what do you make of the following parallels?
one God/one Lord
of whom/by whom
we in him/we by him
i'm weak in eschatological historicity - what is the source of the passage? What language was originally used? What are the oldest extant examples? How good is the KJV translation?
The topic has come up a lot lately, i ran across this today and thought it worth starting a new thread
the whole thing is worth listening to, i'll note a few high points
3:19 on education and school choice
you're correct
the definition of conversion is "converting a person who engages in homo sex into a person who does not engage in homo sex"
that's not a "bit differently", that's "a huge amount differently"
i'm sure there are laws that could be applied if a story hour presenter appeared in Nazi regalia, or a klansman's robes and hood, or appeared in the exaggertated persona of a child molester
or blackface
i'm sure there would be ways for a library that wanted to, to dis-invite those they didn't...
if they are pregnant, regardless of age, seeking an abortion - the state has no interest in determining the nature of the sexual encounter that produced the pregnancy, even though the pregnancy itself is irrefutable evidence of the crime
in fact, the abortionist is an accessory after the fact...
New York State (and others) allows post-pubescent girls to consent to sex without investigating the circumstances of their sexual abuse in one very specific situation
do you know what it is?
if you're interested in continuing this, i'll meet you over here: http://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?130302-On-Opinions-Facts-and-the-Dishonest-Use-of-Language&highlight=
not if you don't think about pizza, if you do all you can to avoid pizza
consider:
i used to smoke cigarettes - i was a smoker, i identified as a smoker, i liked smoking, smoking was part of my life and part of my lifestyle
when i quit for good (when my wife was pregnant with our first) i...
you're approaching from the perspective that orientation is fixed, immutable
i'm approaching it from the perspective that orientation is chosen, fluid
in my context, you aren't fasting, you're choosing not to look at pizza ads, not to drive past pizza parlors with your windows down, not to...
logically, does it make any sense not to treat it the same way as homosexuality? Especially considering that the prevalence of pedophilia is estimated to be up to 10x that of homosexuality?
i'm not seeing it
if one chooses to orient himself towards homosexuality and then chooses to orient himself towards celibacy or heterosexuality, how is that not changing their orientation?
ummm - you do realize that the catholic church is a hierarchical structure, right?
they don't just stamp out new priests and fling them willy-nilly into the darkest parts of africa and say "check in in a few years and let us know how you're doing"