I'm old enough to remember when you had to drive (or worse, get a ride!)
to the local library in order to obtain info not found in the usually
very-limited supply of books, magazines, and records (sorry, CD's )
within one's own household.

Before Google & Yahoo, I had to call the reference desk at my local
library. Now I can look up most stuff at will even when the library
is closed.

The net, if used properly, is and absolutely FABUOUS blessing which, if
more people saw it's value, would rush to get onto it.

Prior to the flood, animals were not eaten; and prior to
the fall of Man, animals were not harvested at all, much
less for clothing since nobody wore clothes!

What's sad is that these pagans in PETA and other such
organizations have a very real awareness of and desire for
certain aspects of Paradise (be it Eden or Heaven), but
refuse to enter in through Christ but by works (Veganism,
etc.).

His are some of the first posts I look for because I know I can get the
gist of what's going on in a particlar long thread from what HE says.

I only wish he (and many others) would quote Heb 9:27 AND
9:28 together.

Latter verse indicates Christ's subsequent righteousness AFTER
bearing the sins of the believers--and if He is not judgible
at this time (that is, the time after he said "it is finished")
then how much less are WE who believe going to be judged after
the Gogotha event...our sins having been FULLY paid-for at this
time?

What's basically most interesting to me about this particular
question is that it assumes one answer when there are actualy TWO.

When unbelivers die, they cease to accumulate sin, and therefore
are (more or less) in "cold-storage"--waiting for THEIR judgement
on the last day when they will have to give an account for all
their deeds, good and bad.

Believers, on the other hand, go to be with Christ at the moment
of death, since Christ paid for their sins and imputed His
righteousness directly to them. For them Judgement was
accomplished at Golgotha.

You people in Northern Ireland have
more gun freedom that we do if you
can own an MP5.

Here in CA you have to be law-enforcement
to be able to use one of those these days.

And as Neil pointed out. These same motorbikes could easily travel
"off-road" as well...just like their historical equine counterparts.

Now many are afraid they'll melt because of excess green house gases.

What is it with modern society's fixation with the ice caps?...and
wasn't the so-called "ozone-hole"
also located at one of the poles?

Sometimes I think that the surviving cold-war generation, by embracing
global warming, is being masochistically nostaligic for all the fear and
dred they experienced as a part of their daily lives when they were
younger--and the current generation feels "left-out" unless they, too
have a "boogyman" of their own, just like their parents did.

Judges 1:24-25

Now they're talking about "separate ROOMS".

Why doesn't this current, namby-pamby, wimp-generation go all
the way and build separate HOUSES for each spouse.

Let's study God, not by looking at God but by looking at MAN.