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After reviewing a few recent icon changes, I have concluded that I cannot reconcile the privileges of a "Christian" icon here with a profession of Christian faith. While there are people who reflect God better than I, who are denied these special privileges, I must go stand with them. I have...

I often see various explanations of how Jesus redeems us from our sins. Often, these explain that the debt of these sins is paid; often, they explain that the debt of these sins is forgiven. Which is it? The terms are mutually exclusive. If a debt has been forgiven, there's nothing to...

This is a question that's always bugged me. Who decides whether something is worldly or not? What makes a piece of music "sacred" or "secular"? Is one of Bach's fugues a secular piece, because it hasn't got any words at all, let alone a recap of the Gospel? Is it a sacred piece, because it...

Hi! While my primary church isn't a Restoration Movement church, I have a lot of interest in RM practice and teaching. I am very much interested in NT practices, from which I believe modern Christianity has fallen away. I attend a Friends church (aka Quakers). The slogan "no Creed but...

I've had a number of interesting discussions about Christian beliefs at hell. Many of them were over at Internet Infidels (IIDB), where I'm a moderator in the "General Religious Discussions" forum. But it occurs to me that'd be interesting to discuss some of these topics here, with more...

Something many people have never done is actually study OT Biblical sexual morality. For instance, adultery is when a man other than her husband has sex with a married woman. That's the only time a sexual act can be adultery. Adultery is a crime against a woman's husband. A man who has sex...

I think a lot of people tend to get confused about the authorship of the Bible. For the sake of argument, let's disregard text criticism, or the conceptual difficulty of Moses, like Tom Sawyer, narrating his own funeral. Only Moses was actually dead. The first five books of the Bible are...

I'd like to state for the record: The Anabaptists were recently removed from the former Baptist/Anabaptist forum. Not all of them are happy with this, and several seem to very much not want a special Anabaptist-only forum. With that in mind, I would ask that members be welcoming of any...

We need to appoint a committee to see whether we have clearness on using this forum. Oh, and on what to call it.

I think a lot of people do not distinguish between "leftism" and "liberalism". This is a grave error. Since the dawn of our nation, it has been founded on principles of liberty. Liberalism, in the classical sense, refers precisely to such principles; as Voltaire put it, "I may disagree...

The Baptist/Anabaptist forum is having one of the periodic spats over whether the Anabaptists are welcome. One of the things that's been floated is that, rather than sending all six or so Anabaptist members to a brand new forum with only six members, they be moved to a forum they would fit...

Found this on a Quaker site: How many Quakers does it take to change a lightbulb? That depends. If the lightbulb is in the meetinghouse, then it takes the whole meeting, and 3-9 months. First, property committee has to notify clerk that a lightbulb is burned out. It will then be put on the...

Hey, there. I'm indirectly familiar with RM churches, having met some RM people online. I didn't realize you guys had a Congregation forum, though! Ironically, I found it only when I was trying to google up the source of the phrase "No Creed But Christ". ... So, uhm. What is the...

I assume priests (and bishops, and so on, including the pope) partake in Reconciliation the same as everyone else. Are there requirements? For instance, must a priest be absolved before he can perform certain sacraments, or is that unrelated?

Slacktivist, I think, has captured the essence of the incoherence of the "you're not tolerating my intolerance!" defense: Here is where illiberal folks like to chime in with something like, "You liberals can tolerate anything except for intolerance." This they seem to imagine is a witty...

Hi, I normally wouldn't post stuff like this here, but this grew out of a conversation here, and I thought I'd seek feedback. Here, I think, I begin to see the problem. You're asking what you have to do. The goal here is not to find the bare minimum and pursue it! To do this is in...

I have seen this word used, and rather than further derail a thread, I'd like to discuss it separately. What is this word? It's obviously a portmanteau of "fundamentalist" and "evangelical". I've only ever seen a few people use it, and all of them were posters here. The previous one...