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316  Theology / General Theology / Re:Newbie Christian's thoughts/questions on Salvation on: April 24, 2004, 12:28:13 PM
I think Judgenot you have not read what I wrote correctly. I have doubt in the name Christ, not in Jesus the saviour. I also like you know that evolution is impossible without a creator, there is no doubt in my mind whatsoever. You found God in a book, I didn't, I found the lord from a word and he speaks to me in many ways. The word Truth does have a meaning it is God, doesn't it say in the bible about God being the truth, the light and the way. I truly understand this meaning. I have never seen my God and therefore I can not claim to know his name, I can only know him by the word truth, for if I was to say his name was Christ, I would be telling a lie wouldn,t I? I would be guessing his name unless of course I can accept that when the bible was formed man did not make this name up or mess with the teachings.

If I were to know my God by a name it would be Truth for I can not say it is any other. Gods name now has meaning to me. If I were to say my Lords name is not truth it is Christ, what would I be saying? All names have a meaning and there is nothing greater in the word truth is there?




Hi LeeH!
Do you believe that Christ was who He said is was?
Do you believe that He lived a sinless life?
317  Theology / Apologetics / Re:Interacial Marriage on: April 24, 2004, 03:29:18 AM
My husband is German.
I'm Irish and Comanche.
My husband says that he is afraid that if he sets off my Irish temper, I'll scalp him in the middle of the night!
LOL!
He's just kidding. He's actually the one with the temper. I'm usually very passive and always right.  Grin The only time we run into trouble is when he forgets that.  Wink

I see nothing Biblically that would be against interracial marriage.
Wasn't Moses married to a woman of a different race?
318  Welcome / Questions, help, suggestions, and bug reports / Re:Jail on: April 24, 2004, 03:17:49 AM
This thread reminds me of something that happened to me about last summer on a Christian board where I was an administrative moderator.
I didn't know very much about moderating the chat rooms (my speciality was forums) and I had to go in a take care of a trouble maker.
I locked the trouble maker in jail. I had to go into the jail area and explain to him what he did wrong. Unfortunately when I did that, I locked myself in jail too.
I had to ask the one of the other moderators to let me out of jail.
They started threads in my honor teasing me about that one for days!
319  Theology / Prophecy - Current Events / Re:Why Aren't Our Religious Leaders Stronger on: April 24, 2004, 02:43:47 AM
Christians are to be the salt of the earth.
Sins are like wounds.
Salt rubbed on a wound is painful. Salt will also bring healing.
Many Christians don't want to inflict "pain" on someone, even though it will encourage healing.

If people hear the word sin mixed in with words like abortion, homosexuality, adultry, fornication, lying, stealing, cheating, etc. then it will be like rubbing salt on their wounds.
It makes them uncomfortable aka convicted.
Conviction doesn't make for a very seeker friendly church.

Many churches are far more concerned with the size of the congregation than Spiritual maturity of the congregation.  Cry
Therefore, many pastors feel that they need to make sure they are not stepping on toes by speaking out against sin.
They water things down so that the adulterer feels comfortable coming to church while still living the life of sin.

I have a co-worker who is living with her boyfriend.
They attend the largest church in the area.
He is a deacon in that church.
She leads a Bible study for new Christians.  
They also lead one of the youth groups.
They feel no conviction about their lifestyle.

I'll take my small church where the head elder was an adulterer and after counseling he continued in his sin and was removed from his position in the church.

We have our struggles with sins in our church, but at least our pastor and elders aren't afraid to face them head on and deal with them.
320  Theology / Prophecy - Current Events / Re:"Earth Day" on: April 24, 2004, 02:23:30 AM
I'm in favor of doing our part to take care of the earth. Things like conserving, recycling, etc. are great ideas. However, having something like "earth day" is a little too close to encouraging idolatry, imo.
We are to worship the Creator and not His creation.
321  Theology / Debate / Re:minorities rights on: April 21, 2004, 10:58:00 AM
LOL!
322  Theology / Debate / Re:what denomination are you? on: April 21, 2004, 12:16:59 AM
Sure.

It's unfortunate that you care so little about yourself that you can't understand that others care about you.
Even more saddening is that you don't understand how much Christ loves you.
323  Theology / Debate / Re:what denomination are you? on: April 21, 2004, 12:03:07 AM
Just not.

I'm very sorry to hear that.
324  Theology / Debate / Re:Abortion: Right or Wrong? on: April 21, 2004, 12:00:58 AM
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When do you feel life begins?

I have made other posts in this thread on this topic, which you may wish to check out. However I would say, at birth.

When does the medical profession acknowledge that life begins?

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How many women have you talked to who've been through abortions?[/color]

Several. And I can't say I was urging them on to start flaying themselves with guilt for my pleasure.

I don't seek them out or urge them. They seek me out because they need to talk to someone who understands. I think it is rather unkind to refer to working out grief as flaying themselves.
It is not for my pleasure. Many days I wish with all my heart that the Lord did had not placed me in this ministry. However, He did and He did it for a reason.
I am His servant and I will follow His leading, even when He is leading me places I'd rather not go.
325  Theology / Debate / Re:what denomination are you? on: April 20, 2004, 11:51:26 PM
But I do not identify as Christian any longer.

Why not?
326  Theology / Debate / Re:Abortion: Right or Wrong? on: April 20, 2004, 11:38:19 PM
Can't provide a link but can provide references:

Ungodly Women: Gender and the First Wave of American Fundamentalism Betty DeBerg
Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood Kristin Luker
The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics Susan Friend Harding

In 1968 a symposium run by Christianity Today concluded:

"The Christian physician will advise induced abortion only to safeguard greater values sanctioned by Scripture. These values should include individual health, family welfare, and social responsibility."
quoted in Birth Control and the Christian Spitzer & Saylor (1969)

see also Eternity magazine, Feb 1968 issue.

and I Love America, 1978, Jerry Falwell.

If you are very keen on a link, you could try this one but I have not read through it entirely

Following this part of your link I see a lot of references to the Catholic church. I have had many problems accepting much of the Catholic doctrine of today and days gone by.

When do you feel life begins?
How many women have you talked to who've been through abortions?
327  Theology / Debate / Re:Abortion: Right or Wrong? on: April 20, 2004, 10:59:36 PM
Broken - this is news to me.
Can you provide some sort of link for your sources?
The only Christians I've ever known who support abortion are the ones who are about to fall off the left wing tip.
328  Theology / Debate / Re:minorities rights on: April 20, 2004, 10:54:45 PM
When I was 17 my white grandma married an African American man.
I thought it was cool. Not that she was marrying a man of a different skin color, but that she was marrying someone she truly loved.
They advised me and their other grandchildren that it would be best if we married people who were white.
They didn't say that because they were racists. They said that because they knew the hardships we could wind up facing.
Of course, that was 22 years ago and things are improving now in some areas.

Someone asked me a few months ago if I'd allow my children to marry outside of their race.
My answer was "No, my children must marry someone in the human race."  Wink
329  Theology / Debate / Re:Abortion: Right or Wrong? on: April 20, 2004, 08:49:44 AM
I agree that abortion is wrong.
In my experience with post-abortive women and in my husband's experience in leading a jail Bible study, the thing that the lost need most from Christians is companionship.
 
We are to be Christ-like.
Christ did not mince words about what is right and wrong.
He also provided sinners with love and a way out of their sin.
 
I have 3 teens and an 11 year old.
I've taught them the dangers of fornication.
If one of them does commit fornication, I will be there to help them through the healing process, whether that process involves a broken heart, an STD or a pregnancy.

As Christians, we need to show the world who Christ is.
While He is just, He is also full of mercy and grace.
He shows us how much He cares and we need to show the world how much He cares for them too. For many of them, the only way they will know how much He cares is by our actions.
330  Theology / Debate / Re:Abortion: Right or Wrong? on: April 19, 2004, 09:17:06 PM
One in three women will have an abortion before her 45th birthday.
The overwhelming majority will have the abortion out of convenience.

In the summer 1991 I was 26 years old.
I was unmarried and pregnant.
I went to the largest abortion clinic in America.
I had not firmly decided on abortion. I honestly felt that abortion was a woman's choice. I had driven several friends to abortion appointments. I thought I was doing a good thing.

I was divorced.
I had three children.
I had no money.
I had a habit of naming my children before they were born. Without an ultrasound I always got the gender correct.
At the clinic I told them I wasn't sure what to do about "Andrew."
Who's Andrew was the response.
I told them Andrew was what I named the baby.
I was told that I should not name the baby because it could impair clear thinking about the decision I had to make.

I decided that I would talk to the baby's father, even though he had walked out on me.
The clinic advised against talking to him because it should be my decision. Afterall, it was my body.


Less than 72 hours later I walked back into the clinic.
I was drunk from the night before and could not even fake being sober.
I was led to a dark room with a small cot so I could sober up and sleep it off.
I lay there for an hour not being able to stop crying.
Since I did not fall asleep, it was assumed that I was sober enough for the "procedure" to begin.

The nurse came to get me and saw the tear stains.
She asked what was wrong.
I told her that I was having second thoughts.
She held me and hugged me in a motherly way. I thought she really cared about me.
She told me that the amount of drinking I had done the night before had already pretty much killed the fetus- or at least had done enough damage to keep it from having a normal life.

She then led me down the hall to the room where they would perform the abortion.
Due to the remainder of the alcohol in my system and the 3 vicodens I had been given, my body was numb.
I somehow got on the table.
I started to cry again.
The doctor was there by this time.
So was her assistant.
The motherly woman had left.
The assistant asked me what was wrong and I told her that I was hurting.
She looked at my chart and gave me another vicoden. I told her that I was not in physical pain, just my heart was breaking and I didn't think I should do this. She took the vicoden back and gave me a valium.

The doctor and the assitant left and the motherly woman came back in. They wanted to give me time to calm down. I told the woman that I had changed my mind. She informed me that I now had so much drugs in my system that I wasn't thinking clearly about myself or my other 3 children.

I listened to her.
The doctor and assitant came back in.
As they were performing the abortion, they told me how thankful I should be that women like me had fought for this right for so many years.
I sure was lucky to live in a country where I had a choice.
I sure was lucky to live in a time where I had a choice.

I closed my eyes and prayed if there was a God that He'd forgive me for what I was doing.

Last January Andrew would have turned 12 years old.

Recovery was a long painful period which included much drinking and a few attempts to end my life.

God is good and I found out that He is real. I also found out that He did forgive me. I now provide one-on-one counseling to women who are post-abortive. Their stories are filled with pain. Many of them don't realize that Jesus went to the cross for all sins, even the sin of abortion. Many of these women live a life where no one would ever guess they've had pain. They cover it well with "band-aides" because abortion is a choice that we should be thankful to have. Instead it brings much pain.  

Anyone who really loves women, would not support abortion in any way. It only brings pain and destruction to the unborn and their parents.

How blessed we are to have a Saviour who forgives sins and eases burdens!
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