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  1. Albion

    Dispensationalism

    No. Read the post again. Almost the whole of Christian history is on one side of this issue, and then there's the theory you advocate.
  2. Albion

    Dispensationalism

    This is the way it works....you proposed the discussion, so the obligation is on you to show some good reason why almost all of Christianity for the past 2000 years has been wrong about the issue and a relative handful of people with a new theory are correct. You haven't done that yet.
  3. Albion

    Dispensationalism

    You destroy any defense of dispensationalism when you resort to making such a claim. So now your defense of dispensationalism has switched to simply claiming that it is what everyone else believes anyway? That's hardly credible after you've laid out for us the unique theological innovation...
  4. Albion

    Dispensationalism

    It isn't a Christian doctrine thanks only to some "progressive understanding" of the nature of God. Some of the nature of the Triune God was indeed revealed in the Old Testament, beginning with Genesis. But most Christians consider the New Testament to be part of the Bible as well, and the NT...
  5. Albion

    Dispensationalism

    I obviously disagree, but of course the two are not identical, just similar in a certain way. Well, the Trinity isn't and wasn't. The most famous assertion of that doctrine--the Nicene Creed--came along after a few centuries of church history, but the teaching itself is right there in the...
  6. Albion

    Dispensationalism

    I know Dispensationalists who feel that, when they discovered dispensationalism, it made sense of everything that is unclear in the Bible. However, the reason most other Christians have a bad impression of the movement is, I think, because it seems to make the Bible and the Christian faith into...
  7. Albion

    Jesus and John the Baptist

    As you said, it's a personal perception; but it's interesting to me that my own feeling about the relationships you mentioned is more or less the opposite of yours.
  8. Albion

    Disney+

    Apparently a misunderstanding on your part about what that term means. :rolleyes: None that I recall. At least not in the case of Disney. (Sigh) I guess there are always a few people, no matter how unrepresentative of the group the accuser assigns them to, who can be held up as supposedly...
  9. Albion

    Living by reason

    Certainly. Reason is valuable, but that is not the same as saying we should "live by" Reason. That's especially true and should be obvious to every Christian since, as disciples of the Savior, we live by Faith.
  10. Albion

    If killing people is wrong,

    Murder is wrong. Executing people who are themselves murderers and a threat to society is not considered to be wrong either by Scripture or custom. That's the understanding, whether or not it's convincing.
  11. Albion

    What does a call for a pastor look like?

    What you described seems open to question, but I believe there are a number of other factors or considerations that can be involved, how common this practice is, and etc. Some of our Lutheran friends here will probably fill us in about that.
  12. Albion

    What does a call for a pastor look like?

    Well, it can refer to two different aspects of the matter. It is believed that a man or woman can receive God's "call" or urging, which is a completely spiritual prompting, BUT ALSO, the acceptance by Christ's church of that person as meeting certain specific qualifications is a call. These...
  13. Albion

    What does a call for a pastor look like?

    You were wrong from top to bottom in your denunciation of traditional Christian polity. "Behest?" No, that's a misunderstanding of episcopal church government. For one thing, you had been trying to say something about how clergy are chosen...but now, with this source you've presented to us...
  14. Albion

    What does a call for a pastor look like?

    There are probably thirty Bible passages that address that point. The most famous of them is 1 Timothy 3:1-7 which lays out qualifications for a man to be ordained a minister in the church. Also, see 1 Timothy 3:8-13, 1 Timothy 4:14, 1 Timothy 5:22, and Titus 1:5-6.
  15. Albion

    Do you love the Lord Jesus Christ?

    That's absolutely true and was the idea I was trying to express. I also had the feeling that I hadn't worded that reply as well as I could have.
  16. Albion

    Do you love the Lord Jesus Christ?

    It's not as "showy" as whipping out a wad of dollar bills and counting them off, one by one, eh? ;)
  17. Albion

    What does a call for a pastor look like?

    Wkpd Quote from: Episcopal Church (United States) You proved me correct. 1) Note that the Archdeacon (if there is one) is appointed by the bishop, but an archdeacon is simply a person who's already a priest and rector who has been given an additional responsibility (by the bishop) to...
  18. Albion

    What does a call for a pastor look like?

    Although both of those policies may be characteristic of the Church in New Zealand, neither of them is practiced in other countries.
  19. Albion

    Being baptised

    If that were true, a number of New Testament verses that show people being baptized with water when they accepted Christ. would need to be stricken from the Bible. And, of course, Jesus himself would have been wrong when he commissioned the Apostles to go into all the world, preach the Gospel...
  20. Albion

    Do you love the Lord Jesus Christ?

    Is buying an engagement ring about loving (or not loving) the Lord?
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