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    Bible Passages Show Works Required for Salvation

    Those groups also differ from the conservative wing of Lutherans on the modern social issues, like same sex marriage etc. But when you count up the number of Lutherans represented by these groups that are part of the LWF in the US they are 2/3 of US Lutherans and if you go worldwide those...
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    Bible Passages Show Works Required for Salvation

    Exactly. Genuine Faith will bear the fruits of Good Works. Good works are the fruits/evidence of Genuine Faith If there are no good works therefore there is no Genuine Faith. The mere act of confessing "I believe" is itself a work. Thus the moment someone comes to faith they do so...
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    The United States, Blessed by God?

    There is nothing going on today that even compares to the evil our nation was in charge of for almost the first 100 years of its existence. The ownership, sale and abuse of humans under the theory they weren't human was vile beyond words. Our nation led the world in this market, we were the...
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    When Is An Infant Saved?

    When its baptised.
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    My Alcohol Challenge

    Yup. Care to invent a drinking game to make it more fun ? :thumbsup:
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    What would happen to us if the Earth's magnetic poles got reversed?

    I think the pyramids would turn upside down.......
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    I think I'm in the process of converting to Catholicism

    Apparently I inadvertently resurrected an old thread. I'll let it return to the bone pile.
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    I think I'm in the process of converting to Catholicism

    I used to think that way. Its application in the US and Europe has certainly taken it that way. But many of the changes, diversity of liturgies and so on and so forth, are perhaps more focused on the hope of unity with the east. In the end its not "either or" its "and". To the OP "come...
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    Papacy applauds LGBT progress

    As a born and raised SDA [ before I jumped ship ] I can answer that. The reason they are very focused on RCC and the Pope is because in their end time teachings the RCC will eventually unite what they call "apostate christianity" [essentially the Sunday keeping churches ] and the various non...
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    What was the true nature of early Church governance?

    Its a huge issue and its not what was intended. Once a departure is made from a over arching church governance and instead personal opinion is given authority, and local churches elect whoever they wish, the end result is precisely what we have today, fragmentation. Jude is particularly...
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    Catholicism Questions

    Were those who took the nazarite vow shameful ?
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    Catholicism Questions

    What others have said about it being the Cross of St. Peter who was crucified upside down but that doesn't get to your "traditionally satanism" question. Look at the Rainbow. Until a few years ago the symbol of Noahs Flood, Peace, Harmony, Pot of Gold at the end of a rainbow. Now its the...
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    The BABYLONIAN Connection - The Mitre Hat

    Starting with the dictionary .... Now in images google around to see the Jewish High Priest in his turban/mitre. It won't let me post images yet or I'd save you the trouble. :liturgy: