Dear runner,

I don't think you have a virtuous mind. My definition of a virtuous mind includes a devotion to truth. Because one believes something strongly does not mean what one believes is true. I think you confuse belief with truth. A person with a virtuous mind does not equate belief with truth but will follow the evidence wherever it may lead. Sometimes it does not lead anywhere then the person with a virtuous mind will admit that he or she simply doesn't know.

david f,

'I don't think you have a virtuous mind. My definition of a virtuous mind includes a devotion to truth '

I will be the first to admit DAvidf that my mind is in the state of renewal. I had many years believing secular lies and living them before I believed in the Truth personified ( the Lord Jesus Christ). The more of God's Word and love that enters me the more virtous I will become. On the other hand without God's virtue no one has any only self righteousness.

Gday CHEFUL, think I can help, it was as you say, and such prime journalism comes only via ABC and SBS, look in their web pages.
We are narrowing the intention of the subject, it happens.
Runner forgets other Gods, many more exist, than his/once mine.
And we are focusing on Christianity, but it is far from the only one of interest here.
Multiple wives , in my view, are a blot on SOME belief.
I note SOME think as I do, CONTROL, NOT FROM GOD but men, over women, has been written in to SOME Holly books.
And just maybe that is reason to re write those parts.
This totally non believer, knows, or thinks he does,some need God, maybe all humanity does, at some time.
We invent new religions, or twist existing ones, every year, maybe we should make a world one.
Will not try to spell it, but one formed less than 200 years ago prays in the name, and using the words of every God.
Before stoning me, I need no God, my childhood standards to live by came from God and remain.only belief is gone.
But we know some will forever.

Dear runner,

You wrote: "I had many years believing secular lies and living them before I believed in the Truth personified ( the Lord Jesus Christ)."

That's it exactly - you believe. You are still confusing belief with truth. However, since Jesus never denied that he was Jewish it would seem logical that you would consult a rabbi and become Jewish so you could follow his religion instead of the religion that other people made in his name.

oh dear david
runner become jewish..thats so specific
jesus was a messiah..[one of many sent to the children of mosus]

jesus came to inform ..the people of the lampstand[not the blue star]
he talked of things..like rite/right and ritual that have become more important..than the father of all living..

he came to unite the fathers divided house
but peace/love..his own rejected the new command
[love god via charity..[love].to other...runner has that as his only law[and you wanna send him as a goy..into the den of vipers[gods word]

lol
the 12 laws were never 12
but evenb that was two simple..so you created the noahtide lore
forgetting that the rite was poluted..at the genocide for love[of the tribe recovering from the 'rite'..[you know unless your mother is jew..the rest of the flockers remain goy

heck even blackness determines what sort of jew
which of the tribe of david..managed to subvert the rite/right of the priest tribe/levie..

is the star more sacred than the father
is the lampstand more than the living good[god]
[light sustaining life into love via logic..[all grace and mercy..

unless we adulterate his law
or decieve his own[and who is not a child of the father]
that said..the non neocon need to bring those of the chirist back to reality

its all about god
not saint..not ritual..not creed
charity [service to other..not greed

that is unless they serve the lord of darkness and death
jesus left a clue..[by their deeds/works..shall we know them]

lets see they live in a walled prison
yet god said mountains must fall
who builds the wall
who breaks them down

how is the god of life served by any death?

I think I am on safe ground in saying well over half the worlds population are not followers of Christ.
If so why do we always end up talking about him.
Are we able to focus on why almost every God, has words said in their name, that say women are lessor.
Why is man being told via God how to have sex with who and when?
Nature demands the act or we die out.
Any God, and his/her followers, seem to have rules about sex why.