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Hi Lorraine, just saw your comment and realized I must have missed it in my notifications. Thanks for sharing from your experiences and for helping others wade through their challenging life circumstances! You're certainly right about life and hope. These words are even more meaningful to me since our little one was born!
Hi Raegan,
Im happy to hear about your relationship and that you feel so comfortable to share your hopes, goals and expectations with your boyfriend! Having that open and honest communication is such a great gift. When my husband and I were dating we always tried to temper our affections with one another according to our level of commitment to each other. Like you, we knew very soon in the relationship that we wanted to get married, and because we were so young we knew we had to be in it for the long haul! Some people use engagement as a benchmark of commitment and kiss then. We didnt, but we were extremely dilligent to not let our affections become too much, and if we felt our conscience pricked we let each other know and made adjustments! We had our list of "donts" but we also had a list of "do's". On the second list was every way we felt loved by each other in different forms of affection. It was appropriate ways of touching, words we needed to hear, ways we wanted our time spent together, etc. Exploring all the genuine ways you can show affection, as is appropriate to your commitment before God in the relationship, is a great way to move forward! Hope this helps! :)
Hi Jerome, thank you for reading my article! I hope you found it helpful. Great question! It is simply a typo. There are many arguments for various dates of the New Testament books. James is considered to be the oldest book. Most place it in the 40's AD (as I had mention in my introduction date range for the NT), but very few place it as early as 38 AD. It should read 40-90's. Sorry for typo! I appreciate you bringing it to my attention!
Thanks Daniel! For many years I was also in that boat, not knowing the basic historical outline of the Bible. And I still feel that there is so much more to learn! Much of the Old Testament after the Pentateuch, especially the Major and Minor prophets were hard for me to comprehend in the grand scheme of things! So I hope this helps anyone who finds Bible history intimidating like me!
Hey, great question. We have a lot of material on the subject for more depth (https://www.ucg.org/bible-study-tools/booklets/is-god-a-trinity), but the most basic answer is that the concept of the trinity was introduced in the third century as an attempt to understand the relationship between God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Modern Christianity believes it based on the tradition of accepting the first fathers' teachings, (post the new testament) and some mistranslations of scripture. The concept is however nowhere to be found in the Bible.