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  1. Albion

    Pilate’s regret

    Clergy--the successors of the Apostles--do that all the time. It's not what was being talked about and advocated on this thread. Peter? ;) We were talking about praying and before that the "Holy Roller" stuff that some people think is essential if God is to listen to his children. It's...
  2. Albion

    Pilate’s regret

    Just about every Christian I know, from any denomination, prays for healing. It doesn't take anything more elaborate than going into one's closet or kneeling by the bedside or asking God for help in your thoughts no matter where you are. The idea that making a great show out of praying, or that...
  3. Albion

    Pilate’s regret

    Correction: God allowed this man to be blind. There's a big difference there. Recognizing this one difference would get us past a lot of the "why why why" posting that we encounter. There is a reason that sickness and misfortune are part of the human existence, and every Christian should be...
  4. Albion

    Pilate’s regret

    I don't agree that you did, in fact, make the necessary distinction. If you meant something other than the words that were chosen seemed to suggest, then that's encouraging. But then here's your follow-up reflection on the matter-- At best, that is clearly a mistaken notion. And it wrongly...
  5. Albion

    Pilate’s regret

    I was attempting to be as polite as possible when responding to a poster who imagines that a Christian fringe group which teaches its followers to believe they need to be, can be, and have been endowed with magical powers is much different from actual snake oil salesmen. But the bigger point is...
  6. Albion

    Pilate’s regret

    Many would say that there's not much difference between those two, however. .
  7. Albion

    Twitter to be rebranded as X

    Who knows. But it's probably a serious effort to update AND distance his company from the old owner's name for it. While "X" seems odd, and probably is just a first step, I think of the other strange name changes we have seen. Does "Meta" seem like a good updating of "Facebook" or "Dunkin" a...
  8. Albion

    Pilate’s regret

    A number of members of CH have been willing and eager to help out and have suggested various ways he could approach the matter as well as give direct answers to his questions about the Bible, etc. All of these result in responses that are abusive of both the members and the religion. I don't...
  9. Albion

    Leaving the car idle

    Makes you wonder if half the cars in line at a drive-through fast food place have their engines turn off on them...maybe repeatedly. Or in any similar line. At an ATM, for example. Presumably, this could happen a number of times when going about one's ordinary shopping routine.
  10. Albion

    Belief in God

    I don't doubt it. God has a way of working over the course of time to achieve his will. That's evident from any reading of the Bible. What I'd be interested to know is how many people have a brainstorm of some sort or think they've heard the voice of God audibly, feel called, and later drift...
  11. Albion

    Pilate’s regret

    If that is your wish, then yes. Yet, it's a Christian forum, not a "Denounce Christianity" forum. And also, there's hardly been anything other than patience extended to him for literally years now, all of which succeeded in changing his routine not one bit. Nevertheless, my feeling is that...
  12. Albion

    Pilate’s regret

    Here's a thought--there are certain essentials or fundamentals of the Christian religion that people who join a Christian discussion board are already basically familiar with. For other people who are not as well informed, some serious study on their own or, if not that, enrolling in an...
  13. Albion

    Pilate’s regret

    I don't know about bozo-ism, but you're referring to an administrator of a troublesome part of a brutal, authoritarian empire, all of its good qualities aside. Pilate obviously cannot be evaluated as though he were just some ordinary Roman citizen on the street.
  14. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    If it were both a gift and an act, both would be God's doing. But if it's one's own acts, these have been much discussion here concerning what the human does or does not do or needs to do in the matter of justification. Hopefully, you'll come to the understanding that it's all in God's hands...
  15. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    We'd love to have you explain how "it" can be simultaneously both a gift and not a gift.
  16. Albion

    Pilate’s regret

    That's right. Pilate wasn't determined to save an innocent man there--a "nobody" to him at best. His job was to administer the area and that involves maintaining order among the traditionally troublesome Jews. It appears that he was of the opinion that Jesus wasn't guilty, but the crowd wasn't...
  17. Albion

    Pilate’s regret

    You and Lamb have gotten my curiosity up now. How is Pilate stupid not to have taken his wife's advice? She was for exonerating Jesus, we understand, but Pilate wasn't just a judge. He had a mob to deal with, and it was not a bunch of Jesus's devotees!
  18. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    That's right. People who think that any movement of any body part, including brain functions, amounts to an "act," then also think that it's the equivalent of a "good work." Then they're adamant in denying what they call "works," supposedly in order to uphold "faith." But that's not what...
  19. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    ...which is the very theme that James is driving home in his Epistle. When he says that man is not saved by Faith only, he means that man is not saved by merely claiming to have Faith, formally aligning himself with Christianity, and nothing more than that. True Faith is lifechanging, so if...
  20. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    Apparently not, considering that you completely reversed it in your mind and in your reply to me. No. It's been explained many times on these forums that man does not come to Faith on his own.
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