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  1. Albion

    Free speech

    Ether that, which I'm not discounting, OR you are a deliberate oppressor, racist of course, and well-off, etc. It doesn't matter that you probably are actually none of these because, you see, you are SUBCONSCIOUSLY oppressing others who are unlike yourself, thanks to being (probably or...
  2. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    Take a stab at coordinating your foregoing statements which seem to suggest free will for most of us, but hold that there is an elect predestined to salvation come what may, which you then identified as the Apostles themselves although not all of them did stay with Christ. And, in addition, your...
  3. Albion

    Free speech

    Quite so, except that it doesn't actually apply to "anyone, anywhere." About half the population is fair game for whatever the speaker chooses to call them, even if it's completely absurd (think "white nationalist" and "Russian asset").
  4. Albion

    Faith

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  5. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    Putting it in a crude way, is there agreement then that when the "elect" are referred to in Scripture it's a reference to God's kind of people (incorporating also the concept of Faith) and NOT to people supposedly chosen from before their births to be saved "regardless?" :unsure:
  6. Albion

    Not Happy

    What about those who don't know what "evolution" means, theistic or otherwise??
  7. Albion

    Reformed theology?

    So, what would you say are the distinctive beliefs and practices of Reformed Christianity AKA the Reformed movement within Protestantism? It cannot be the rejection of Purgatory or Indulgences.
  8. Albion

    Church of England

    Like a lot of compromises that are made in church conventions, it probably won't be successful; but it might temporarily get the issue off of the agenda.
  9. Albion

    Are aliens really just demons?

    No. Yes. Another living thing that's physical and rather advanced (by which I mean similar to human beings, not worms or bacteria, etc., which would of course still be living).
  10. Albion

    Misgender classmates

    According to the link's article, "The proposal, co-sponsored by more than two dozen GOP lawmakers, would declare that it’s not discrimination to use a transgender classmate’s legal name or...birth gender. Schools would be prevented from adopting policies to punish students who do so." In other...
  11. Albion

    'God is neither male nor female':

    --which would almost certainly cause confusion as to the identity of the one true God, or else cause people who haven't been well schooled in Christian theology to think it means some kind of heavenly panel rather than the One god in Trinity, Much the same thing happened when the campaign to...
  12. Albion

    You need someone "other" to keep you stimulated.

    In the case of early Christian missionaries, I'd say that, as we know, they faced a world of people who were unsympathetic to or uninformed about this new religion. The point is that no particular Other, if by that we mean a confirmed opponent, was needed then and there for the reason that...
  13. Albion

    The removal of religious references

    No, mainly because there is no good reason for doing that. But for the sake of any discussion, it still might be worth knowing what the reason would be for removing "religious references."
  14. Albion

    Why Preaching Is Necessary.

    More verses say the opposite. Well, Christianity has the answer to that problem (if it really is a problem!)
  15. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    On the contrary, I believe in it more than any believer in predestination does. Those people trust God but not to do much to help the human race...only his pre-chosen favorites. The Freewill people, however, and those who accept the many verses in Scripture that state, without equivocation...
  16. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    Of course it does. There is no room in the Scriptures for some sort of a secret coming to Faith in Christ. The idea that someone might live and believe as a non-Christian, oblivious to the truths of the Bible...but then, upon death, find out that he's had Faith conferred upon him without...
  17. Albion

    Why Preaching Is Necessary.

    But that would mean that there IS NOT a group of people who have been predestined--from before their births--to believe and be saved. If there is even the slightest possibility of one or more of these Elect failing to act on the opportunity to believe and/or exercise their free will by...
  18. Albion

    Why Preaching Is Necessary.

    So, is it your thinking that God preordains the salvation of a select few AND then also puts a preacher or a Bible in the path of each one of them, somewhere as they go through life, in order that these Elect few are made to believe, thus justifying their predetermined destiny like robots?
  19. Albion

    Why Preaching Is Necessary.

    I didn't say that you did. As a matter of fact, what I wrote said just the opposite. Ah. Then that was the reason for the confusion.
  20. Albion

    Why Preaching Is Necessary.

    It was hinted at in the OP, although not advocated by the writer. And then, of course, we have your reaction, so my comments were appropriate. And it doesn't matter who first said it because it's been a topic of discussion here many times before. That's what I'd say, but it doesn't fit with the...
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