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Dear Cold_static544, Sorry for the late reply. Free Community Church in Singapore is moving toward a progressive church. But please be aware of some of the controversy that it has stirred up after FCC was featured in the NEW paper (Most of the congregation is gay). http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/printfriendly...9,67774,00.html You can find more information about the church at http://www.freecomchurch.org David

If by feminism you mean women should demand to be totally equal in every aspect, for example, equal responsibility in doing national service, equal number hours of house work done at home or equal number of women in any profession. I think it will be a very long time before that will be the case. I make my case not from a sexist or fundamental Christian point of view. I speak from a point a view that from our evolutionary past, the male and the female of the human specie have evolved in such a way that it was advantageous to have a division of labour. Through natural selection, man and woman have inherited certain traits that were essential to the survival of the whole specie. For over a million years of evolution, homo sapiens and its direct ancestors have been hunting and gathering creatures. The female of the specie did the gathering and the male doing the hunting. That division of labour allowed the male to hunt all year around while the female can carry the baby in gestation and still gather food. It is probably no accident that most women like to shop particular at sales (which is a form of judicious gathering) and most men like to drive fast car and like mechanical objects that have high performance (competition and the hunt). If you can accept that there are inborn preferences to explain those generalization about man and woman and those are more than just early childhood gender programming, then you have to also accept that certain behaviors are evolutionary ‘unnatural” for man and woman to have. The changing role of the female has been a relatively recent phenomenon. Maybe in time, only men that treat women properly can reproduce thereby causing a natural selection for the gentle and warm (eager to do home chores) male. But genetic traits take a very long time to alter. It is not to say that an equally qualified woman should not be given the same opportunity as her male counterpart. What I think is important to recognize is that there are real genetic predisposition differences between men and woman.

Without accepting that Jesus has made the "Sacrifice" for us, you have not earned your ticket to heaven. A lot of Christians believe that is an absolute pre-condition for membership. You could have been a sinner of the worst kind and still qualified if you repent and accept that believe, or you can be the most virtue person on earth and still be turn away at the gate if you don’t accept it. I think that believe is so important in Christianity is that the Jews were the "Chosen" people (The Jews had to distinct themselves from other people who worshipped other God). Somewhat to allow Gentiles (non-Jews) to be admitted to the Kingdom of God, the early promoters of Christianity to Gentiles (Paul) had to use that concept to convince the Gentiles that they were also entitled to apply for membership. Also, if you read the Old Testament, there were plenty of "Sacrifices." The concept of Sacrifices (including animal and human) were very common in many religions. I also wondered that how can you please a God by killing something that he had created? It makes more sense in a poly-God religion. In that case, you kill some creature that is created by another God so to show your devotion to your own God.