But in a general sense, the "gospel" (synonymous to Good News) is simply the set of statements that Jesus died for our sins and rose again, thus clearing our record, should we chose that gift.
to me, the gospel means that Christ died for me and he has given me a free gift of salvation. I accept that and live for him by following his commands because I'm so thankful that he has done that for me
@GeorgeEdison Well, I had assumed that the mods I saw were just the ones that had at least some interest. I already knew that all current mods of Christianity.SE were SE employees.
@GeorgeEdison: Ah! I see! You're an elected mod of StackApps?
In the 95 Theses, Luther makes a stand against corruption in the Catholic church of that day. This resulted in events leading to the separation between the Catholic and Protestant churches.
It seems the theses are always referred to, but never actually read. Their content does make me a bit unea...
@dancek Luther is a profoundly strange hero of the faith. As a Reformed Protestant I am thankful for the stand he took, but I have often wondered how many Protestant churches today might find him heretical if he showed up in their local congregation.
@Caleb Yeah... I'm sort of a Lutheran, so I've somewhat familiarized myself with what he's said. That is one question I haven't got a very good answer to from the local experts.
@dancek It would be interesting to find some of his other writings and see what he thought an indulgence should look like and how it would be properly administered.
We should decide some guidelines about copying entire answers from external sources. A lot of questions will be much easier to answer by just copying, as a lot of subjects have been handled many, many times by different writers already.
The practice seems to be popping up here and there. I'll gi...
@ElendiaStarman Thats good. Although I was pretty happy with our debates yesterday :). Although I will say I think there was some confusion because reading @JonathonByrd 's answers I think I mostly agree with him :P
@ElendiaStarman I would've worded it a bit differently. Not so much "it is a sin, and this is the evidence" as "this evidence seems to indicate it is a sin, what other evidence supports/refutes that".
@ElendiaStarman Yes. All the summer we haven't fires. Now 127 within 2 days. The fire department can't respond and the result is everything to be burnt
One hundred percent of college students and fifty five percent of pastors are said to be addicted to pornography. Even the most Godly men, like David (OT) has been trapped by these desires.
It seems that the more I try to fight these desires, the stronger that they become. It doesn't matter if I...
We can take an idea in Mosaic Law. There we find statutes concerning uncleanness, and not sin, ascribed to seminal emissions, menstruation, and childbirth. (Leviticus 12:1-6; 15:16-24).
Leviticus 12:1-6 NIV
1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 “Say to the Israelites: ‘A woman who
becomes pregnant ...
@JonathonByrd I'm from North Carolina. I was up there for the Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing. Yes, that's a long name. :P
Are the questions posted to this website ONLY to be about Biblical study or may they also be related to Christian Living?
Such as
Christian Living: How can one escape the desires of the flesh; lust?
Can we also learn how to be better christians by asking christian lifestyle questions?
I was the one who edited the post. When someone says "the back door..." it comes off as a giggly fourteen-year-old aside. "hehe... I mentioned a taboo but if anyone deletes it they're admitting they know what I was alluding to, so I can giggle about them, too". This particular aside was not ess...
wonders what the discussion of some percentage of college students is about.
@JonathonByrd If you mean in terms of clinical addiction, it's nowhere near that high. If you mean the vernacular in which most Christians assume any regular consumption of pornography is "addiction", I'd say it's about 80% of men and about 25% of women at most.
(This is not based on any formal study, but on my spending a lot of time talking about sex with random people in college.)
@JonathonByrd Young men will almost always say they regularly consume porn, whether they do or not, because our society tells them that not doing so is a sign of unmanliness and/or homosexuality.
We can take an idea in Mosaic Law. There we find statutes concerning uncleanness, and not sin, ascribed to seminal emissions, menstruation, and childbirth. (Leviticus 12:1-6; 15:16-24).
Leviticus 12:1-6 NIV
1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 “Say to the Israelites: ‘A woman who
becomes pregnant ...
I was the one who edited the post. When someone says "the back door..." it comes off as a giggly fourteen-year-old aside. "hehe... I mentioned a taboo but if anyone deletes it they're admitting they know what I was alluding to, so I can giggle about them, too". This particular aside was not ess...
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