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Do you actually think He meant "You have to say my name in order to be "officially" praying?"

I get the impression that some people here think John The Baptist invented baptism. Do they not know that many non-Christian religions had some form or other of baptizing for thousands of years before Jesus was even born?

But, you seem to be saying that not being as good as you or me (while living) disqualifies the killer from the more choice stuff we are going to get.

Perhaps you misunderstood the meaning of the parable of the workers who worked different hours, but were all paid exactly the same wage.... even if they only worked one hour? To man's thinking, that is very unfair of God (the vineyard owner) and we would be upset to see the killer get the same...

I have no idea what you are going on about?????? I was merely saying that we Westerners declare the Asian workers are being taken advantage of.... when the truth is that the money we pay them is far more than they could make sewing shirts to sell in their own country.

I'm sorry, but I see reading, "in the name of...", here, the same way I see it when Jesus said, "Whatever you ask in my name...." Of course some people have actually taken that latter one to mean that a prayer to Jesus is not "official" if we don't verbally utter the exact words "...in Jesus'...

I have been on several, like many people here. And most of them aren't too bad.... UNTIL... you broach one of their pet subjects (be it pro or con.... and you are on the "wrong" side) or you cross the line by not agreeing with the accepted policy, or you disagree with one of the forum's "Chosen...

What would be doing it correctly, as opposed to doing it incorrectly? I hear this same thing concerning communion also. But it still escapes me exactly what is meant when "correctly" or "incorrectly" is referred to.

Those are some very interesting thoughts to mull over.

SG, I saved the link to this post you wrote more than a year ago. Did you ever write the article you mentioned? Being Banned from so called Christian Foruns BTW.... A whole lot of you might get a kick out of reading the rest of the posts in that year-old+ thread link I just put up...……………. LOL

Having trouble spelling the word? Baptised vs. Baptized: What’s the Difference? - Writing Explained

This whole silly thread discounts death-bed conversions, the acceptance of Christ during battle, confession of belief prior to being executed, any coming to Christ during the moments prior to the 9/11 Twin Towers falling... or the saving of anyone on those three planes that day... or of anyone...

We Westerners have a tendency to not be able to understand relativity. When I was in the service, I paid a "houseboy" (their choice of terminology, not mine) a very small (in my eyes) wage to take care of my uniforms and billet, and he was one of the most affluent people in his village. The...

Why would you think someone as blunt and direct as me was a Pastor? I worked with the courts, through a local Psychologist, facilitating Sex Offender classes for 24 years, and I have 12 years of formal and informal Bible School, but I am not your typical sweet-mouthed Pastor material, at all.

Of course not.

As am I. It is good to have someone rational offer to share their knowledge.

The two of you had a conversation together?

So, you felt hatred for God before you became a Christian? In other words, if someone had asked you, you would have said "Yes, I hate Him, and I will scream at anyone I see preaching anywhere near me!" (You DID give just two choices.) This is just another of the obvious ways we totally...

To be honest, "The Reformation" was not an evangelistic outreach to non-Christians. It was to, and for, and about the same people who began it. "Yes", as much as all sides want to deny it, they were all members of the Catholic Church to begin with. It is just that the particular Catholics...

What I meant was that those atrocities were committed by the corrupt leaders of a particular group during an isolated long-ago period of time, and no Denomination is free of similar skeletons in our own closets. Thus, we really should not be trying to get a rise out of the members of other...