Well it's not OUR standard, it's HIS standard that has to be met and that's the problem.  According to the scriptures ONLY perfection will do.   We have to be perfect if we are going to get into heaven.  Only complete perfection will do. 

That's the problem.  None of us can acheive perfection.  Jesus even said, knowing this, that our righteousness had to EXCEED the righteousness of the Pharisees for us to enter heaven. 

I can almost hear the gasp from the crowd when he said those words.  Everyone thought the Pharisees were sooooo spiritual and perfect so how could they acheive more than these leaders of Israel? 

 Hint:  there's only ONE WAY!

If you read the Sermon on the Mount you'd see that Jesus dismantles their belief in human achievement in religion which angered the Pharisees (of course) but won the hearts of the people who were under the same type of bondage you're promoting TA. 

He went past their actions and went after their thoughts.  So it doesn't matter how hard you try to climb the ladder TA.  Just one bad thought and you fall down. 

In the old days, when people died young and mothers died in child birth and many children died in infancy, children were considered a blessing. It was in people's interest to have lots of children.

Now the world is more perfect, people live long, mothers with very few exceptions always survive child birth and few children die in infancy. Following the old commandment to see children as a blessing is no longer convenient.

How do we reconcile these issues with faith?

Yes, but read Leauki's posts.  Never being a muslim is not as bad as having been one and then converted to another religion.

Farrakhan's Messiah has just named Rahm Emanuel, a staunch Zionist and son of an Irgun member, his White House chief of staff.

That's one for Obama and zero for Farrakhan.

what do you mean?  Because Farrakhan hates the Jews? 

You know what's interesting?  The AC in the end times will have a right hand man who is called the False Prophet.  The False Prophet will be Jewish.  He's described as looking like a lamb but will speak like a dragon.

This false prophet  will do miracles similar to that of Elijah.  Remember the Jews for centuries have been waiting for Elijah to come?   Right now it's looking like Obama is looking for Jews to fill his cabinet.  Someone told me he's got three right now pegged for spots in his administration.

Interesting. 

That's part of it.

The son of an Irgun militant who volunteered in the IDF in 1990 doesn't look like a lamb to me.

Good for Obama.