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  1. Albion

    The Day Amazon Murdered History by Castle Hill Publishers

    "the most evil?" That would be hard to prove, but we likewise have been brought up NOT knowing that a shockingly large percentage of ordinary Germans of that era were completely comfortable with what the regime did to its minorities. I'm not referring merely to people being patriotic or, on the...
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    To what extent do you agree?

    I'd prefer a smaller house in a nicer neighborhood, and as for the idea of witnessing, there's as much a need for that in a neighborhood populated by people who have done relatively well in life as there is in a poor neighborhood. Possibly, even moreso.
  3. Albion

    How do you learn what your denomination believes?

    Not from that threat, but it is one of the denominations that has basically retained its original purpose, teachings, and worship style. The question that was asked was about Lutheranism in particular, so that was the answer. Well, if that is the point, then Lutheranism is a good example of a...
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    Ultimate Authority

    It will be interesting to see if the College of Cardinals next chooses for Pope a man who is a theologian rather than a politician. Many Catholics are predicting a return to normality, but we'll have to wait to see if that is the course that's taken.
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    Will you recognize your loved ones on the other side?

    As often as not, the people to whom she supposedly appeared didn't know who 'the lady' was. Not until later. Plus, the "look" of the apparition that appears in books these days and is fixed in the mind of church members owes, in some cases, to the church having altered or "corrected" what the...
  6. Albion

    How do you learn what your denomination believes?

    Do you mean that these Lutheran churches are what's called "non-confessional?" or do you mean that they have more recently represented their historic creeds and statements as being something that mattered in the past but today are not considered authoritative? Yeh. I can't think of any really...
  7. Albion

    How do you learn what your denomination believes?

    Uh, well, does that mean that believing the Bible to be our authority is not common to the Protestant churches? Or just that, with a few well-known points of doctrine, Baptists depart from the other leading denominations by insisting (sort of) on the independence of the local congregation)...
  8. Albion

    When is a vision a fairy tale that can be dismissed and when isn't it so?

    Visions can be real. Miracles do happen. We cannot maintain that none are real. So, to the Biblical events you mentioned, we all nod approvingly. But when people who are NOT Biblical figures claim to have had visions of Christ or the Virgin Mary, we naturally don't treat those claims the way we...
  9. Albion

    How do you learn what your denomination believes?

    How so?
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    Ultimate Authority

    Yes, I'd think that it's safe to say that just about every Christian denomination teaches that the ultimate authority for teaching is God. The reformed churches, of course, hold that divine revelation--God's word given to mankind--is the ultimate authority. God is the authority, and He has...
  11. Albion

    When your team may lose in sports is it okay to pray that they will win?

    This is something that's real life, all right. People do pray for victory in the game even when advised to pray instead for their team members to perform up to their abilities, or not be injured, etc. From Scripture, it appears that praying about even trivial matters like this one is okay...
  12. Albion

    Is China really as evil as our media says it is?

    How have the media exaggerated the "wicked" nature of the Beijing government? Yes.
  13. Albion

    Will you recognize your loved ones on the other side?

    IMHO, you should not expect to receive a reply when you begin your plea with taunts, even if you close with a "please." :rolleyes: However, I will answer you once again but for the last time. 1) It is in the form of a parable, and there are many parables in the Bible. Some from Christ himself...
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    Will you recognize your loved ones on the other side?

    As was already explained, you listed some verses from Scripture all right, but they didn't speak to the issue you are trying to prove. So, if you want me to quote Scripture to you, I'll choose John 3:16 and say "There. I supported my observation with Scripture!" The fact that the verse...
  15. Albion

    Will you recognize your loved ones on the other side?

    You're only making your position less by trying that maneuver. Just let it go. We do not get to tell God what heaven will be like and we have not been given to know, through divine revelation, every aspect of what will be. Most of us hope to have another opportunity to be again with our...
  16. Albion

    Will you recognize your loved ones on the other side?

    That's hilarious. :LOL: You want to lay claim to the Bible, but your argument is entirely based upon rationalism. And in addition, you are now attacking a POV that I have never advocated in this thread. 😏
  17. Albion

    Will you recognize your loved ones on the other side?

    As I said--''reason" is your guide here, not Scripture. And even the reasoning you have explained doesn't add up to "God must of course reunite us with our loved ones in heaven." It might be fun, though, to apply the same technique to other religious issues. It doesn't seem as though God had...
  18. Albion

    How do you learn what your denomination believes?

    Well, it's simply because your recent posts seem to be addressing some idea that wasn't part of this discussion that I didn't say more.
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    How do you learn what your denomination believes?

    They're different to the extent that yours includes a number of uninspired books. Your church acknowledged as much when it removed a number of these from the Catholic version of the Bible a few centuries ago. It was a tacit acknowledgment that this particular claim of the Protestant Reformers...
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    How do you learn what your denomination believes?

    I can't agree. Christian leaders who do speak God's word are met with opposition just as the heretical ones are. That's part of what the sin of our first parents has done. If it were otherwise, there wouldn't be the many schisms that have occurred recently in the conservative denominations as...
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