans in the church but hypocritically demand to use their constitutional right to the same in the world. You are comparing apples to oranges, the analogy does not work.I used the word right because you used the word in your post. The church is not a public forum for any and all to express their beliefs.