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  1. Albion

    Someone in your denomination who believes differently?

    It came from this-- ............................................................................................................................................................ Well, almost anything can be "drawn" from Scripture, you know. The most ridiculous interpretations are derived from...
  2. Albion

    When a person gets cremated,

    Why wouldn't they? I'm going to guess that the thinking behind the question has something to do with the resurrection of the body, but if not being perfectly intact in the tomb were a disqualifier, so also would every soldier who'd been blown to smithereens in battle be ineligible, not to...
  3. Albion

    Someone in your denomination who believes differently?

    I wonder if the issue is being changed somewhat now. I said that I would be cautious about speaking up if someone else in the congregation voiced his opposition to the church's doctrines, but that wasn't because we should adopt a 'to each his own' attitude about it. Patience and charity in...
  4. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    Well, eliminating Faith from the process of salvation cannot be squared with the BIble's testimony, period.
  5. Albion

    Would you miss them if the creeds were all gone?

    Those seem like perfectly fair questions you asked, Josiah, so I'm somewhat surprised at the reply you got back. But not entirely surprised. The key ingredient in this kind of exchange (which isn't unique to this thread), is that it is almost an article of faith in the Roman Catholic Church...
  6. Albion

    Someone in your denomination who believes differently?

    First, I'm not certain that I would handle it. And if I did, a lot would depend on what kind of "meeting" it was. If we're talking about something like a small Bible Study group, I'd probably be more inclined to speak up than if it were in a congregational meeting. And in any case, I would take...
  7. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    As usual, the issue isn't Justification itself but the role that's played by Faith. If Faith is made out to be merely an "offshoot" of Justification, an automatic consequence of Justification, or something merely symbolic... a huge part of the New Testament gets denied in the process. How do...
  8. Albion

    Someone in your denomination who believes differently?

    I'd expect that, but what I meant there was just that most of us would be more likely to bring up the issue of a doctrinal disagreement if it was the view of a friend, as opposed to some other member of the congregation.
  9. Albion

    Pro-life supporters question:

    I wouldn't say so. That's because an important part of what I was referring to was the fact that these exceptions are very rare and can be accommodated, yet they are almost always brought up whenever opponents lay out their pro-abortion position. They want to make it seem is as if they are...
  10. Albion

    Would you miss them if the creeds were all gone?

    What you call "a difference in the community" certainly was an important feature of life at that time in church history. That's the main reason for some of these creeds to exist. But if we look closely at the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, we don't find church authority addressed, just as many of...
  11. Albion

    Would you miss them if the creeds were all gone?

    It sounds like your answer is actually "yes," meaning that you WOULD miss the Creeds at the present time, if perhaps not as keenly as someone who spent much of his life as a member of a denomination that didn't pay much attention to this part of church history.
  12. Albion

    Why are so many catholic priests pedophiles?

    I'm not sure that this is the case. Across North America, there have been whole Catholic dioceses quietly go out of existence because the number of these crimes coming to the surface have simply exceeded the diocese's ability to pay off the lawsuits. And many times, it's not just that there was...
  13. Albion

    Pro-life supporters question:

    I can't deny the point you're making, but it's almost always possible to criticize a socio-political proposal by citing the very rare oddities or exceptions that are or might be involved. Doing that makes the idea itself seem dangerous or unfair, etc., when those rare events actually do not...
  14. Albion

    Why are so many catholic priests pedophiles?

    The seminaries seem merely to have tilted in that direction in recent years because of the underlying problem--the Roman Catholic's Church's thousand-year-old policy against allowing married clergy (except under very rare circumstances).
  15. Albion

    Someone in your denomination who believes differently?

    Doing that would most likely provoke a confrontation and involve more people than just oneself. That would bring about a different situation than we had been talking about (a personal friend who doesn't believe some of the church's doctrines but presumably hasn't broadcast the disagreement to...
  16. Albion

    In the Bible,

    As opposed to...what?
  17. Albion

    Pro-life supporters question:

    Whoa. "Severe medical complications" have not been discussed here so far. Were there such complications, an abortion might be allowable. Few of even the most ardent pro-life people (or churches) advocate saving the child at the cost of the mother's life. But again, it's not the case that this...
  18. Albion

    Favorite/preferred Bible translation

    I have to say that the Authorized Version (AKA the KJV) is my favorite. Then, if there are some passages that seem unclear, there are a half dozen or so other translations that I look at in order to resolve that problem. None of these would be my overall favorite translation of the Bible...
  19. Albion

    Ordination

    Actually, there are more churches that anoint with oil than you may realize. However, its use is normally done in connection with certain ceremonies--sacraments mainly, but not exclusively. The idea that blessed oil has some spiritual benefit if and when applied to somebody by just about...
  20. Albion

    KJV with apocrypha ...

    I didn't stick with that rather tedious video to the end, so rebutting what I'm going to say here is fine with me if there is something that was covered there and I just failed to notice it. 1. The idea that there are masses of Protestant converting to Orthodoxy seems to be a favorite tale told...
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