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  1. Albion

    What if Modern Christianity is just the other end of the telephone?

    Okay. I'm not actually sorry, just hoping you will take a "word to the wise" and begin to state your ideas with enough precision that you don't leave the readers to guess at just what it was that you were trying to say...and then have you follow-up by insulting them for guessing wrong.
  2. Albion

    Decision Theology

    Obviously, most fundamentalists and charismatics who are members of those churches would do so as well since it's their churches that engage in such practices because they think they are proper and good. But I did refer readers to the reasons that mainstream Christianity has never gone in for...
  3. Albion

    Decision Theology

    First, they're altar calls, not alter calls, even if something gets changed or altered. Second, altar calls--as has been said here before--are highly questionable for more mundane reasons. They not only make the participant think that "he's now saved" just like that, and that it's mainly their...
  4. Albion

    What if Modern Christianity is just the other end of the telephone?

    Sorry, but you really cannot change what you posted just by saying, after all this time, that you wrote something else. That's what you're trying to do now. You could say that you meant something else, but doing that--especially when it happens over and over again--is to admit to having...
  5. Albion

    What if Modern Christianity is just the other end of the telephone?

    I don't think so. And if I had done so, I would think you'd have shown how that was the case. You cannot do so, of course, which probably explains the reliance upon insults and pretending to be the moderator instead.
  6. Albion

    Decision Theology

    I'd advise you to not resort to personal attacks like this one whenever your line of reasoning or your claims have missed the mark. Most of the time, the other people here do nothing more than correct the mistakes of fact that they are reading from you or else they're calling on you to clarify...
  7. Albion

    Decision Theology

    Let's see. You are the poster who believes in deciding for himself what part of the Bible he'll accept and which parts he'll dismiss. That being the case, the criticism here isn't either consistent or logical. There is plenty in Scripture that deals with the entirety of Creation, so to say that...
  8. Albion

    What if Modern Christianity is just the other end of the telephone?

    I didn't think there was any complaint. You said yourself that it's your belief that Paul's letters ought not be in the Bible. That was a personal determination, whereas the Church made the decision about which writings belonged in the Bible and which not. That is very much as the Bible itself...
  9. Albion

    Decision Theology

    And they cannot answer that question in the affirmative, no matter how often it is asked, unless it's by God's will. That would be Josiah's position, as I read his posts. Agreed. There's no "earning" involved. All that this shows is that we are the means by which those who have been chosen by...
  10. Albion

    Decision Theology

    As I read that post, Josaiah isn't saying that. If one is a believer, he will naturally want to perform as Jesus taught his listeners to do, but that doesn't mean that this response to Faith earns a believer any credits towards salvation...which is what a theology that incorporates meritorious...
  11. Albion

    What if Modern Christianity is just the other end of the telephone?

    Well, of course, doing that makes the individual the arbiter of the matter. It is, rather, THE CHURCH which made the determination, and it did so under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. We believe that the Holy Spirit has guided Christ's church over the centuries, and we have no less a reliable...
  12. Albion

    Women the gifts G-d gave to them, A list of powerful verses and scripture G-d gave to women.

    Does "human form" mean looking like a human but not actually being one? And could you also address the question about you being a Trinitarian (believing in the Trinity as explained in the Creeds)? Thanks
  13. Albion

    Decision Theology

    Not quite what I was saying in that post, and I was referring to a believer later abandoning the faith, as opposed to refusing Faith in the first place. But my reply was only a quickie response to your question. Josiah's post 61 handles it in more detail.
  14. Albion

    Decision Theology

    No. It's more like 'you cannot come to saving Faith through your own efforts, but you can reject it.'
  15. Albion

    Rabbi Manis Friendman's views on God and religion

    However, that item on the personal profile refers to a religious "affiliation." It certainly suggests a formal connection. Deism, Theism, Pantheism, etc., etc. are not organized religions or churches which a person can "affiliate" with.
  16. Albion

    Rabbi Manis Friendman's views on God and religion

    Hello again. :) I'm not confused, as you can see from the reprints I posted of exactly what the comments on both sides were. I also took note of how you changed your story after reading my replies. I am assuming that this is the one you want to stick with.
  17. Albion

    Rabbi Manis Friendman's views on God and religion

    I wrote "Okay, but what's the basis for the claim that Christianity has ever taught that there will not be any suffering in this life?" And you wrote--again, it's quoted--He promised that numerous times throughout the Bible." See the following which is taken intact from that post. You are...
  18. Albion

    Rabbi Manis Friendman's views on God and religion

    Yes, you did. See the exchange between us recorded in the middle part of post #8. So it seems. And I cannot figure how anyone here would list "Eastern Orthodox" as his religious affiliation and then show virtually no familiarity with what that church teaches. Are you actually a church member?
  19. Albion

    Decision Theology

    Well, hardly any of us would deny that Faith is the key to salvation! That's not the explanation for the promise that is made for altar calls on the part of people who favor the use of them. Anything's possible, and there's usually an exception here or there to almost any process. However...
  20. Albion

    Rabbi Manis Friendman's views on God and religion

    Okay, but what's the basis for the claim that Christianity has ever taught that there will not be any suffering in this life? I see that you have no evidence to back up this surprising allegation.
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