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Those of you who go back to the MennoDiscuss days will doubtless remember our dear sister Anabaptistenigma - one of the brightest minds and sincerest hearts to grace MD back in the day. Sadly, we have just learned that she has been diagnosed with stage-4 bile duct cancer metastasized around the liv...

How we post is how we speak. Seeking truth, I believe, about anything has some direction in the scriptures on just how we go about it. Here are a few verses that I think reminds us of just how well we are controlling our post language. I do need to be reminded of them because of the battle I have w...

About half of seeker disaster stories I know of - there is literally nothing they could have done to fix things (other than to ignore or go along with blatant open sin). This is part of the challenge. If less conservative groups let more things go a seeker can fit in easier but they look around wit...

That's also possible. I'm not sure I can tell from the text exactly what the biggest problem was with his offering. It may not have been the nature of the offering but rather the attitude in which he brought it. He seems to have been very quickly offended by the rejection. Gen 4:3  And it was so af...

There must have been instructions for sacrifice given at some point prior, and Cain chose to do it his way rather than God's way. It was Cain's response to the non-acceptance of his sacrifice that made things go from bad to worse. We still have problems today accepting correction. I don’t know for ...

Side question, do you believe it’s fine to wear plant derived clothing or is that wrong in your eyes? I don't have a firm doctrine or position on that. However, I do see a few interesting things in Genesis and in the old law: - Clothes made from plants were insufficient and instead fresh leather fr...

Just seeing the similarities. My dogs would've certainly dived in to retrieve the stick and gotten clobbered while they fought over it. I would have had to tell them, "Don't blame me--I didn't ax you to do that." :lol: [Pardon my Southern accent.] :lol: Context is essential. :hi5 Memory: ...

Seems from the story that Delilah seduced Samson into telling her the secret of his strength which led to him losing his eyes. Delilah does not seem to have been an innocent bystander. Delilah was a Philistine and Samson's parents begged him to choose a wife who was a fellow Israelite and follower ...

I would add: perhaps I feel this way because I was never taught such nonsense as that women are responsible if I fell into lust. Instead, my parents taught me that it is important not to be a lustful or perverted person. The examples they used from scripture were Samson, Solomon, and King David, as...

Now I would really be curious how the parents here of 14 year-olds would respond to a 14 year-old who says: "You know, I don't particularly agree with this one specific tenant of church teaching so I'm going to stop attending." Most parents would probably have rent their garments in respo...