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The Bible tells me that human beings, even our own precious little ones, are born with a fatal flaw called the sin nature, ...

7:5 - this verse supports the practice ... children is to do injury to nature." Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor of Children 2:10:95:3 (A.D. 191). “[Christian women with male concubines ...

Is Jesus and the writer of Hebrews commending a belief with no reality-based reason or foundation for that conviction ...

Legislation to create school vouchers in Texas would send taxpayer money to private schools that teach anti-science ideas.

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from ...

According to 2nd-century Roman graffiti discovered in 1856 on Palatine, a Christian is caricatured ... Some may object to Christ's divinity and cite Bible verses pertaining to His humanity ...

Anti-Christian sentiment has been growing ... and there is a world in ferocious animosity to His divine nature and wisdom. We are instructed the 'we are not of this world.' (John chapter 17, verse 16) ...

After this prelude, McKinney spent the remainder of each episode regaling her guest with an “anonymous morsel of gossip from ...

The Qur’an contains 99 Arabic names (attributes or character traits) for the multifaceted essence of the one God, but not one of them connects the one God with one people, while one of the dozens of ...

The answer to the question of infant baptism could depend on your denominational position, along with your interpretation of the Bible ... verse helps us understand symbolically what happens during ...