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Amen.

Yes, but we don't don't re-baptise (we don't even think a rebaptism is possible).

I have Baptist friends and all that, but I would not feel comfortable taking their form of comunion, which they see as a purely religious work that the believer performs and Christ isn't in it. I would be proclaiming that I agree that Christ isn't really present if I were to partake. To say it...

We take a dim view of the way dispensationalists take current events and try to read these events back into the Bible. As you noticed, a lot of radio and T.V. preachers misuse scriptures that way. We don't see the Bible as a book of secret codes you can figure out to predict the future. We don't...

I use VB.NET and used to do a lot of VB6 and VBA before .NET. A lot of Python. Just a little C#. ASP, JavaScript. Some proprietary stuff I won't name. Some Unix shell scripts and DOS batch files, if that counts.

You might see references to the NAB and to the NABRE. A few years ago they revised the NAB, so if you go to a bookstore and look for the NAB, you will only be able to get the Revised Edition, which is fine. The NAB(RE) has extensive notes, and it is all approved by the Church. Also, if you like...

I can see how tracts seem like they are only used for fundamentalist messages like, I don't know, "God isn't very pleased with you and neither are we. Here is what you must do to win God's and our favor..." There are plenty of bad tracts with bad theology presented in a bad way. But it is only a...

Dialog between Christians and Muslims, fine. Having some joint projects - some charity both Christians and Muslims participate in, fine. Inviting Muslims as guests to observe but not participate in worship services, and Muslims inviting Christians as nonparticipating guests, fine. Holding a...

I guess if you go from creative "science" to creative bookkeeping, you might get into a little trouble.

As a former Lutheran, now Anglican (ACNA), I say that having communion at every service is a wonderful thing. That makes the Eucharist the center, the anchor, of each service. This really shifts the center of gravity to where it should always be. I know there are Lutheran churches that also see...

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That's interesting, Albion. So you see this Pope as being interested in strengthening Christendom in general and the West in particular against Islamism? If that is the case, then he has more foresight than many Western leaders.

Congratulations, and I'm not being sarcastic. It sounds like one of those situations where you were doubtful things could have worked out well. Still, you held out a dim hope. Then something happened to break the spell. That is a liberating feeling, isn't it? To be freed of a false hope...

"You sound more compliant with todays Secular Humanism than Gods absolute moral mandates, and you display a philosophy of tolerance to immorality many times." All you do is accuse, accuse, accuse.

David, do you have any idea who compiled the Bible? Do you have any idea who determined what were legitimate writings from the apostles vs. heretical Gnostic writings? Were it not for the Catholics, you wouldn't have the New Testament. You would likely have a book of Gnostic philosophy and...

It can be lonely. If you have a sacramental view of Baptism and the Lord's Supper, if your church observes a liturgy, other Christians are likely to see you as an odd sort of heretic. What is called American Evangelicalism is completely from the Radical reformers, and often I feel like I have a...

It says I'm at 137 I have been told I am great at solving problems and I have done some rather difficult things. I don't think you can take online tests too seriously.

Don't let Ham push you into a rigid either/or mentality. There are churches where evolution is accepted or at least tolerated. I am guessing that if your church is really enthusiastic about YEC, then it is probably a conservative Evangelical or Fundamentalist church. I am pretty conservative...

If you take Genesis as imposing a monotheistic view on ancient Near Eastern cosmology, radically changing the cosmology to support monotheism, using it to introduce the Hebrew God, then you can appreciate it without reducing it to a myth on one hand or without having to be too literal on the...

KWCrazy, that is sure possible, someone making up some obscure point, twisting scripture, to discredit Christianity.