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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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, ...
- 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...
- 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
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
- 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...