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  1. Albion

    Which types of churches are sects?

    ...and what they call those Protestant churches that the "separated brethren" belong to is "ecclesial communities" since the Catholic Church doesn't want to call them "churches." :(
  2. Albion

    Completely legalizing marijuana

    Maybe, but your comparison of marijuana to cigarettes and alcohol was a mistake. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough when pointing out that impaired driving endangers other people. The argument you were making, that marijuana only harms the people using it, was shortsighted IMO. Oh, I don't know...
  3. Albion

    Born again

    However, it doesn't exactly convey the same meaning as "Born again" does, wouldn't you agree? Yes, "Born from above" is theologically correct, but "Born again" conveys the idea that Christ was explaining to Nicodemus--we have been born into the world, but then we need also to have a new start...
  4. Albion

    Which types of churches are sects?

    My church seems never to talk about other churches in those terms, but the word (sects) usually means one or the other of two different things. There are Secularists who denigrate Christianity and so prefer the term as a substitute for "churches" since it sounds trivial or shady (on the order...
  5. Albion

    Completely legalizing marijuana

    Cigarettes don't alter the user's perception, judgments, moods, and so on for days on end, though. Even alcohol's effects are worn off after a day or less. The active ingredient in marijuana stays in the user's system for weeks, meaning that recreational users who buy some MJ at least every...
  6. Albion

    Born again

    Uh, no. Some folks were not "born wrong." Jesus was saying it is necessary to be born in an additional, spiritual, way that goes beyond mere physical birth. We all are sinners from birth. That's right. It's what has historically been called "Original Sin." What's being said there is that...
  7. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    Right. And it's very important in any discussion like this one to differentiate between Faith in the Biblical sense and ordinary faith, meaning having confidence in something or other. The latter can be used to say that you are trusting that almost anything will happen, whether it be faith...
  8. Albion

    'He's Lost It'

    Of course it isn't. However, the decision is made by people who listen to and watch the left-wing news services and then vote for the Party that they serve. They've been proven wrong on one criticism of Trump after another, from the 'Russia Russia Russia' hoax to the two impeachments based on...
  9. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    ...and to make that kind of situation even more troublesome, those churches usually have almost no published, formal Statement of Beliefs. Sometimes there are five or six very basis affirmations (belief in the Bible, Christ was the Savior, etc.), but nothing really about any of the vexing...
  10. Albion

    USA Biden toughens border

    I think that that report is just about what we might expect from yahoo! news. In reality, there's no strengthening of the border, and Biden didn't really visit the border except in the sense of him having had a few photo ops in a selected part of the border near a city that had all of its...
  11. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    No, you who don't know Packer have chosen to call one of recent history's most renowned theologians a "heretic" on the basis of a snippet posted by our colleague "Prism." And what Prism posted was this: That was the reference Prism offered and to which you replied by labelling Packer a...
  12. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    Then how did you get "His whole apologetic rests on a heresy that faith is irrelevant" from this statement of Packer's-- "It is a certain truth that all who come to Christ in faith will find mercy (JOHN 6:35,47-51,54-57; Rom. 1:16, 10:8-13)." ??? and from this-- "Both the invitation and the...
  13. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    J. I. Packer was a longtime writer, so the obvious question now would be "How do you know that 'he offers not one Scripture that states what he does'" and/or that "his whole apologetic rests on...faith is irrelevant?" I couldn't say that (as I already indicated) without having read everything...
  14. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    It's what I have contended all along. The Atonement effected by Christ and the reception of Faith by a new believer are two separate things.
  15. Albion

    Epiphany services

    Yes (Friday)
  16. Albion

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    Honestly, J. I. Packer's thinking is above my pay grade, and I do not follow along with everything he explains. At least not so far as the various writings of his that I have read are concerned. But he does insist that Election does not automatically confer saving Faith. And it's this point...
  17. Albion

    Jolly ole saint nick

    Well, the "Night Before Christmas" version is fictional, that's true, but on the other hand, I don't know many people who actually do accept the idea of Santa Claus as that poem described him--elfish in stature, comes down the chimney, belly shakes like a bowlful of jelly, etc. The popular...
  18. Albion

    Common Figure of Speech?

    ''We'' don't count them this way, but the Hebrews counted any part of a day as a "day." Therefore, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are three days. But you will say that three "nights" are referred to. Yes, Jesus was entombed in the evening, stayed there for the whole of the Saturday following...
  19. Albion

    Common Figure of Speech?

    Not as we in the Western world today count these things, no. That's why I said "Hebrew usage" is the better way to look at it (and to describe these events).
  20. Albion

    Common Figure of Speech?

    Friday crucifixion, Sunday resurrection. Three.
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