http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/ Christian Sword Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:22:51 GMT CalKnight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27399 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27399 Mike, EVERY successful abortion ends with the death of a child! Or if you want to parse words or get technical, the death of a human being! You can play word Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:06:15 GMT CalKnight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27398 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27398 Mike, If push comes to shove, it is a trivial matter, but I think it's such a trivial matter for people to get worked up over. I personally think that if it's Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:58:50 GMT Mike Higginbottom http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27397 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27397 ... You're doing it again David. You made a blanket statement that "Every successful abortion is the death of a child!" and when challenged on it you add Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:56:28 GMT Mike Higginbottom http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27396 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27396 ... Yes I know. But that's not the point I was making. You said they were trivial little things and yet you get very upset when people suggest they should be Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:54:39 GMT Mike Higginbottom http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27395 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27395 ... Yes, several other words including 'kill'. In fact, if you check Strong's and present the full facts contained therein you get a single instance of 'put to Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:54:36 GMT CalKnight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27394 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27394 Mike, No, it's not wrong to hate sin. But, hatred for sin is not hating the person! There are a lot of people who genuinely hate born again Christians. I Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:52:16 GMT Mike Higginbottom http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27393 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27393 ... You're wrong here I think. I posted the following on the 27th Jan: "Besides, all bone grows back. There's nothing particularly special about ribs. As long Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:23:33 GMT CalKnight http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27392 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27392 Mike, Let me be clear there are some that call themselves Christian simply because they grew up in a Christian home or because they were baptized as a child. Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:22:40 GMT Mike Higginbottom http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27391 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27391 ... There's quite a lot of smiting goes on I seem to recall. ... So, you're suggesting that God is wrong to hate sin? Or are you suggesting that we shouldn't Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:59:19 GMT Mike Higginbottom http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27390 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27390 ... That's quite the list of qualifiers you just attached there. We've just gone from a blanket "Christians don't kill" to "Christians do kill but..." Let's Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:58:46 GMT Eric Alan Marx http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27389 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27389 The only correct human understanding of good does not require an understanding of evil. God has even told everyone what the correct understanding is but some Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:58:23 GMT Julie http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27388 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27388 David, If you really don't see the cruelty,intolerance,and hate in the pages of the Bible,then you're not paying close attention to the book you say you Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:57:04 GMT church.historian http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27387 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27387 On the contrary. Check a Koine Greek New Testament. The word is "eucharistOn" to give thanks. The word Eucharist comes from it. "Worship" isn't involved. Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:56:54 GMT Hannah Miriam http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27386 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27386 David wrote: Could you site any references to such a program where such a thing has occurred, I would really like to know where Bibles are being distributed by Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:55:19 GMT Mike Higginbottom http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27385 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christian_Sword/message/27385 ... But you just explicitly said it doesn't. Sometimes we don't get what we ask for. That's not a very good example of prayer 'working' unless you redefine