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Many blessings for Rosh Hashanna. Rachel

I am not questioning what you saw in said studies, but I would question any premise that says the number one, two, or even three reason that any people, let alone young people, leave the church, or stay away from the church because of doctrine. I have personally visited many dozens of people who have left the church, in their homes, and it was a very rare occurrence that they left because of doctrines. In most cases I have experienced and talked to; they left because of people, not doctrine.

I have never seen in scripture where the woman was called Adam until you pointed out Gen. 5:2. I have to agree with you - the Hebrew word used in that verse is adam. My thought has been she wasn't a direct creation of God (i.e., made from dirt). God made the woman from part of Adam. Gen. 2:23 says "she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” She was never even called Eve until after the fall. I may have to change my thought after seeing that scripture. Thanks for pointing this out.

5 Unique Facts About the U.S. Armed Forces On September 29, 1789, the first regular army in the United States was established through the U.S. War Department. Here are five unique facts you didn't know about the U.S. Armed Forces... There Are Very Few Honorary Marines. Bugs Bunny Is One of Them. An honorary Marine is, as it sounds, an honorary title that is bestowed in special circumstances. The Marine version is a rare honor, and while some of its recipients automatically seem to make sense (Bob Hope, for example, had the title, and it makes sense because of his tireless work in entertaining U.S. military service people), others evoke a double-take. After all, you don't expect a cartoon character to get one of the rarest military honors that can be given to civilians. However, that's just what happened with Bugs Bunny, who wore a Marine outfit in the cartoon Super-Rabbit. This was in 1943, and the Marine Corps decided to make Bugs an honorary private. He got promoted repeatedly until he reached the rank of Master Sergeant. Women Couldn't Officially Serve in the Military Until the 20th Century. While you hear about the occasional woman dressing up as a man or taking a male relative's place in battle, women were not allowed to serve in official capacities in the U.S. military until 1901, except in basically non-military roles such as cooks and seamstresses. The Army and Navy Nurse Corps were created in 1901 and 1908, allowing women to become a key part of the military's support structure. During World War I, women were allowed to sign up in non-nurse roles such as the Signal Corps because the men in the Corps had gone off to fight. Women's roles in the military only expanded from there. The United States Military Is, Collectively, the Largest Employer in the World. The Department of Defense, which contains all the Armed Forces of the United States put together (the Coast Guard is actually under the control of the Secretary of Defense), is the largest employer in the world. Its employees, including both enlisted and civilian employees in the military, top nearly 3.2 million people. This huge force has been sent all over the world, both for training and to carry out orders to intervene in overseas conflicts. The Marine Corps Was Actually Disbanded at One Point but Revived to Fight Pirates. The Marine Corps started in 1775 (reportedly in a tavern) and served on Navy ships during the American Revolution. After the Revolution, however, the service was disbanded, but it was brought back in 1798 in an effort to fight pirates off the northern coast of Africa. The Marines landed in Egypt and marched to what is now Libya, conducting a successful assault on the pirates' stronghold. It was this battle that contributed the line "to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marines' Hymn, as well as giving the Marines excellent publicity (or what counted as publicity in the late 1700s). The Coast Guard Started as a Maritime Revenue Service. Alexander Hamilton was key in starting the First Bank of the United States and setting up fiscal policies that helped shore up the fledgling United States, but he was also responsible for creating a maritime revenue service that enforced laws and tariff requirements on ships entering ports. That service, called the Revenue-Marine, later merged with a separate marine service that saved shipwrecked sailors to form the Coast Guard as we know it today.

L'Shanah Tovah, May you have a blessed Jewish New Year 5780! "On the first day of the seventh month hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. It is a day for you to sound the trumpets [Yom Teruah]." (Numbers 29:1) The High Holy Days have once again arrived, and the two-day holiday of Rosh HaShanah (traditional Jewish New Year) begins tonight. Biblically speaking, Rosh HaShanah is called Yom Teruah, the day of sounding the shofar. (Leviticus 23:24) Holiday Traditions One of the best known symbols of the Jewish New Year is dipping apples in honey. This wonderful Rosh HaShanah tradition symbolizes our hope that the new year will be sweet. Apples are not the only fruit eaten during Rosh HaShanah. Tomorrow night, on the second night of Rosh HaShanah, we will eat pomegranate. One explanation for the tradition of eating pomegranates is that this fruit was once thought to have 613 seeds, which reminds us of the Torah's 613 commandments. The pomegranate, therefore, symbolizes our hope that our actions will be in line with the Word of God and that our righteous deeds will increase in the year to come. From our Bibles For Israel ministry family to you... Have a happy, healthy, and sweet Jewish New Year! "With trumpets and the blast of the ram's horn [shofar]—shout for joy before the LORD, the King." (Psalm 98:6) "Feed the hungry, and help those in trouble. Then your light will shine out from the darkness, and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon." (Isaiah 58:10)

Good point. The 2 angels who accompanied the LORD to meet with Abraham, ate the food prepared by Sarah and Abraham's servants. That food disappeared into their "bodies". After His resurrection Jesus appeared in the upper room, without going through the door (that we know of). He made himself invisible, and even changed his appearance so the two disciples on the Emmaus Road would not recognize Him. Seems that He could appear and disappear in this dimension - with flesh). And He did say, "Touch me and see that I am flesh" (but not blood). His new "spiritual body" seems to have made it possible for Him to go back and forth between the spirit dimension, and the physical dimension. We will have the new "spiritual body". We will be "like the angels", and "like Him". If the fallen angels have spiritual bodies, it would seem like they can go back and forth between physical and spirit dimension - as Christ did. When Moses and Elijah appeared with Christ on the Mount of Transfiguration, the disciples could "see" those two men. They appeared in this physical dimension. Just my thinking, but I would assume they already have the new "spiritual body". Just a little aside. I finally got it - why Jesus told the disciples to keep mum about the appearance of Moses and Elijah. It was a death penalty offense to talk with "the dead". The Jews could have stoned Christ just for this violation. What I cannot "connect" is how fallen asexual spirit beings, could appear in flesh (with all functioning sexual organs and possibilities), which they did not have in their spirit bodies.

Paul wrote, "Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters." (1Co 7:19 NKJ) Paul said, “Therefore, if an uncircumcised man [a Gentile convert to the gospel] keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?" Romans 2:26-29 So what "law" (which "commandments") was Paul referring to, when he said that an uncircumcised man could "keep" the requirements of that law (those commandments)? If that Gentile believer is not circumcised, does not travel to Jerusalem for moed, does not offer any animal sacrifices - what "law of God" is he keeping? It must be recognizable as the "law of God". It must be covenant law. A man can keep every one of the Ten Commandments, without being circumcised - especially if the LORD writes that law on his heart.

Is it reasonable in your view that St. Paul would rebuke Christians for following the Moral Law of God? Or to say it another way do you believe that St. Paul worked against the other Apostles by trying to get Christians to violate the moral law of God?

Is the problem with the Bible or the translators?