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Please demonstrate how either my summary or my interpretation of tho…
I know people who "submitted" against their will to the church group pressure and fear of not being accepted and even excluded from certain events and functions
I agree that abuse in churches can become a nightmare. …
Our understanding of any passage will result from our presumptions. The best presumption i…
Right. Same with most trinitarians, I think.<…
Glad you agree. Earlier, I may have misunderstood you.
Which are "all the water baptism passages" which you have in mind?
Google it, if you honestly don't know, so I don't waste time and space here. Baptism refers specifically to washing by water and to wa…
@Wolfgang You seem to miss both Jesus and God at every turn.
Surely you understand about Ex 3:13-15 where …
I think you overstate the matter.…
I think we are using baptism in two different ways--both valid. So, you are right. Water baptism is also a thing and valid--spirit baptism another and also valid. We see NT examples of both. One has little to do with the other than symbolically …
I don't think people presume Acts 1:5 has anything specific to do with Christian baptism, have you known anyone who did?
Is water baptism a necessity of some sort for God to be considered a believer in Christ, a member of Christ's body (the church of God)?
I don't see baptism described as a necessity as described above in the Bible. It …
I mentioned above that "baptism" is used to refer to water baptism and spirt baptism. Seems to me that we are agreeing.
I thought that you might be going the direction if saying water baptism was not a thing or that it was inconsequential-…
I was answering your question:
... how would counsel one longing to have a child but can't, for know or unknown reasons?
All that other stuff wasn't my interest.
◻️ He has Covid.
◻️ He is negotiating investments with Hunter.
◻️ He is partying because Biden is working out better than he imagined.
◻️ Other
And now we have the US Generals' testimony of the despicable choices by the Biden administration against top military advisers' counsel and any sense of human decency, and the lies Biden told and continues to tell. Per the present ongoing senate…
Consider adoption.
There are no unwanted babies. Abortion is the most heinous, sickening, perverse, ungodly, killing of innocent children conceivable. There is a mother waiting today with longing heart and open arms, crying…
I came here presuming this forum would likely be a standard, more or less evangelical, mostly orthodox, Mainstream/Baptist flavor discourse. Now, I am not so sure.
What exactly is the purpose here?
you tell me ... is such outward ritual required, deemed necessary, by God?
You say things in ways that contain a seed of truth, but are organized such that they are not true. We could spend all out time trying to re-l…
- Are baptismal rituals "prescribed?"
- Why wouldn't a Christian want a good standing with God and how is that opposed to accepting Christs completed work and grace?
Unable is the best reason. But I will give it a try out of curiosity about what might happen.
I presume we are talking humans here. A zygote is a zygote which is not a baby. A baby is a baby, which is not a zygote.
Those te…
That is an amazing post! Thanks.
I generally supposed this to be a Christian forum and not an antichrist forum. To me it seems clear that the few writers here have at a reasonable grasp of Scripture and ideas Christian. To arrive at conclusions above based on the Scriptures sup…
With all due respect, we seem to have a serious case of last-year's fruitcakes here.
Is this a joke?
What I said above was "Also pray for mothers trying to come to terms with killing their own babies.…
@Bill_Coley So, after the smoke settles, do you believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ or not?
Wait...Bill doesn't believe in the divinity of Jesus?
if "vaccination" is the mark or a harbinger of what is coming.
In my view, the "vaccination" is not and cannot be the mark. Christians should know with certainty and will not be duped. Some will make bad choices.
…After re-reading my posts above, I find them to be sound and clear. If anyone else is disoriented by them, I might have interest in clarifying further for them.
