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Recent content by mmmcounts

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    I have a question for the Non-Denominational forum...!

    I favor the ESV. It has the best readability in modern English balanced with linguistic accuracy and a fairly unique breadth of interdenominational expertise behind it. KJV has good accuracy, but lacks the modern English, even if it's NKJV. NIV is less accurate but more readable in modern...
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    The Lord's Supper

    Numbers 11, Numbers 21. Evidently, God can- and in fact has- judged His people on account of something that did not involve a miraculous transformation from one thing to another. When you say Communion is a serious matter, you are right. But when you make the leap from there to the conclusion...
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    The Lord's Supper

    Again. Manna, snakes, sickness, death. Manna was something that people had to take just as seriously and with similar results, but that doesn't mean it was mystically transformed. Let me run it by you one more time. Your argument is that severe, even deadly consequences for mishandling an...
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    Authority of the Church

    The only authority that really means anything is the authority that comes from the ability to demonstrate relevant expertise. If the leaders of a given church can demonstrate relevant expertise on a given issue, that should be the basis of their ability to make things happen. That isn't always...
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    Functions of the Church

    One thing that's essential- and largely absent- is the function of submitting to one another, out of reverence for Christ. For too many Christians, though, it's difficult or impossible for them to imagine any type of submission (in any sense of the word) to Christians who don't belong to the...
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    What do you remember about your baptism?

    I was baptized about 8 years before I was born again. When I was baptized, I was not regenerated at that time. God had not regenerated me to that point, He did not regenerate me at that time, and He would not regenerate me for another 8 years. I was born again when God regenerated me. What...
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    Protestants, At What Point Does It Become Not The Body?

    The only authority that really means anything is the authority that comes from relevant expertise. Protestants with superior expertise reasoned that Aristotelian substance theory was not as good or as impressive as previously thought. And while it wasn't this way initially, they did become less...
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    The Lord's Supper

    I'm non-denominational, and I believe it's symbolic. I'll also add that Jews have gotten sick and died for misuse/mishandling/disrespect of manna, but that doesn't mean it was mystically transformed into the body of Christ.
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    When did western Catholics set a definitive number of sacraments?

    Excuse me, Root of Jesse, you didn't answer the question that I asked and you decided to try and tell me things that I wasn't asking to hear. I see where your interests lie, though, so let me try to redirect you for a moment. I have a little hypothetical for you. See, there was this wedding...
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    When did western Catholics set a definitive number of sacraments?

    Peter Lombard! Twelfth century! That is perfect. I recognize the name, I think I've come across it before. I will look into it more in order to find out exactly why he did what he did- and why that was different from Eastern Catholicism which had just recently become Eastern Orthodoxy at that...
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    What is the morning star?

    Literally, the morning star is Venus. It's one of those wandering stars, because it's actually a planet. But there was a time when people didn't know about planets, and all they knew was that some lights moved differently than others. That was also a time when stars were closely associated with...
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    There is no Denomination for me, I guess I'll worship alone.

    Two things. One: Calvin did not "have someone killed" for not believing in the Trinity. On one hand, he tried to get him to pursue some alternative that would not result in his execution, and on the other hand, he talked to the council that decided to kill Severtus and tried to get them to do...
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    Is there such thing as the "right church"?

    No church is perfect, and if you're looking for a vision of Edenic perfection sitting out there waiting to be discovered, odds are 50-50 that you'll leave it within a year of converting to it and 2 to 1 that you'll leave within 5 years for frustration with tepidity, stagnation, and spiritual...
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    Tell me about your form of Christianity

    I'm a non-denominational Christian, although the church I grew up in is affiliated with other non-denom churches in a way that loosely resembles a functional denomination of free churches. My church has a very close relationship with over a half-dozen other churches in the immediate area that...
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    When did western Catholics set a definitive number of sacraments?

    Some of the more ancient forms of Christianity have a certain understanding of what it means for something to be sacramental, but they do so without setting a definitive list of sacramental rites. I assume it used to be something like this for Latin-rite Catholics at some point too, or perhaps...
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