craig b

my original thought.

If the Bible is supposed to be the word of God and we're supposed to come to know and understand God through its pages, then how is it that the book of Esther doesn't even mention God in it?

What's the point?

I was married before. My family has our wedding picture up in their own house (A wall full!) which is the entire family.

Now, 15 years later I am remarried and my new wife HATES that picture up and has demanded that my parents take down that picture because it has my ex wife in it.

(She hasn't said that to my parents - only to me)

And I told her that if they want that picture up in their house - it's their picture. My wife will not go to their house until that picture is GONE!

What do you think?

I've seen enough of this as answers with no references.

Care to name a few?

And who was Malcolm I ?

And Malcolm II ?

And Malcolm V ?

or even the VIII, IX

and will there be a XI ?

Here's the deal.

I've pondered this as much as most of you and I've come to this conclusion:

Human beings are as much an animal as the next living animal; bird, mouse, worm......even a tree. We ALL share the commonality of DNA but what makes us humans different is this "thing" called a soul. We ponder our existance. This has nothing to do with our brain. All animals have brains. This reaches out beyond the process of "thinking" and "processing". This reaches out to the issue of SOUL. It is in this that we come to have community with God.

Could it be that as human beings traversed the earth (Cromagnon(sp), Austrolopithicus(sp).....Homo sapiens.......) God finally said "It's time to come into RELATIONSHIP with My Creation and it was these two homo sapiens (Adam and Eve) that were pulled aside and touched by the hand of God to START pondering their existiance? There were hundreds and thousands, perhaps millions living all across the Earth and then.....WHAM! God showed up to bring us into a new condition, a condition not of sex, but of love?

Adam and Eve could have had sex with any number of other human beings that were not "complete" ; having a soul and their children would be as normal human children.

Are we not in the same place today?

We all have the capacity to love one another, but some have chosen to love with a selfless love while others chose to be selfish pigs. One kind of person has found the truth of "soul" while the other could care less. We all have the ability to be either but it is only when God shows up that things are changed.

Opinion?

Scared of something?

Kay just gave a good answer.

Where will Heaven be? "Earth will become heaven."

How can this be as Satan rules the Earth?

or protecting yourself from Ceiling Cat?

I don't think this makes any sense.

continue to try and "save" your child after they died and you buried them?

Why are a woman's feet shorter than a man's ?

So she can get closer to the sink.

someone writes out the most boring and lenghty answer of crapola and all you need to do is vote a "thumbs down" and it just goes away?

Yeah!!!!!!

I've heard of this "retrovee" or "retro vie" or ...............? What is it called anyway? I can't find it without the correct sp?

that Christianity is "not the only way" to God?

I just read this absurd statement and have heard it countless times from Catholics. Where does this theology come from?

To pose the question to all: if you saw Jill's answer about God's Law or man's law - she said that she follows her own law (rules) so then if she wants to rob a bank, kill someone, steal a baby or push someone in front of a train - that would be OK for her IF that's what her rules are?

She's got her own rules.

What's wrong with this picture?

Were walking along with Cain and Able to the east of Eden and Able asked - "Dad? How come we got kicked out of the Garden? "

Adam said - "Your mother ate us out of house and home!"

(needed a break)

We were reading from Psalms yesterday and read in 69:28 - " May they be blotted out of the book of life...."

So King David knew about this book in his time. There is reference to Ex 32:32 where Mosos spoke - " ......I will blot him out of My book.........."

This is the first reference to "the book" in Scripture.

So, where did Moses come up with the concept?

(there are no earlier references)

....by His own hand (Deut 34:6) and no one else - ever?