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Feeling like troule . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCqXgYWAYE4

Shiny happy . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbGSDkvh8B0

Its the season . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwJEY0iZCY0...feature=related

. . . Jack Butler's gonna like you . . .

a drunkards dream . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGSEac-zAC4

used to do a little. . .

Currently monday...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyoknbvXlwM

I've heard bits and pieces about it, I would be interested in what about it people find that they identify with. My wife was watching Oprah and then was telling me about it; it sounds interesting.

Here ya go...

Ha ha charade you are http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T30cQgHoRE

Christianity Today says that Rob Bell is going to tbe the next Billy Graham. I don't know about all that, but I like his videos. This was the first video I saw of his in Bible College by a professor who got his doctorate at Fuller Theological Seminary, where Rob Bell got his masters degree. This is an awesome video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8H73nfM7qQ&NR=1

You haven't given enough information to answer that. Specifically like, does this loving God require anything? What do you mean by reject? What do you mean by love?

Very nice. Thank you.

Right, the Pharisees used to pray something like "Lord I thank you that I was not born a woman and dog or a gentile" which we all see the uncompassion in and would never even consider. I really think 1 Cor 14:34 is a cultural and situational comment. I beleive it is Paul's comment and was not added by someone later.

The rest of your post echos what I believe about women in ministry: there is a need and they are effective and God many times can use them easier it would seem than he can use men, and many times it was the women that got (get) it, not the men. On this first part here, the part I have in quotes; women and genitles are two different issues. The vision Peter had (Acts 10:10-15) showed that the Gentiles were grafted in and the was now no difference between Jew and gentile, faith in Christ is now the issue not race. And that was proved when the baptism of the Holy Ghost fell on the gentles the same way it fell on the Jews (Acts 10:45). The rules changed in the New Testament regarding gentiles; assuming I understand where you were going with that.

One thing to note, when you read the epistles (specifically Paul's), you have to realize that you are reading a letter inspired by the Holy Ghost written by a theologian with lofty ways of explaining what he is talking about. By today’s standards, Paul would be a double PhD in Theology. Paul's letters were always written in response to something that was going on in the church he was writing to, either bad behavior or bad doctrine. When we read the epistles written by Paul we are reading the response to either a situation or a question that was asked him. It’s like Jeopardy; you have the answer, but what was the question? I've heard several explanations for his statement of "Let the women keep silent in the church," and none really sound right to me. The only sense I can make out if it is that (among the other problems addressed in First Corinthians) there was some issue with the women talking during their services. Due to the cultural and historical distance, the reason behind that comment may be lost. We do know that Paul ordained women as deacons (Pricilla) and that there were women prophets (prophetesses) and women judges. God used women in leadership in the history of Israel and in the history of the church. There are seminary classes specifically on women in ministry. I would not make a doctrine about Bible contradictions based on an obscure passage.

I've found in my studies that Paul's Greek was not as good as Luke or Apollos. The question about the authorship of The Epistle to the Hebrews is a good example. Many say Paul wrote it and if you read it in the English you might think that. If you read it in the Greek you would be equally sure he did not write it. All the Old Testament quotes in The Epistle of Hebrews were from the Septuagint which is in Greek; Paul would have used the Tanakh which is in Hebrew. Paul normally had people write what he was saying in the Greek, and then he would write the ending salutations in his writing as a seal of the document's authenticity. The Gospel of Luke is considered to be Paul's Gospel by the way.