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"Balak ben Beor" should read "Balaam ben Beor".

I for one hope this simply isn't true.... "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. The Lord is an indian-giver." --1 Opinions 6:66 If I make a promise to you, today, knowing that tomorrow I will rescind my promise to you and give it to someone else, would that not make me a liar and a...

Indeed? Perhaps you can show how this was the case in Germania Magna (lost 9 A.D.), Armenia, Assyria, and Mesopotamia (lost c. 120 A.D.), and Dacia (lost c. 275 A.D.), bearing in mind that Christianity was first recognized as a "religio licita" by Constantine in 313 A.D. The examples I cited...

Well said! Hopefully time, which eventually changes all things, will change this as well. Regards, vizenos

An excellent beginning! Now, perhaps, you will find ways to broaden and deepen your ability to see what is right in front of you. I wish you all the best success in this endeavor! ;) Is it possible that you are unaware that Christianity, together with Judaism and Islam, is an Abrahamic...

And that statement is the "standard cop out" of many fundamentalist atheists, these days.:cool: But you, of course, are sufficiently acquainted with God to know that He didn't do anything of the sort. Riiiight.:D In many cases, this is precisely the case. For example, I doubt if even the...

As for the Roman Empire, it declared Christianity to be one of the "legal religions" in 313 A.D., and declared Christianity to be the only "legal religion" in 380 A.D. The Roman Empire in the West ended in 476 A.D., was re-established in the 6th century by Justinian and essentially dwindled away...

This is entirely true. Fortunately or otherwise (you choose), children tend to be influenced more by what their parents do than by what they only say. Children--unlike most adults--have remarkably keen and accurate "B.S. detectors", so if you do not live your faith, there's little danger that...

No, I don't. I also don't believe in foot-binding or "He who spareth the rod hateth his son." I have several times encountered a maxim, common to both Evangelical Christianity and Orthodox Christianity, which says, "God has many children but no grandchildren." IMO, you cannot give your...

Oh, well said indeed!:) As best I can tell, Enlightenment has built most if not all of his ideas about the Tanach (Old Testament) by reading the writings of people whose view of reality accords with his own, rather than by reading the texts themselves. Regards, vizenos

"Fairy tales" can sometimes surprise you.:eek: The figure of Santa Claus is based almost entirely upon a real person: St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra in Lycia, 4th century A.D. Regards, vizenos

And if any outpatient psychiatry resident were to evaluate a patient on that basis and attempt to proceed on that basis, the outcome for that resident would be both immediate and severe, and would range from, at the very least, a failing evaluation for his outpatient psychiatry rotation to...

To some extent, yes, but see below: No, what I am stating above is that a psychiatric evaluation should be done, unless the psychiatrist or his/her clinical supervisor decides that it is not appropriate because the "self mortification" is clearly within the range of mainstream practices such...

Faithful Servant, I the unprofitable servant salute you. You have, I believe, spoken at least the beginning of the truth: that God loves the Jews and has "chosen" them (whatever that may mean) to show His light to the nations. By and large, it seems to me that they've done a rather good job of...

Well, I can understand that having three sides is the essential and defining quality of a triangle, but does it follow that goodness is, likewise, the essential and defining quality of God? If so, how is one to deal with this: "I am the L-rd, and there is none else, there is no G-d beside...

And that's a wildly inappropriate analogy, since child abusers of whatever sort are criminals, and are harming others at least as much, if not far more, than they are harming themselves. Moreover, from those case studies I've seen, such people are almost always fully aware that their actions are...

I can understand your reaction to Thomas' words, but I think the truth of it is that Thomas simply forgot, for a moment, that it's not enough to speak the truth as we see it; we must first, last, and always speak the truth in love, and that's something we most often remember after we've spoken...

And I am Catholic in that I, by God's grace, am a Greek Orthodox Christian. That is what I am no matter where I am, because that is what God has given me to be. This is what you see, and therefore what you believe; yet Christ our God said, "Amen I say to you, unless you are converted and...

With no words? Regards, vizenos