who has been in a Christian ministry for a long time who told me that “you can not be alone with an opposite sex in a car, or in a house, or been seen as a couple which all are sin”. I often say to her, “why don’t you come over tonight, we can hang out in my house and watch TV?” It bothers her so bad when I say this to her……. I am single and that is how single people hang out. Its not like I am asking her to have sex with me or we are going to do anything like that AT ALL~!
To Muldah, this is true and I am respecting my friend. I am a new Christian myself and learning. The Bible also say something like… “God thought it is NOT good for man to be alone, so he made woman.”

Being single may not always be happy or our desired current path. but we are called to “shine for Him” and making the most of being single is as vital as receiving what we have been waiting for. We need to make the most of being single and do as much as we can and of the things that we could not do as well or as much if we were married.

Fourth of July 2007 Dodger Game

Jesus or Essa, the son of Merriam the daughter of Zachariah, born
during a hot summer climate, and it was in a secluded area but not a cave, and Dates do plum in August and that was the food the marry used to gain back her strength…
But based on the practices of the following Churches as…
1- Eastern Greek Orthodox Church Celebrates the Birth of
Jesus in every January
2- Western Roman Catholic Church Celebrates this day in Feb
but they don’t
3- The Protestant Church,
The Angelical Evangelical Church,
The Methodist Church,
The Lutheran Church and other derivatives
The later day of Saints Church
All do celebrate this day as 25 Dec every year and they are derivatives of the Protestant Church that went a muck from the Western Roman Catholic Church.
…Do you know the Truth…?
Can one tell truth about the actual birth date and give a good proof. Why Christian place a tree that does not exist in his birth place, & who is Santa?

For some reason the idea of an actual historical Jesus rarely confronts the religious believer. The power of “blind faith” has so forcefully driven the minds of most believers, and even apologetic scholars, that the question of reliable evidence gets obscured by tradition, religious subterfuge, and outrageous claims. I will give you good reasons why so you can make an informed answer, without having to read too much.

ALL CLAIMS OF JESUS DERIVE FROM HEARSAY ACCOUNTS

No one has the slightest physical evidence to support a historical Jesus; no artifacts, dwelling, works of carpentry, or self-written manuscripts. All claims about Jesus derive from writings of other people. There occurs no contemporary Roman record that shows Pontius Pilate executing a man named Jesus. Devastating to historians, there occurs not a single contemporary writing that mentions Jesus. All documents about Jesus got written well after the life of the alleged Jesus from either: unknown authors, people who had never met an earthly Jesus, or from fraudulent, mythical or allegorical writings. Although one can argue that many of these writings come from fraud or interpolations, I will use the information and dates to show that even if these sources did not come from interpolations, they could still not serve as reliable evidence for a historical Jesus, simply because all sources derive from hearsay accounts

Hearsay means information derived from other people rather than on a witness’ own knowledge. Courts of law do not generally allow hearsay as testimony, and nor does honest modern scholarship. Hearsay provides no proof or good evidence, and therefore, we should dismiss it.

The most “authoritative” accounts of a historical Jesus come from the four canonical Gospels of the Bible. Note that these Gospels did not come into the Bible as original and authoritative from the authors themselves, but rather from the influence of early church fathers, especially the most influential of them all: Irenaeus of Lyon who lived in the middle of the second century. Many heretical gospels existed by that time, but Irenaeus considered only some of them for mystical reasons. He claimed only four in number; according to Romer, “like the four zones of the world, the four winds, the four divisions of man’s estate, and the four forms of the first living creatures– the lion of Mark, the calf of Luke, the man of Matthew, the eagle of John (see Against the Heresies). The four gospels then became Church cannon for the orthodox faith. Most of the other claimed gospel writings were burned, destroyed, or lost.” [Romer]

Elaine Pagels writes: “Although the gospels of the New Testament– like those discovered at Nag Hammadi– are attributed to Jesus’ followers, no one knows who actually wrote any of them.” [Pagels, 1995]

Not only do we not know who wrote them, consider that none of the Gospels existed during the alleged life of Jesus, nor do the unknown authors make the claim to have met an earthly Jesus. Add to this that none of the original gospel manuscripts exist; we only have copies of copies.

The consensus of many biblical historians put the dating of the earliest Gospel, that of Mark, at sometime after 70 C.E., and the last Gospel, John after 90 C.E. [Pagels, 1995; Helms]. This would make it some 40 years after the alleged crucifixion of Jesus that we have any Gospel writings that mention him! Elaine Pagels writes that “the first Christian gospel was probably written during the last year of the war, or the year it ended. Where it was written and by whom we do not know; the work is anonymous, although tradition attributes it to Mark…” [Pagels, 1995]

The traditional Church has portrayed the authors as the apostles Mark, Luke, Matthew, & John, but scholars know from critical textural research that there simply occurs no evidence that the gospel authors could have served as the apostles described in the Gospel stories. Yet even today, we hear priests and ministers describing these authors as the actual disciples of Christ. Many Bibles still continue to label the stories as “The Gospel according to St. Matthew,” “St. Mark,” “St. Luke,” St. John.” No apostle would have announced his own sainthood before the Church’s establishment of sainthood. But one need not refer to scholars to determine the lack of evidence for authorship. As an experiment, imagine the Gospels without their titles. See if you can find out from the texts who wrote them; try to find their names.

I realize that came out to more reading then I intended, but if you could get through the first 2 paragraphs you would see where I was going with the rest of my statement.
I guess the Christians couldn’t get through all the big words, but thank you other people who answered. And the chariot wheel at the bottom of the Red Sea, just prove my point. Unless your being sarcastic, then haha very funny mockery.

I’d like to go to a church that’s not too preachy. AND ONE THAT DEFINITELY DOESN’T EXPECT MONEY FROM ME SINCE I DON’T HAVE MUCH! I’d like to attend a church that is more about living life in a Christian like manner and is about being a “good” person! However, it’d have to be somewhat liberal. I have been dating a guy for 8 years and we are sexually active and I see nothing wrong with that. It isn’t practical for us to get married as we are both not financially stable. It’d be great to find a church where I could socialize and hang out with good people. Are they all against drinking in moderation??? I have no friends except for my boyfriend. I am very depressed and I think the right church might help me get over my depression! I just don’t like it when they push Jesus down your throat all the time. I think being a Christian should be about being a good person, does that make sense? I was baptized Greek Orthodox but I don’t fit in at all with this branch of Christianity.

Hi, can a person make money from an affilliated website,Ive just been told you can,t and Ive spent two years trying to do just that and my sum total to date is £76 ,I am beginning to think that something is wrong,(lol) wink,.
Now a brighter person would have cottoned on earlier but if your pig headed and stubborn ,like me,you don,t see the obvious, in your blinkers, trying to achieve your goal,in my case it is to be millionaire this time next year,.
Now for you guys who remember del and rodney trotter ,”only fools and horses” I think we must be related because the years are passing and Ive still not achieved that goal,in fact Ive got £76,actually no I don,t ,I get it when I get to £100 so by my calculations “if am still here” I will make £100 in another couple of years,.Of course you lot could feel sorry for me and join my dating agency thelovefactor.co.uk or better still if your a rich millionairess ,”note the ess”you may just want to give me a million ,am single free and easy.

so before i put it here, i would like to note that even though i am a sophomore in highschool. i knew NOTHING about evolution. literally nothing, in our christian highschool all we ever learned about evolution is the reasons why it is wrong. and plus I’m just extremely SLOW in science in general. this is all from information I accumulated in the past 2 days (I’m also a procrastinator) I’m not looking for any harsh judgement, just anything I could add or take out THANKS SO MUCH
(and I’m going to work cite the things from websites dont worry no plagerism here)

The beginning of the earth has been a mystery, boggling the minds of the erudite and the simple minded alike for years. The topic of creation vs. evolution has become increasingly controversial. In biology, Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is a change in the genetic material of a population of organisms from one generation to the next. Though changes produced in any one generation are normally small, differences accumulate with each generation and can, over time, become substantial changes in the population. Such similarities among species suggest that all known species are descended from a common ancestor (or ancestral gene pools process of gradual divergence). Evolution is supported in many different ways, but one major category pointing to its validity is fossils. Through fossil dating, hominoid fossils, and, evolution has become the theory accepted by the majority of those in the scientific forefront.

Evolution is supported through fossil records. The study of the sequence of occurrence in rocks reveals the relative time in which organisms lived. This technique shows that one layer of rock is older or younger than another. Later through the discovery of radioactivity, scientists were given the opportunity to learn the age of fossils and rocks . Through these records, a vague timeline is illustrated of the evolutionary change that has been occurring over the past four billion years. This proves that the earth is much older then creationist would like to argue. A popular criticism of the fossil records is that the gaps in this timeline are enough to disprove the line all together, but the more that is learned about the evolution of specific species line’s, the more these gaps or missing links in the chain are filled with transitional fossil specimens. A specific example of this is the Archaeopteryx. This was the earliest and most primitive bird known . The London specimen of this bird was discovered only two years after the publication of On the Origin of Species. Fossils records are one factor that works to make evolution true beyond a reasonable doubt.

Evolution is supported through hominoid fossils. Hominoids are those belonging to the super family Homiondea which includes apes, humans, and, sub-species in between this spectrum. Evolution refers to the slow process of human adaption over millions of years, so hominids are crucial in giving legitimacy to the concept that humans were slowly developed and that there ancestry is rooted in another species. The roots of humanity are believed to be located in South Africa where the earliest hominoids are discovered. Many hominids fossils of fragmented body and skull have been discovered. One of the more famous examples is Lucy, discovered by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray in 1974 At Hadar in Ethiopia . Lucy was an adult female of twenty-five years olds and is placed into the Australopithecus afarensis category. Hominids are a major support of evolution.

Evolution is supported by transitional fossils. Transitional fossils are the remains of intermediary forms of life that illustrate an evolutionary transition. Such fossils would serve as evidence to the principle that life is developed through evolving organisms, which again, points to one ancestral source. In the time of Charles Darwin, knowledge of fossil records were scarce, and He himself said in regards to the lack of transitional fossils “this is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory” , since then scientists became more enlightened in transitional fossil groups and more were discovered, as he also predicted. Some examples are the Nautoloidea, this is a group of marine cephalopods belong to the subclass Nautioidea. Nautioidea’s begin in the late Cambrian and are represented today by the living Nautilus . This is one of the many examples of one transitional forms discovered through fossils linking one species to another. Examples of these links are fish to tetra pods, amphibians to amniotes, and dinosaurs to birds. Transitional forms are a major support of evolution

Fossils through fossil dating, hominoid fossils, and living fossils shed much light to evolution and its validity. Although it only covers a small section of the multi-faceted theory, it is a crucial one. Fossils can be used as a testament to the gradual changes in nature and in mankind. It also shows that the world is extremel

Hey, me and one of my friends just started a good dating relationship. we are christians, but we both have room for growth, and wed like to help each other out.

Does anyone know any good devotional books for newer couples? Im looking for books that have topical conversations that we can relate to our everyday lives.

Im not really looking for anything that has to do with being engaged or stuff like that.

Thanks for any help!

I have been a very devoted Christian my whole life. When it comes to dating, I have noticed the christian guys around me have worse beliefs than non-christians. And I have been dating a non-christian (devoted Buddhist) guy for almost 2 years now. He is the PERFECT guy-smart, funny, caring, romantic, etc. We are deeply in love, but I am torn whether or not to continue this relationship because I feel like other than everything being perfect, my relationship with God has become very distant. What should I do? Is it ok to continue dating? He has even spoken of marriage to me, but has told me he will NEVER convert to Christianism. He knows everything about it but just wants to live as a good person.