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  1. Albion

    Is "it was their time" a biblical concept?

    What makes you think that each human has a predetermined lifespan? The Bible verses cited don't prove such a thing. Nor does that ^. Not everything in Scripture is meant in a strictly literal way. Indeed, quite a lot is not and we all can cite examples of that. So your days are "numbered," OK...
  2. Albion

    Biblical Prophecy

    Is there something in that reply which is intended as a response to my post #7? If not, it looks like you are affirming the point that the Holy Spirit is not just an impersonal force that overtakes a person but instead is the third person of the Holy Trinity.
  3. Albion

    Biblical Prophecy

    :rolleyes: Not what I meant by that term. God is not simply an impersonal, formless force like gravity or magnetism. Yet that is what a lot of people (not you necessarily) think when they hear or say "Holy Spirit."
  4. Albion

    Biblical Prophecy

    Presumably, then, he wasn't the beneficiary of some supernatural force that poured the Holy Spirit into him and made him believe. Rather, he read the word of God, divine revelation, which proved itself trustworthy, and he understood its message--exactly what the purpose of divine revelation IS.
  5. Albion

    Faith

    It probably would prove that the Holy Spirit (God) calls everyone, having given everyone a chance at eternal life through the Sacrifice of the Cross...and then they either receive Christ or they harden their hearts and reject it all.
  6. Albion

    Favorite coffee creamer?

    I wonder if very many people still do put any cream or sugar in their coffees? When I was a kid, they all did so, and taking it "black" was something of an odd, rather macho, thing to do. Now, though, there seem to be few people who don't take it black. Mainly, I think, that's because it's...
  7. Albion

    A social norm you don't understand

    Queen Victoria chose white for her wedding and so that became what other brides also wanted.
  8. Albion

    People starve to death in Kenya while fasting 'to meet Jesus'

    Ah, yes, That does happen to all of us from time to time. More in agreement than it appeared a few posts ago, that is. I agree. Thanks.
  9. Albion

    Handing out things for your church

    Because a majority of Americans are Christians and only something like 1-4% are Muslim, according to various studies of the matter. Therefore, there is a presumption that the Bible is something familiar to most visitors. The same cannot be said of Islam, so this action would look to most people...
  10. Albion

    Handing out things for your church

    However, it never seems to be a "simple explanation of the Bible" that someone leaves in public places for unsuspecting people to find. If adequately explaining the Gospel in a pamphlet were even possible. The people who paid to have them printed and did the work of distributing them want to...
  11. Albion

    Handing out things for your church

    Right. They're not comparable. I am not so confident about that scenario. People in motel rooms often have time on their hands until the next day rolls around or else they're bored. And some even check in when they are in distress and have nowhere else to go. For all of these, the following...
  12. Albion

    People starve to death in Kenya while fasting 'to meet Jesus'

    What would make you think that is something I do? The opposite of questioning everything said from the pulpit is NOT automatically accepting everything. And I thought I made clear that what I was addressing was a routine second-guessing of one's pastor on every reference made to Biblical...
  13. Albion

    Trump vs Biden

    Good question, but the presumption at the time was that being a mature adult who'd lived life for some time before taking command of the whole country (as contrasted with the age needed to be a Congressman or the slightly higher one for Senate) was not an unreasonable consideration. Today, if we...
  14. Albion

    Ceiling Fans

    The claim is that using the fan in winter forces the warmer air downwards where you want it during the winter. But you have to reverse the rotation of the fan blades from the setting used during summer, clockwise vs counterclockwise, which I'm assuming that your fans will accommodate. Naturally...
  15. Albion

    Trump vs Biden

    For the same reason that they don't say the candidate has to be a college graduate or a current officeholder or a member in good standing of some political party, etc. If the field of candidates is pruned significantly before the vote, the election ceases to be fair. Unfortunately, we already...
  16. Albion

    Trump vs Biden

    What we individuals should do as Christians is not the same as what the government of the nation needs to do.
  17. Albion

    People starve to death in Kenya while fasting 'to meet Jesus'

    I was under the impression that we were discussing the pastor in one's own church home or ministers in general, not what precautions we ought to follow when a person is seeking a new church for himself and needs to compare the ministers, the worship service, and etc. of different congregations...
  18. Albion

    Handing out things for your church

    ...and I was careful to rule that out in my earlier comments. Then again, I've never encountered such a thing in a motel room, whereas the presence of a Gideon Bible is quite standard. Incidentally, when it comes to Christian volunteers who do distribute religious materials to the public, it...
  19. Albion

    People starve to death in Kenya while fasting 'to meet Jesus'

    Okay, but that seems to me to be close to the same thing. Sound doctrine is important, and we all need to know what it is that we believe, but I can't see second-guessing or double checking (or however else we could word that) one's pastor every time he preaches on something in the Bible. At...
  20. Albion

    People starve to death in Kenya while fasting 'to meet Jesus'

    Whoa. The point about knowing whether to trust what a preacher preaches wasn't about routinely doubting everything one's pastor tells you from the pulpit, etc. That's going way overboard, except if there are warning signs. We pointed to a few--no supervision of the local pastor such as that...
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