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  1. Albion

    Handing out things for your church

    Well,. sure it does. For one thing, having a Bible in a drawer if the occupant chooses to read something from it--or not--isn't the same as a pamphlet challenging the reader to join or believe something that;s rather specific.. In addition, the Bible, as noted, is a common feature of all...
  2. Albion

    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    There are plenty of 83 y o's who could sit on the floor in an emergency if they were uncomfortable remaining standing for an hour, leaning against the wall. To be fair, there are some who can't do all of that, even with the help of the other people there. However, I can't fault the other...
  3. Albion

    Handing out things for your church

    I'm surprised. Well, THAT is really going too far!
  4. Albion

    Handing out things for your church

    No, because we expect that. And also, this practice has the permission of the hotel management, those Bibles aren't accompanied by religious pamphlets or flyers overtly seeking to recruit the hotel guest, and the Bible is common to all Christian denominations as well as being, allegedly, the...
  5. Albion

    Handing out things for your church

    I tend to feel that way also, but worse (in my humble opinion) are the folks who just stick their stuff where they think someone will come upon it. For example, leaving it in a public bathroom, in a store's dressing room, on a library shelf, or somewhere else like that.
  6. Albion

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

    I understand, but since it would have been quite a task to assess the whole range of churches in my post, I pointed to what is probably the most prominent "red flag" when it comes to choosing a congregation. Still, when it comes to charismatic and/or pentecostal congregations, there are a wide...
  7. Albion

    Anyone following American Idol? Who looks good?

    Got any favorite performers? Think a good one was given the boot and shouldn't have been cut? Who's most likely to win? Why?
  8. Albion

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

    It depends a lot on the organization that authorizes the nutjob. While there are of course exceptions, this is one reason for being wary of congregations that are unaffiliated with any parent body or denomination, and especially so when the guy in the pulpit started up the church himself.
  9. Albion

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

    That's true. A significant reduction of food taken does count as a fast. Which "Christian traditions" would that be?
  10. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    "What you do" does not equal "works." Not in the theological sense of the term.
  11. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    To be sure, none of that amounts to salvation by "works." Not the performance of charitable deeds or obedience to the Commandments. Anyone who claims that that is the stuff of "works," simply doesn't understand the Christian concept of (good) works, regardless of whether works are thought by...
  12. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    There's no resolving this disagreement...and a thousand back and forth posts won't do it. The idea that God chose to save, and did save, only some people, and did it before they were born and believed stands in direct opposition to the hundreds of New Testament verses in which we see...
  13. Albion

    Handing out things for your church

    Yes, occasionally it has been done. No, it made no noticeable difference.
  14. Albion

    Loneliness epidemic

    As reported, the lockdowns resulted in a damaged economy, thousands of deaths due to ordering China Virus patients into nursing homes, the loss of several years of learning by elementary school students, an increase in crime, government infringements on people's privacy, and now a 'loneliness...
  15. Albion

    Faith

    In this case, that's true. The claims of a semiliterate member who, after hundreds of posts, hasn't been able to explain the sole idea he's been working on is enough in itself to decide the issue, regardless of what the rest of us might have guessed you were trying to say.
  16. Albion

    Faith

    Could be. I didn't think he was talking about "Hyper-Calvinism," but maybe it was a clumsy effort to do just that.
  17. Albion

    Faith

    ...which is always taken to mean that we rise with him in a spiritual sense, not that it's something physical like many people picture in their minds concerning the Rapture. And of course the meaning is spiritual, since it says that we died with Christ (yet we were not living at the time of the...
  18. Albion

    Faith

    If so, this would be standard Calvinist thinking. How can that be done in the case of anyone who has been born in, say, the past 2000 years...or are we excluded from that salvation? I don't know anyone who died and immediately rose from the grave, if that's what is being said. Or was it that...
  19. Albion

    Faith

    But I don't HAVE an opinion on what you "explained," and that's because you aren't willing to explain what it is, even when we try to lead you by the hand, point by point, so that we could decide. Probably you can't explain it, and that's the answer, but at least the rest of us gave you every...
  20. Albion

    Faith

    We "see it" as you have explained it. After 500 messages on CH from you, most of them on this same topic, your comment here ^ says more about your theology than about how the readers see it. What is needed now is for you not to "swallow your tongue" once again. This is supposed to be...
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