• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

Recent content by achurchmouse

  1. A

    How is your church handling the ELCA's same sex blessing issue?

    excellent point -- it seems his lists included greed, drunkenss and lying and yet I do not seem to remember the last time someone was not allowed to be ordained, or considered a member of a congregation if they were known to do these things.
  2. A

    What is a former homosexual?

    sort of like Ted Haggard - who tried to deny himself for so long by hating everyone like him and fought again same sex marriage because he didn't want to have that option available? Christianity isn't about doing some things and not others -- all the world is about laws! Christianity is about...
  3. A

    How are you a "Liberal Christian"?

    I voted liberal in both - Christ's way of openess leads me to live that way in society Christ's way always seems counter-intuitive. To save your life you need to be willing to lose it, to live you need to die, we are free from the law and yet all of society will not fall apart because the...
  4. A

    Gay teen conviction overturned by Kansas Supreme Court

    ACLU Applauds Unanimous Kansas Supreme Court Decision Reversing Conviction of Gay Teen Unfairly Punished under "Romeo and Juliet" Law (10/21/2005) TOPEKA, KS - The Kansas Supreme Court today unanimously struck down part of a law that sent a gay teenager to prison for over 17 years, when a...
  5. A

    why are you a Fundy?

    Just by saying that you must take the Bible LITERALLY and INERRANTLY you are showing that you and whoever taught you that are also "twisting and take away the basics of Scripture." Since neither is taught in Scripture. And saying that is waht is meant by the word "inspired" is way off base -...
  6. A

    why are you a Fundy?

    Ultimately, the Bible will interpret the Bible, and I remain humble - which means I don't believe my interpretation is infallible. So, as I learn more from people who have spent their whole life learning languages and everything necessary to understand the Bible, that I don't know, and as I...
  7. A

    OBOB is up in arms over amendment of rules

    Petty is crying because one cannot claim to the the ONE TRUE expression of Christ's Church on earth. Zion is drawing a logical conclusion to the claim that sf one is not part of the "One True Church" where does one go? Extra ecclesiam nulla salus = no salvation outside the church. Redefined -...
  8. A

    OBOB is up in arms over amendment of rules

    or all have missed the mark - some to one side ofthe bulls eye, other to another side.... the institutional church - visible church - is human and fallible.
  9. A

    Is it inevitable?

    1. With your concerns you should be happy - CWA "shot down" ordination of non-celibate gays. 2. The gender neutral hymnal is not about gays - but about women being about to see themselves in "God's image" Gen 1:27 and being honest with some texts that have been un-necessarly masculinized. 3...
  10. A

    What is a former homosexual?

    I think this conversation has a fundamental problem - define "homosexual" For people like Centurion and Devoted it seems that "homosexuality" is an action only - so all people are hormonally and otherwise sexually identical either male or female, and the only deviations from the norm come in...
  11. A

    how do we know that Jesus' death did not absolve other duties, such as homosexuality?

    Would that list in 1 Corinthians 6 mean that greedy people, and theoves, like corporate executives that rob pension funds, slanderers like politicians aren't going to heaven? Why don't we have threads against Bush, Cheney. Rove and Libby?
  12. A

    Freemasonry and fundamentalism

    True of Roman Catholic and most Lutherans.
  13. A

    Communion Question

    Sorry - I though you didn't use wine 1 Cor 11: 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. 27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be answerable for the body and blood of the...
  14. A

    why are you a Fundy?

    That's what the Creed is about - showing us what is the most important - the trump card if you will. It is necessary for keeping us from doing wierd things like Baptism of the Dead 1 Cor 15:29; or living by the kosher laws of Leviticus which are both part of the Bible, too. But we all...
  15. A

    why are you a Fundy?

    What denominations would deny these things? Except INERRANCY (a non-biblical concept which was added in the 1800s to try to secure the idea of INSPIRATION) the other two are basic creedal beliefs.