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  1. Albion

    How do you learn what your denomination believes?

    Without going through the list, I believe you are correct about that. In the USA, however, the number of denominations is almost limitless, so it's not a surprise that virtually every Christian doctrine is contested by some of them.
  2. Albion

    How do you learn what your denomination believes?

    The question to which I replied there asked "Why write everything down when there is already a Bible?" The reason that churches, congregations, and so on publish their statements of belief owes to the fact that there are many different interpretations of the meaning of what is IN the Bible. One...
  3. Albion

    How do you learn what your denomination believes?

    Because of the conflicting interpretations of certain Bible passages that the various Christian denominations have adopted??
  4. Albion

    How do you learn what your denomination believes?

    Yes, intentionally hidden. I suppose that this could be considered shameful, or it might be considered a smart tactic, but in either case, what you reported is true and is gaining ground. In a time of declining memberships, these churches think that looking non-denominational, even when they...
  5. Albion

    How do you learn what your denomination believes?

    My point was that, if we consider a "denomination" to be some "family of faith' such as the Lutherans, Anglicans, Methodists, etc., then we CANNOT expect all the members to have a sure-fire guide that defines that body's beliefs. That is the case because some churches in each of these groups...
  6. Albion

    How do you learn what your denomination believes?

    The question here asks how the people can know what the church believes, but we might also wonder how many of them feel the need to agree with it, once they know. In some churches, the situation you've pointed to is definitely what has happened, and your comments referred to Methodists...
  7. Albion

    How do you learn what your denomination believes?

    It may depend on how we think of "denomination" since most church groups have both liberal and conservative branches (the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America vs. the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, for instance), but in my own, the answer would be the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion. They're...
  8. Albion

    A wedding buffet

    FWIW, I think that's right. Most people don't think of a buffet at a wedding reception as something done "on the cheap." But on the other hand a buffet minimizes the chances of a guest being stuck with a meal that isn't what he expected, and the guests have the fun of seeing all the choices in...
  9. Albion

    Blaming God instead of Satan and Sin?

    It's because they figure that if God is to be God, he has to be all-powerful. So, to that extent, they do believe in the Judeo-Christian concept of God. Therefore, when bad things happen, they feel that God must have either have caused these things to happen or else permitted them to happen.
  10. Albion

    Netflix SLAMMED for plans to bring back Titanic after OceanGate tragedy

    That film is on regular TV all the time it seems, or at least it's often. IOW, I don't see much of an issue about showing it one more time. That said, if there were a submarine film showing trapped passengers, that might be different. Das Boot, for instance.
  11. Albion

    Is he right?

    No.
  12. Albion

    Is he right?

    Well, then perhaps we should say that you are fortunate. Churches as a rule don't produce goods or create wealth, so there's little to threaten a Socialist government in that. Try that same argument with business ventures and see how it works out.
  13. Albion

    Is he right?

    Okay. That would explain it. No.. That's the claim, but what does it really mean? When in power, Socialism does not produce equality, but it does stifle individual initiative whereby those in the lower classes would have a chance to better themselves. I understood you to have said they only...
  14. Albion

    Is he right?

    I was speaking of Socialism, meaning the system as it works when in power. If your Socialist Party is not IN power, then of course the true face of Socialism will not be in evidence since those people do not yet have the ability to impose their will on society as they would want. It sounds as...
  15. Albion

    Is he right?

    In a more serious vein, the most common mistake people make about these "isms" is in thinking that Socialism is what it says it is. Socialism has its millionaire "Capitalists" don't you know? It's a system that throws crumbs to the masses so that the rich will not have to compete, and that's...
  16. Albion

    Is he right?

    *Yes, he's still performing.;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Noone
  17. Albion

    Is he right?

    ...which is not surprising, considering that slavery had existed from the earliest days of human history; and change usually comes gradually. It was Christianity that ultimately brought about the end of slavery on the scale that you were speaking of...and also to the idea that it can be...
  18. Albion

    Is he right?

    In short, these ideas ^ or claims are dangled before the masses in order to justify the ultimate goal, which is this>
  19. Albion

    Most important thing for a believer

    I'd say that the 'most important' is knowing that Jesus is God, and everything that we might wonder about that relates to a supreme being is revealed in Him.
  20. Albion

    Is this behavior OK?

    I can't see any logic in expecting anybody in a dinner party to share his food, period. And ordering an appetizer is nothing special. Besides, it's an appetizer! Sharing an appetizer would mean that the guy ordering it wouldn't get to have much of it himself.
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