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There are four major creeds for the Christian faith. They are the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed of A.D. 325, the Chalcedonian Creed of A.D. 451 and the Athanasian Creed. The Chalcedonian Creed was adopted during the fourth and fifth sessions of the fourth ecumenical council at the city of...

Thanks. I also understand that church membership is meaningful and membership rules can facilitate the selecting of deacons, Sunday school teachers, worship leaders, etc. It makes sense to pre-qualify individuals who have been examined for doctrine and practices. AI Overview: Church membership...

What is the biblical basis of becoming a “member” of a church? I am not sure if “membership” and rules for joining a local church congregation have any scriptural justification. Seems like it is just traditions of men.

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To one who truly repents, sin looks very different than it does to him who has not repented. Instead of looking desirable or fascinating, it looks odious and detestable. He is astonished that he ever could have desired such a thing. Impenitent sinners may look at sin and see that it will ruin...

In the Bible, the fig tree is a major symbol for the nation of Israel, representing its national, spiritual, and physical health. It signifies prosperity when flourishing (1 Kings 4:25) and, when barren or cursed, symbolizes spiritual decay, divine judgment, and the nation’s dispersion. Key...

We will be judged by our deeds, not our creeds. Some people love to sin by being quarrelsome and arguing. They even get hatefully angry over spiritual topics, slinging personal attacks and abrasive insults. In history, people have been killed for disagreeing with establishment teachings and...

But once again, you not only cannot explain things, you also do not base your assertions on scriptures, but on experiences and feelings. You are on a Baptist forum. You should understand that Baptists base doctrines on scriptures, not emotions. I am sympathetic to your zeal and to many...

You constantly appeal to your experience and feelings, instead of scriptures.

Jesus said not to attribute disasters befalling people to the sins of the victims. Luke 13 1At that time some of those present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2To this He replied, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than...

Jesus did not say the bread is His body, and the wine is His blood, only when some priest performs a special ritual to transform them. There is also no biblical support for worshiping the communion bread and wine, for saying that in the Eucharist we have Jesus sacrificing Himself again, or for...

Some Christians sin because they think they have an irrevocable ticket to heaven in their back pocket, so sinning is no big deal. They think going to heaven when they die is guaranteed, so no matter what they do, they will not go to hell. The deceitfulness of sin tricks them into ignoring the...

Have you ever read the Psalms? Loaded with exactly what is wanted and how the psalmist requests God to respond to his enemies, often in gruesome details! Psalm 58 6 Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; Lord, tear out the fangs of those lions! 7 Let them vanish like water that flows...

When I was young, zealous, and gullible, I got involved with a cult that exalted their main teacher to a ridiculous extreme. I loved his teachings and got swept away with the cult’s exclusivity and intolerance of different views. It took me many years to snap out of it. I thought, “why didn’t I...

I generally agree with, and learn from, everything you post. So we can joyfully edify each other in spite of a disagreement. But I see in the gospels Jesus always healing the sick and crippled. As far as dying, He also raised the dead. I do not believe Paul had poor eyesight. He said he wrote...

I attended a local Greek Orthodox Church for a while, mainly due to my love for The Philokalia, and devout books published by St. Vladimir Seminary Press. I loved the unearthly, celestial liturgies and the short sermons. I liked the icons, but not the kissing veneration of them. I could not...

My wife and I enjoyed listening to Jack Hyles sermons from websites that collected them. His style was to quote a little bit of scripture, then go off on a rollicking commentary, interspersed with yelling at unruly pew sitters. Later I discovered some things about Hyles, his son, and successor...

That is a gross distortion of the plain teaching in James on ministering to the sick. You mention an admittedly minority view, then emphatically state what the passage does not support, as though only the minority view was valid. Nowhere in the New Testament does it say the unsaved are sick and...

This link goes to a forum topic “Has eternal punishment begun? Will be?”, started by Oseas3 and contains 18 lengthy posts filled with scripture quotes. Not a single comment posted by anyone else.