Hello,

I've been a Christian since 1979.  I was taught about the LORD by my mother (God rest her soul) when I was a very wee boy (you'll gather I'm Scottish!).

 i've got cataracts in both eyes and nystagmus in the left.  Thank goodness I live in a country where I don't have to pay to go into hospital!  For this reason, the only Bible I could read when I was small was our next-door neighbours' one.  It was their family Bible, and it was a great joy to me to read about Abraham, Moses, David et.al.

I'll tell you more about myself when I get some replies.

Gabriel, WELCOME to CU!!

What part of Scotland are you from?  That has to be one of the most picturesque countries anywhere.  I'd love to go back for another visit!

Again, WELCOME!  Sounds as if you had a wonderful mother!  I'm sorry about your cataracts!  

Pat

Hi Patzt,

I live just outside Edinburgh in a little village called Newtongrange.  Newtongrange was one of the many coal mining towns in the area but now the old colliery has become the Royal Scottish Mining Museum.

My mother was one of God's saints - and a suffering one.  She had appalling ill health - asthma, pernicious anaemia and (at the end of her life on Earth) Coeliac's disease.  But she had a great sense of humour.  She taught me that a sense of humour was a sense of balance.  I've found that, if I can laugh at myself, it's half the battle.

I LOVE swimming!  Because of my bad eyesight I can get into my local swimming pool free of charge.  I don't know if you swim Pat, but if you do it's lovely in the water isn't it?  People like myself who have a disability feel lovely and free when they're swimming.

  Love in Christ.

2nd Timothy,

It's a sick and evil world that we live in, and it's getting worse by the minute. Many public schools have already banned Christmas Carols and plays. A nativity scene would be out of the question. It's also interesting to note that any reference to God or Christ is being removed from all books used in public schools. It's not Thanksgiving, rather a feast day. The examples go on and on.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Psalms 104:34  My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.

Let us remind ourselves about what the Christmas message is about.  It's about a baby (the most important baby of all) born in a stable because there was no room at the inn.  No Christmas dinner for Mary and Joseph!

I suppose you could say sin is a disease.. we've all got it, and Jesus is the cure.
[I agree./quote]

Replying to blackeyedpeas and sincereheart;

Those who oppose abortion come out with emotional platitutes about arms and legs kicking, etc., in an effort to drum up support among the well-heeled mothers of the middle classes (and those women who, through their own choice, have never had to go through the problems which a black woman in Alabama or, more obviously, Africa have to endure because they have to have child after child.  Such women are in such circumstances, not because of "immorality" (and if we're to take the Bible literally I presume you take Genesis 9:24 literally), but because of economic circumstances brought about by those fortunate enough to be Dives while they are Lazarus.  While we are on the subject of dispensations, let us remember Luke 16:31.

REND YOUR HEARTS AND NOT YOUR GARMENTS!

AMEN BROTHER LOVE AND SINCEREHEART!

We should never forget that life belongs to God, not the woman giving birth.

We should also remember some common facts about abortion that are completely true in the vast majority of cases:

It is murder for convenience sake;

It is murder to avoid responsibility for one's own acts of immorality.

Here's a fact that is true in all cases:

There are physical and/or emotional consequences for all who submit to abortions.

For all of those involved in abortion, IT IS SIN AND WRONG!

There is nothing in the Holy Bible that can be used to justify abortion. In fact, the opposite is true.

There is no comparison between abortion and war. Trying to tie the two together to find some sort of Biblical justification for abortion is completely false.

Love in Christ,
Tom

Psalms 127:1  Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Hello,

I've been a Christian since 1979.  I was taught about the LORD by my mother (God rest her soul) when I was a very wee boy (you'll gather I'm Scottish!).

 i've got cataracts in both eyes and nystagmus in the left.  Thank goodness I live in a country where I don't have to pay to go into hospital!  For this reason, the only Bible I could read when I was small was our next-door neighbours' one.  It was their family Bible, and it was a great joy to me to read about Abraham, Moses, David et.al.

I'll tell you more about myself when I get some replies.

God does not approve of ANY sin, and homosexuality is a sin.

Romans 1:27   And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Let he among you who is without sin cast the first stone

On the subject of abortion;

God has given mankind many great gifts.  Among them is the gift of medical science which has brought untold relief from misery and suffering throughout the world.

The claim that abortion is murder can only be defended by Christians who are also pacifists.  The reason for this is that when millions of Jewish, German and Japanese children (not to mention the Vietnamese) are murdered in war, the "Christian" military will justify it, but when a woman from Harlem or the Bronx tries to control the fertility of her own body "Christian" neocons hold up their hands in horror!

We've moved on from the time when 2 Timothy was written.  The Bible is God's Word, not his Words.  And it was not written upon metaphorical tablets of stone.

IT'S A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE!