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  1. Presbyterian Continuist

    Should we confess every sin to fellow Christians?

    My short answer is no. Let's look at the Scripture most used to support this doubtful practice: "This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do...
  2. Presbyterian Continuist

    Did God really tell us to take up serpents?

    Where did I say that you didn't know the difference between figures of speech and literal meanings? I was commenting on the topic in hand, not your handling of it.
  3. Presbyterian Continuist

    Did God really tell us to take up serpents?

    There is a group that handle rattlesnakes, and there is a video where a guy was bitten by one that he was handling, and I think that he died as a result. I don't think the reference in Mark referred to the deliberate handling of real snakes. It was more figurative language in the same way that...
  4. Presbyterian Continuist

    How can you financially support a church whose finances are in a secret black box?

    I don't know what happens where you are, but in my country there are strict laws involving accounting standards in the use of public money. Our definition of public money is all income received from members of the public and donations from community organisations. We are required to keep...
  5. Presbyterian Continuist

    How can you financially support a church whose finances are in a secret black box?

    In New Zealand, a church to be a Registered Charity, our Charities Commission requires a financial return every year, due 31 December. This enables the church not to have to pay income tax. If the church fails to provide the information, it could be taken off the Register, which may cause the...
  6. Presbyterian Continuist

    How can you financially support a church whose finances are in a secret black box?

    I have been the treasurer of two churches, and the policy has been to submit the accounts to the Management Meeting every month. After the end of the financial year, the accounts are audited by a chartered accountant. Doing it this way ensures that the accounts are above board and there is no...
  7. Presbyterian Continuist

    Dumbest Jokes of All Time

    Three women go down to Mexico one night to celebrate college graduation. They get drunk and wake up in jail, only to find that they are to be executed in the morning – though none of them can remember what they did the night before. The first one, a redhead, is strapped in the electric chair and...
  8. Presbyterian Continuist

    Dumbest Jokes of All Time

    My neighbor got rid of their Rooster & replaced with a Duck Now I wake up at ‘The Quack O’ Dawn’
  9. Presbyterian Continuist

    Can you be Christian and believe in evolution?

    "There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live."
  10. Presbyterian Continuist

    Dumbest Jokes of All Time

    "Chuck Norris was once bitten by a cobra. After five days of agonizing pain, the cobra finally died."
  11. Presbyterian Continuist

    Old Earth Creationism

    As John said at the end of his Gospel, that "these things are written so that you can believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that we can receive salvation in His name" (my paraphrase). So, Genesis 1-11 was written to explain how the universe was created, how man came into being, what...
  12. Presbyterian Continuist

    Can you be Christian and believe in evolution?

    So you don't believe that God is a real person who can be an eye witness to anything. Ok, I get it.
  13. Presbyterian Continuist

    Can you be Christian and believe in evolution?

    If God said, "Where you there?" means that He was there, so He was an eye witness to what happened. He can make something happen and be an eye witness to the results at the same time. Common sense, thou art a gem!!
  14. Presbyterian Continuist

    Can you be Christian and believe in evolution?

    What! What other interpretation is there to what God has literally said? If He said that He laid the foundation of the earth, do we interpret that to say that He actually didn't? Or do we dream up an interpretation that has little to do with He actually said to Job?