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The Jews were God's chosen people, they should have a greater faith than the gentiles. The story of the Roman Centurion. Matthew 5 When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help. 6 “Lord,” he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly.” 7 Jesus...

Jesus loves us as he loves himself, he died for us, despite all our differences. The very least we should do; is love all our separated brothers and sisters as we love ourselves, despite our differences. This is a flippant analogy..... There is a church where everyone has to wear red shoes...

This is scary, closing 50,000 church buildings and taking their property. Where will the money go, will they donate all the money to the poor and oppressed. Or will the money end up in the pockets of Trump, Musk and their henchmen?

I can sit here in the stillness of my room, the reality is different. The earth is spinning at a 1,000mph, we are orbiting the sun at 67,000mph and our galaxy is strolling through space at 1.3 million mph. And those people in Australia who think they are standing upright without spilling their...

The biggest miracle is the creation of the universe and life. If God can create life from non life, a talking serpent would not be a big deal.

My understanding would be, that all the time they ate from the tree of life, this would keep them alive for ever. The day they stopped eating from the tree of life, death set in, and their bodies started to decay, as our do. When you see the state of mankind today, I don't think we are ready...

The same God hears all our prayers, no matter where we might worship. You will never look into the eyes of anyone who does not matter to God.

When we help the disadvantaged, we are giving back to God. Matthew 25 34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to...

I guess this is a bit of a minefield, with hundreds of translations from many languages, and into many languages. I stick mostly to two translations, and have read the Bible a number of times. There are themes that run throughout the Bible. Apparently, there are about two thousand passages that...

The fear of God is the start of wisdom. Like the law of the land, some people might fear committing murder, because they will be punished if they are caught. A higher form of wisdom, is to love your neighbours as you love yourself, so you would not want to kill them because you have kindness...

The thread is about Bible scholars, and differences between denominations has been mentioned on this thread. My apologies, on reflection, I should have said; the Week for Christian Unity is a profound challenge for Christians. Interfaith relations are an even greater challenge. The same God...

Today marks the start of Christian Unity week, a profound challenge for all of us. The same God hears all our prayers, despite our differences. You will never look into the eyes of anyone who does not matter to God. Whilst I listen with interest to Biblical scholars, they seem to approach it...

Although we don't have convincing evidence either way, we still have critical thinking. Whilst four billion years sounds a long time, the starting point is some kind of single cell life. and from that we have the blue whale, with around a hundred thousand trillion cells. I can't imagine how...

Could we make an infant size robot, that would grow in size to an adult size robot. And with all the parts working at every stage of growth. When it becomes adult size, could it replicate itself and make another robot? A robot might have a few thousand parts, our bodies apparently have around...

Humanity has had some amazing inventions, we went into space; but we could not make a robotic version of ourselves. The skeletal system is only a bunch of levers connected together for movements, yet it seems more complex than space travel. What tools did blind nature have four billion years...