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Who told you this: "...Jesus wasn't conceived in her womb containing the Holy spirit already,...remember He was born as a son of mankind." Before she conceived, the Bible says this: From Luke 1: 31. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name...

Here's one definition: Twinkie ® defense Forensic psychiatry. A legal tack in which a defendant claims that a criminal act resulted from chemical imbalances induced by 'junk food,' and not criminal intent. Note: when the defense was first used, the jury, not surprisingly in California, “bought...

Hey, I knew what you meant. No problem. I started this thread, so I feel obligated to gab, even if I've got very little to say!

Thanks, I agree. It is not always a smokescreen for folks looking for a reason not to go to church, though. A guy at the church I attend had a house church for many years in his home in Michigan because the 'regular church' he attended split up. He is now a member of a small church meeting in a...

Discerning the body could simply mean that members of the church in Corinth were all the body of Christ, in contrast to the divisions in the body that Paul was warning them about earlier: 1Cor.4:6"....that none of you may be puffed up on behalf of one against the other. 7. For who makes you...

Thanks for your thoughts. "...well understood who the bishops, deacons, and elders are." I've often thought that elders must be 'called by God' and that many churches have elders who are not. So, I agree that God "takes care of that and is much better equipped to do so." Many elders and...

That's what I've heard, yes.

O.K. Peace..

There is a thread called "house churches". Got any comments on that issue?

I agree, "it's His preservation."

I didn't know the L/S teaching was saying "...the believer is justified through keeping this responsibility..."

You said: "Any preaching of the gospel of salvation that places responsibility on the believer either before, during, or after coming to faith is a false gospel." The 'responsibility' you mention is always after being born again. What is: "Should we live in obedience and submission? By all...

I think He meant that 'eating His flesh' means 'coming to Him', and 'drinking His blood' means 'believing in Him'. And the Apostle Paul says 'do this in remembrance of Me'. From John 6: 29. Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”...

Since I believe that the bread and wine remain bread and wine (no transubstantiation), it sounds like magic to say that at the words of consecration the bread and wine are no longer the object they seem to be, but become the eternal God, a physical object of worship. So yes, Catholics are to...

From Catholic Answers, April 1,2000, by Jimmy Akin: "Over time, a distinction came to be made between excommunication and anathema. The precise nature of the distinction varied but eventually became fixed. By the time of Gregory IX (1370–1378), the term anathema was used to describe a major...

I think Church discipline is a requirement for churches, but not common as far as I can tell. Does the Church you attend practice that? It seems as if the Catholic Church has done away with the Anathemas, which I think are public excommunications. Ipso facto excommunication seems to have no...

The Catholic Church is the greatest force for schism(disunity) in the Church of God. They boast in men (the Apostle Peter) and women (the virgin Mary), and many 'saints'. 1 Corinthians 3:3,4,21; 3. "...for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are...

You define worship if you want to. You can look up verses quicker than I can, I think. But, Christ is God and is to be worshipped in truth and Spirit, and a few N.T. people worshipped Jesus.

Christ is to be worshipped, and followed.

Yes, I think God is responsible. Deuteronomy 32: 39. ‘Now see that I, even I, am He, And there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand. 40. For I raise My hand to heaven, And say, “As I live forever, 41. If I whet My...