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The topic is arming teachers. So I ask why not arm students also of legal gun owning age?
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Shouldn't everyone including students have the right to bear arms under law?
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If a teacher is a first responder, what becomes more important? Shooting it out or herding the class to safety?
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Isn't arming teachers placing all in harm's way as the primary target? Even if only few might be armed?
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If the Apostles were to teach us to observe all that Christ commanded them, yes. We are to go into all the world preaching, baptizing and teaching. But each according to their gift. With the Internet, even what we say in this forum can be heard b…
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As a Christian I've been alienated from many churches because of their political agendas. Billy Graham said: “If I had to do it over again, I would also avoid any semblance of involvement in partisan politics. An evangelist is called to do one th…
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I think there are several reasons why there are so few Christians in Japan. We know from Acts that God directs the gospel to certain people and withholds it from others.
“They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been pr…
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What do you think I meant?
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You've never been persecuted as a Christian?
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Kamikaze teachers. This beats everything so far.....
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. One thing that helps me love enemies and to pity them as they afflict me, is that they are victims too. Knowing God is behind all that they do working it for their bad, just as he works it for …
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Thanks for the several flicks about N. Korea. They are a real eye opener. I see similarities in America where groups use fear to rally the masses. And nothing unites like a common enemy. I always question those using fear to rally and manipulate …
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This perfectly illustrates what the bible teaches about not judging others by our own hearts, in which case we condemn ourselves. Thinking of others, "that's what I'd do if I were in their shoes." But instead judging others only by the fruits the…
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“So the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.You are to speak everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh that he must release the Israelites…
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What does it mean to be created in the image of God?
This is an excerpt from questions and answers based on Michael Heiser's "Unseen Realm". Available in Logos, or Hard Copy & Kindle. It is an excellent book if you are inte…
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All of these have too much to do already. And the older they get, too much to lose by getting shot up.
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I think we are straying off topic. Maybe we should begin a new thread?
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Thanks for the question about God's part in the violence we see. I do not think God has a "permissive will". Simply because nothing exists or moves of its own accord. Paul says "for in him, we live and move and have our being." "Permissive will" …
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I would reinstitute the draft (with conscientious objector privileges) and make policing public schools part of the military. The draft would insure randomness and indifference in those doing the policing. And the draftees would be primarily sing…
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Thanks Charles, I offer a third view concerning glossolalia that seems more in line with Corinthians (possibly a new topic). Have you considered that the Apostles spoke in one heavenly language on the day of Pentecost? But each of the …
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In scripture we can judge people by their works, but not by their motives which only God knows.
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Thanks for catching this apparent contradiction. But I always said God and people freely act according to their nature and are not free to act apart from it.
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This is interesting. Listening to her, I wonder if business tycoons like Trump and Japanese contemporaries will turn the world away from the military industrial complex towards a new business industrial complex?
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It takes great strength and courage to live the Sermon. But weakness is not the unpardonable sin.
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The Sermon on the Mount did me well over the years. And I hope if God ever puts me to the supreme test of non violence, he will give me the grace to remain faithful.
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Based on the text alone, it's about God introducing division into the human race so people cannot unify and accomplish things as great as unity would provide.
God punished Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu for offering what He had n…
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I hope this is not off topic. I'm presenting it as a solution to the entire NRA gun debate.
I notice some recent school construction of buildings designed similar to prisons, where you have a complete view of all corridors from one vantag…
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I believe God created Adam as a sovereign ruler over creation. In God's image 6754. צֶלֶם tselem, tseh´-lem; from an unused root mean. to shade; a phantom, i.e. (fig.) illusion, resemblance; hence a representative figure, espec. an id…
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Thanks for the link. But I think it comes down to a matter of conscience. It would bother some not to use violence to meet violence. And others it would bother the conscience to use violence. I've held both positions based on my understanding of …
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This scripture hits me on different levels. But I think in the forefront I believe God created Adam in His image as a sovereign with a free will.
