Paul O'Rear -- Saturday, May 8, 2010, 6:37 PM (No Comments)
Categories: Origins
Tags: Adam and Eve, Creation, Genesis, God, Gustave Doré, Universe
“Mommy, how did we get here?”
“Well, honey, a long, long time ago – way back even before Grampa and Grammy were born – there weren’t any stars yet, or the sun or the moon, or even the Earth. The only thing that was there was God, all by Himself, way up there in heaven.”
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Paul O'Rear -- Tuesday, September 2, 2008, 6:43 AM (1 Comment)
Categories: Capital Punishment, Sanctity of Life
Tags: Adultery, Bestiality, Blasphemy, Crime, Disobedience to Parents, Exodus, Genesis, Government, Homosexuality, Iraq, Israel, Israelites, Kidnapping, Murder, Sabbath, Saddam Hussein, Ten Commandments
[PART 3 OF 6]
What are the implications of this concept of “the sanctity of human life”?
Does that mean that capital punishment is wrong?
Is it wrong for a government to take the life of one of its citizens in punishment for crime?
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Paul O'Rear -- Monday, September 1, 2008, 6:08 AM (No Comments)
Categories: Sanctity of Life
Tags: Acts, Apostle Paul, Areopagus, Athens Greece, Genesis, Job, Moses, Murder, Princeton University, Ten Commandments, WordNet
[PART 2 OF 6]
What exactly do we mean when we talk about the “sanctity of human life”? Is that even a valid concept?
Princeton University’s online WordNet dictionary
defines sanctity as “the quality of being holy”. Holy is defined as “belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power”.
So the question arises, “Is human life holy?” Does human life belong to, or is it derived from or associated with, a divine power?
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