... consider that in virtually every instance a thought or feeling precedes an action. A person can then decide to act on that thought or feeling. That is why there are many things you have thought to do you have not done and vice versa. Habits are formed by repeatedly yielding to certain thoughts or feelings until they become second nature. If this is not true then we should nor prosecute pedophiles and incest and bestiality should be okay because they are "wired that way"! How else do you explain bisexuality or celibacy?
BTW, heterosexuals can and do go to hell too, because admission has nothing to do with sexuality!
... how often people overlook the words of Christ to the woman caught in the act of adultery (which in Jewish culture was sex between a male and female couple with at least one person being unmarried) which was "... go and sin no more". Surely if Christ thought heterosexual sex outside of Gods prescribed boundary(marriage) was wrong and people should choose to stop it, then same sex relations must be as well (since the Torah was His point of reference). **All** sexual acts with the exception of rape are voluntary acts, which means they are free will choices **not** acts of automatism!!
People also choose to overlooks Christs response when asked about divorce when he noted marriage is between a male and female. Society can change civil law to suit its purposes, but it cannot change Gods law, but each gets to believe what they choose, at the end of the day, God will judge!
@FrustratedBusinessman... quite frankly I am surprised you responded for only one with puerile thoughts would attempt to draw a contrast between the manifold complexities of God and the universal realities of something or someone greater than man and a story confined to former English colonies!
... so children can't go to school even though there is virtually no risk they could spread or get COVID-19, the people on Exuma can't leave and those from Exuma in the capital can't go home all because of protocols publicly announced by the competent authority, but he had to physically travel there to keep the people up to date?
Unacceptable! Minnis is now following in the footsteps of many Democratic governors in America in making and enforcing but not following the rules they themselves make.
... the other extreme of your argument is to approach it with an open-mindedness that strips it or the moral authority it ought have and bend it to conform to the will of the reader. The bible is first and foremost a spiritual book that must be engaged with ones spirit, not just the limited biased mind!
... people tend to make that which is simple complicated for any number of reasons. Start with the fact that there are only two kinds of truth, absolute and relative. Gods perspective is absolute truth, it does not change. Of course people can misinterpret it for their own purposes. Temporal views are usually relative truth and subjective.
Sin is to fall below Gods standard. We are born below that standard, but a remedy has been made to breach that deficit if we chose to accept it.
Man did not create sex, marriage or intimacy, God did and for specific purposes. To choose to live outside of the parameters He made is to willfully reject His standard. Those who want to believe in LGBT ideology are free moral agents and can believe what they want. At the end of the day when people breathe their last, it is not your local LGBT chapter that will judge on consensus. Your spirit returns to God and He will judge by the standards He imposed whether we like it or not. People have a right to choose or reject truth-- the consequences of that choice is for each individual alone to bear.
... yep! Exuma on lockdown, no one can get in or out UNLESS you are the PM, with his crew looking for a photo op while not socially distancing, but they did not want you to get together with family for Thanksgiving! No hypocrisy there!
joeblow says...
Just when my nausea had started to improve they had to print this picture?
On Christie keeping clear of candidate selection
Posted 4 December 2020, 10:03 a.m. Suggest removal
joeblow says...
This headline is irresponsible for the family of the deceased especially since no initial drug testing etc was done!
The Tribune, always in a rush to print sensational headlines without fact checking first!
On Juvenile found dead in suspected suicide
Posted 4 December 2020, 9:16 a.m. Suggest removal
joeblow says...
... consider that in virtually every instance a thought or feeling precedes an action. A person can then decide to act on that thought or feeling. That is why there are many things you have thought to do you have not done and vice versa. Habits are formed by repeatedly yielding to certain thoughts or feelings until they become second nature. If this is not true then we should nor prosecute pedophiles and incest and bestiality should be okay because they are "wired that way"! How else do you explain bisexuality or celibacy?
BTW, heterosexuals can and do go to hell too, because admission has nothing to do with sexuality!
On Hateful speech
Posted 3 December 2020, 7:40 p.m. Suggest removal
joeblow says...
This can only mean the best dancers will get to headline the Christmas party, likely to be held in the Supreme Court or House of Assembly!
On ‘Disciplinary action taken’ over party in courtroom
Posted 3 December 2020, 8:56 a.m. Suggest removal
joeblow says...
... how often people overlook the words of Christ to the woman caught in the act of adultery (which in Jewish culture was sex between a male and female couple with at least one person being unmarried) which was "... go and sin no more". Surely if Christ thought heterosexual sex outside of Gods prescribed boundary(marriage) was wrong and people should choose to stop it, then same sex relations must be as well (since the Torah was His point of reference). **All** sexual acts with the exception of rape are voluntary acts, which means they are free will choices **not** acts of automatism!!
People also choose to overlooks Christs response when asked about divorce when he noted marriage is between a male and female. Society can change civil law to suit its purposes, but it cannot change Gods law, but each gets to believe what they choose, at the end of the day, God will judge!
On Hateful speech
Posted 3 December 2020, 8:20 a.m. Suggest removal
joeblow says...
@FrustratedBusinessman... quite frankly I am surprised you responded for only one with puerile thoughts would attempt to draw a contrast between the manifold complexities of God and the universal realities of something or someone greater than man and a story confined to former English colonies!
On A response to hate
Posted 1 December 2020, 9:44 p.m. Suggest removal
joeblow says...
... so children can't go to school even though there is virtually no risk they could spread or get COVID-19, the people on Exuma can't leave and those from Exuma in the capital can't go home all because of protocols publicly announced by the competent authority, but he had to physically travel there to keep the people up to date?
Unacceptable! Minnis is now following in the footsteps of many Democratic governors in America in making and enforcing but not following the rules they themselves make.
On Minnis defends trips to the Family Islands
Posted 1 December 2020, 3:10 p.m. Suggest removal
joeblow says...
... the other extreme of your argument is to approach it with an open-mindedness that strips it or the moral authority it ought have and bend it to conform to the will of the reader. The bible is first and foremost a spiritual book that must be engaged with ones spirit, not just the limited biased mind!
On A response to hate
Posted 1 December 2020, 9:11 a.m. Suggest removal
joeblow says...
... people tend to make that which is simple complicated for any number of reasons. Start with the fact that there are only two kinds of truth, absolute and relative. Gods perspective is absolute truth, it does not change. Of course people can misinterpret it for their own purposes. Temporal views are usually relative truth and subjective.
Sin is to fall below Gods standard. We are born below that standard, but a remedy has been made to breach that deficit if we chose to accept it.
Man did not create sex, marriage or intimacy, God did and for specific purposes. To choose to live outside of the parameters He made is to willfully reject His standard. Those who want to believe in LGBT ideology are free moral agents and can believe what they want. At the end of the day when people breathe their last, it is not your local LGBT chapter that will judge on consensus. Your spirit returns to God and He will judge by the standards He imposed whether we like it or not. People have a right to choose or reject truth-- the consequences of that choice is for each individual alone to bear.
On A response to hate
Posted 1 December 2020, 9:02 a.m. Suggest removal
joeblow says...
... yep! Exuma on lockdown, no one can get in or out UNLESS you are the PM, with his crew looking for a photo op while not socially distancing, but they did not want you to get together with family for Thanksgiving! No hypocrisy there!
On PM: New Deputy PM, Minister of Finance will be announced 'very soon'
Posted 28 November 2020, 8:42 a.m. Suggest removal