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    Pacifism Question

    What the anabaptists or brethren post regarding non violence is very scriptural. I am beginning to find that the real reformation, instead of taking place in the early 1500's with Luther, Zwingli and Calvin as some of the mentors, most likely took place at the time of Constantine. This was...
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    Pacifism Question

    The real problem with the above statement from Romans is that it isn't fully explained. While Paul may have been referring to Jews and Rome, let us remember that Rome killed plenty of of folks for "whatever" reason they felt. Even Paul didn't follow his own writings, as when told to shut his...
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    How are infants saved?

    Since we are all our own theologian to a certain extent, I leave much regarding infant baptism as nothing more than theological debate and don't worry too much about it. Once infant baptism in the early church after Constantine started taking place, it was because there was high infant...
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    Is it time for Donald to bow out? (MOVED)

    Actually, much of the dirt on Trump is quite new. His mocking of people with disabilities, his blasts on Ted Cruz...His attempt to claim the present president was born elsewhere and not really a "legal" president. I am not defending HC, but am only pointing out that to claim DT is a different...
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    Is it time for Donald to bow out? (MOVED)

    Personally...I believe he should bow out. His behavior is disgraceful and certainly not Christian. Frankly, I also believe that if a person feels that neither candidate is worthy of the job, then they should vote for someone else or not vote at all. Would you go to the polls in November and...
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    Once Saved, Always Saved?

    I agree that the terms need defining. After all, John 15:4, depending on translation says either "Abide in Me" or "Remain in Me." The remain certainly would insinuate that you are there at one time but need to remain. This could be carried over into behavior as seen in 1 John 2 v6 where...
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    Is it wrong to church hop?

    This is an interesting subject. We are the church. The body of believers is the church, so you really aren't going to church anyway. You are going to worship. Although I worship at one regularly in the evenings on Sunday, I worship at many others and rotate through them randomly on Sunday...
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    Pro-life or pro-choice

    Scripture isn't clear regarding abortion. Abortion was commonly practiced in the Roman empire of which the Jews were certainly privy to that information. Jesus didn't mention anything regarding abortion. We have OT scripture stating that if a man suspects his wife of adultery, he could take...
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    original sin doesn't make sense

    Perhaps what original sin is referring to is that with the fall of Adam, all people will eventually sin. That doesn't mean that necessarily would one say that a newborn is sinful or has sin, but it would rather mean that given time, as this tad begins to be aware and grows, it will then sin or...
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    Should we take "In God We Trust" off the dollar bill?

    I certainly don't believe in that. There are certainly people at any given time throughout US history that were not happy with what was happening at the time within the US. To make a statement like your above, seems to say that unless everyone is like you they should leave America. From a...
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    Should we take "In God We Trust" off the dollar bill?

    I do think we should remove the "In God We Trust" from the currency, as it is a blatant lie. People trust in the money or trust in the missiles and the bombs and not in God and his son Jesus. After all, the disciples had a "common purse." Try throwing that out to the nation and see how much...
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    Why is Christianity opposed to the theory of Evolution?

    Actually, scriptures says that "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep." If we accept that, there should be no problem with evolution, because we are given no timeline between the above verse...
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    Love Thy Enemy... But to what extent?

    I am not sure the early Christians and Anabaptists were misguided. After all, there isn't a single recorded case of early Christian (first and second century) involved in killing anybody. Many of them actually knew Jesus and listened to him, so they probably had a better idea of how to be...
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    Love Thy Enemy... But to what extent?

    I don't think someone is talking about a "warm fuzzy" Jesus. You are correct in that Jesus took a whip (didn't kill) to drive the money changers out of the temple. What is unique is that none of his followers took the whip. "vengeance is Mine sayeth the Lord." Scripture shows nowhere that...
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    God's peace and nice to join

    This is my first post. May God's peace and strength be with you all. Thank you Jesus for all you do for all of us.
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    Jesus or Country?

    Mr. Coffee, I agree with much of what you had to say. Since Christ told Pilate that his (Christ's) kingdom was not of this world, that is where I am attempting to be a citizen. I love being in the non democratic omnipotent Kingdom of Jesus. He bought me with his blood, and therefore, I am...
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    Pacifism Question

    Yeshuaslavejeff, Thank you for your kind comments, and may God bless and keep all here safe from the evil one. We are blessed with Jesus' sacrifice, as it is all about what Jesus did. God's peace to you as you go from glory to glory.
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    Jesus or Country?

    Of course this is only my own opinion, and each of us are our own theologian, but Paul, in the book of Romans, is not God, but Jesus in the Beatitudes in Mathew is God, so I would lean toward listening to the Christ. Nowhere did Christ ever say to love one's country. In fact his "Give unto...
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    Can a Christian defend themselves?

    "The Bible does not teach against self-preserverence, Christians can most certainly defend themselves." What the Bible actually teaches from Christ in the NT is that we are to not worry at all about our life here, as self preservation on earth is a fleshy belief. As it says it Matt 5:44. "but...
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    War Profiteering

    From the best I can find, there was no single documented case of a Christian in the early church..namely from Christ time for the first couple hundred years or more of taking another person's life purposefully. Accidents may have occurred. It really wasn't until Constantine took over the quote...