We have two teenage daughters who are still at home (so having a sniper in the family comes in handy). The youngest finishes high school next year.

When she starts telling me how much a stay-at-home mom is worth, I tell her she's lucky she gets to sleep indoors and eat at the table with the rest of us.

But ask yourself this: If he and Lance are such hardcore RCs, why in the world are they so interested in what is being said on a website that is so clearly of a strictly protestant/reformed persuasion? Are there no RC sites with interesting sermons, information and discussions for them? If so, why are they not there? What is it that keeps them so involved in the discussions here? What could possibly cause two men who are so obviously well versed (and rehearsed) in RC doctine and history to be so enamoured with the protesant/reformed theology SA is saturated with. Almost everything on this site flies in the face of all they appear to consider sacred. Many here consider them to be deceived men and heretics. Why does GG bother with discussions that cause him to become truly fighting mad to the point of dragging his mother into the discussion?

The person or group that defines the terms of the argument always controls (and ultimately wins) the war.

There is, indeed, no such thing as a homosexual. If there were, the argument could be made that they are "born that way" and that is exactly the argument that they make. Hence, they appear to be winning the war and God will judge this nation severely for allowing it.

I will not permit Oprah and the show biz elite to define anything for me. To them, anyone who doesn't agree with their devilish propoganda is labeled as a bigot, racist or intolerant. Pointing out the error of sodomy or popery, however, does not make you a bigot. It makes you right.

They are not homosexuals and they are not "gay". They are sodomites because they commit sodomy. That's what Scripture calls them. It's not an "alternative lifestyle". It's satanic perversion.

Popery is not Biblical. It's idolotry.

1. Nobody cares what your "Non Denominational" brother thinks, says or does.

2. Roman Catholics are idolators. They are a cult of idolators.

"And if one does not know the original (Greek & Hebrew) texts, who is he to judge what is corrupt and what is not with a reliable degree of accuracy?"

Do you know the original Greek & Hebrew texts? If so, great. If not, using your own logic, how do you know which texts to trust? You, too, would be trusting in the scholarship of men who's theology is at best shaky if not downright heretical.

The basic text used to translate the AV has been around (and trusted) for centuries. The text base of the NIV, NASB, etc. is very recent, downplays the deity of Christ and has been put together by men who by their own admission don't believe half of what Scripture records or teaches. Read some of the writings of Kurt Aland and Bruce Metzger. Their own writings, not just what others say about them. If these men are believers, I'm a nuclear physicist. I would not trust them or the texts they produce.

GET YOUR SON OUT OF THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOL TODAY.

Teach him at home yourself at night (or whenever you are off work).

If you don't want to do that, appeal to your church or another church to assist you with paying for sending him to a Christian school.

Find a Christian school that understands your circumstances and will offer your son a scholarship or partial scholarship. If your situation is as dire as you describe (why did you & your wife go to different churches?), I'm sure a church sponsored Christian school would be happy to help you. Churches often help widowed parents with paying for school and well they should.

If that doesn't work for you, get a second job or another job that pays better.

I know folks who have done all of these things. It's just a matter of deciding what's important. Your son would be better off not going to school at all than attending a government school.

"Yes, I believe Christian media should report on the Pope, but a far more balanced view should be presented. They should focus on the evil this religion has caused the Christian church in the past, present and future."

Great point. I agree but I don't believe that will ever happen.

What amazes me is the way that the Pope of Rome is so clearly and vocally against most of the moral positions that the mainstream media is obviously slanted in favor of and he favors so much of what they are against, yet he somehow remains strangely above ANY criticism at all. He's spoken of as though he's some god-like visitor from another planet. It's almost as though folks are hypnotized.

The problem is that anyone would be foolish enough to send a child from a Christian family into a government school.

Government schools ar not just neutral to the things of God. They are outright hostile to them.

"So what are all of YOU ---who condemn the multitudes for reading the NIV, ESV, NASB, HCSB, (basically, the anything besides the KJV)--- going to do WHEN YOU SEE John Piper and many in heaven ?"

I have yet to see where anyone here has condemned anyone for the Bible version they read. Many, however, DO (appropriately) condemn many of the modern versions because a very good argument can be made that they are corrupted in a number of areas.

How is that condemning anyone?

Are you in Japan? I don't think anyone would expect someone in Japan to read the King James Bible in Engish if English is not their primary language. It would be wise, however, to choose a version in your own language that's based on the MT/TR.

"The KJV is the best and the AV is my next choice, but the KJV is #1 !!!"

"There is no such thing as a "gay agenda." They just want to their lives without bigotry and hatred."

So do child molesters and serial killers. Sadly, those behaviors tend to make sane people not want to associate themselves with those folks who CHOOSE to engage in those behaviors.

"I believe there should be more people in the world like James Dobson. Focus on the family has displayed the christian life to the unchurched and has been instrumental in bringing wayward christians back to the Lord."

Please explain how James Dobson has ever displayed the Christian life to anyone at anytime. How has anything that James Dobson has ever said or done brought any wayward Christian back to the Lord?

For 30 years James Dobson has infiltrated the Christian church with worldly, pagan psychology and self-esteem philosophy. He has ruined families by appealing primarily to women's emotions and their perceived 'unmet needs'. It has spread like cancer and the results have been devastating.

I have never, EVER, heard James Dobson present the Gospel and I have heard very little from him that could ever be considered even remotely sound Biblical teaching. For the last 15 years or so he has decided that it's his responsibility to 'transform the culture' through laws and legislation.