• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

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  1. Who Decides - God or Us?

    For the past 10 years, I have been meeting persons who have the view that you do not have to take things in the Bible literally. They have the view that you get to decide if it's literal or not, and in most cases, people take almost everything in the Bible symbolic, from Genesis through to...
  2. Meanings of Bible Symbols!!!

    Meanings of Symbols Horn – King, kingdom, power and strength (Dan 7:24; 8:5,21-22; Zec 1:18- 19; Rev 17:12) Beast – State/kingdom (Dan 7:17,23) Hand – Symbol for actions, works (Ecc 9:10, Isa 59:6; Acts 4:28) Harvest – End of the earth (Matt13:39) Harlot, infidel woman – Apostate church (Isa...
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    Augustine, the Eucharist, and Signs

    Hello all, I have spent the last several weeks studying the Eucharist, specifically reading the Early Church Fathers (ECFs) to get a handle on what they believed about it with regard to the Real Presence. As a Protestant, I was stunned to find many seemingly obvious statements exhibiting a...