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by Homer
Fri Jan 08, 2010 9:53 pm
Forum: Denominations
Topic: Church Backgrounds?
Replies: 30
Views: 28917

Re: Church Backgrounds?

Greetings Jaimessee, I've been a member of independent Cristian Churches for close to thirty years. The one we attend now calls itself "Church Of Christ" but is actually an independent Christian Church. Our view of baptism is the same as Alexander Campbell's actual view of baptism, not baptismal reg...
by Homer
Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:27 pm
Forum: Eschatology
Topic: Changing focus
Replies: 29
Views: 8112

Re: Changing focus

Israelis are killing Palestinian Christians and both our countries support Israel at all costs. Whether they are killing Christians or not, the Palistinian Christians, a minority of a minority, have long lamented the lack of concern that Christians in the US have for them. They are our brothers and...
by Homer
Fri Jan 01, 2010 1:10 am
Forum: Eschatology
Topic: 1 Th 4 - 5
Replies: 65
Views: 18906

Re: 1 Th 4 - 5

Hi Melontes, If you are still around..... You wrote: You will find that when you translate those verbs correctly, it is phrases like this that change things: "the dead BEING raised" - a process already happening! The resurrection of Israel was underway...but it was not physical resurrections. As I u...
by Homer
Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:24 am
Forum: Eschatology
Topic: 1 Th 4 - 5
Replies: 65
Views: 18906

Re: 1 Th 4 - 5

Hi Melontes, You wrote: I went to that Greek site and could not find the present PASSIVE mentioned. Perhaps I missed it. Could you cut and paste the section that would apply to the present passive? Thanks Sorry for the confusion. Here is a specific example at the source I referred you to: 8. Futuris...
by Homer
Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:51 am
Forum: Eschatology
Topic: 1 Th 4 - 5
Replies: 65
Views: 18906

Re: 1 Th 4 - 5

Hi Melontes, You seem to believe the present indicative passive of "sown" and "raised" in 1 Corinthians 15:42 clinches your argument but the present tense in Greek sometimes refers to that which is future. With reference to time, the present indicative is usually present time, but it may be other th...
by Homer
Sun Dec 27, 2009 8:16 pm
Forum: Eschatology
Topic: 1 Th 4 - 5
Replies: 65
Views: 18906

Re: 1 Th 4 - 5

Hi Melontes, I have been following most of your posts and am unsure of what you believe regarding the future state of the resurrected. It is my understanding that we will have a spiritual body that will have also some sort of physicality. Consider the following, particularly the underlined parts: 1 ...
by Homer
Sun Dec 27, 2009 7:20 pm
Forum: Eschatology
Topic: 1 Th 4 - 5
Replies: 65
Views: 18906

Re: 1 Th 4 - 5

George, Sorry to hear of your mother's illness, I will pray for her. Brother, you made a weak case in your last post: Rev. 5:11-13 11. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, ...
by Homer
Sun Dec 27, 2009 6:08 pm
Forum: Ecclesiology
Topic: Quote re the Institutional Church
Replies: 0
Views: 1711

Quote re the Institutional Church

Hi Steve, I immediately thought of you when I read this quote by R. Balmer from the Stone-Campbell Journal, 7 (2004): "...that institutions, be they ecclesiastical or educational, are remarkably poor guarantors of piety. Institutions inevitably serve themselves and eventually suborn themselves to th...
by Homer
Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:26 pm
Forum: The Gospels
Topic: Small Group Bible Study on Sermon on the Mount
Replies: 23
Views: 8194

Re: Small Group Bible Study on Sermon on the Mount

Hi Darin,

You might want to look here (and maybe not):

http://www.theos.org/forum/viewtopic.ph ... &sk=t&sd=a

Lots to read re the atonement and forgiveness.

God bless, Homer
by Homer
Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:28 pm
Forum: Ecclesiology
Topic: The Christian Synagogue
Replies: 18
Views: 9296

Re: The Christian Synagogue

Hi Matt, A thought provoking paper! I am wondering how, in a practical way, a church might be distinguished from a "Christian synagogue"? By where they meet, the format of the meeting, or the number of participants, or some combination? Those advocating house churches seem to take the church at Cori...

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