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Well, I have been toying around with doing my own in-depth thread on the issue, but I tend to see a lot of the typical sloganeering on issues like this so that makes me less likely to do it (as far as a fruitless time sink). But to carry on a bit here, since I know you are interested, a lot of...

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My years in the Coptic Church found the prayers of the hours handy for personal devotions, and thanks to the internet age such resources are available online for free. https://www.agpeya.org/ There are some YouTube videos for some of the hours, I tend to do Prime (6 am) the most just because...

I became an Eastern Christian over 27 years ago, quite accidently. But music ended up being a big part of it, previously as a "nondenominational" Charismatic Protestant I really liked the more modern choruses that were sang in the 90s by most Pentecostals and Charismatics of that era. But I...

I suspect I may have inspired this thread in some way since I am probably the fondest one here in citing that verse. :) Seeing this also is somewhat timely because I have been wanting to do a thread on the Eastern Christian approach to dogma etc. The short answer is we not only look to the...

Well on Eschatology I usually don't take a side because I learned the truth early on that this Biblical Scholar speaks of. On your other statements 1) On Nimrod etc. some of your statements make me think you might be a fan of Alexander Hislop's "Two Babylon's" a work that has been...

I've listened to a lot of pitches as far as Mystery Babylon in the Bible and I think Walid Shoebat probably makes the best one. Other ones I've heard seem to do their best to shoehorn a side they got a grudge against. I will probably also include a link to Joel Richardson first pitching his...

I actually don't question the Bible. My issue is more with the Rorschach Inkblot nature to scripture. This is really true the more people have a Nude Scripture view they project all kinds of stuff into the passages that come from their personal perspective rather than what would be true of...

Sure, but the estimates I give are based more on scholarly speculation but other kinds of new Testament studies and Church history studies. Like looking at the Canon of Constantine, and the Canon of the East Syriac Church all of which are considerably shorter than the main received Canon's we...

Thanks for reading it Jericho. I would however disagree with your conclusions based on the Bible itself. There is no need for a supernatural revelation outside of the scriptures to have that authority. All that is needed is for the ancient believers, the Ecclesia/Church to pass on the...

Yes, I did because it was a lazy stereotype and strawman, that didn't really deal with anything presented.

Yeah, Marks something tells me you didn't read the article, seeing how you responded to the OP as if it was something written by the Counsel of Trent or modern Roman Catholic Apologists when the author is actually a Calvinist theologian who wrote a well-known seminary textbook called "The Shape...

The Problems of Solo Scriptura I ran across this article years ago and often quote or cite it because it very succinctly points out the problems of Nude Scripture (the position many people take or assume is the proper position of the Protestant creedal belief of "Sola Scriptura"...

3) Primordial Chaotic Waters at the beginning of Creation enesis 1 New King James Version The History of Creation 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness [a]was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering...

This thread was originally conceived as an Apologetics thread for the folks into the various "Pagan Corruption of Christianity" threads of the day but I realize that such folks are usually not open to reason. But originally, I was going to point to not only why the reasons are not just...

Yes I completely agree with what you say. In the last two years, I have dealt with many sabbath keepers, especially SDA, quoting verses as proof texts for sabbath keeping. Even conflating such passages as John 14:15 "If you love me you will keep my commandments" as a proof text for that...