He wouldn't be running. His Kingdom is not of this world. He comes down to lift us up, not to stay and be brought down to our level!

The Question: E-mail: Blessing or Curse?

Anything that saves time and postage, which is going up again, is a blessing. The curse, of course, is that you are never out of touch.

The Question: What does the Eliot Spitzer scandal say about our public and private morality? Should he have resigned?

This was a clear case where private morality and public lawbreaking intertwined. Spitzer is alleged to have broken laws he swore to uphold. His hypocrisy was further multiplied by the fact that he had gone after prostitution rings as state Attorney General apparently at the same time he was using one. And his stupidity was revealed when he used telephones to "book" the hookers and his calls were tapped by the authorities, something he had done as Attorney General of New York. Unless he had a secret political death wish, his behavior is hard to explain.

As I said in a column I wrote, he should have reached out for the Gideon Bible in the hotel room drawer instead of reaching out for prostitutes. In that Book he would have found warnings of what happens when people use prostitutes. He would have also encountered this verse: "Be sure your sin will find you out." (Numbers 32:23)

The answer is found in Paul's First Letter to the Corinthian Church, Chapter 15, beginning in vs.12:

"But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins." (NIV)

There is not much wiggle room in such a statement. If Jesus was not literally and bodily raised from the dead - as He said He would be and demonstrated in front of witnesses who just days before had abandoned Him in fear of the mob that called for His crucifixion -- then all humanity is without hope.

The Question: Which "ism" is more entrenched in America, sexism or racism? Which should religion address?

Both sexism -- treating women as subhuman, or at least of lesser value than men -- and racism -- the view that one race is superior to all others -- are specifically condemned in Scripture. Both are considered sins and both are equally rejected in Scripture.

God made all human beings in His image, which is a spiritual, not a physical image. Paul, the Apostle, makes this crystal clear when he writes to believers in Galatians 3:28: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

One can't improve on that.