John Robinson

Legalism kills. Because once you start keeping the law, you have to keep every square inch of it, or you're doomed. Just sayin.'

I think the reason there's no response is any Christian who voted for this monster has to be hanging their head in shame and grief right now ... or they should be.

Yeah, I'm bowing out, too. Legalism is a horrible yoke, because at the back of a person's mind there's always that terrible, niggling thought, "What if everything I'm doing isn't enough? How do I know I'm not coming up short? What if He's still not pleased with me? How do I fix it? What more can I do ...?" Thank God legalism was nailed to the cross with Jesus, and because of that His yoke is easy and His burden is oh, so light. May you find that liberty, Man. Pax.

I love that story, MissPlaced! What a blessing!

God wrote "ichabod" over the doorposts of the Episcopal church years ago. All that's left inside there now is heresy, apostasy, and death.

Is having a picture of Jesus in one's house salvic or not? I think we know the answer. Man, if such things offend you, then by all means, follow your heart. Will you extend similar grace to those of us who believe otherwise?

A box jellyfish has more backbone than Boehner. The man's worse than useless; he might was well put a D after his name and be done with it.

Within four posts you've managed to resurrect a bit of old flame bait AND insult us. Well done, sir.

Gosh, I'm stunned. This (supposed) question has never, EVER shown up on any Christian site in the WORLD! (And yeah, I also think it's a bit early in the year for it ... or else the OP is really, really late.) At any rate, I yawn at legalism, and rejoice in my freedom in Christ Jesus. Next ...

I could always put up a picture of my ugly face (it's the same one found on my website, and the one my agent is using for my proposal submissions to publishing houses), but I don't want to spoil anyone's appetite!

Well, yeah, I know J is my first initial. I just don't know who changed it to this, or why. I sure didn't.

I dunno, someone changed mine. My original avatar was a book cover, and yesterday, voila, now it's a big ol' J. Color me puzzled.

Odd; it happened to me two weeks after I was saved, and to my wife three weeks after that. But since that's going to take this thread in another direction, I'll bow out now. Blessings.

ETA: the above is strictly my own view; I'm sure many will disagree with me. But I'm sticking to it!

When I was a kid I collected pop bottles alongside the road, because back in the day you could turn them in at your local grocers and they'd give you a dime a piece for them. The grocer in turn would return them to the bottlers, who'd clean them, sterilize them, and then refill them with fresh pop. For we Christians, it's the same with our bodies. When we die, our spirits immediately go to be with Jesus in heaven ("to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord"; no gap of time indicated at all), while our poor old bodies, just like those empty pop bottles, "lie a-moulderin' in the grave," as the old song puts it. But someday God will resurrect those bodies, instantly making them clean and new and just like Jesus' own body--strong, healthy, able to travel the heavens at the speed of thought, glorified, if you will--and we'll take up residence in them once again. Pretty sweet!

"Soul sleep," which Massorite seems to be advocating, is a tenet of the Jehovah's Witnesses, and definitely has no basis in scripture.

Belafonte has always been a lefty loon nutter, but I think he's finally taken his last trip on the banana boat.

I for one don't care if it's a cube, pyramid, tetrahedron, or a Moebius strip. God made it for us, and I'm sure it'll be beyond anything our minds can comprehend.

Good night nurse! No WAY!!

Why do I have the Stone's Start Me Up going through my head?

I've never texted anything. Not once. And I doubt I will until the days of "UR2Kewl!!" textspeek is banned upon pain of death.

Totally agree with the above!

Soy meat is an abomination to God and man. And yes, that IS satire! I don't eat the stuff, but our son and daughter-in-love are vegetarians, and they do. Me, I'd rather eat the box it came in; probably tastes better.

Whoever wins, I hope it'll be an undeniable win; a mandate, if you will. Lord knows we don't need another hanging chad fiasco dragging things out for weeks.

If Paul was a "ravenous wolf," his writings would never been accepted by God into Biblical canon. You have some might strange exegesis going on there, friend ...