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So for me to be with Christ - it takes his suffering on the Cross and MY SUFFERING in purgatory?? How can you not see that this denies full payment of Christ for our sins? You are saying that Christ is not enough. Once Christ has paid for our sins, there is no cosmic "restitution" required...

Jesus Christ is NOT a created being. This is not a Jehovah's Witness site. We here at the Baptist Board have not been taught wrong. I can tolerate your Calvinism as I can just ignore it. I can ignore your beliefs about the baptism of the Holy Spirit. You are citing scripture, but twisting...

Oh, I see you claim 1 Corinthians 3 to teach purgatory. Nope, nope, nope. The "fire" of judgment for the saved does not purify the Christian. It TESTS the works done. It's how rewards in heaven will be received or not received. Purgatory DENIES the finished work of Christ. It teaches that...

****I tried to post this in response to Cathode in another thread about praying for the dead, but it would not let me post for some reason. So I'm just making it a separate thread. Here's what the Catholic Encyclopedia says about purgatory... "Purgatory - A place or condition of temporal...

Read the next verse. Those same people were baptized in the name of Jesus, then hands were laid on them, and then they received the Holy Spirit. Two baptisms.

Since it is coupled with the Holy Spirit - I take it to mean a refining or purification. Thayer's/Strong's says the Greek word can be used literally or figuratively. And Strong's says it may have come from the Sanskrit word meaning purification. John's baptism was for repentance, not...

~sigh~ I am not deranged. There was a question posed and I answered it. Google Trump's position on abortion. You'll get inconsistent answers from him. He recently said that there are states with abortion laws that are "too tough". And they should change. The man is not pro-life. I...

Donald Trump is and always has been pro-choice. He doesn't believe, however, up until the time of birth, but he is pro-choice nonetheless. Melania is AGGRESSIVELY pro-choice. She is a "my body my choice" woman.

This site is 24 years old and there have never been limits to words in a post. Do what I do. Skip the posts where people just like to hear themselves talk, spout off out-of-context scripture, and who say the same thing over and over again just to "BE RIGHT" in their own minds. Just move on.

Hello, brother. I looked at this last night and couldn't figure out a problem. If you signed up as something other than Baptist first and then changed it, that could be the problem. I you want to create another persona and label the new one as Baptist, I will delete this one. It's up to you...

I am very sorry, truly, that you were a victim of financial abuse by a church. I wish more churches understood that when there is questionable behavior of ANY kind by a member or staff member of a church, the people have the OBLIGATION to whistle blow.

This thread has me puzzled. If one gives consistently, one needs a record of contributions for tax purposes - if they choose that and some do. We have a church financial secretary that keeps a private record of all contributions that come by check or a name on an envelope or online. Not even...

Glad to have you, Oldtyme.

I'll probably keep my non-digital Bible. But I'm excited about this electronic music reader.

That first line is from a Dr. Suess book. The second is from a story I have to tell you. I'm about to buy a tablet for musicians to display my piano music and play at church. I'm making way too many copies of music and using up too much paper and flipping too many pages. I was watching a...

I have spam-banned four posts from "new" members in a handful of days now. New posts from new members with links and suspicious sounding posts that intimate advertising are automatically sent to a holding place until moderators look at them. There's been a lot lately. Normally the membership...

Have a blessed holiday season with your family.

My mother's brother. He was 89. Next to my own father, he was the Godliest man I've ever known. I cried the entire funeral - through four songs, reading of the obituary, the message, and the exit. The. entire. time. The story: He was close to his pastor. When it was evident that he was...

Of my over 40 years in education, I taught four years in a Christian school. I was conducting chapel one day for the sixth grade and was teaching the fruit of the spirit. When we got to patience.... ...one very clever young man who is now a husband and father raised his hand and said, "You...

I'll be honest with you. Having babies wasn't what I was thinking either. I was just searching for an answer. As I said, I hear what you have said about women a lot. I am just wondering what you think are the gifts women have that men do not have. I can't think of any.