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Sorry, but anecdotal evidence just won't do. A Catholic might retort, "Baptists argue that reading the Bible daily is necessary but observation [I have made of devout and pious Catholics] indicates that this is not the case. It's in otherwords not an issue of denying the Bible but does reading...

To answer your questions re baptism, yes and yes; if someone of whatever age falls in the font/ baptistry and drowns the moment after they are baptised, they go straight into the presence of God for eternity. Re your second point, I said that God is not limited to the sacraments as means of...

Depends what you mean by 'unity'. Faith is sufficient to effect declaratory/ 'forensic' justification, which may or may not result in behavioural change, but I don't think it is enough to effect ontological soteriological change (you can call it 'sanctification' if you like); to put it another...

I'm pretty much 'on all fours' with DT on this one: it's not an either/or but a both/and. Both Hitler and Stalin, to take extreme examples, were baptised (Catholic and Orthodox respectively), so it is clear that sacraments alone do not save (just as, IMO, faith alone does not). This is, I think...

But would Jesus do that?

...how would you deal with this?

No, I haven't seen Lucifer skating to work recently either. And the moratorium (Canon B6?) was rescinded a couple of years ago which was another finger by TEC to the rest of the Communion.

I think it was the deception to which 'Dame Judi' was alluding, not the waterboarding per se but, whilst we're on the subject, I don't think our use of it in 'Norn Iron' makes it any more right, for the record.

TEC and the Anglican Church of Canada need to wake up and smell the coffee that the overwhelming majority of Anglicans these days are black conservatives who'll give them the order of the boot as soon as they are able under our rather convoluted constitution.

Officially, the Labour Party have not been socialist (democratic or otherwise) since they dropped Clause 4 of their constitution (aiming for public ownership of the means of production) in 1996

Tony Blair a socialist?:laugh: Gordon Brown, maybe, but Blair has never been a socialist, much to the irritation of many in the Labour Party.

This is an article from one of the UK's right-wing newspapers which argues that, particularly but not exclusively under Barack Obama, the special relationship has become strained and possibly should be ditched.

We take our freedoms so much for granted in the west. Our brothers and sisters in other countries are being persecuted, here in Pakistan but also in the last few days in Nigeria.:praying:

I don't recognise her as an Anglican. She and her 'church' are apostate.

Yes. I didn't know there was a friends of BB group though

Same with all Abraham's household in Gen 17:23 - the parallels are striking.

The two are parallel though; one is for the Old Covenant, the other for the New. Scripture would disagree with you there; read it for itself rather than through the lenses of your Baptist tradition. No, just trying to get you to clarify what you're saying. Ah, so now the NT figures too. What...

Only if you count eight days old as being the 'age of decision'...

Really?! So Jesus has appeared to you personally in the flesh and taught you for three years? Wow!

*Cough* Yes there is *Cough*. St Paul here draws a direct parallel between circumcision (Old Covenant) and baptism (New Covenant).Now, remind me, how old were boys when they were circumcised?