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  1. Albion

    Which faith movement is the closest to your opinion of what true Christianity is?

    That's already been addressed. The topic here is the place of Christian denominations. That's the topic. Whether or not an individual has received the Holy Ghost, he is not a one-man denomination with all that denominations or congregations represent. Must Christians meet together in Bible...
  2. Albion

    Which faith movement is the closest to your opinion of what true Christianity is?

    If you or I or anybody else among us is absolved of his sins by Jesus Christ personally, face to face, in public with other people watching...the rest of us would be on good grounds to believe that such an act on his part was effective. (!) As for all people who come to Christ after the...
  3. Albion

    Which faith movement is the closest to your opinion of what true Christianity is?

    Very well, but we were talking about denominations. Christ of course promised to be with his disciples, even as few as two of them, but that's not about Christian churches or congregations or denominations or what they accomplish. And by the way, when you talk about the individual, such as...
  4. Albion

    Which faith movement is the closest to your opinion of what true Christianity is?

    He (Christ) also appointed His Church's first ministers, who appointed others, and so on as the visible church grew. He commanded his people to observe such important ceremonies as Baptism and the Lord's Supper, none of which can be done by an individual on a "do it yourself" basis. Finally, all...
  5. Albion

    Dispensationalism

    I don't think it can be considered a "cult" by any of the usual uses of that word, but it is certainly one of the many creative twists on historic Christian theology that proliferated during the 18th and 19th centuries when many of the best-known cults did arise. So, how to classify...
  6. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    Hi again. I liked your posts. Predestination came into this discussion almost accidentally, on account of something that someone here wrote which, however, didn't even use that word. Personally, I don't like debating the subject of Predestination and was only making mention of what that other...
  7. Albion

    What or Who is the Church?

    Ephesians 3:15 doesn't say any such thing. I have to assume that you knew that.
  8. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    OKay so far. If we are wrongdoers in the absence of God, why would it make God evil to give us what we deserve? Arthur, is this supposed to substantiate the theory of Calvinist predestination? It seems to me that it makes as much sense to say that the day you came to Faith you were saved by...
  9. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    ...meaning that you are taking exception to my use of the term "Bible-believing" in their case, not that they aren't Christian and not that they do constitute the majority of the Christian population. So, in order to avoid further wrangling over which side might be correct about the nature and...
  10. Albion

    why is CH so dead?

    I can think of several other forums which fit that description, but at the same time there seem to be more "Christian" or "Religious" forums online that are slower moving than CH. Some of them hardly have any activity at all.
  11. Albion

    The clergy loophole

    That much is correct. The rest of your guesswork doesn't hold up to ordinary logic OR to the motivations of Catholics we have been "talking about." I don't get that you have much, if any, familiarity with that branch of Christianity.
  12. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    In other words, you misunderstood. Sure it is. But it's not talked about much unless someone is interested enough to bring it up for discussion. More often than not, the religious topics here deal with practical matters, which could be a good thing.
  13. Albion

    The clergy loophole

    Well, you don't have any idea whether that's true or not. And even if it is true of some people, you don't know what the percentage is. Yet you made a blanket statement and then reiterated it rather than admit to the weakness of your proposition.
  14. Albion

    What age did you first live alone?

    I'm sure that there are differences between the American model and the Eastern European one. In America, it is considered normal for children to be prepared for adulthood by their parents and then expected to live as adults upon reaching somewhere around age 18 or 21, depending to some extent...
  15. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    I think you've missed the point of my post. I was not taking a stand there either for or against predestination. What I was observing was that your answers take the predestinarian POV concerning Faith, yet most Bible-believing Christians and Christian churches are not Calvinistic. For them...
  16. Albion

    The clergy loophole

    That's not necessarily true. People, particularly those who would go to a priest in confession, who have repented of some wrongdoing usually think that stopping whatever it is and finding God's forgiveness is important. They don't also have to want to go to jail for things done in the past...
  17. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    Yes, we know that. The question was asking what you were referring to when writing "this is a Calvinist community." I see now that other replies explained that your thinking about this had been mistaken, but thanks just the same for giving us an answer.
  18. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    What is it that you are saying is a Calvinist community? And how does that affect the discussion going on here on this particular thread?
  19. Albion

    Who is "him that justifieth the ungodly"?

    Okay, but that sounds like what a believer in Predestination would maintain. It would seem to go along with the idea I've been reading here that Faith is almost incidental because God chooses who is going to be saved in advance, and all that we see in Scripture calling everyone to Christ or...
  20. Albion

    Ladies or Men's Groups at your church?

    Yes. What you describe could happen, I would guess. But when the idea doesn't gain any support, the person in question will most likely decide to move along to a different denomination that is more in line with what he or she wants to get from holding membership in the church.
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