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Not all Christianity. Some of us are out here trying to help our fellow church members get through the shut down without SNAP. I asked AI about the $100; The actual number of meals or children a smaller amount like $100 can feed varies significantly based on the local cost of food and the...

Point of clarification, “Trump steaks” are made by Trump or made out of Trump?

Bazinga.

What he said IS true. The question is, how? What is the administration doing to actually promote that?

Had a discussion with some Pentecostal pastors once about death and dying. There is a serious misunderstanding of death and disease in lay culture. People don’t “just die.” All death is an expression of disease. Even “dying of old age” is an accumulation of disease through one’s lifetime until...

You can also lower your healthcare costs by dying.

There isn't going to be a single, straight forward answer to "what must you do to be saved?" But the best and simplest answer I can give you is the "Roman Road to Salvation", because it is the most widely accepted among Christian denominations: Recognize sin: All have sinned and fall short of...

None of us can actually know that. It is a matter of faith. We are to live as if we are assured that it is true. But it is something that we cannot actually know. Hebrews 11:1-2 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. 2 For by it the men of old gained...

A does not equal B. B is not a subset of or a component of A. A does not require B. Your logic is flawed.

One of the things that happened while I was on the evangelical campus was I started studying bioethics, and part of the studies were philosophical, especially epidemiology, how do we know what we know and what is the nature of truth. This has had pretty direct spiritual implications for me, it...

We wrote almost the same thing at the same time.

Belief in the imminent return does not ergo equate to rapture. The early church believing they were living during the tribulation does not ergo equate to rapture. The persecution of the early church was in fact the very reason for the apocalypse that was written by John of Patmos, to encourage...

From your first source: "Dispensational ideas like a "secret" rapture and significant gap in time between the rapture and final judgment are not expressed by the church fathers." Right, because it is a 19th century invention.