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We actually had an interesting (at least to me) string on the 10 commandments several months ago. In it I posted my 'Christian understanding' of them. http://www.ldstalk.com/forums/index.php?sh...ic=6693&hl= We eat shrimp. We do not separate meat from dairy. We do not buy kosher 'religiously.' We still obey the spirit of the law, and their are principles that carry over. However, Jesus himself said that it is not what goes in a person, but what comes out. He also said that if we love God and neighbor (i.e. our enemy) we fulfill the law. I'd be curious as to what you and your family make of my lesson on the 10-commands. Thanks, I'll let you know.

Do you believe the same thing about the other commandments?Aren't Christians adopted into the House of Isreal and as such bound by the same covenants? Half my family is Evangelical Christian. We respect each other and work around our differences, but none of us are theologians so when we ask questions like this we usually just scratch our heads.

This is so exciting Shan! You'll have to give us updates from time to time. We had free range chickens in the valley when I was a kid. (We didn't call them free range in those days) It was such a great learning experience. I do remember a few things. Sometimes if one gets weak they'll peck it to death. You might want a separate little pen just in case. If they stop laying for a while try warm cooked oatmeal. I know it sounds crazy, but it always worked. I have no idea why. Watch out for hawks and owls they really will get your chickens.

Yeah the football player, definately the funniest one! On the other hand, whose to say? If He ever interacts with us on earth, maybe he'll play with football with the youth. I can't really see it in a skirt though. I sure don't think he'd play church basketball.

No... because that would imply that he made a mistake. He sees everything, including the past, present and the future as if it was right in front of him. So if the fall was a bad thing why did He give us agency?

Well, I know what our doctrine is, but I'm not sure you want our doctrine. What I understand of other Christian beliefs, they mostly don't believe we had a pre-existance. So they believe we would've been better off without the fall. Of course they feel Adam and Eve weren't very smart. When you ask about "early councils", that's only LDS. If you don't want LDS thats not an issue. Are you interested in anything like Hindu, etc? or only Christian.

Amen to All of the above! Have any of you been listening to Hugh Hewitt? (talk radio) He's Christian & really pushing Romney, even before he became a candidate. He has a book "A Mormon in the White House". All pro. Lots of free publicity. Brandon; keep up the good work!

OK. Yes, I think it does. Don't you? Anything they can use or make an issue of. You know how lawyers are. (No offense to my sister-in-law.) I think thats why it seems like such a big tragedy to me. It's not that it happened or even that there are evil people in the world. It's because it's just so hard to find justice in the law. I gues that's why Christ is called the HOPE of Israel.

Oh, I just thought of something. I used to get a catalogue from a Catholic church store; It was full of Christ on the cross statues (and leprechauns). They're really into that. Well, good luck.

I’ve been to most main stream Christian churches in my life plus Buddhist and Jewish. The only place I DID NOT feel the Spirit was in the Church of the Brethren, which is similar to Baptist. It was 1967 and the Pastor who was very hell-fire-and-brimstone loved to preach about the evils of long hair. It drove me crazy! I now understand it’s my responsibility to bring the Spirit with me, not just wait to be fed. Actually I was almost baptized in that church. Jesus was baptized so I wanted to be, but when we got into the font in front of the congregation the Pastor said, “Congratulation on joining our church!” I said, “I don’t want to join your church, I just want to be baptized!” He said I had to join the church if I wanted to be baptized, it’s in the Bible. So we discussed it for a few minutes, decided I wouldn’t be baptized and sat down. I wasn’t real gutsy at 16, but I knew what I didn’t want! I finally found a Pastor of a Lutheran church that would baptize me without joining the church when I was 20. Bare foot and in my jeans, just he & I alone by the alter, I got sprinkled. It was one of the most Spiritual and significant moments of my life.

Are you talking about the Senior Executive Service? I don't know about that.What I meant was if it turns High profile and he gets a lot of organizations with $ on his band wagon like Jesse Jackson, or NAACP. That sort of thing. If there's enough media, someone will latch on to it. It might even become a political issue. This is the yr for it. I don't have TV and get pretty poor radio reception, so I miss a lot of hype. Thats usually a good thing!

I don't know, I'm just expressing my disillusionment with the legal system. Either the police will mess up evidence or be too brutal (that's funny) or the jails will be too full, or he's depraved because he was deprived. Seems like there's always something. Especially if it's high profile and he gets a hot-shot lawyer.

All new federal chaplains are given the opportunity to participate in an abbreviated and mild (temperature) sweat lodge ceremony. Interestingly, the spiritual leader that led it encouraged to meditate/pray to our own God, while being mindful of the nature they were respecting. A few chaplains chose not to join in, but I find myself able to do so without compromising my faith. I can see that the experience would indeed give the sense of spiritual cleansing and renewal. So, PC, do you believe we are praying to the same God? I know many Evangelicals don't. I think we are, because the thing in us that makes us seek Spiritual enlightenment, aka communicate with God, is the Light of Christ that is in all of us. Those of us that think we are correct about God's true nature, still don't know everything. So it's degrees of correctness we're talking about, right? I can't see Father turning His back on people trying to reach Him in the only way they know how.

You know he's a sicky, he could have gotten the purses without hiting those poor frail women. How smart could he be, doing that in front of the camera. Yeah, he'll get caught, then they'll let him go.

Thats great, I love the Christus. I know I've seen the kind of statues you're describing at Christian book stores. You might look up that source.