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Found this graphic yesterday morning and I can’t stop laughing at it!

Biblical Proof, Church of Christ, women, Bible, church, baking, cake, girls

“You read that Bible right woman!!  Now get yo butt to that kitchen and bake me that cake!!”

It’s from a site called Biblical Proof, a blog about “Speaking where the bible speaks, and silent where the bible is silent”.  And there are plenty more hilarious images like the one above on it!

If you think that pic is bad, check this one out.  I’ve a very good friend who is a devout Christian and also a home brewer.  He’s a shoe-in for Hell for sure, huh?

That site is obviously a product of the ultra-conservative fringe of the Churches of Christ.  They’re the ones who believe that unless you are baptized you are going to Hell, that unless you are baptized correctly you are going to Hell, that unless you are a member of the ...

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“The Law is a widower constantly seeking a girlfriend, and usually finds one at church.”

Something that James Hodges, a very dear brother in the Lord and Baptist minister (and also bona-fide sci-fi novelist!) wrote.

I thought it was more than well worth sharing with my own readers.

James also recommended studying Romans 7:1-6 as that seems to be what led him to that terrific analogy....

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Tyler Frost, who was suspended and kept from graduating by the principal of Heritage Christian School in Findlay, Ohio for the “sin” of taking his girlfriend to her prom, is shown here giving Rebecca Smoody a kiss that in the immortal words of Andy Griffith was “right smack-dab on the MOUTH!“

Said kiss also took place within ready eyesight of Heritage Christian School, which has ridiculously banned its students from dancing, hand holding, kissing, “rock music” and other things… both on campus and off.

I hope and pray that the windows of that school were filled with the gazes of curious students who beheld Tyler’s act of rebellion against “the rules”.

Does this mean that Heritage Christian principal Tim England will have Frost expelled?

Well, like I’ve said already (maybe too much at that): Tyler Frost did nothing wrong as a follower of Christ. This is all ...

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