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  1. Yes, there is more to it than what I read. Not sure what to believe. Medications are very complex and I doubt most "experts" we see on TV are really qualified to comment on them.
  2. I heard an expert on TV say the other day the there is a new oral, at home use, Pfizer drug called Paxlovid to treat people with Covid and it is 98% effective. It is an anti-viral at home drug. But it has to go through the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHA) to be approved. In the meantime, how many more people will die that could have been saved with this drug? How much urgency does the PHA put on this kind of thing? I don't have a whole lot of confidence that they will act swiftly. Yet the UK has approved it and the US FDA approved it two weeks ago. Why is the PHA of Canada so slow? "“Today’s authorization introduces the first treatment for COVID-19 that is in the form of a pill that is taken orally — a major step forward in the fight against this global pandemic,” said Patrizia Cavazzoni, M.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. “This authorization provides a new tool to combat COVID-19 at a crucial time in the pandemic as new variants emerge and promises to make antiviral treatment more accessible to patients who are at high risk for progression to severe COVID-19.” Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes First Oral Antiviral for Treatment of COVID-19 | FDA
  3. This is an abuse of the taxpayers of Canada. They are going to pay out tens of thousands of dollars to aboriginal children who were rescued from dangerous situations and placed in white Canadian foster homes because there was nowhere else to place them. They were not abused in their foster homes. The only reason they are being paid is they were allegedly, in today's world, denied their culture. This is complete madness and shows how far our government has gone off the rails and has no respect for taxpayer's money.
  4. God says we are all sinners with a corrupt fallen nature and that we need to come to God on our knees in sorrow and repent for our sins and seek forgiveness. It is God that forgives for that, not man, but only for those who accept and believe in Jesus Christ as their Savior. Those ones are saved for eternity; the rest are lost forever. True religion is not about worshiping some idol or false God. It is about believing in the one true God and his Son as one's Savior. Hiding behind the perceived shortcomings of religious people won't excuse one either. Churches are hospitals for the sick. The gospel message is for sinners, those who need to be saved. Of course nobody is sinless, so that is the answer.
  5. When you apply the word love to homosexuality in total contravention of the teachings through the Bible condemning it, you are not speaking truth. Just applying the word love randomly to anything that God condemns is not real love. Love between people is a real thing but it is only real love when it is within God's ordained relationships such as between a man and woman, husband and wife, between good friends, or a parent and their child or between someone who legitimately cares for the welfare of others. Not between illegitimate sexual unions contrary to God's will. Approving of such practices is not love. "26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;" Romans ch1: 26-28 KJB
  6. Your choice. The Bible is the most powerful, earth moving book on earth. You can be sure Communist China would not allow it if they could ban it. It would be a serious threat to their system if the people all had it and believed it. It would end Communism in China. It is so powerful it guides lost mankind to avoid hell and receive eternal life for those who believe it. Those who scoff at it are just condemning themselves, but there is forgiveness for those who repent and believe the gospel.
  7. The Old Testament is also part of the Bible which is embraced by Christians as an important part of the whole Bible. What happened during the Old Testament period is very relative to believers today. Christ was a Jew and descended from King David and before that from Abraham, the father of Israel. The Old Testament are Holy Scriptures and were given to mankind through Old Testament prophets who were the Jews as part of the nation of Israel. There is much important information in the Old Testament for believers today.
  8. If you believe man evolved from monkeys or apes, which has been debunked. Go to creation.com
  9. If you believe man evolved from apes and monkeys. Bible scholars say the earth was possibly 6,000 years old. Go to creation.com and read some of the articles.
  10. This is the first I've heard about the term. One website says it refers to the period 300 to 500 B.C. Another writer says it refers to the 1,000 year millennium from 1,000 B.C. to 0 B.C. Will read a little more about it. The Bible goes further back than 1,000 B.C. The Bible begins with the account of creation which is believed to be about 6,000 years ago or 4,000 B.C. Then there was the period before Noah's flood which was believed to have occurred 2,348 B.C. The call of Abraham was in 1921 B.C. or 3900 years ago exactly. So the point I am making is Biblical history goes back over 4,000 years ago and it is all related to Christianity.
  11. I plead guilty. Trying to show the immorality or evil nature of liberal, left thinking and policies. All roads eventually must lead to the Bible as the source of truth. sola scriptura Michael's Catholismo takes it's lead from other sources like secularism, which is just man's opinion.
  12. No, that is not correct. The N.T. teaches the same thing on homosexuality. Do a search and look up the verses on it. I never said anything about "retribution for sins". The Bible doesn't say to turn the other cheek to things that the Bible condemns. You are making up something that is not there. Of course there is forgiveness for those who ask for it and repent the same as for any other sin. We are all guilty of sins.
  13. Jesus agreed with the Old Testament in the verse I quoted from Matthew ch5. He is the God of both the O.T. and the N.T. He is the God of the Jews in the O.T. times. quote 1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; unquote Hebrews 1:1, 2 KJV quote 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. unquote John 1:1-3 KJV quote 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. unquote John 1:14 KJV The word (the O.T. and the N.T.) is here referred to as the Word and the Word refers to Jesus in vs 14.
  14. He was crucified because he claimed to be God. The Jewish leaders at the time would not accept that. Watch a good movie free on the internet called "The Life of Jesus". Google it or put it in a search window.
  15. The church age did not begin until after the crucifixion. It started as recorded in the book of Acts, chapter one. The Old Testament is a history of God's dealing with the nation of Israel. The New Testament is all about the church beginning and church being composed of Jews and gentiles. So the New Testament is about a different period or different age. But there are lessons to be learned from the Old Testament, universal truths that don't change such as marriage being between a man and a woman only. For example, God created Adam and Eve, and said to Adam and Eve go forth and multiply. He never said this to Adam and Steve, which would be an impossibility anyway. God created man and woman with the special ability to procreate. This is not so with two people of the same sex; therefore it is illogical to say same-sex marriage is natural or normal. It was never ordained by God to be that way. They cannot pro-create. If is simply man who ignores God and indulges in hedonism or self indulgence or pleasures of the flesh. Quote 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Unquote Genesis 1:27, 28 KJV
  16. I think he did. The Old Testament he accepted. There was no New Testament while he was alive on earth. It was completed later. Quote 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Unquote Matthew 5:18, 19 KJV
  17. No, the Bible is not contradictory. It is clear in both the Old and New Testament in the link I gave. There is nothing to debate about it. It is just a question as to whether you accept what it says.
  18. You still haven't explained how you can be a Christian and reject such a basic teaching in the Bible about homosexuality. Saying it is just love when the Bible repeatedly condemns it just doesn't cut it.
  19. What it boils down to is the Scripture repeatedly condemns homosexuality. So if one claims to believe the Bible, and still support homosexuality, they are lying or completely ignorant of a basic Biblical teaching.
  20. If the Bible condemns homosexuality in numerous places in both the Old and New Testament, I think it should be pretty clear don't you think? How is that picking and choosing scriptures? If the Bible repeats the same thing throughout, but still has no meaning to you, what would it take to convince you? A bolt of lightning from heaven?
  21. I never referred to rape, but what if a man asked a young person of the same sex if it's ok to have sex and he said it was ok? Would you approve of it? If not, why not? That's pretty basic. It would be classified as paedophilia even if the young person agreed with it. In the case of beastility, what if the animal was not asked or never refused? Would that be OK with you if a man had sex with an animal if the animal did not resist or deny permission?
  22. If someone can interpret the Bible (or more accurately ignore the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality) and approve of homosexuality and same-sex marriage, there is not limit to what they could approve of, including pedophilia and beastiality. If anything goes or whatever one claims makes him happy, why not eh?
  23. The Bible says in many verse that homosexuality is wrong, but you say it is love to recognize same-sex marriage? Jesus refers to marriage as between a man and woman, but you claim it is love that motivates you to accept same-sex marriage. That is what would be called a complete contradiction of what God teaches. You would have to ignore the whole sum of the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality. You also ignore what the Bible teaches about marriage. You could use the same argument to condone paedophilia or bestiality. It's just love. Give us a break! You have a lot of studying to do.
  24. I think you are being mischievous, kind of like a little gremlin. Can't be taken seriously.
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