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    How do you know what the Christian faith is?

    I wouldn't quite define it the same way, anyway; dogma particularly implies the idea of an overseeing institution.
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    How for your first earring(s)?

    Thanks to those who voted in the poll! If you have not yet voted in the poll, please vote now! :)
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    How for your first earring(s)?

    MoreCoffee: Point taken! but I guess I mean that 40 years ago it wasn't customary for young men to stud both ears; whereas now it is for so many; and isn't regarded as unusual at all when they do it and when parents give sons as well as daughters earrings, anyway. (2c of observations...)
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    I think I saw a bobcat?

    I wish I could tour it and see those differences! :)
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    How do you know what the Christian faith is?

    \\Maybe you would also distinguish in your use of terminology the words doctrine and dogma; but I myself would not, anyway.
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    boys v girls - Part 4

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    I think I saw a bobcat?

    Thanks! :) You successfully managed to paste photos also; I tried unsuccessfully on another thread. They look fine creatures, anyway. From and fauna and flora perspective Australia is quite remarkable, I think.
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    How for your first earring(s)?

    PS: MoreCoffee: I think it's probably very much a generational thing also! right? :) Today, it's like a natural wish and expectation among very many young men. And usually both ears, not just one.
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    How do you know what the Christian faith is?

    Well, I would hold that everything that is authoritative about the Trinty - God in Three Persons - is found in the New Testament. So revelation occurred between what faithful Jews in the Old Testament understood and what is seen in the New Testament; in this sense, I suppose, it developed; but I...
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    I think I saw a bobcat?

    Oh really? :) Thanks for pointing this out! So the Tasmanian devils are actually rather different, then.
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    How do you know what the Christian faith is?

    Oh okay! :) I know that for example the Church of Rome holds - and John Henry Newman in particular held - to the idea of the development of doctrine: which to my understanding means that what is authoritative is not necessarily Scriptural but depends on how the 'community of faith' gradually...
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    boys v girls - Part 4

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    I think I saw a bobcat?

    Also: aren't Tasmanian devils like smaller versions of the dingos found on the Australian mainland?
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    How do you know what the Christian faith is?

    But (maybe) unlike you I would not argue that the written authority of the New Testament is somehow subservient to an unrecorded or dissimilarly recorded tradition deemed to be held by an institution.
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    How do you know what the Christian faith is?

    We have the Apostles' teaching authoritatively described in Acts and the Epistles; I don't hold to some idea of an institution guarding and developing some repository of oral tradition attributed to the Apostles. I think you see what I mean about how the argument can rapidly become circular.
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    Ruth's Friendship Fellowship-everyone welcome-come on in! Part 3

    Ruth: Well, you might then rather like the style of Disciple, e.g., as in their track Radical. Authentic, even raw, hard rock in undiluted style, with hard hitting, excellent Biblical lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uVI4_90JsM
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