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If I was forced (God forbid) into having to give up either the Sunday morning audience scene, OR our closely knit Weekday gatherings, there would be nothing to even think about. The Sundays would have to be the ones to have to go.

As it should in such a class setting. This is "relationship" time, and it should be a time when you leave that evening together knowing more about the people sitting silently around you in the pews Sunday morning. God forbid that our weekday classes ever sink to the level of people just...

BTW, I personally think you are pushing the benefit of mid-week classes if your attendance exceeds much more than 8-10 people. It should not be allowed to devolve to the level of just another guy preaching to an audience. This is total interaction time, and everyone should contribute.

We attend church "study" classes a couple of nights during the week. I find that probably six times as fulfilling as the typical Wednesday night service we once attended the CoC.

I'll say it again, since you must have missed it.... God is not unfair. He gave His own son so that every single person now born on this Earth since Christ died, could have eternal life with Him. It is the followers of that mad tyrant, John Calvin, who try to convince people God made most of...

No one is saying God is evil. I, speaking only for myself, say Calvin's expression of God is evil. And, you can decide for yourself what following that belief is.

No, he isn't. You actually did indicate that you pray in contradiction to the wishes of God that He laid down eons before "those unregenerate ones" were even living. You seem to be saying He created them to deliberately be fodder for Hell, yet you are also praying that God's supposed will is...

Not really. Your words are commendable, and your experience is undoubtedly sincere. But, I still cannot see how someone else's identical understanding and experience is understood by you as wrong if they feel Calvin was way off base.

Where was it written that the woman "Just had to touch the hem of His garment to be healed?" Or did she "feel" that in her heart? Did the Centurion read that Jesus didn't need to come to his son.... or did he just recognize that within his heart? Why did Martha say that if Jesus had only been...

"Yes" it is a little bit laughable that they both typed out totally contradictory positions, right next to each other, yet they can't even see it.

I don't believe I could follow the teachings of a man who threatened death to those who did not agree with his theology.... and then made sure they were killed when he could do it.

Now I Belong to Jesus Billy Speer Jesus, my Lord will love me forever, From Him no pow'r of evil can sever, He gave His life to ransom my soul; Now I belong to Him; Now I belong to Jesus, Jesus belongs to me, Not for the years of time alone, But for eternity. Once I was lost in sin's...

One thing to keep in mind is that we "Westerners" are but a fraction of the world's overall population. (Just 4.4% of the world's population lives in the USA.)

Exactly the same words I was thinking as I read the OP.

Believe something because you are ordered to believe it? (Your future is a frightening thing to contemplate.)

Not that I remember much. I assume I knew her as a child, but as I got older, she was always off somewhere, and it was just conversation about her. She died when I was 31.

This is what the Army issued us to wear for cold weather: They were 100% rubber.

I believe I have already posted about the 240 some times he used some form of the word ABSURD to describe other men and their beliefs… in just The Institutes.

Well, Calvinism IS a very attractive doctrine to many people. First of all, because it gives justification to the "Them vs. Us" issue lots of people deal with. (You see that daily, right here on this forum.) Secondly, it relieves people of any responsibility to actually follow Christ's Great...

There's usually SOME truth in part of the things ANYONE says. But, the truly mental disturbances of John Calvin shout out from almost every section of every chapter of each of the four books.