Society & Culture - 19 December 2007

A friend from work has invited me to her home for Christmas. I had only planned on a gift for her, her husband and their pets. Now she's emailed me saying that her son and daughter, her mother, grandmother, her husband's friend, the friend's girlfriend, her cousin and brother will also be coming. I really don't think I should be expected to give gifts to all those people, especially when I don't even know them. But why would she email me to tell me that? Please advise. Thanks.

2007-12-19 00:14:35 · 8 answers · asked by debodun 2 in Etiquette

Does He have a first name? what is it? . If as a human i have a firts name why not God? Please dont tell me is Jesus! He is the son of God. I need to know the father's name. ANYONE?
Thanks

2007-12-19 00:11:19 · 40 answers · asked by joaopeixoto71 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Admittedly, these movements pose potential threats to the church, but perhaps we would do better to look for the deception of the end-times where Jesus and the New Testament predicted it would occur: within the church, within groups that call themselves "Christian" but which actually preach a different gospel."


We agree. The apostasy that the Bible says will occur in the "end of days" is not something that is going to take place OUTSIDE the church; rather it is something that is going to take place INSIDE it. But how? - that's the question. To understand the dynamic at work here we must put what is happening to the church in a larger context. Too many people try to understand "last things" from only the perspective of RELIGION. But that's not possible.

There are other dynamics at work - political, economic and military dynamics - and all of them one way or another impinge on the church and the apostasy that is at work within it, transforming what we know as the ORGANIZED church into the monster the Scriptures say it will become. And one needs to be clear here: IT WILL OCCUR - as sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and NOTHING will stop it! The Bible says:

"Let no man deceive you by any means: for THAT DAY (i.e., the day of Christ's return, cf vs. 2) shall not come, except there come (first) a falling away (i.e., Gk., apostasia - or the apostasy of the church) first, and that MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, the son of perdition;

"Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." (2 Thess. 2:3-4)

2007-12-19 00:03:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If there is no such thing as Global Warming as the Gov tells us, why are the Polar caps melting at an alarming rate? After countless photos showing how much has melted and with the use of evidence scientists have supplied dating the soils and the ice and have concluded that the poles haven't done this for 65million years(about the time of the dino extinction) is the government going to wait until the seas rise and everything dries up before admitting they have been lying to the public?

2007-12-19 00:02:07 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens