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Are the letters in the new testament normal? The letters in the new testament seem very unusual, really abnormal, for letters. They contain complicated sentences and intricate pieces of subtle reasoning as well as moral advice and some theological statements. They are, on the whole, more like...

Are there any white people (of faith) in the bible, if so who?

The councils of the Catholic Church provide a good record of how Christian doctrine has developed, largely in response to heresies and partly in response to internal debates on the meaning of the scriptures. Here is a summary of the twenty-one councils of the Catholic Church. The following is...

Do you think that converts from Protestantism to one or another of the Orthodoxies leads to the convert carrying over from Protestantism whatever prejudices and misapprehensions about Catholicism they had as Protestants to Orthodoxy?

Today, after receiving a powered USB hub from Amazon.com.au I am resurrecting a slightly crippled Windows 10 on my Teclast X98 Air 3G tablet. I damaged its drivers by installing "optional updates" for drivers. The optional updates didn't work, and Microsoft did warn that they might not, so it...

If, for some good reason, you were to decide to become either a Catholic or an Orthodox Christian, which would you choose?

With the rosary and most Catholic liturgical prayers from the Divine Office Catholics (me included) open with the sign of the cross and its accompanying prayer In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Then follows the prayer we intend to pray, be it spontaneous or...

I know that more posts appear in the "Christians only" part of this site, and I understand why that is so, and I understand why non-trinitarians who like to discuss matters that are not directly related to the doctrine of the Trinity may want to participate in such threads in the "Christians...

The topic comes from a little rhyme that Gordon Clarke wrote in his book What Do Presbyterians Believe I think he thought that some Presbyterians believed nothing at the time he was writing in the 1960s. So, are we, as Christians, free from the law and is that a blessed condition and does it...

The Catholic Church, through a declaration by saint John Paul II, refuses to ordain women to the priesthood, to ordination as a bishop, and, thus far, to the diaconate. Saint John Paul II wrote "Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter...

In the other place there is a long thread asking if John MacArthur is guilty of heresy for his insistence that the expression "mother of God" is all wrong. I'll cite the sermon recording and if you want to listen to him, I managed about 50% of it, then you may want to give an opinion on whether...

There's a movement, it seems, of Protestants into Orthodox churches. There's also a demand for KJV + Apocrypha. The following Video gives testimony to the movement into Orthodoxy.

A LINOVO P11 Pro Tablet arrived in the mail on Monday. I spent Time on Tuesday setting it up, copying files from the Teclast T30. On Wednesday I factory reset the T30 and started to set it up for my brother. His birthday is soon, so I said he can have the T30 as a gift. We do not exchange...

What is ordination, do you think? And anointing? [Edit: oops, wrong place, this should be in Theology]

The ancient churches authored and preserved the creeds that are accepted by nearly all Christians; such as the Nicene creed, the apostle's creed, the formula of Chalcedon, and others. Would you miss them if they were all gone?

And one of those robbers who were hanged blasphemed him, saying: If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering, rebuked him, saying: Neither dost thou fear God, seeing; thou art under the same condemnation? And we indeed justly: for we receive the due reward of our deeds. But...

In the other place, much despised by some here, I've watched some of a debate about baptism and it is interesting how worked up folk get on the doctrine.

The new one has an AMD processor, 64 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD and a bunch of other stuff. Processor AMD Ryzen™ 9 7940HS Processor, 8 Cores/16 Threads (16M Cache, up to 5.2 GHz) Graphics AMD Radeon™ 780M (Graphics Frequency 2800MHz) Memory DDR5 Dual channel (SODIMM Slots×2, Up to 5600MHz, Max 64GB)...

The history of Christology over the first seven centuries of Church history is a fascinating and complex topic that involves many debates, controversies, and developments. Here is a brief overview of some of the main events and issues that shaped the Christian understanding of Jesus Christ...

In Catholic teaching the ultimate authority for all teaching is God. That needs to be unpacked a little I think. How does God communicate? through Jesus Christ first and foremost through the apostles who received their teaching from Christ through the bishops who succeeded the apostles through...