That's encouraging to me regarding whoever posed this
question.

Generally speaking, I go by the passages in Timothy and
Titus, regarding selection of elders.

Do we have any professing Godly cartoonests left
in syndication these days?

Some weeks ago I came down pretty hard on someone here for having
what sounded like a boastful alias, but it wasn't yours. I later
regretted the post but could find no way to retract it.

Some of us guys just need more time to grow up--and get saved, I guess.

Pity the poor woman who marries a man in the condition I was in prior
to my late 30's! (I won't bore you with the details).

I do know of at least 2 Christian aquaintances who's wives actually issued
ultimatums to them after multiple years of "dating": "Marry me or let me
go so I can find someone who is actually INTERESTED in marriage.", they
said, using similar words/phrases. To my knowledge, both men are still
happily married.

Another problem I see is that this present prosperous world has so many
neat things to do, see, and own, that make demands on time and resources
that would/could otherwise be focused on settling down and rasing a family.

Can you or anyone else possibly imagine how INCREDIBLY humiliating
the events of Exodus would've been to the surviving Egyptians of
that day, not to mention subsequent generations?

Also consider the fact that, once the Isrealites and their Egyptian
prosylites departed Egypt, no one from their side was left in the
land to tell THEIR side of the story, leaving the field wide-open
for future Egypian elites to "write the history books", as it were,
in a way to guarantee the solidification of their own power--which
would hardly include any notification of the works of a diety of
people whom the Egyptians despised. Bible indicates that it was
an abomination for Egyptians even to eat with the Hebrews (Gen 43:32)

Once they're in you gotta let 'em fight, because combat tends
to be the fastest way to advance a military carreer--and PC
won't allow us to keep women out of the fast track regardless
of what their profession is.

What a MESS we (US/military) have managed to get ourselves in!

Rather than go to the Bible to find out who God really is & what
He's like (granted, Holy Spirit's power is ultimately needed to
be able to do this--even with Bible in hand), they proceed to
project their own nature, sin, and limited human authority onto Him;
and then judge Him for being "out of bounds" for excercising his
sovereign will in the affairs of men.

Interesting.

Were I an Atheist I could take this one of two ways.

I could allow myself to be vexed by consensus against what I
personally believe, or I could puff myself up to assume that
I'm simply 'smarter' than 90 percent of Americans.

Familiar as I am with human nature, I presume the latter to
be the case for most non-religious types.

On the other hand, I suspect there are at least some practicing
homosexuals who have never been drunk, as I have in the past, and
thus cannot identify with THAT particular sin.

Otherwise the extra bed-space was either a status symbol for
bronze-age royalty or extra space to accommodate more CONCUBINES.

In contrast, modern Giants seem quite meek.

Robert Wadlow, The Alton Giant (as he was called) was a Boy Scout
and loved people and animals. It was tough to see footage of him
later in his life, laboriously lifting each of his heavy, giant legs,
just to WALK.

Christ's own metaphors of Hell being like the undying worm and the unquenchible fire
(the figure being doubled, like Pharoah's 2 dreams predicting the great famine of
Joseph's day as surely coming to pass) is even understandible to kids.

Having raised butterfly larvae as a kid I know that unless they die, metamorphose, or
run out of leaves; they keep eating forever.

Likewise fire goes out if/when it runs out of fuel.

In Christ's parable, the catipillar's leaves and the fire's fuel are the ungodly; and
since there are ultimately only a finite number of them the "fire" and the "worm" should
eventually cease, but since they don't (as our Lord says), then that which fuels/feeds
them ALSO therefore must continue forever. Thus Hell and the punishments that take place
therein are eternal.

Way I see this is that if, after 3 whole years, only 25% of your parishoners leave over
an issue like this, then your church was ALREADY 75% apostate to begin with!