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  1. Albion

    Will you recognize your loved ones on the other side?

    One more time... What I said is that there is nothing in Scripture that answers the question. You who are usually so concerned to uphold the authority of Scripture are now riled simply because you want someone to tell you that what you'd LIKE to be true in this case must be true, for sure is...
  2. Albion

    How do you learn what your denomination believes?

    It's true that if you don't separate, you probably will compromise, but these two are hardly "the same" thing. However, what I referred to concerned the recent change in many of the leading denominations towards formal separations rather than continue on as "houses divided." The United...
  3. Albion

    How do you learn what your denomination believes?

    Wow. Josiah, I feel like I'm being unresponsive if I don't write a long reply to you about your observations in Post #28, but I think you've got it right on point after point. The only thing that comes to mind now, and as a footnote, is that various trends, simple fatigue caused by the endless...
  4. Albion

    Will you recognize your loved ones on the other side?

    Hi. Although they weren't in response to your own posts, I believe I covered that matter in posts 17 and 19.
  5. Albion

    Will you recognize your loved ones on the other side?

    Neither of those verses even comes close to dealing with the actual, specific, issue here.
  6. Albion

    Will you recognize your loved ones on the other side?

    I count that kind of lame response as actually saying "I don't have an answer."
  7. Albion

    How do you learn what your denomination believes?

    I like it. I think you are saying that there once were a number of different church organizations or entities because of different patterns of immigration, but more recently there was a movement towards uniting them. In the Lutheran example, many different church bodies merged down to about...
  8. Albion

    Will you recognize your loved ones on the other side?

    That's right. Jesus used a lot of parables, and in them some figures are mentioned or described in order to make the point he wanted understood. That doesn't make the parable not be a parable. Who would advocate for such a silly notion as that one? What reason would there be for concluding...
  9. Albion

    Will you recognize your loved ones on the other side?

    The question of "what happened to the righteous people who died before the Savior came?" is often answered by reference to this parable, I agree. But that's Abraham's Bosom, not Heaven. One thing that I disagreed with in this whole line of argument is the idea that individual cases...
  10. Albion

    How do you learn what your denomination believes?

    That doesn't seem to be the pattern. While officially non-denominational churches--or deliberately broadminded ones like the Unitarians--have adopted loose statements of belief in accordance with their theology... the "battles that ended up in compromise," in the more traditional denominations...
  11. Albion

    Light and Sleep

    I can't say as I have, but my computer has a function that switches the light from the usual blue light to some pinkish-yellowish tint according to what time the user sets it to start and end. However, I haven't noticed much, if any, change in my sleep as a result of using it. What I have...
  12. Albion

    Do faith healers exist?

    I'd click on "agree" in reply except that I consider that statement to be overly polite, an understatement. The number of 'possibly-genuine' faith healers is probably no more than the number of people who have received the stigmata or seen and heard the Virgin Mary. Most, in fact, of the people...
  13. Albion

    Will you recognize your loved ones on the other side?

    The Lazarus story is usually considered to be a parable, a morality tale, not a literal event. Luke records other parables, too, such as the 'Parable of the Sower' which most of us recognize as a teaching device rather than a history lesson involving an actual farmer. Note also that parables...
  14. Albion

    Will you recognize your loved ones on the other side?

    Everyone will have to decide for himself on this matter, and it's largely a guessing game, depending on how such verses as these you cited are interpreted. Personally, I don't think that any of them indicate that we all will recognize our friends and relatives when we get to heaven.
  15. Albion

    Will you recognize your loved ones on the other side?

    Well, we believe that we will be changed in heaven. But presumably that would not prevent anyone from recognizing a loved one, IF doing so were possible. But the "bottom line" here is that there is nothing in Scripture which teaches that we will be reunited with loved ones, family members, and...
  16. Albion

    Will you recognize your loved ones on the other side?

    Very well, but the question was about what we mortals will see and experience in heaven, and nothing about a couple of heavenly figures appearing to someone who's still in the flesh. And that's in addition to the fact that the question asked about us recognizing our loved ones in the next...
  17. Albion

    Will you recognize your loved ones on the other side?

    Basically, the nature of heaven is beyond our human abilities to comprehend. We are given to know certain things, various things, about heaven, and the Bible does that for us: but when we start to get overly specific, we're going too far. Most likely, heaven will be wonderful but nothing like...
  18. Albion

    Will you recognize your loved ones on the other side?

    I'd be extremely cautious about taking a position on something like this matter, basing it on a claim like that ^ one. :cautious:
  19. Albion

    Will you recognize your loved ones on the other side?

    I don't know that there's any reason to think we will be able to, although most people want it to happen.
  20. Albion

    How do you learn what your denomination believes?

    Indeed. And the key words there are "It used to be." At the same time, I notice that you named two of the denominations that historically have been among the most concerned about having correct doctrine. Were such a list to include a dozen or so of the well-known but less doctrinally...
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