RockstarNurse

I caught a little blurb on TV the other day and in it Obama was talking about making coal clean. Now, you have to understand that I live in Western Ky where EVERYTHING that Obama says about coal is a very important topic. My husband commented that he thought Obama was trying to get rid of coal and I informed him that, no, Obama did not say that exactly. He just said he would institute such high emmission taxes that it would bankrupt the industry if they didn't "clean up their act", persay. Sorry, too lame . Now, this led us into the actual point of this thread... My husband's made the valid point that there isn't a very efficient way to clean up coal, that it is, in and of itself, "dirty" and will burn that way. Very true. Now that begs the question... If the earth has a set number of natural resources, and if using them up more rapidly also kills the earth itself, had our rabbit race into technology and worldly dependance on power, etc, actually shortened our time on this earth. Have we, in moving so far away from the lifestyle that the people of the bible lived, actually sped up the "end times"? I mean, think about it...a lot of the signs of the end times are weather related things that we ourselves have caused by what we have done on this earth. I guess what I really want to know is, does anyone think that God would have allowed the earth to exist longer if we would have kept life simpler? Did we set this ball into motion with our hunger for technology and industrial advances?

Well, there are a lot of different ways to look at this and lots of denominations have their own interpretation. If I am not mistaken, Catholics believe that the bread and wine that is consumed during communion actually becomes the blood and body of Christ after they consume it. I tend to think of it as more metephorical as Jesus taught in metaphors and parables regularly. There are lots of references in the Bible about bread and wine. My favorite to sum up what I feel this means is when the bible says "man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the Lord". (rough translation) I take it to mean that our spirit, or the part of us that hungers for a relationship with God, cannot be fed the same way we feed our earthly body, but that we must sustain in different ways through our relationship with Christ. There are lots of metaphors that are not even considered Christian that address hunger and thirst for things other than food, ie. "thirst for knowledge", etc. I participate in communion to pay glory to Christ whose death and ressurection feeds my spiritual needs.

You have never attended a Southern Baptist church in KY then! LOL J/K

My husband and I are separated after almost 24 years of marriage. We are both born-again Christians. He has left on his own accord and is in the middle of a mid-life crisis. He is having an adulteress affair with a non-believer. For 23 of our married years, we had the most amazing relationship in the world. Seemingly overnight he lost his mind. I am an innocent victim of my husband's sin of adultery. My husband has avoided any Christians this past year, since he knew they would tell him he is sinning and has lost his mind. He has abandoned both me and our 3 children. The church cannot physically find him to do what scripture says in confronting him about his sin since he no longer lives in our home. So if he files for divorce to live with this harlot, I am completely innocent. If the church were not to let me serve any longer due to my husband's sin would be wrong. For him not to serve, I agree, but I have done no wrong. I do not want a divorce and am praying for a miracle in our marriage and family. Each case is individual regarding divorce. We should be compassionate toward the innocent victims as who can judge them if they have not walked a mile in their shoes? I think pre-marital counseling in the church for more than 1 session may help lower the current divorce rate. Never in a million years did I even speculate that I may become one of those ugly statistics! I love my husband with all my heart and don't understand why I still love him so much since he has hurt me so very deeply. But God has given me that agape love toward him, and I will honor my vows to him til death do us part, even if he signs a certificate of divorce and according to scripture, in this instance, I would be free to remarry. How can one be harsh on the innocent victims in these divorces? From my own personal experience I am going thru now, I am innocent in God's eyes. Wow! Thanks for sharing that, and I will definately pray for peace for you! I think maybe this sheds some light on what part of the problem is. First of all, Satan spends more time attacking those who are strong in Christ. He uses more resources to break those people down. I would imagine a lot of strong Christians are constantly under attack in their marriages. And those same Christians are just as human as the other non-Christian portion of the divorced percentage. Also, what if a lot of Christians are married, but one partner grows in Christ and the other doesn't? There is such a wide spectrum of "Christianity" and a lot of people I know who call themselves Christians hold very few of the same moral standards that I demand in my household. That would have to put strain on a marriage. It would almost be easier to be married to someone who believed nothing and didn't care how you raised your children or ran your house, etc. Just my thoughts though.