I just joined today after joining two previous forums. I think this is alot closer to what I've been looking for.
I am a 30ish year old married dude with two kids and a love for the Lord. I am not seeking to marry another woman and even if I was was; I would drink bleach and test out Mark 16:18 before I looked for a female over an internet forum.
I am an INTJ and enjoy vigorous debate, and take bittersweet satisfaction in being proven wrong. My great dream is that I will find someone who will so thoroughly best me that I (like the Beast at the end of Kung-Fu hustle) must bow and call them "teacher".
I try not to be a jerk, although sometimes the way I write comes off as sharp. I am a work in progress.
I have recently (as in, this year) become aware that the bible does not teach against polygyny as such. I was sort of idlely doing a word study for category completion (in the karate sense) in 1 cor 7 and discovered that it didn't say what I though it said and what I had teaching for years. I look forward to having discussions with people that already understand the difference between heautos and idios and like me, have a desire to push their understanding further.
I believe that we ( I mean Christians) are in a confusing time where my country (USA) is rapidly changing it's ideas about sex and marriage, and that it will not serve us well to hang onto extr-biblical notions of assumed monogamy. This is a bad time, and we must stand for (among other things) sexual purity, but we must get our ideas about what that means from the Word, not from culture; be it contemporary or traditional.
What else? I look with great trepidation on what the current blood moon tetrad means for Israel and the world. I believe in the pre-tribulation rapture. I believe David Wilkerson was a prophet, and anybody not aware of his 1973 prophecy should really pay YouTube a visit. I believe that serious study of the Word is necessary, but that it is the Holy Spirit that reveals the meaning of Scripture. I deny that a person can be so Spirit led that they do not need to study, and that a person can be such a serious scholar that they do not need to solicit the Spirit for help in heartfelt prayer.
Umm... bah. That will do.
I am a 30ish year old married dude with two kids and a love for the Lord. I am not seeking to marry another woman and even if I was was; I would drink bleach and test out Mark 16:18 before I looked for a female over an internet forum.
I am an INTJ and enjoy vigorous debate, and take bittersweet satisfaction in being proven wrong. My great dream is that I will find someone who will so thoroughly best me that I (like the Beast at the end of Kung-Fu hustle) must bow and call them "teacher".
I try not to be a jerk, although sometimes the way I write comes off as sharp. I am a work in progress.
I have recently (as in, this year) become aware that the bible does not teach against polygyny as such. I was sort of idlely doing a word study for category completion (in the karate sense) in 1 cor 7 and discovered that it didn't say what I though it said and what I had teaching for years. I look forward to having discussions with people that already understand the difference between heautos and idios and like me, have a desire to push their understanding further.
I believe that we ( I mean Christians) are in a confusing time where my country (USA) is rapidly changing it's ideas about sex and marriage, and that it will not serve us well to hang onto extr-biblical notions of assumed monogamy. This is a bad time, and we must stand for (among other things) sexual purity, but we must get our ideas about what that means from the Word, not from culture; be it contemporary or traditional.
What else? I look with great trepidation on what the current blood moon tetrad means for Israel and the world. I believe in the pre-tribulation rapture. I believe David Wilkerson was a prophet, and anybody not aware of his 1973 prophecy should really pay YouTube a visit. I believe that serious study of the Word is necessary, but that it is the Holy Spirit that reveals the meaning of Scripture. I deny that a person can be so Spirit led that they do not need to study, and that a person can be such a serious scholar that they do not need to solicit the Spirit for help in heartfelt prayer.
Umm... bah. That will do.
