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  1. Albion

    How pagan festival of Easter was used against the Sabbath

    You have to know what the passage is saying in order to understand it. When it refers to sharing bread on the first day of the week, it's a reference to the sacrament of the Altar (Holy Communion) which was the main feature of weekly worship in early Christianity and was/is, among other things...
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    How pagan festival of Easter was used against the Sabbath

    See Acts 20:7
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    What makes you a Christian?

    No. As others have said, a Christian is one who believes in Christ as God and Savior and trusts his promises and instructions. You asked about something being in the Bible (or not in the Bible) and that's a slightly different matter.
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    Kneeling at church?

    That's right. Churches which don't practice kneeling don't have "kneelers" on which to kneel, natch! So if the church chooses to have pews instead of chairs--but no kneeling--they normally place them closer together than you'll find in churches which have pews with kneelers attached or even...
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    Hymns/Songs that don't name God

    That's probably correct to say, l but it wasn't what the Original Post asked us about. It was this: "If you're in church and you come across a song or hymn that doesn't name God (either by saying Lord, Jesus, God, Father, Son, Yahweh, etc), do you find it odd?" and "I was looking through my...
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    What comes to mind...

    He has high moral standards.
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    Hymns/Songs that don't name God

    Well, "My Sweet Lord" was expressly meant to be about a non-Christian figure. There's no reason to suppose that a hymn sung in a Christian church which includes typically Christian concepts about salvation or the like might be equally applicable to some other deity just because the word used...
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    Kneeling at church?

    Good question. Yes, of course we do, but no one thinks anything of a parishioner who is old or weak choosing not to do so, or, for that matter, a visitor from some other church where kneeling isn't usual.
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    Hymns/Songs that don't name God

    I just spent some time checking about 45 hymns from the Hymnal and couldn't find any that omitted a reference to either "God" or "Lord" or, less often, "Jesus" or "Christ" or "Savior" or "Redeemer." Then I decided to check the dozen or so patriotic ones that are used on "National Days."...
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    USA Presidential Election 2024

    Normally, we'd say that it's too early to identify the likely nominee, but the campaigns have been starting earlier and earlier and the presidential primary elections as well, so very soon after this November's elections, we'll see who's making his or her move. The Democrats have almost no...
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    Third World Dependence

    Hi, Fritz. Frankly, I cannot imagine why the people who tell Biden what to say, do, where to go and when to do it would even think of having him replicate the scene of Hitler delivering one of his speeches, including the threats against millions of innocent people--all of which was noticed, to...
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    Third World Dependence

    Yes, yes, but our current administration is at work on that right now, and we should be in step with the third world nations pretty soon. The mystery is why the polls show that about half of the nation is completely in favor of having even more of it as soon as possible! Those voters aren't...
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    School Official won't hire Catholics/Conservatives

    Some people will look at this story and conclude that these educators aren't very well educated...or at least that they're not much aware of the world outside the boundaries of their own opinions. The fact is that to believe that the norm with Catholics is political conservatism and that they...
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    Don't have time

    I understand. Even the slightest hint that you, the other party, might not be on board with every last political notion they hold makes you an enemy in their eyes. It's shocking in a way, but also very much indicative of the totalitarian mentality that has become accepted in some circles.
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    Don't have time

    I totally agree with you there, but when the issue is me "not having time for" certain things that have become common in our society...Number One is the expectation that I am going to speak the fashionable language of Woke instead of English. With a little practice, jargon like cisgendered...
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    Classic movie lovers

    Probably because they've been carefully programmed to be offended. Otherwise, past events would be seen by everyone today as the record of people much like ourselves, both good and bad, who were caught up in real situations which we today should learn from. But if a fictionalized history makes...
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    Which denomination best resembles the Church of the 1st Century?

    When it comes to doctrines of the early church, one belief is among the most prominent. That's the belief called 'Real Presence.' The idea that the bread and wine of Holy Communion in some way take on the presence of Christ is clear, not that it's just a Christian version of the Passover or a...
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    Which denomination best resembles the Church of the 1st Century?

    But just to be clearer, that isn't the whole of what the Original Post here asked about. I agree that we hear many people and church bodies putting the issue as your comment (above) worded it, asking what the early church DID (and this in very general terms). However, the New Testament and...
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    Which denomination best resembles the Church of the 1st Century?

    Well, it's true that you can find all sorts of methods in use somewhere, and that what you describe does happen. The most common methods of baptizing--all churches considered--is still to do it by either immersion or affusion. What grabs my attention is when people use words like "sprinkle" or...
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    Which denomination best resembles the Church of the 1st Century?

    There aren't many churches that "drip" water upon the candidate's head in Baptism, but that little item aside, I thought that the drift of the replies so far tended towards suggesting that it is the catholic-type church bodies (not necessarily the Roman Catholic Church) which are closest to the...
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