I recently wrote about a spiritual gift test I had taken online. Besides being amused that fundamentalist Christians seem to believe that ordinary talents that we all possess are somehow supernatural gifts, I was struck by one gift in particular: the gift of faith. I thought about this when J.D., another poster on [...]...

According to SpiritualGiftsTest.com, A spiritual gift is a supernatural ability given by the Holy Spirit to a person at the moment of his or her salvation. The webmasters at SpiritualGiftsTest.com attend The Vine Church who are affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Their site seems to reflect mainstream SBC theology. They provide the following list [...]...

What do you imagine heaven will be like? If you take Revelations 21:4 literally… Revelations 21:4 - "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." …then one thing you [...]...

Jesus is quoted in Matthew 17:20 as saying: …if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. In other words, with the tiniest amount of faith, you can move mountains. How much faith do [...]...

New thread courtesy of Edwin - he writes: I would like to mention something about one of the verses you used in a posting about homosexuality. "Lev 20:13 - If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their [...]...