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You need a commandment that says "you must not carry your bed on the Sabbath day"? I wonder how many cases need to be specifically documented? Isn't there somebody who said "you can swear by the temple and not be obligated but if you swear by the gold in the temple you are obligated"? Now you're...
You say "distractions" the faithful say it is what Christ teaches and what the holy scriptures teach. I've given you the passages from the scriptures but you treat them as dirt to be ignored. Even the passage you think teaches that one is submerged in dirt when one is buried gets ignored by you...
Claim it? Sure. Is it what you experience now? A sinless perfection? Or are you thinking of something else, something not perfect?
The holy scriptures assure the faithful that sin is no longer master. Christ is master that is why the faithful call him Lord.
Sunday, 3rd April 2016
MORNING
Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness. II Pet. 3:8, 9
My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither...
Some may think that because saint Luke says "as was thought" he means that Jesus is not descended from that line of ancestors including Adam yet no matter how one takes those words the fact remains that the Lord Jesus Christ is a human being and as such is descended from Adam and Eve. Being...
Do you mean Romans chapter six? The chapter that teaches that baptism unites one to Jesus Christ in his death and resurrection and that baptism plays a role in setting one free from bondage to sin? If that is what you mean then three cheers for your acumen in realising that baptism is the...
I think you're hiding behind vagaries when you say "the entire scriptures". You have no passages that teaches that one must be submerged to be validly baptised as a Christian so you resort to vague references to the teaching of the holy scriptures in their entirety as justification for an...
According to saint Luke's gospel the Lord is descended from Adam: "Jesus was about thirty years old when he began his work. He was the son (as was thought) of Joseph ... son of Seth, son of Adam, son of God". Some may think that because saint Luke says "as was thought" he means that Jesus is not...
Thanks for saying that your point of view is drawn from the teachings of Jehovah's witnesses. Their teaching is not relevant to this thread insofar as their teaching is unorthodox. They reject the Holy Trinity in favour of a kind of Unitarianism with the Lord Jesus Christ as "a god" and the Holy...
The separation of Justification from Sanctification is unhelpful distinction that in practise does not exist. No Christian is made just without also being made holy.
Bifurcation is one of those theological debating techniques that never helps anybody. Justification means being made righteous. Some folk like to treat it as if it means "declared righteous" or "accounted as righteous" but the meaning is to be made righteous. The precise means of being made...
The first century is before 253 AD which is in the middle of the third century. I suspect that the 'scholars' named in another post are not well read in early Church writings. The Didache is one of the best known and most widely quoted sources for ancient Christian baptismal practises.