I don't know if there's a book that sums all these contemporary issues up.. but I do know that our church fathers wrote about them seperately. I had to do a school assignment early last year on issues like these.. I'll try find my assignment and per…
if a young woman between the age of 18-25 fell pregnant before marriiage what would her options be if:
what do you mean by options ? She's not allowed to have an abortion if that's what you're asking.. The Coptic Orthodox Church only allows an abor…
Healthy food doesn't have to taste bad.. & Eating junk food itself is not a sin. In sensible ammounts it's fine.. but bingeing on junk food regularly isn't. [For the obvious reasons]
Wow I love little analogies like this.. mine don't always relate to our spiritual lives or nature.. but they usually relate to life.
One that just popped in my head is speed bumps. speedbumps are like our friends.. they might slow us down but they …
thanks forgiven one. :D:D
I didn't hear about the prostitute thing either...
Matthew 1
The Genealogy of Jesus Christ
1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham:
2 Abraham begot Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and…
Well now there is more of a reward than a punishment.. heaven . I guess thats meant to motivate us to do the right thing.
But then aggain didnt the Jews know that when Jesus came they'd be able to reach eternal life with Him ? So it's kind of like…
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sam,
you have posed a interesting questions
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What are the proper forms of enterta…
I'm not talking about the strictness.. well perhaps I am but that's not the issue.
In the Old Testament God told the Jews to punish sinners, in many cases, by death. This is the same God that then came down and taught us not to judge others and lov…
Wow. Forgiven1 I too am speechless. The story of you & your partner is so cute :P & that barren lady so sad. People like that deffinetlyy need our prayers. As does little phareo.
+God Bess
Wow baladoos are you hung up or what..
It's not healthy to make yourself so vulnerable to what another person does or says.. you shouldnt even do that when youre engaged!
A person's personality changes & with that personality altered, ideas …
We have an English & an Arabic mass. It doesn't really make a difference to me what language i hear the mass in.. but all the kids are in the english church & they talk non stop ! so i usually attend the arabic.
'little phareo' pointed out…
What if you don't like your parents ? What if they don't even act much like parents and the only reason you even know them is because you are biologically related ? Like what if your dad's a drunk and your mother a prostitute. Do you still have to r…
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sorry bent, but what you said in your first post is the words of someone who doesn't know Christ. We need to get rid of our idols... that can be anything …
I don't think you realise how hard it actually is to overcome an addiction. My guess is that your father has been smoking for a while.. It's become part of his life. Even if he quits (which he deffinetly can) he will usually turn to smoking for comf…
No, she's actually got a daughter who is older and married with her own little people :). She did it purely out of love.
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thats soo awesome...did she wanna adopt the…
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If love is a feeling, that comes and goes, then when you get married, what "feeling" should you have towards your husband-to-be then before you get married to him…
so what is it then?
An illusion. Your judgement is clouded and your emotions take over. You're tricked into thinking it's love, when in reality it isn't, it wasn't forever.
can i ask you then why do u think there are so many failed marriages? beside…
I don't think you can fal in and out of love. I think that whole concept was created by us as people to make us feel better about the concept of dating.. When people say 'she was my first love' or whatever.. It obviously wasn't love. love is forever…
There's a lady at my church who adopted two little boys. They were athiest before they came into the church. Their dad killed their mum in front of them and is now in a loony hospital.. I woudn't want to think what would've happened to those kids if…