sheya joie

Only eats turkey bacon...

I use my cell phone, and have provided my kids with Tracfones, so I can keep track of them and so they can call me if they need me (to be picked up, or if there's an emergency, etc). I text because that is cheaper on the Tracfones than calling: 0.3 min for a text vs at least a full min for a call. I especially don't want to leave a voice mail on a Tracfone, since that will rack up the mins pretty quickly. Call me cheap, yeah. On the other hand, I know how to switch the ringer on my phone to vibrate so as not to be a pest in the library, for instance. I also know how to speak quietly into a phone as opposed to using A VOICE LIKE THIS.

To me, it seems that the Lord makes a distinction between plants and animals. He made the plants on the third day, even before the sun, moon, and stars (day 4), and before the creation of sea and sky animals (day 5), and the creation of land animals and man (day 6). He also gave man permission to eat plants right after creating him, but permission to eat animals only comes a couple of thousand years later, after the Flood. Also the Lord told His people Israel repeatedly not to eat blood; never is there an injunction against eating sap. Someone brought up the ability of plants to be grafted - that caused me to wonder if the Lord gave plants that ability specifically so Paul would be able to use that as an illustration in Romans 11 (the olive tree and its branches)? I'm not really answering your questions, neb, but they are good questions and thought-provoking.

I heard that was another e-rumor. It was actually some other guy Col. North mentioned. Abu-Nidal, wasn't it?

Another Scripture for you, sister: 2Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; Hopes that helps. I know it helps me. I have even pictured myself hogtying unwanted thoughts and turning them over to Jesus!

There have been rumors that a Target will be opening across the street from the Wal*Mart a couple of miles from my house. If that's so, I'll start shopping there. As it is now, the only Targets near me are like 10 miles away - that means driving past a whole lot of other stores, including a couple of Wal*Marts, to get to either Target (or as my girls like to call it, tar-ZHAY).

Wait - is that rhino sticking out his tongue??? Like this:

I like peas! I like both lima and butter beans too. Funny thing is, where I grew up, lima beans were the big flat yellow ones, and butter beans were the small flat green ones - but where my husband grew up, it was exactly the opposite. And then one day we bought a can of the small green ones that said LIMA BEANS across the front of the label - but on the back of the label in tiny print, it said, 'Ingredients: Butter Beans.' Here's my question though: if the man in the article was eating peas, inhaled one, and it sprouted in his lung - how could that be possible unless he was eating raw peas? A cooked pea won't sprout.

It's not that we need science to tell us what God has done; it's that it puts a smile on my face when I see scientists arrive at a conclusion that the Bible already made clear. Many. many years ago I read an article that stated that, when scientists finally reach the pinnacle of their understanding, they will find a group of theologians sitting on the pinnacle, having been there already for a long, long time.

Oh good, you're back, wyguy! Just noticed today... but in my defense, I was missing myself most of July due to computer problems. And now that you're back - everybody chicken dance!

I too am a Christian woman who 'saved herself' for marriage - and now, as a widow, am 'saving myself' again. So we do exist. I am wondering though - is the OP angry with women who were previously, uh, wild but are now dedicated to the LORD and no longer promiscuous? If so, that is taking things too far (IMO). On the other hand, sadly, there are women in the churches, claiming to be Christian, yet still running around and living for the flesh. If this is the type of woman Big Time is angry about, that I can understand. Btw, has he been back to this thread since he posted the OP?

You know, I've been wondering - what would happen if we went the opposite way and made medical insurance illegal?

So, it's 'reliable' but 'flawed' - problem with that is, if you're 'relying' on the report, how do you know the part you're 'relying' on isn't the part that's 'flawed'?

Um... the OP and first reply were both from Apr 24 2008...

Yes, I have the photo but no longer remember where I found it online. The site where the letters are lies just east of Bethel - four letters, and the second from the right is clearest - looks like the equivalent of 'L'.

I was privileged, a couple of hours before my husband died, to overhear him talking in his sleep, saying, 'Hallelujah! Praise you, Father!' It was only later, when I couldn't wake him up, that I realized just what I had been hearing. It was a very great comfort for me, to have heard him rejoicing before the Throne.

Keep in mind there are actually 13 tribes of Israel, with two different ways of counting them as 12. First, they are the 12 sons of Jacob, among them Levi and Joseph. But at the end of Jacob's life, he blessed Joseph and said that Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, would be counted as Jacob's. So when time passed and the children of Israel conquered the land of Canaan and divided it up, the land was divided 12 ways and Ephraim and Manasseh were each assigned a territory (Manasseh actually got two areas, one on each side of the Jordan river). Levi is not counted among these, as they were assigned 48 towns but no territory. Then when the kingdom was divided into north and south, the ten tribes comprising the north included Ephraim and Manasseh. Benjamin stayed with Judah, for a total of 12 - and many of the Levites moved into the southern kingdom, especially after Jeroboam king of the northern tribes began making priests of all sorts of people to serve the golden calves he had set up. Hope that helps. (Btw, the two books of Chronicles cover the same history as 1 & 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Kings, giving a little different perspective. Samuel and Kings follow both northern and southern kingdoms, but Chronicles focuses on the southern kingdom.)

It's my understanding that the so-called 'Biblical' argument against celebrating birthdays is that there are only two birthday celebrations listed in Scripture - Pharoah's in Gen 40, and King Herod's in Matt 14 and Mark 6 - and during both celebrations, someone got executed. Yay, happy bday, we killed this guy in your honor! Why this should mean all bday celebrations are somehow evil or pagan, I dunno. For my part, I don't do much of a celebrations for family bdays - but that's mainly 'cause I'm too lazy to do a party.

The split between Judah and Israel came at the end of the reign of Solomon/beginning of the reign of his son Rehoboam when the northern ten tribes rejected Rehoboam as king and followed Jeroboam instead. Keep in mind that in the NT there were still people who knew from which tribe they came. In addition to Paul, who was from the tribe of Benjamin, there was also Anna from the tribe of Asher (as well as many from the tribe of Levi, still serving in the Temple).

While there certainly is a verse in Scripture stating that God is not a man, let us look at that verse: Num 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? What is the intent of the verse - to show that God is not male? Or is the intent of the verse to show that God is not human and a liar? If we carry too far the letter of this verse, we could also say that because this verse says God is not the son of man, then when Jesus calls Himself the son of man, He is saying that He is not God!

I was thinking the same thing also. But I think it's a good thing to discuss this. The OP may be dated, but there are others who are in similar situations. Just a thought. True - but we also already have many many many threads here at Worthy on the divorce and remarriage topic - lots of redundancy.

Just a reminder (again) - this thread is from May 2005, and the lady who posted it last visited Worthy the day after she posted it. So I doubt if she will see our advice.

I got the impression from the original article that Apple also won't take checks to pay for the iPad - is that so? Because if the point of 'no cash' is to have an account number associated with the serial number of the particular iPad - wouldn't a checking account number do? So why no checks (unless that's not what the policy is)?

Seems to me the feds lost control of the situation long, long ago?