Where Clergy and Laypeople Discuss God

Nursing is good. After you do that and after you get a little bit of employment experience, you can go for a MSN which will automatically get you a lot more money!

rstrats, I cannot think of any examples, but I have explored the issue that you're referring to. The bible can be interpreted either way because the writers were writing from two different vantage/sociological viewpoints. The first vantage point was from the Sadducees and the second vantage point was from the Pharisees. It deals with high holy days where one particular high holy day intersected with a Saturday sabbath. A similar issue occurs in Catholicism, which has feast days (instead of Jewish high holy days). For example, if a Catholic feast day occurs on a Thursday or a Friday, it is possible for the Catholic bishops to tell the parishioners that they are not obligated to go to the feast day on Thursday or Friday because it is so close to Sunday (or for Jews, Thursday or Friday is so close to the Saturday sabbath). It is very complicated. However, I did not give you a concrete black and white example BECAUSE the issue is so complicated. :-)

It is and almost has to be the "scarlet letter" in church's because of the high recidivism rate among those who abuse the young.  I've had to deal with several in church's where I've been in leadership, and they are under strict rules of where they can and cannot go to the point of even needing an adult escort to use the bathroom.

Being in a church leadership position (in that regard) would be extremely difficult i.e. it's very unsavory to have to deal pedafiles-in-the-church who have asked for forgiveness, but who are still having issues. That's one of those things that you don't think about, until you're in a leadership position.  Again, pedafilic thoughts are demonic in origin.

Our American generation has seen a fast and furious moral decline, to the point where SCOTUS has ruled that homosexuality and homosexual marriage is a Constitutionally protected right. That is a big pendulum swing, considering that it used to be a criminal offense just a few years ago. And then in 1973, SCOTUS ruled that abortions (killing human life) is also a protected right. This legally protected moral decline of American law is not in-line with the Word of God.

All blessings come from the Lord, to include the prosperity and security of the United States. I'm concerned that spiritual judgement will follow the moral depravity that is being embraced at the highest legal levels in our nation.  The wheels of God move slowly, but finely.

The title of this next article is "Lamp runs on nothing but saltwater."

http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/gadgets-electronics/stories/lamp-runs-nothing-saltwater

I'm not a scientist but this seems like a bunch of nonsense. They talk about HHO gas. What is that? H₂O. Which we all know is water and what is water in the form of gas? It's called steam!  I seriously doubt that too many gas engines would run very long on steam.

With all the tree huggers out there if this were true it would be trumpeted from all the mountain tops around the world. Not even the oil companies could pay enough to keep their mouths shut.

Agreed! However, here is another unbelievable development is technology to clean-up polluted water and polluted soils:
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/major-breakthrough-transforms-polluted-water-drinking-water-143545112.html

Electronic devices injected into the brain or other body parts may treat everything from neurodegenerative disorders to paralysis.

Researchers developed a method for fabricating nano-scale electronic scaffolds that can be injected via syringe. Once connected to electronic devices, the scaffolds monitor neural activity, stimulate tissues and promote regenerations of neurons.

"This opens up a new frontier where we can interface between electronic structures and biology e.g.  electronics/cellular interface."

The idea of merging the biological with the electronic is...

http://phys.org/news/2015-06-electronics-basic-neuroscience-treatment-neuro-degenerative.html

You really have to see this stuff to believe it. You decide if it's relation to the locusts in the book of Revelation.

Here are youtubes about it:

Overview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cJv4O2zEOw

Military applications:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCZCQOg-zKs

Mini insect-robot applications:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIRoIdpNyZc

Swarm robots catch a ball in midair:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2itwFJCgFQ

Technical specifications from Harvard University:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1t4M2XnIhI

Key Search Terms
Micro Air Vehicles (M.A.R.)
Low Cost UAV Swarm Technology (LOCUST)

Then locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. They hurt not grass or any green thing or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+9%3A1-11&version=NKJV

This is such a relevant question.  I have met preachers who constantly assure their members of their salvation, yet they are afraid to die.

It's a tough question and a tough issue. I know for a fact that I'm going to heaven -- but only because the Lord told me so. But how many other people has He told? And if someone knows that they are going to heaven -- then exactly how to they know? It's interesting to note that the Apostle Paul also knew that he was going to heaven. If not Paul, then why not others too?

Even though I know I'm going to heaven, I occasionally have doubts them present themselves i.e. when I look at myself and consider only myself (without Christ). Without Christ, no one goes to heaven because it is a kingdom and all those who enter MUST acknowledge Jesus as King of kings and Lord of lords. If someone rejects Jesus as Lord, then it is impossible for them to enter heaven i.e. at some point, they must accept the King (Jesus) in order to enter His kingdom.