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Well, my Church of Christ is obviously not the same as the Restoration Church, Church of Christ. As far as I know, we are not associated with a national organization. Maybe that is why we don't have a faith group here on this website.

I don't know much about Mormons, but I sure I'm not one.

Instead of demand, you could say polite request, but even if God said please, from a human standpoint it is still a demand.

We must not be a typical Restoration-type congregation. After we have looked "anywhere," we look to the actions of God. I'm not really clear about how we know about the actions of God, but I believe it includes things like creating and ordering the world and demanding the sacrifice of Issac and...

Many of my fellow parishioners have a simple answer to the question, "Where do we look for knowledge of God?" I expected the answer to be, "The Bible." However, their first answer is, "Anywhere." About self conscious and self directing. If God is not self conscious, he won't know who he is; and...

I had never heard the term, Restoration Church, but Albion posted in posting #2 that this website classifies Church of Christ as Restoration Church, so I posted over there.

So I ask, "Actions? Don't you mean 'Word of God?'" And they say, "Well, that too; but we begin with the actions of God?" And I wonder about that because we began with Jesus saying that God is spirit, which seems more like word than action.

So when I ask if the Bible is not traditionally the source of our knowledge of God, they say that yes, that is true, but first we look to the actions of God.

One might wonder where we find our knowledge of God. I thought the answer would be something like, "The Bible." However, many around here say that the first place should be anywhere.

Yes, a spirit is immaterial, and a discussion of God might begin with that idea, just as it might begin with words like infinite, absolute, self-existent, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, and wise. Or metaphors like rock, light, and word. I'm not sure why we don't begin with those words...

God being love must be the basis of saying the God is motivated to create, sustain, and order the universe.

A member of my congregation says I should say that God is THE spirit rather than A spirit. I'm not exactly sure why that is.

You could think of God and being immaterial, having no volume or mass.

So God as a self-conscious, self-directing spirit is not a controversial idea. We also think of God as good in the sense that he is unsurpassibly good, unmixed with evil, and unweakened by defect.

Many of my church look to the Bible and more specifically to Jesus as a source of information about God. If Jesus said so, it must be true. God is a spirit. Also, God is a personal spirit, which means he is a self-conscious and self-directing spirit. Some object the the word, personal because...

Many of my church look to the Bible and more specifically to Jesus as a source of information about God. If Jesus said so, it must be true. God is a spirit. Also, God is a personal spirit, which means he is a self-conscious and self-directing spirit. Some object the the word, personal, but as...

I attend a church that calls itself a Church of Christ, which appears to be a subheading of this thread. Many at my church regard God as a spirit. They define spirit as a thing (or being or entity) that thinks, feels and wills. God thinks feels and wills so God must be a spirit. Is that a...

I attend a church that calls itself a Church of Christ, which is not a listed faith group, so I classified myself as other. Many at my church regard God as a spirit. They define spirit as a thing (or being or entity) that thinks, feels and wills. God thinks feels and wills so God must be a...

The Chaldean barber was a Christian. Here in Orange County we have a congregation of Jewish Christians, so I suppose the other two barbers may also have been Christians, but that seems an unlikely proposition to me. I don't know the extent to which they held as canonical the various parts of the...

Thirty years ago, of a while I had a Samaritan barber. He worked in a shop with a Jewish and a Chaldean barber. They were recent immigrants from the Middle East. In conversation with the Jewish and Samaritan barbers, I learned that both groups, Jews and Samaritans, use different versions of the...