I enjoyed reading the entries in this forum for almost a year before I decided to join.  My knowledge about how this forum operates is next to nothing.  I've some idea about banning and having one's posts erased though.  As there are more than one administrators (including the enjoyable-to-read ms da binsi), shouldn't banning or erasing be decided jointly and severally?  

It doesn't bode well for this forum's track if it evolves into some people's vehicle for a long and winding ego trip.  

Then I must beg someone to shoot me first.  Being burned at the stake is slow and painful... 

...and the Inquisitor General says, "That's the idea, you reprobate!"

I'll settle for dimes by keeping quiet.  And I'll also settle for this:  Qui sine peccato est vestrum primus lapidem mittat.  And that's from the Bible.

Oi, nangatulog na man si Ms. MDB ug Ms. Islander. Dili ba kaha tawon to silang duha hugpaan og daman--of fire and brimstone...

It's gone now, Islander. Salamat sa pag inform. Yeah, the pictures posted were so disgusting!

then lets start:


MT 23:13 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

Dabinsi, the reasons why some posts were deleted because some of them were personal attacks that were deviating the notion of this thread. It spiralled, and this thread has spiralled away from the original course and the reasons for it was started.

No one, especially myself, is claiming righteousness nor have I claimed to be righteous, but a sinner. That is why we study the Holy Bible, to better know ourselves and the teachings of our God.

That said, I will put all of this aside for the betterment and for the continued reading of Holy Scripture with all of you, my brothers and sisters.

That said, I will respond with a verse from Romans 3:23, 24
as we are all sinners before the Lord our God. "This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference,  23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,  24 and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.


No one is free from sin. No one is free from hypocrisy, no one, not I, not you, not Joe Schmoe. Let that be known. What we can do is to daily read and poignantly take in the Word of God. And to share the Word of God to those who would listen.

This thread was created as a means to share that Word of God.

We left of last time in the reading of GENESIS; namely the beauty of Genesis is that it tells us, the readers and the faithful, of how the LORD created the World. The means of Creation and how it illustrates the Wisdom and Love of the Lord Our God. And His perfect Will throughout all Creation. And HIS perfection in the creation of man, whom was created in the very image of the LORD.

Genesis 1:27 declares to us, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."

Now, to all of you readers, my beloved brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, I would like to ask a question. Perhaps most of you have learned this already through your own personal study of Scripture, perhaps you have not, then I will encourage you to read more into Genesis (as we plan to cover it this week).

The question that I will ask and open to the floor to discussion and scriptural talk is this: "How did God create man and woman? From whence did woman come from, and what was the sole reason woman was created? Did God create woman for woman's sake or did He create woman for man? What was the name of man, and what was the name of woman?"


Lorenzo.

Before I start, let it be known that All Glory, Honor and Praise belongs to the Lord God.
Through Him, In Him, and For Him, all things have been made.
This study Brings Glory to the Lord.
Essential and Core to this Study is to understand better His Word.
We ask that the Lord Bless and Keep this Study Holy.
In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.


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The Bible is clear. The Bible states in very plain and simple language at Genesis 5:4 that "...he (Adam) became father to sons and daughters." Notice the plural "sons" and "daughters."

 His sons, including Cain, would have married their sisters, or nieces. This would sound repulsive to us today, but consider the circumstances back then. It would have been proper at that time, since the Earth's population was relatively sparse, and the human race was to be proliferated according to God's purpose. It was only later that God made the restriction not to marry one's own sister or brother.

We trace our lineage, biblically speaking, to this essential forebear (Adam and Eve) in that genetically speaking, we are all related. Although scientists have long recognised that, despite physical differences, all human populations are genetically similar, the new work concludes that populations from different parts of the world share even more genetic similarities than previously assumed. (Note the relationship between phenotype and genotype). All humans are 99.9 per cent identical and, of that tiny 0.1 per cent difference, 94 per cent of the variation is among individuals from the same populations and only six per cent between individuals from different populations.

The heterozygosity of human populations are transferable. Genetically we are all related, some how and some where. Our ability to interbreed with one another is suggestive and indicative of Biblical Scripture on Adam and Eve.