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Indeed; very poor catechesis.

9/11 was perpetrated by Elvis. Fact.

It was the polytheism comment to which I referred. The Trinity is not polytheism. And, as I've said ad nauseam here and on threads passim, theotokos does not equal 'Mother of God'; what it does mean is that Mary bore a human Who was also 100% God, in Whom the fullness of the Godhead dwells (per...

Hmmm....you really don't understand this Trinity thing, do you? Theotokos does not = Mary being the mother of God the Father or God the Holy Spirit, but it does = Mary being bearer-in-her-womb of and the-woman-who-gave-birth-to God the Son. Clear enough for you?

I'm grateful for your clarification, that Baptists don't believe that Jesus, Who was born from Mary's womb, was God. How, then, do you square that with your statement that 'Baptists don't believe in heresy'? (And people wonder why I'm no longer Baptist...)

TBH, the sins I struggle with today are pretty similar to those with which I struggled as a 16-year old: lust, anger, bad language, selfishness, laziness, a susceptability to addictions/addictive behaviour etc. Not murder, though....

Yes, but, you see, I've undergone the whole evangelical conversion experience too at age 16 and can completely relate to what you say (lapsed Catholic, never thought I was 'good enough', feeling of relief that I didn't have to be 'good enough' etc) and yet, nearly a quarter of a century on, I...

One of the reasons for the establishment of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (q.v.) was so that these parishes and in some cases dioceses could have alternative episcopal and archepiscopal oversight from orthodox Anglicans.

Cheers, guys!

That's a very Calvinist construct on the term 'saving faith'.

No it (a 'saving faith') doesn't always produce those results; think of the examples I gave above. People can be walking with God and living upright lives for years and then <blam!> they stumble and fall; or they can be constantly stumbling, falling, picking themselves up, falling again etc

Thanks! Meeting's finished but we don't know whether we've got the additional money yet. They want accounts (not good) and the new guy is, as expected, more hard-nosed than our old manager. We'll know more in the next few days

But 'saving faith' is supposed to produce effective results too...

Thank you!

Hi My business partner, Iain and I have a meeting with our new bank manager today@ 1230 GMT. Thanks to a pretty grim first quarter (thus far) of this year in terms of cashflow, we are bumping up against our overdraft limit and, if we do not earn a few thousands quickly enough, will be unable...

TS, your OP is really asking about 'fruit', isn't it? Well, if we're swapping anecdotes, then I would say that there are good'uns and bad'uns in every denomination: in my various denominational wanderings over my 40 years (Catholic, Anglican, Pentecostal, charismatic and Baptist) I've known...

It's nearly enough to make this Anglican swim the Tiber, Lori! But then I think of all the good, Godly men and women the Anglican Communion does have, particularly Reform, of which I am a member and which is UK-based, and also the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, which more reflects the...

It is a sine qua non however of a witness that he or she must be capable of testifying to what s/he has seen ie: must be capable of communication. Care to revisit Heb 12:1 in the light of that fact?

And what do you mean by that?

Define 'belief'. Do you mean a response to an altar call? If so, believe you me, I've seen plenty of those in my time and many don't bear much fruit in the end.