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I'm aware that I'm "late to the party" and I haven't read the whole thread but here's a thought. If repentance requires that the sin be "undone" then what about sins that can't be undone? Like lust, or adultery, or lying/bearing false witness? I'm not sure it makes sense to me that repentance...

Your child's wrong choices do not necessarily mean you failed or did anything wrong. Kids of even the best, closest to perfect parents in the world "go off the rails" and kids with lousy parents end up great. At this point, it's all about how you deal with this particular problem going...

Good point, I didn't even think of that. Knowing that one must fight against the negative feelings puts her light years ahead of far too many people today, who "follow their heart" regardless of wether or not it's in a good positive direction. To put it another way, knowing that the feelings...

Disclaimer for anyone reading along: I know both Created and her husband in real life so I'll be saying things based on stuff that someone just reading the OP would not necessarily know. Just didn't want someone to think "where did that come from?" when reading my response. Now on to my...

Authors are John Lynch, Bruce McNicol and Bill Thrall Re-reading because it is that good, and because there's so many layers to what's there, a re-read will always result is seeing something new. Sort of like Scripture. Not that I'm elevating this book to the level of Scripture, just saying...

The people I'm talking about that Created and I have been dealing with claim to be believers. They are just, IMO, angry, bitter jealous women who are that way, in part, because of their own crappy marriages. Then again, it's entirely possible that their crappy attitude is what made their...

If I may make a hopefully constructive observation here. First, for perspective, I know Created in real life, and have been on various forums with her for at least a couple of years. While the observations and conclusions made by Phantom are "wrong" from a factual standpoint, given the...

Smark aleck answer alert: At the moment I'm reading this forum. :-):-) But seriously I'm (re)reading a book called "The Cure." Absolutely incredible book that shows how we, The Church, have a lot of things completely backwards as relates to grace and trusting and pleasing God.

In reading this thread I'm seeing a little bit of difference in how feminism is being defined that should probably be cleared up. Feminism as relates to women having equal rights, most especially voting rights, started in the early teens and largely won what they were looking for a LONG time...

I know this is and old thread but I just wanted to say something here. First of all let me be clear that I'm not saying that you are doing it wrong or anything like that, I'm just offering something else to consider. It seems to me that maybe your reaction to what, when you stop to consider...

The biggest issue with Firefox at the moment is thy are turning out what they are calling a full version upgrade seemingely every 2.3 days. The most recent one is a very "dumb" installer. One would think that a program that automatically updates itself would be smart enough to look at the...

I agree. I think many women can get caught up in "all he wants is sex" thinking. Yes he definitely does want sex, but if it's ALL he wanted, there are far easier ways to get it. He wants sex with YOU and in most marriages ONLY you.

I don't necessarily see Jethro as saying that those sorts of "pursuasion" are wrong, but I have definitely seen them described as coercive before. There was another poster on this thread who said she just didn't feel like sex all that often and it seemed to me that in her case, any form of...

I didn't see them as saying that at all but that's probably because we seem to be approaching this issue from opposite viewpoints where you see sex as an add on to a marriage whereas I see it as a critical ingredient. To torture a metaphor, you see it as the icing, I see it as the eggs. Without...

Can the same not be said about the person with the higher drive going without though? Isn't is just as wrong and just as damaging to force or coerce them to do without? Again the very same thinking applies to telling the higher drive partner to do without too. Simply telling them they have to...

I agree completely. I'm just saying that it seems to me that usually the only one being asked to sacrifice their own preferences for the good of their spouse and for the good of the marriage is the one who wants more sex. If the one who wants less sex is advised to SOMETIMES just go ahead and do...

The difference between macs and PCs in terms of viruses and malware is that with the Mac, one has to be tricked into allowing it to install, the OS is, by default, "hardened". With the PC there's a thousand and one ways such software can install itself without any input from the user. The...

My user name is simply the nickname my grandmother had for me since I'm a third and having three men around with the same name required using something different. My grandfather got to use the real first name, my dad went by our middle name and I got the nickname,obviously without the numbers...

I believe that this is what many people wrongly believe men feel about sex, that's it's all about "getting off" or all about the physical release. And for a few men it probably is. But for every single man I've been close enough to talk to about it, as well as most every man I've been involved...

I believe that sex is both an outcome of those things AND an ingredient that goes into or enhances them.