This thread is for the discussion of secular/pagan Xmas problems and thoughts. I used Xmas to differentiate this thread form the Christmas thread. To discuss the birth of Jesus please use the Christmas Thread.
The Religious Studies Room
The Xmas Thread: Discussions on secular/pagan practices
Submitted by Loutzenhiser on Mon, 2008-11-03 02:15.
The Christmas Thread: On the birth of Jesus
Submitted by Loutzenhiser on Sun, 2008-11-02 19:36.
This thread is for your thoughts, memories and praises of the Birth of Jesus. For posts on the secular/pagan aspects of Xmas please use the Xmas thread.
The Easter Bunny and other secular/pagan Easter practices
Submitted by Loutzenhiser on Mon, 2008-09-15 14:53.
Just who is this Easter Bunny? Where did he come from? How did he get into Christ's resurrection? Should Christian's participate? What other secular/pagan Easter practices are in Christ's Resurrection? For discussions on the Resurrection of Christ then please use the Passover thread.
The Passover (Easter) Thread: On the resurrection of Jesus
Submitted by Loutzenhiser on Thu, 2008-02-21 03:26.
Put your thoughts, memories and stories of Passover here. For the secular/pagan discussion of Easter please use the Easter Bunny thread.
Importance of prayer
Submitted by beforHim on Thu, 2009-09-24 09:44.
Getting a job is useful. it's important. It's necessary. It's good. Same with passing college classes. Another example (a little different): getting married is good, and we really want it. Companionship is really sought after, it's helpful, it's just a good thing.
So...
Free will and grace
Submitted by Noshic on Fri, 2009-08-28 08:58.
This is a qusetion with immense personal relevance - which probably most of you have good answers to.
Does man have free-will to reject Christ and condemn himself to hell? Or does God plant the seed of faith by His grace in certain hearts - so as to 'channel' their free-will towards the acceptance of His word? If so, how does He determine whom He will or will not touch by His grace? And then how relevant is free-will anyway?
Homechool group?
Submitted by Loutzenhiser on Sat, 2009-08-08 19:43.
Is there interest in starting a discussion group for homeschoolers to help them use CCEL resources for home schooling?
hypothetically...what scriptures could be their foundation?
Submitted by newdaddy on Sat, 2009-07-18 09:49.
So this old Christian couple rents out there second fl apt to a couple which they believe to be married. In time they discover that they are not and do not intend on marrrying. What biblical stand can be presented justifying why they would evict?
Reader-Response Criticism and Postmodernism?
Submitted by slhumbucker on Wed, 2009-06-17 11:31.
Reader-Response Criticism argues vigorously against the idea that meaning is embedded in the text and that the task of the reader is to get it out. This form believes that meaning emerges in the dialectical relationship between the text, as object, and the reader, as subject.
Is this a result of postmodernism, or is post modernism a result of this kind of thought? How do you think this will effect biblical interpretation in the future?
How do those who believe in scriptural authority respond to these?
God's moral purity
Submitted by slhumbucker on Mon, 2009-06-01 21:54.
Some have contended that there is tension between God's moral purity and His love. How would you respond to such a charge?