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I tried hard to find where Jesus spoke of any of these "Names" to describe what He did. I couldn't find anything. So, I voted "Nondenominational."

You've been here awhile. How many people's minds have you seen changed from the endless bickering on this (or any) forum? And just ask about the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust when you get to Heaven, if the Nazi indoctrination worked on the German citizens. (Our local 4-story...

Well, if it is dealt with here like Christian Reconstructionism is, I doubt there is anyone who really knows what Calvinism is. I sure didn't know what CR was until I began studying it a few years ago. (I still don't adhere to it, but at least now I know what it is.)

Frankly, if you are not Calvinist, you don't believe that stuff anyway. And if you are, there's little chance any of the rhetoric here will sway you any. Many of us really do need to quit thinking we, and our "powerful" words, are The Holy Spirit, Jr., and let Him do the persuading.

I have had a hard time in the past 30 years, unlearning 12 years of awfully rigid Church of Christ indoctrination.

Oz, Let's take your literal "interpretation" of that camel (or "rope" if you prefer) and see if there is not some "stretching" going on. I think we can all agree that Jesus merely meant that someone devoted to their riches would have a difficult time coming to totally depend upon, and to trust...

Vigilant Citizen From RationalWiki Not to be confused with The Vigilant Christian (although they have similar content) Vigilant Citizen is a website that is dedicated to discovering the hidden "symbolism"(?) in the popular media, usually involving the Illuminati. The outlet is heavily...

Have you ever checked out the meaning of the word, "literal?" You really can't stretch it to say whatever you hope it might. ("Figurative", "Metaphorical", and "Proverbial" all spring to mind in your notion.)

Where is your head? Do you think it has to be written, or it didn't happen? Nowhere in the Bible does it tell of Jesus or the disciples "going to the restroom", but we know they did. Are you under the impression that the Romans had some sort of behavioral code that required the guards were...

“I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.” (Bob Goff)

A true thinker. I like that. While this truth doesn't necessarily make anyone today "correct", it does demonstrate your brilliant openmindedness.

BTW, Celebration of Discipline just happens to be one of the dozens of books I have on my computer.... if anyone would care to have it in MS Word format.... Free!.

And, there is also the fact that we all have had others (beginning in our formative years, with adults who we believed honestly DID know everything) very carefully "explaining" the meaning (often their denomination's meaning) of each of the parables. The Apostles had only themselves to rely...

Some "pictures" for you.... since you asked about them. Pictures showing Simon of Serene carry Jesus' cross - Google Search (Not that a picture means anything.)

Foot washing has been elevated to a Christian Celebrity status. It was first demonstrated as a humbling of one's self to do a servant's dirty work. How many people (Christians) today will quietly go to your house while you are out, unknown to anyone else, and scrub your toilet with their bare...

You guys do realize, don't you, the ludicrousness of the idea that we are required to have "doctrine" that fully matches what God intended? Can any of you, in your wildest dreams, imagine that you actually know the mind of God? I doubt there is even one person who ever lived that "got it...

What Jesus came preaching was "modern apostacy" to the religious throng of His day.

This was not the first command God gave to Adam. Are we overlooking the fact that God gave another command to Adam prior to that one? We are ignoring that one today.

I imagine that, today, Jesus, Himself, would be saddled with that term.

It was quoted of John Calvin, in The Institutes, as saying this when addressing the many, many times the ECF's violated their own supposed beliefs, skipping right over foundational premises they, themselves, had set for the church: (He called it, "bursting through boundaries.") "It was a Father...