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  1. Albion

    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    The TULIP stuff is appealing in a way because it is such an orderly construct. One point leads logically to the next, and so on. But the "problem" with that is that this is HUMAN reasoning we are talking about, and the message of the Bible in so many ways is about God acting outside of our own...
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    “Made in China”

    And in many cases, it's virtually impossible these days to find certain goods that are NOT made in China. But, once again, that's what the people voted for in 2020, so....
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    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    It is rudimentary--and anybody who wants to enter into a discussion about this particular topic ought to know it--that God's foreknowledge does NOT equate to him predestining any elect or excluding anyone from the possibility of salvation. That's particularly true, considering that the Bible...
  4. Albion

    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    Obviously, we cannot. Indeed. That's the conclusion that makes sense. Without question.
  5. Albion

    REDEMPTION/ATONEMENT: US vs THEM (the L of TULIP)

    The logic is missing from an argument that says no one could be saved until Christ's sacrifice, but then afterwards, when everyone has been given the opportunity at eternal life although not everyone takes it and so those people perish...that's described in the Original Post as being a view of...
  6. Albion

    'God is neither male nor female':

    Not in the literal, physical sense, we might think, but of course "male" and "female" indicate other characteristics as well. And it may be worth mentioning also that God was actually seen as a man in the Old Testament and Jesus, as we know, was a real human male at the same time as he was divine.
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    Great. Very logical. Let's call the matter settled.
  8. Albion

    A 'Eucharistic' revival

    You're complaining to a former Roman Catholic there, MC, so I have no hesitancy in adding that it's also typical of members to feel the need to rush to the defense of their church if so much as a mildly unflattering reference to something Catholic gets mentioned in mixed company, even if the...
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    Posts #1 and #4 raised the issue for the readers, so I'll have to "disagree." ;)
  10. Albion

    What was it that changed your mind from Traditional beliefs?

    The beliefs that have some kind of track record. What did the Apostolic church believe? What has been believed basically since the early church? There is no denomination that today is exactly like the first churches or even those of a few centuries later, but we can generally say that some...
  11. Albion

    Free education

    There is a question about maturity when it comes to the student who's in his or her late teens, but it would probably be a step forward if we were to junk the last two years of high school as we now know them and move those students to the two years of community college. Some changes like that...
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    Because those are mixed in equally with the affirmative reactions, meaning that the total score at present represents nothing more than that this poster is active or thought-provoking, not that he or she is better or worse than someone else. The "disagree" and "dislike" (which as we see...
  13. Albion

    Free education

    Maybe. Maybe not. Either way, the educational system needs reform first. In the last several decades, what you're expected to learn--and produce--as a student has been downgraded to the point that a college degree today doesn't represent more learning than a high school diploma did in our...
  14. Albion

    Confucianism

    It's pretty hard to argue that any religion which doesn't have Christ can nevertheless be thought of as "compatible with Christianity." In fact, it's impossible.
  15. Albion

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    Exactly. And I just posted a 'ha-ha' on another member's post because he closed his post with a good and appropriate joke, but the topic was religious and it was on a thread about a religious matter! I wasn't laughing at what he said about his religious beliefs. SO what does that mean to a...
  16. Albion

    A 'Eucharistic' revival

    There was a time when it absolutely would not tolerate them, but these days and in this country, the church is scrambling to retain the declining number of members it has, which is not unlike most other denominations. In addition, the question here was about a mental purpose of evasion, not...
  17. Albion

    A 'Eucharistic' revival

    Well, it's because we're talking about a teaching that the church considers obligatory for members, not something open to individual judgment, and that not believing amounts to heresy. Okay, but those churches have a somewhat different approach to the matter. It's the Roman Catholic Church in...
  18. Albion

    What was it that changed your mind from Traditional beliefs?

    You must mean this question for only those members who actually have had a significant change of mind right? I don't think of myself as having changed away from traditional Christian beliefs, although I'd gotten interested in a variety of other Christian movements over the course of my life.
  19. Albion

    A 'Eucharistic' revival

    Perhaps. That is to say that there are people on all sides of the issue, just as there are on other controversial issues, therefore some members probably do fit the description you gave while others fit a different one. But to the extent that the Real Presence or Transubstantiation is a great...
  20. Albion

    Faith

    No. What I believe "the just shall live by Faith" means is that those who have accepted the Lord will find eternal life because of that Faith, not because of their good works, good intentions, or something else. There's nothing inconsistent in that.
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