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  1. Albion

    Do you bring your bible to church?

    No. I cannot remember doing that even once during my lifetime. Not for the Sunday worship service, that is. There are indeed Bibles provided, as has been mentioned already, but beyond that, I take more from hearing the word read from the pulpit (or alta) to the congregation at the appointed...
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    Which denomination best resembles the Church of the 1st Century?

    That's close to being the only characteristic the Amish share with the earliest Christians, though.
  3. Albion

    Which denomination best resembles the Church of the 1st Century?

    Well, that's clearly not self-evident. And the Original Post asked for the reason(s) for your selection. But why don't you go ahead and 'fill-in the blanks' for us by listing some of the traditions of the early church that you believe the RCC to be maintaining. When doing so, OMIT the many...
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    Ladies, ever thought about being a Deaconess?

    Again, the answer probably depends on which denomination is being examined. In the older churches/communions, deacons are clergymen while deaconesses are laywomen who have been given duties that, in the main, have always been associated with women. Operating the Sunday School, for example, or...
  5. Albion

    Do you bring your bible to church?

    The two versions are considered to be about equal so far as accuracy is concerned. The NIV specializes in everyday language and comes across, therefore, as plodding. Some would say "flat"or slimmed-down--like reading the instructions on some package. That wasn't the intention of the...
  6. Albion

    Which denomination best resembles the Church of the 1st Century?

    I meant to ask about any or all comparisons that the poster might consider significant or even critical--church service style, certain doctrines, other practices, etc. I would expect some people to value or rank certain characteristics higher than other ones, and higher than the choice made by...
  7. Albion

    Which denomination best resembles the Church of the 1st Century?

    Which denomination today most closely resembles the Christian Church of the First Century? Why do you think so?
  8. Albion

    Do you bring your bible to church?

    I'd probably bring something too, if the NIV was all that was to be found in the pews! ;) Fortunately, that's not the case. The church officially uses the KJV, and that's the version used during the liturgy/service itself as well as for the readings of the Epistle and Gospel. Bible study...
  9. Albion

    What is the worst disaster?

    I think that's right. We didn't have any more, but dropping the second one left the Japanese to think that we probably did. ...which, presumably, was what a Soviet invasion would have created. As noted before, the Japanese government had already adopted a strategy for coping with that...
  10. Albion

    policy about entering U.S. vaccinated

    Considering that the administration's policy is to allow thousands of unknown persons, healthy or diseased, to enter our country across the southern border, the answer probably has to be "No."
  11. Albion

    What is the worst disaster?

    The Japanese certainly were apprehensive about the advance of the Soviets, BUT the idea that this was a major factor in the Emperor's decision about surrender in the summer of 1945 is dubious. He had preached to the Japanese people for some time that each person would defend every inch of the...
  12. Albion

    Student Loan Payoffs

    Hmm. I wonder if that fact suggests that these people who are already Democrat-inclined will feel vindicated and will continue to vote that way, WHILE people in the other categories, including many whom we may presume to have had no affiliation previously or were independents will now feel...
  13. Albion

    Student Loan Payoffs

    In addition to the 500 billion dollar cost to the taxpaying public of this move, it's grossly unfair to 1) all those who honored their free choice to borrow towards their education and then suffered and struggled for years to pay the loans back but did so, as well as 2) those who decided to...
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    Ladies, ever thought about being a Deaconess?

    Part of the issue is that deacons and deaconesses go back in Christian history to the ancient church, but in the Western church both of them later ceased to be very common until their revival in recent times. A deacon is an ordained clergyman with sacramental duties in the Roman and Anglican...
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    What is the worst disaster?

    In addition, and with respect to Hiroshima, it's the sudden nature of the event that sticks in our minds, plus the fact of it being unknown in warfare previous to August, 1945. The allies had already destroyed 16 square miles of Tokyo using conventional bombs, and no one talks about that...
  16. Albion

    What is the worst disaster?

    With respect to the numbers of the dead, it's of course the first of those you mentioned, but there could be other considerations, such as deciding what it is that counts as a "disaster."
  17. Albion

    Ladies, ever thought about being a Deaconess?

    That's right. Various of the Anglican and Catholic churches have deaconesses as well as Lutheran ones, but the functions of deaconesses differ between some of them.
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    LCMS Marionology

    The word means "birthgiver of God." The controversy comes in when we look at it and decide what it's supposed to mean. It's a very old term of respect meaning that Mary gave physical birth to the being who already was God--Jesus Christ. BUT it has been criticized by some people, mainly...
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    LCMS Marionology

    That's another must-believe doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church that is rejected by all Protestant churches. Unlike the doctrine of the Assumption, however, it has at least a glimmer of a Scriptural basis, although all non-Catholics think it's an erroneous interpretation of Scripture. I'm...
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    LCMS Marionology

    One of the many sites that various people claimed as the burial site of Mary was opened towards the end of the first century and found to hold no body. Local residents began to claim that God must have taken her to heaven bodily. The Roman Catholic Church pronounced (much later) that this was...
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