The I Chong

I've always been partial to The Most High

I haven't been able to find anything in the bible that explains it.

A California appeals court recently ruled that private religious high schools can expel students if they are believed to be lesbian...or anything else that they don't like. What makes religious organizations exempt from civil rights laws? Why is it acceptable for Christians to be bigots?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2...

I've always found the story of Job to be heartbreaking in a sense: God's loyal servant is tortured over and over to prove a point to Satan. And why would God care about Satan's doubts? The story ends with Job having twice the bounty and twice the children--but he still lost his whole family. A new family doesn't heal the pain he went through. Why was this seen as necessary by God?

Genesis is very specific about the first 6 days, but it simply says He rested on the 7th. God? Resting? What does this mean?

How can that knowledge enable you? Why does it matter?

As a friend of mine once told me, "Even if you see a fellow Muslim walking out of the bar, not for one second are you to assume that he drank a drop."

Is it possible to refrain from judgment when one believes we are born into sin? Aren't all people then judged to be sinners by nature?

How do I know if the situation I'm in is simply circumstantial, or a test from God?

Do you measure others by your standards, or by theirs?

Matthew 6: 5-6

5And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

6But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

When I read this earlier it made me sad.

2 Corinthians 6

14Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? 15What harmony is there between Christ and Belial[b]? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?

Does this imply all personal relationships where one might become 'yoked together' (I assume this means emotionally attached as well as financially) with a non-believer are off limits?

Even if humans aren't to blame for the temperature rising, what would it hurt for us to lessen our impact on the earth?

Seems to me that being normal would be pretty weird, man.