Last week I was prompted to update my on-line medical insurance forms. One of the questions they asked me was my sex. Never before (until now) have I ever been given more than 2 choices (Male or Female), but this time I was given 5 choices: Male, Female, Transgender male to female, Transgender female to male, and Other.

I still have a hard time believing that our civilization is actually disintegrating as fast as it is, but the evidence is unfolding right before us.

Poly Tykes wrote:
"Senate Democrats countered Tuesday with a hearing of their own — this one focusing on protecting the civil rights of Muslims."
Typical Democrats - Anything to fulfil the antiChristian agenda.

I tend to ignore the Apocrypha books since neither Jesus nor any of the inspired apostles ever refer to any of them.

You can see this when you compare the disney films Fantasia and Fantasia 2000. Each movie contains a scene involving one big, climactic struggle between "good" and "evil". In Fantasia (released in the 1940s) this struggle is between a decidedly satanic-looking villian and a church with its "saints". In Fantasia 2000 (released in the 1990s) the same struggle is between completely pagan/new-age entities of fire and vegitation (Gaiah?). In each film "good" eventually triumphs, but the idea of what "good" actually is and is represented by couldn't be more different, reflecting the different moral states of our nation at the time each of these films was released.

Neil wrote:
John, I remember the CB craze too. Radio Shack shifted to home computers after that profitable fad expired. I'm sure professional truckers were grateful.

Neil wrote:
I like your term "personal reality show." It calls to mind Christoper Lasch's plausible thesis in his 1979 book "The Culture of Narcissism."

Mike wrote:
Dull? But Neil, don't you want to know what someone had for breakfast?

jpw wrote:
I am beginning to see Americans as the most childish people in the world. Lollipop lollipop, oooh lolly lolly lolly.

Baal, not Yahweh, was married to Asherah.

Jeremiah 3:14 says:

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am MARRIED unto YOU (i.e. ISRAEL/JUDAH): and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: (etc.).

This is astounding considering that some of the birth-control pioneers of the early 20th century were actually trying to limit the numbers of blacks and other so-called "inferior" peoples this way.

And yet I'm told Obama, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and many other African-Americans today are significanly pro-choice--essentially playing into the hands of the very eugenicists they often decry.

The Framework view of Creation is very strong in our denomination, especially among many of our more scholarly members who find it to be very appealing.

I personally had never heard of nor imagined anything other than the 6-day Biblical view of creation until the late 1980s, when Dr. Hugh Ross visited the conservative evangelical Bible church I was attending at the time. What struck me was, at the time, he seemed to assert that the Noaic flood was LOCAL and not world-wide (!). I was confused but many in the same audience seemed to be very impressed with Dr. Ross's reasonings.

From then on I've been getting this vibe that "smarter" Christians acknowledge an old earth while the "dumber" Christians still believe in that old 6-day nonsense which I still hold to.

The PCUSA has been drifting for quite a while.

The PCUSA in Northern California that my parents used to attend had a woman pastor on staff as far back as the early 1980s.

My brother, who more or less abandoned Biblical Christianity in favor of social and environmental justice, actually enjoyed some of the sermons which were preached there because they were so liberal and world-centered. Much to the chagrin of my mom who invited him to her church in an attempt to get him to recommit his life to Christ and attend church on a more consistent basis.

It was like taking a patient to a hospital in hopes of getting him cured, but instead he gets an additional dose of the disease that he already has.

Maybe the boy overheard information regarding his still-born sister years earlier but later on forgot how he learned of it, unintentionally replacing the lost memory with a fabricated one. Human mind does this from time to time.

It's also possible that he could've been informed supernaturally by a demon, like the one(s) inhabiting the little girl who gave the apostle Paul such a hard time in Acts 16:16-19.