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    Polluted Political Correctness?

    ============================================================================================== Recently, a high profile sporting personality had (what has been described as) a meltdown. That high profile personality, who was the firm favourite to win a particular sporting contest, and was the...
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    Brown people wrote the bible

    ============================================================================================== There could be some helpful information in this Post for USA Readers, even though it focuses on an Australian situation. Political correctness, and the kind of backlash (misrepresentation and...
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    Be ye goats or sheep?

    ============================================================================================== Post #41 (atpollard): I thank atpollard for his consideration. However, there is no need for him (or anyone) to refrain from commenting on my Posts and ideas. I welcome comments of all types...
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    Be ye goats or sheep?

    ============================================================================================== TurtleHare (Post #40 - to MoreCoffee): Are you one of them that seriously thought others believe they're a sheep or a goat, like seriously? Does that mean people aren’t? Baa, humbug...
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    mentioning politics from the pulpit

    ============================================================================================== I would like to present a related thought from a different angle. The thought is: Should politicians who are known to unfairly demean (lie about) others, who misrepresent the policies of their...
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    Was Luther Insane?

    ============================================================================================== MoreCoffee (Post #26): How about a “boo-hoo” option, as well? ==============================================================================================
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    The Lord's Table

    ============================================================================================== Post #4: I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag, but I think it’s called the Bible. (And it is comprehensive, rather than simply a quick overview.)...
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    Be ye goats or sheep?

    ============================================================================================== Self-Fulfilling Prophecy An apparent prophecy that by its very nature induces responses that fulfil the prophecy. It is a well documented and acknowledged technique...
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    Basilica Block Party

    ============================================================================================== Post #25 (MoreCoffee): This is a frequently used cop-out within the halls of Christendom. It was reiterated in Post #35. Whenever a personally important issue or organisation is subjected to...
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    How do you intepret these verses?

    ============================================================================================== Don’t you find it amazing? I do. Amazing how people, when issuing statements to support a point they are making, sometimes accidentally reveal information that exposes their established, personally...
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    Should the pope step down

    ============================================================================================== I’ve been waiting for MoreCoffee to say, “ Impeach the Pope :preach: ! “. (:)) ============================================================================================== MoreCoffee has picked on...
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    What do you make of it?

    ============================================================================================== Arsenios in Post #15, quoting from MoreCoffee’s Post #1: Arsenios in Post #15: I have had difficulty identifying the unusual translation above. The DRC (Roman Catholic Bible) states it thus: 29...
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    Do bans work?

    ============================================================================================== Bans of Marriage have been around for a long time. (Also called Banns of Marriage) Do they work? ==============================================================================================
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    What do you make of it?

    ============================================================================================== Post #14 (MoreCoffee): Two points can be made regarding those statements. ============================================================================================== A number of churches in...
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    Australia's Child Poverty: National Shame

    ============================================================================================== Post #1: ============================================================================================== National Center For Children in Poverty (NCCP): http://www.nccp.org/topics/childpoverty.html...
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    Frequency of Communion?

    ============================================================================================== Jesus laid only a few commandments on His “footstep followers” (to use a meaningful term). One was to love one another, as He had loved them (us). (John 13:34, etc.) Another was to proclaim His...
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    Is the Account of Adam and Eve LITERAL?

    ============================================================================================== Josiah in Post #1 (re Adam and Eve and the Fall of mankind): We have seen the word “mystery” used a lot in CH. The problem is that that word “mystery” can be conveniently used (and often is) as a...
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    Thoughts on the 'annihilationism' Thread

    ============================================================================================== From Post #53 in the ‘annihilationism’ thread once again [emphasis added]: I wonder: If someone holding the “annihilationism” perspective wrote words like that to an “immortal soul” person, would...
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    What do you make of it?

    ============================================================================================== 1 Corinthians 15:29: 29 Tell me: what are these people doing, who are baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead cannot be raised, why do they want to be baptized for the dead? As has been...
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    Biblical meaning - literal, allegory, or...?

    ============================================================================================== Post #37: I'd agree. Much the same with Balaam's donkey questioning why it's receiving a beating and petitioning that it's faithfully served Balaam for many years. Yet the text attests that "...the...
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