Why Do Christians Curse? Some Christians curse because they don’t know any better. Perhaps they were raised in a household that curses and has not yet read the Bible in full, so they do not understand that cursing is not in alignment with the sort of gentle, humble, self-...
We’re only in the early one hundreds do the Romans seem to make a concerted view to like, we need to maybe keep an eye on this. You find periodic persecutions, Nero, for instance, persecuted to Christians in Rome, but you don’t find a massive empire wide kind of crackdown because...
Comforting Rachel: How Christians Should Respond to Prenatal DeathSeveral years ago I had a miscarriage about five months into pregnancy. My husband and I had...Howard, Agnes R
As Christians, we want to experience God through the Bible… we really do! But our good intentions fall flat when reading the Bible just doesn’t seem to help us experience God in a real way. What should feel dynamic and important and alive often feels confusing and boring and irrelevant....
others estimate the date 430 B.C. With Christianity's encroaching threat to the ancient gods, some Greeks paid to have their beloved statue removed to safety in Constantinople, which is modern-day Istanbul. Christians shut down the temple in 391 A.D., and the statue was guaranteed safe-keep...
The primary reason that Christians wanted to adopt children from Korea after the Korean war seems to be to “save” that child from a difficult life of being stigmatized as a child born out of wedlock. But who should make that decision? If the scriptures teach believers to ...
For all Christians, there is the requirement of En. 130, 9: accept the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity. In Trin. Augustine says, “For among the faithful this ought not to have questioning”—nam hoc inter fideles non debet habere quaestionem (Trin. 15.6.9; Augustinus 1968b, CCL 50A,...
In Letter LXX, Seneca provides yet another contrast meant to highlight that family members sometimes can give good advice and sometimes they fail to do so. It’s the story of the young Drusus Libo, who was in the middle of a trial where he was expecting a death sentence. He was wonder...
To me it is very sad to think that so many professed Christians look upon death as they do. I received some time ago a letter from a friend in London, and I thought, as I read it, I would take it and show it to other people and see if I could not get them to look upon deat...
these were the Donatists. The Roman landowners were creditors, so the new reversal of Christianity could not accept the Lord’s Prayer calling for debt cancellation. Augustine called in the Roman troops to fight against Christians. His problem was, how do we get rid of Christianity and call it...