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Yes but I want to know about 1 Corinthians 11 does it means a peson who recieves the communion improperly is physically punnished? If you don't feel that this passage has any bearing on the topic then I might start a new thread on it.

I don't necesserily thinmk I'm being punnished but I did take Communion on Sunday, which brings up two possibilities. 1. We all share the same chalice as Canon law prevents us from using the little egg cups that some other churches use. This means that if someone befor eyou has a cold, flu or...

I'm stuck at home with the flu at the moment and I wonder if it migth be some kind of punnishment or just part and parcel of living ina fallen world where you have to take the rough with the smoothe. I'm a bit confused though about your post. What sickness was there before the fall of man...

Why would you say that aspen, don't you know that dualism is heretical? It's what the Cathars believed in.

Thnaks. You;re right in that if we stick with Jesus he will stick with us and he won't let us be dammed, but sometimes I worry that if we sin and don't know it we've still sinned, we've still disobeyed God. Adam and Eve didn't know they had sinned and they caused not only their own punnishments...

Well as you can probably see from my post I'm in a bit of a dark palce at the moment regarding sin and I do feel troubled and frustrated by it. That's why I like the idea of Purgatory so much because it means that sinner who believes in Christ will notperish and makes sense when we see in...

We are all sinners and most of us can't go two minutes without sinning in one form or another. Most sins, especially the big ones we are aware of and can confess them to God, but what if we commit sins without knowing we have sinned or forget about some of the little sins we have done. When we...

I'm reminded of theparable with the pharasee and the tax colector. The tax collector was in the Temple weeping for his sins and humbling himself before God and the Pharasee stood there and said thank you Lord for not making me like him. Those who go around calling themselves saved sometimes...

There only unsaved until they get saved and btw those who think they are saved shouldn't be so complacent. This is because a Christian's relationship with God is something that should be csontantly worked at not just established as saved. "People going around saying I can commit any sin I want...

Of course there must be a Purgatory, where else are thwe dead held before their time of judgement on the alst day? Those who skip purgotory ar the ones who go straight to Heaven and are the first resurrection and thesecond death ahs no power over them.

Well this is why I think there is a lot of scope for there beinga first age in which all theese strange creatures like dinosaurs an monkey-like men lived. At some poitn God could have decided to start the world again 6,000 years ago when he made all creatures nwe along with Adam and Eve. I...

I don't know if that's a secret Miss Hepburn but its definatly the way to be. Life is for living, it is a God given gift, don't squander it.

Your arguments all make sense Bigape and you've got good conviction and I admire that very much since we live in a world where traditional beliefs are so often trampld. However now regarding the Pater Noster. Just out of interest don't you ever use the Lord's Prayer? It surprises me you don't...

Bigape A person can accept Jeus and be forgiven his sins and then he can go off the rails. If he dies off the rails he is dammed if he seeks forgiveness and means it and dies straight away then he'll be alright. Evangelicals refer to a person being "saved" but no-one is saved until they are in...

We're all sinners, all of us. Even when we ask God's forgiveness and are forgiven we don't maintain that state of grace for very long. The scary thing is dying unshriven, but no doubt we will all die with some sin on us. If it is mortal sin we go instantly to Hell, but if it is ve may be able...

In the UK church numbers are dwindling as people die off and arn't replaced and church attendance figures are always reaching a new low. The result is that churches in all denominations are taking on a larger missionary role and there are many different types of churchse out there besides...

I coudl say the same thing with regards to Eucharist. Wether you believe it is Christ's actualy body and blood or not you will agree that it is something that our Lord commanded us to do. A fellowship or Bible study group can't administer the Blessed Sacrament. I would say that the...

If I was going to do that trick I wouldn't sign up twice on the same day and beisdes which since when were Templar and Foreigner synonymous with one another. Havn't you ever heard of the Knight's Templar.

He owes us both apologies. I don't think accusations like that are very Christian at all. Bud My advice to you is to ask God for forgiveness for this transgression and that he might grant you the wisdom to not indulge in such foolish fancies. Also, even if we were the same person it would be...

We all face this kind of thing from time to time and you are not alone. I've always been taught that God does indeed answer our prayers but that we cannot always see how .