The Narrow Path Ministries

Hello - I am curious to hear other people's understandings of what love is.

(I do not intend to respond on this topic - I want to listen.)

Hello, Singalphile, What does it even mean for a law to be loving and merciful and generous? That makes little sense to me. (Just how loving is a law is supposed to be?) It makes sense to say that a law is just . Laws should be just. I may be better poised to discuss this if I have a better understa...

Steve - Thank you for taking the time to respond in detail. Your remarks are interesting, because we have profoundly different ways of thinking. While love is every man's responsibility, the Christian belief is that loving to the point of laying down one's life for others is not common, or even poss...

Hello, steve7150 - nice to see you, too There are more and less prudent ways to go about receiving refugees. Of course, we should pay attention to experiences in other nations, and we should attempt to learn from them. But America is not Europe. We have a much larger population and much more territo...

Hello, steve, I do not think of love, mercy, generosity, peacemaking, etc . as exclusively Christian responsibilities, or as exclusively private responsibilities. Our national community has responsibilities to love, to be merciful, to be generous, etc . These responsibilities should be priorities fo...

This afternoon, I caught a portion of the radio broadcast. One discussion touched on the refugee issue. As usual, Steve's remarks were worth hearing and considering. I would like to comment on the issue, perhaps from a different tack. (Unfortunately, I was not able to listen to the entire discussion...

mattrose wrote: kaufmannphillips wrote: The relative earliness of certain ideas does not guarantee their reliability. I think you missed the point. Toward the end, Steve7150 said... There were multiple aspects of Steve's post that afforded response. I'll retain the privilege of responding to the as...

Hi, Doug - Thanks for your response. I have not given a lot of attention to gnostic studies, and will not expend time engaging the merits or liabilities of Smith's thesis. But I will point out that mainstream Judaism came to grips with the disappointments of the revolutionary era - without rejecting...

Acts 2:25-35 might have a couple of examples. The writer portrays Peter as discounting fulfillment in the initial context, but asserting fulfillment in a first-century context. The reasoning behind this might amount to a sense of "discrete" fulfillment.

Any example(s) you'd like to offer?