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Wow, that was a pretty long response in a short amount of time. Whew! You mentioned Philips’ daughters. Can you describe your thoughts on what exactly their role in the church was?

As a biblicist and a patriarchal man, seeing ladies using the Internet to broadcast and teach things (to mixed multitudes, no less) apart from what is prescribed in Titus 2 makes me sad inside, particularly in light of what happened in the Garden...

Because Einstein was often right. If quantum theory guys have taken Eistein seriously, then would find non-locality phenomena 4 decades earlier.

Newsom deriding anyone for anything is the biggest joke of all. Whatever the joke, Newsom is always the punchline. The guy is an absolute disgrace to his state and this country. If he’s your idea of the antidote to Trump, you’re diagnosing...

You need to read more. "We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests." - Winston Churchill

I hate articles that sit behind pay walls!

Imho the dumbest advice ever begins "If I were you...." because if you really were that other person you would do what they actually do ...which might actually be INCONCEIVABLE to you.

It is about a particular lineage, religion wise. Baptists maintain they were never a part of the Catholic Church. They say there was a string of particular descent- Anabaptist, some Hutterites, and other people groups that had the basic core...

I have been with biblical families from the beginning and have see a lot of people come amd go. It was very biblical focused and discussion was open on all topics. It seems though there is a slight less of a focuse on the bible as in the...

It depends upon how this is framed. In our context I do not believe a first wife has to release her husband from his vows in order for him to take a second wife. If he is fulfilling his vows to his first wife then he will have established his...

This is an ideal. In the real world a wife has every authority to enforce a husband's vow by visiting consequences upon the husband who violates it. Paging Lorena Bobbit. ;) Understand that to me authority is not an entitlement, it is the...

But to whom is the vow made? I have not seen in scripture where a man makes a vow TO the woman. The agreement or covenant that I have seen (Laban, et all.) is between the MEN, similar to a change of ownership ("stewardship" for those who reject...

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush. We’ve seen plenty of lives play out in disaster over the years on this site because men discovered a mature doctrine and pursued it with youthful reckless abandon.

And if the first one is on shakey ground, taking a second may fare no better. I wrote my own vows for my first marriage and they were a combination of Bible verses, so I didn't have to deal with this unbiblical vows issue. However, as far as I...

The monogamy vow is a little bit of all of those options. Vows in general should be kept. A wife has no authority to enforce a vow on her husband. A husband has the authority to instruct his wife to release him from that vow. The doctrinal case...