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Given that most of the world has a secular public system this does play into the debate over public/private/or home schooling but what I'm really asking here is whether or not a person, especially a child's faith and education about their faith should be kept separate from the rest of their...

Can some protestants please help me understand the view that there is no biblical evidence for the other 5 sacraments, Baptism and Holy Communion being purely symbolic, and the supposed lack of biblical support for the communion of saints including but not limited to Mary as well as the position...

I run into this a LOT. I grew up in a mixed protestant family full of Presbyterians, Methodists, baptists, and Pentecostals and when I started my conversion process 5 years ago almost all of them thought I was selling my soul to the devil, half of them cut me out entirely and the other half...

Please, please, please stay on topic here guys... I think this is an important discussion for the Body of Christ as a whole along with society at large to have but the last thread addressing it got overrun with an off topic argument and closed... Please stay on topic... Here are my basic...

This is what I wonder, and seems to be the main argument that separates the three main branches on the family tree of Christendom. Everyone agrees that we are saved by Grace, but not everyone agrees about what exactly Grace entails. Is salvation instant? Is it possible to fall away after having...

I've NEVER considered myself to be "liberal" to me "liberal" meant lukewarm, it mean appeasement, it meant compromising biblical truth in the face of pressure from the secular world, and I never wanted any part of that. It's not that I'm big on labels, but I find them helpful in determining how...

especially considering that most I've talked to have very little knowledge of what we actually believe...

I know I'm not liberal enough to be considered liberals, liberals tend to come to hate me within the first 10 minutes because I disagree with some of their wackier stuff... 1. I believe in total gender equality between men and women, I don't use the label of 'feminist' to describe myself...

Different churches have different takes on the presence and use of Icons. So, those who affirm Icons and those who disagree with the concept of sacred images being actively used in worship, let's talk about it.

This is more a question than a "I'm right you're wrong" thread. I just don't understand the whole "temple worthy Mormons only" policy regarding LDS temples. I don't understand it on a scriptural level, because many times throughout the New Testament, Jesus and the Apostles make it clear that...

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Do you think that it's actual speaking in tongues like some churches practice or is it speaking languages you don't know or know very little of or even just being given the right words to say?

The very first time I reached out to God, on my own, by my own choice, I was 9 years old. I had just learned that a very dear friend who was like a brother to me, was very, very sick and not expected to make it through the night. Unable to help by human ability alone I sat in my bed all night...

This was a law passed by the French Parliament that took effect at the start of the school term in 2004. The law bans symbols which are obvious and identify the student as a member of a particular religious group and has adversely effected Sikh students, Jewish students (particularly Orthodox...

I was raised Methodist but I never really felt close to God in that church as a child and I never learned what the specifics of Methodism were, not even in confirmation when what I was wrestling with was whether or not there was a reason to be Methodist as opposed to Baptist, or Catholic, or...

Being Orthodox I should like to take the affirmative in this debate but I would love an intelligent discussion with someone who disagrees as I want to understand the other perspective... I think we should look at their origin and when and why the books were removed from the Protestant bible and...

When I was a little girl, I struggled with health problems that threatened my life and for 5 years we really didn't know if I would ever grow up. Thanks be to God I made it through that dark time, but in the midst of that my family joined a support group for the families of children like me. One...

I am Orthodox, I was raised in a Methodist/Baptist family, originally Baptized Roman Catholic... I attend a women's bible study at a Pentecostal megachurch... I've seen a wide variety of reactions between people of different denominations, everything from out and out hate, to arrogant bigotry...

Hi, I'm Ana. I grew up in the Methodist church but left and was later received into the Eastern Orthodox church in 2011. Since becoming Orthodox I have only deepened my relationship with Jesus Christ, and that is something that no matter what church they find it in, I pray that EVERY person gets...