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GWH IMHO, You struggle with the creation and definition of a creed like your forbearers. Your creed lacks the same core element that all the other creeds I have reviewed over the years. It is totally focused on the vertical relationship with God thru Christ. There is a lot that can be said about...

#1 Is not acceptable to those descendants of Calvin because of the "morally accountable humans" which anathema to most Calvinist and many other denominations as it implies that humans can be morally responsible. Humans are live in total depravity and have not ability to be saved by their moral...

rewriter: The history of Paul will always be a bit murky. Paul was a nobody to the Romans. However, the most extensive and brutal persecution of Christians in the possible lifetime of Paul came from Nero. Nero is known for initiating severe persecutions against Christians, particularly after the...

This sounds like Rewriter, so I will respond to the particulars in light of my interpretation of your broader eschatology. As for Paul's generally accepted writings, first we know that all but Romans were "occasional" letters meaning they were written to church communities because of an event or...

GWH The plural of anecdote is anecdotes. Anecdotes are not data. They are used to fill in gaps in a incomplete set of data but by definition they are opinion and experienced based assumptions, intuitions and speculations. The text in 1 Corinthians 15 is problematic on several levels 3 For what...

Rewriter: Currently, we can look back about 13.5 million years ago seeing light that existed at the "beginning" of all the Universes when it wa a couple of hundreds of thousands years of yrs old. However, abstractions about science as any part of theology are is not particularly relevant. The...

For a better understanding of where we came from and why we are here:

Ouch!

I understand that perspective. If you will also notice that there are two creation stories in Genesis and their authors and editors adopting the Mesopotamian flood myths of 1,500 years earlier. The creation story in Genesis 2:4 plus says the earth was void when God began to create it into the...

When do facts become a "lecture" "in praise of communism." If I have erred on the facts, please correct me! I explained that the difference between Marx's idea and what evolved from it is horrible and now dead Communist Russia where Oligarchs now rule with no connection to the "voters." Does...

TruthDefender: I have looked and looked for Communists running for election in the USA. Please update me. One prominent Democratic Socialist elected in the United States. Zohran Mamdani a declared Democratic Socialist holds a strong 69% favorability rating among voters within the city according...

It has been my experience that we tend to "demonize" people who have traits, attitudes and or behaviors that make us feel threatened. Karl Marx for instance, gets linked to the rise of the corrupt, predatory Communism we know but he died long before it arose. He fundamentally reshaped Western...

Adstar: So let's use your quote from John. A substantial majority of Christians have been taught to believe that the actual body and blood of Jesus miraculously is transformed..in some way ... into a piece of unleavened bread and wine in the Eucharist. Another long held belief handed down over...

Chester If one attempts to join the military and expresses any racial or religious hatred as a motivator they are excluded. The hate part is just one political party that has made scapegoating their failures and blaming everything on "them." The definition of "them" is whatever works.

Please explain "demonic spirit from hell."

81% of all Evangelicals voted for Trump who promised to rid the country of vermin who were polluting the blood of real Americans. A convicted felon, adulter, sexual predator and persistent liar and a man whose entire life is one of personal and business corruption. His entire communications...

Lovette: You seem to believe that Christians are free from the penalty of sin? Sin killed, Jesus and every Apostle and Christian martyr. Sin killed millions of Christians in the Protestant/Catholic wars. So, I don't get the free from the penalty of sin. If you sin by murder are you free from...

What is your data to back up your claim?

Unfortunately, the Christian Nationalist Ideology is in play either openly or hidden. Ever since the 1970's moral majority and the uber right wing of the formerly Republican party took over Evangelical Christianity. There is zero space between a political ideology and and highly modified...

If you can reference commands from Jesus to experience two baptisms or perhaps Peter, James, John or Paul then lets talk about the requirement for two baptisms.