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Ebia and Forrest:
The only ones banned would be those who obviously are not christians, they would reveal themselves by:
1. Blasphemous remarks/rants
2. Constantly refering to the Bible as "That stupid book" or "That old useless book"
3. Plainly saying they are not christian.

The goal is a forum where christians can interact without constantly being mocked for their faith.

 
    Homie:
   So you consider Jahovahs Witnesses which claim that the Trinity does not exsist, which goes agenst the sites statment of faith.
http://forums.christiansunite.com/index.php?board=23;action=display;threadid=3569
 
   As for Mormons "Curch of Later Day Saints" to be Christian?
   As for not useing objectionable words we've had as much from "Christians" as Nonchristians talk to some of the old hands from before the crash we had, ask them about Bill/Friends. He was worse than any Atheist.

     2. The ADMIN wants this site to be used when posable as a Witnessing tool, and it has been, and is still.

   A: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
C: Thanks. I'm setting up an office in my den, and I'm thinking about buying a computer.

A: Mac?
C: No, the names Lou.

A: Your computer?
C: I don't own a computer. I want to buy one.

A: Mac?
C: I told you, my names Lou.

A: What about Windows?
C: Why? Will it get stuffy in here?

A: Do you want a computer with Windows?
C: I don't know. What will I see when I look in
the windows?

A: Wallpaper.
C: Never mind the windows. I need a computer and software.

A: Software for Windows?
C: No. On the computer! I need something I can use to write proposals, track expenses and run my business. What have you got?

A: Office.
C: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything?

A: I just did.
C: You just did what?

A: Recommend something.
C: You recommended something?

A: Yes.
C: For my office?

A: Yes
C: OK, what did you recommend for my office?

A: Office.
C: Yes, for my office!

A: I recommend Office with Windows.
C: I already have an office and it has windows! OK, let's just say, I'm sitting at my computer and I want to type a proposal. What do I need?

A: Word.
C: What word?

A: Word in Office.
C: The only word in office is office.

A: The Word in Office for Windows.
C: Which word in office for windows?

A: The Word you get when you click the blue w.
C: I'm going to click your blue w if you don't start with some straight answers. OK, forget that. Can I watch movies on the Internet?

A: Yes, you want RealOne.
C: Maybe a real one, maybe a cartoon. What I watch is none of your business. Just tell me what I need!

A: RealOne.
C: If it's a long movie, I also want to see reels 2, 3 & 4. Can I watch them?

A: Of course.
C: Great, with what?

A: RealOne.
C: OK, I'm at my computer and I want to watch a movie. What do Ido?

A: You click the blue 1.
C: I click the blue one what?

A: The blue 1.
C: Is that different from the blue w?

A: The blue 1 is RealOne and the blue w is Word.
C: What word?

A: The Word in Office for Windows.
C: But there's three words in office for windows!

A: No, just one. But it's the most popular Word in
the world.
C: It is?

A: Yes, but to be fair, there aren't many other Words left. It pretty much wiped out all the other Words out there.
C: And that word is real one?

A: RealOne has nothing to do with Word. RealOne isn't even part of Office.
C: Stop! Don't start that again. What about financial bookkeeping? You have anything I can track my money with?

A: Money.
C: That's right. What do you have?

A: Money.
C: I need money to track my money?

A: It comes bundled with your computer.
C: What's bundled to my computer?

A: Money.
C: Money comes with my computer?

A: Yes. No extra charge.
C: I get a bundle of money with my computer? How much?

A: One copy.
C: Isn't it illegal to copy money?

A: Microsoft gave us a license to copy Money.
C: They can give you a license to copy money?

A: Why not, they own it.  

How, exactly, do you propose to define Christian, and find out who does and who doesn't meet that definition?

         Ebia:
      I know I don't agree with you much but on we agree. There are many definitions for Christian.
           
                 1. Curch membership.
                 2.  Jehovahs witnesses say they are the only Christians.
                 3. Mormons claim to be Christian.
                 4. Than what about the ones that claim that just because they live in the US that makes them Christian, and yes there are ones that belive that.

            The list could go on.

   Me

   
    I picked Iced tea, I albo like Water, coffee hot or Iced.

Subject: The Price of Children


The Price of Children - I have repeatedly seen the breakdown of the cost of raising a child, but this is the first time I have seen the rewards listed this way.

The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140 for a middle income family.   Talk about sticker shock!  That doesn't even touch college tuition.

But $160,140 isn't so bad if you break it down.   It translates into $8,896.66 a year, $741.38 a month, or $171.08 a week.

That's a mere $24.24 a day!  Just over a dollar an hour.

Still, you might think the best financial advice is don't have children if you want to be "rich." Actually, it is just the opposite.  What do you get for your $160,140?

a..  Naming rights.  First, middle, and last!
b..  Glimpses of God every day.
c..  Giggles under the covers every night.
d..  More love than your heart can hold.
e..  Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs.
f..  Endless wonder over rocks, ants, clouds, and warm cookies.
g.. A hand to hold, usually covered with jelly or chocolate.
h..  A partner for blowing bubbles, flying kites, building sandcastles, and skipping down the sidewalk in the pouring rain.
i..  Someone to laugh yourself silly with, no matter what the boss said or how your stocks performed that day.
j..  For $160,140, you never have to grow up.
k..  You get to finger-paint, carve pumpkins, play hide-and-seek, catch lightning bugs, and never stop believing in Santa Claus.
l..  You have an excuse to keep reading the Adventures of Piglet and Pooh, watching Saturday morning cartoons, going to Disney movies, and wishing on stars.
m.. You get to frame rainbows, hearts, and flowers under refrigerator magnets and collect spray painted noodle wreaths for Christmas, hand prints set in clay for Mother's Day, and cards with backward letters for Father's Day.
n..  For $160,140, there is no greater bang for your buck.  You get to be a hero just for retrieving a Frisbee off the garage roof, taking the training wheels off a bike, removing a splinter, filling a wading pool, coaxing a wad of gum out of bangs, and coaching a baseball team that never wins but always gets treated to ice cream regardless.
o.. You get a front row seat to history to witness the first step, first word, first bra, first date, and first time behind the wheel.
p..  You get to be immortal.
q..  You get another branch added to your family tree, and if you're lucky, a long list of limbs in your obituary called grandchildren and great grandchildren.
r..  You get an education in psychology, nursing, criminal justice, communications, and human sexuality that no college can match.
s..  In the eyes of a child, you rank right up there under God.  You have all the power to heal a boo-boo, scare away the monsters under the bed, patch a broken heart, police a slumber party, ground them forever, and love them without limits, so .      one day they will, like you, love without counting the cost.

That is quite a deal for the price!!!!!!!!!  Love & enjoy your children & grandchildren!!!!!!!!!!

  Have fun posting, and remember the TOS.

WHAT IS SYMBOLIC ABOUT RENEWING YOUR YOUTH LIKE AN
EAGLE...  HOW DOES AN EAGLE RENEW ITS YOUTH ...  HOW DOES
THAT PERTAIN TO US?

 

HOW DOES AN EAGLE RENEW ITS YOUTH ...

      It does not, remember they are talking symbolism,and early belives, "Orientals, Israelites, and early Christians believed eagles were able to restore their own youth every ten years by flying into the sun and then, after their wings had caught fire, diving three times into the water of the sea or a fountain. David made this eagle legend a symbol of the renewal of those who wait upon the LORD, and early Christians saw it as an analogy of the new life received in baptism (Isa 40:31; Psa 103:5)"  Again Its just Symbolism.
Others may be able to explain it better. I hope I helped

    Marryann:
    I cheacked out the page,and the site many things raise flags of caution, I could find no statment of faith, from what I was able to gather the site deels with BESTIARIES, SYMBOLISM, AND SIMILITUDES,  bestiary I did not know so looked up here is what I came up with.

"bestiary" Britannica Concise Encyclopedia  from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
<http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article?eu=382466>
[Accessed June 7, 2004].
     
Medieval European work in verse or prose, often illustrated, consisting of a collection of stories, each based on a description of certain qualities of the subject, usually an animal or a plant.

The stories were allegories, used for moral and religious instruction and admonition. They ultimately were derived from the Greek Physiologus, a text compiled by an unknown author before the mid 2nd century AD. Many traditional attributes of real or mythical creatures derive from bestiaries, such as the phoenix's burning itself to be born again and the parental love of the pelican, which, believed to feed its young by gashing its own breast, became a symbol of Christ.


     I won't say that it's cult based just remember it's symbolism, and allegories.
 Copied from, Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

     Main Entry: al·le·go·ry
Pronunciation: 'a-l&-"gOr-E, -"gor-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ries
Etymology: Middle English allegorie, from Latin allegoria, from Greek allEgoria, from allEgorein to speak figuratively, from allos other + -Egorein to speak publicly, from agora assembly -- more at ELSE, AGORA
1 : the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence; also : an instance (as in a story or painting) of such expression
2 : a symbolic representation

   Marryann:
   It sounds like you may have ended up on a cult site do you have the addy?

WHAT IS SYMBOLIC ABOUT RENEWING YOUR YOUTH LIKE AN
EAGLE...  HOW DOES AN EAGLE RENEW ITS YOUTH ...  HOW DOES
THAT PERTAIN TO US?

    It's been awhile. Welcome back.
   Is there any bible scripture that you got this from, or what?

Right, i'm actually not a child. And you all seem to say that God wants you to be happy and all that great stuff, yet you can't love who you want because they don't share the same views as you do? Just because they don't believe in everything you do doesn't mean that they are a bad person and shouldn't be allowed to love. I think you people should get your damn noses out of that bible and use your own minds for once. Doing everything some book says just because you are all brainwashed morons and can't decide things on your own isn't really the way to go through life. Since you only live once you should do what makes you happy, and not what some book tells you to do. I think if Hariko loves this person then she should stay with him no matter what he believes. It's people like you that are causing so much hate in this world. Shame on you =P

Right, i'm actually not a child. And you all seem to say that God wants you to be happy and all that great stuff, yet you can't love who you want because they don't share the same views as you do? Just because they don't believe in everything you do doesn't mean that they are a bad person and shouldn't be allowed to love.

I didn't say GOD wanted us happy you did. We never said that all nonChristians are bad.

I think you people should get your damn noses out of that bible and use your own minds for once. Doing everything some book says just because you are all brainwashed morons and can't decide things on your own isn't really the way to go through life

     As you know we are Christians here, not as many who use the name but do not live the life, we also live our lives by the Bible, if not we would be like the rest of the world, and you wouldn't bother with us. We prove that Satin is a lie,and that is what bothers you most.

Since you only live once you should do what makes you happy, and not what some book tells you to do.

   I'm now going to answer you with the Bible.                    
   MT 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell
REV 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
REV 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
     This life here on Earth is not all there is.

I think if Hariko loves this person then she should stay with him no matter what he believes.

    Hariko came here for Christian Counsel not nonchristian.
   

It's people like you that are causing so much hate in this world. Shame on you =P

MT 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
    How do you figure we are the ones causing hate? You are the one that is saying the hatefull things. Its just as Jesus said.
JN 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.
JN 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
MK 13:13 And ye shall be hated of all [men] for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.