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Life questions at Holy Ground apply the teachings of Christianity to personal and community living. Topics often include issues of morality, daily habits, and interpersonal issues like forgiveness. All Christian life questions seek to transform someone into a person of Jesus Christ: taking on His love, integrity, passion, and perfect faith in God.
Is manifesting a sin? The Bible on the law of attraction
“Manifesting” is a current popular practice where you try to create changes in your life by certain practices of directing your thoughts. Depending on who you ask, the practice can take a variety of forms. It might take the for...
What does the Bible say about self-satisfaction?
Christians in modern, western countries have a weird, back-and-forth relationship to pleasure. There’s often this vague sense that Christianity is against pleasure, or at least suspicious of it, and this is especially true for ...
What does the Bible say about drugs, drinking, and smoking?
It is common for people to wonder what the Bible says about drugs, drinking, or smoking. This can be an important curiosity, because it points to the more important discussion of what sin is. So let's explore the issue of drink...
Bible on pornography: What does God say about porn?
Pornography is not mentioned in the Bible, which should be fairly obvious. Pornography as we understand it today did not exist in the ancient world, especially since when most people talk about pornography they are talking abou...
What is sexual fasting? On abstinence in marriage
If you’ve been around traditional religion enough, you may have gotten the sense that “the church” is not a huge fan of pleasure. Restrictions on food, alcohol, or sex can give the distinct impression that Christianity is again...
Are curses real? What the Bible says about cursing
When people talk about “cursing” they usually mean “bad words” or “foul language”, but that is a modern perspective. In the ancient world, a curse was a very specific thing, something you did to someone in the sense of “putting...
What are the best Bible verses for men?
The Bible is not really one book, it’s a collection of many books across many time periods, cultures, and genres. There’s much of the Bible that’s specifically encouraging across a wide range of different situations, both in pr...
What does the Bible say about AI or artificial intelligence?
What is “artificial intelligence”? It’s important to understand that when engineers and programers talk about artificial intelligence, they aren’t actually talking about something that functions like the human brain at all. Wha...