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Good OP. :thumbs: You can't separate the ECFs from the Apostles/writers of the NT; the ECFs such as Papias, Polycarp and Ignatius were personally discipled by the Apostles. Now, either the ECFs and their mentors the Apostles got it wrong - in which case the NT is suspect since it was written...

I see that Flat Earthers are alive and well and living in America:rolleyes:

:praying: ascending. Similar boat here - except I'm the boss and I've had to lay off most of my staff in the last year or so. I didn't take home any money at the end of January so we could keep the remaining ones on. We're all in a tight spot, so I really feel for you. Hang in there - by God's...

The kid got what was coming to him; if you live by the sword you will die by it (remind me, Who said that?). That said, I do feel sorry for the father , despite his demand that 'someone pays' (product of a litigious society - I blame us lawyers for that!) - however you slice and dice it, he's...

The Wycliffite-Lollards may have ended up sola Scriptura (or at least Scriptura suprema) but they certainly weren't sola fide; the same can be said of the Taborites (the more radical wing of the Hussite movement; the moderates, the Utraquists, were reforming Catholics like the Waldenses or the...

Yes, you've got my point: Arminians (at least all the one's I've come across) and Catholics don't believe in eternal security; Calvinists (at least all the ones I've come across) do.

I'm concerned about this too, which is another reason I'm bothered that he's banned. The usual remedy for abuse of the right to free speech is, IMO, more free speech, not less.

In this case, we would just stop him from entering the UK ie: he'd be turned round and put on the next plane back to the US the moment he touched down at Heathrow. That's easy enough for us to do, because he's coming from outside; quite what you're meant to do when he's homegrown is another...

Don't pass it off as a Valentine's present; just regard it as one of those 'Little Somethings' that ladies appreciate to be given to them a little and often to keep the relationship well-oiled.

Yes, Phreaky Phred Phelps and his cultish clan have been banned from the UK Now, I have no brief for WBC - I consider them to be an inbred (eyes too close together, webbed fingers etc) load of malodorous pondlife - but I don't think they should have been banned. Let them come, let them picket...

But is 'fighting' not a 'work'? Putting it another way, if we're not fighting, then are we saved?

By and large, yes, although the idea of a visible Church is probably more important to me than to you.

Indeed; as a good Anglican, my view on it is more Orthodox than Catholic!:laugh:

Yes but see the DA - 250AD Interesting that you mention Justin, since he is on record as saying: Since Justin clearly refers here to the Real Presence in the Eucharist, and since you claim that you can lay claim to be following that, then it follows that you believ in the Real Presence?

DA, Book 8, continued: (attributed to Hippolytus)

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(From the Didascalia Apostolorum, Book 7: [/COLOR][/FONT] (This is basically an expansion of the Didache's Eucharistic liturgy, with further borrowings from Jewish liturgical material)

I would disagree that the only extants we have are post-300AD; most of the MSS granted come from c.400AD but there are elements preserved in Hippolytus*, which puts it a century or so before the Constantinian Settlement. [ETA - you also forgot about the Didache, which may well predate the...

But what if the Old Man is not enetirely put to death (that's true of all of us if we're honest - we all sin daily)? How much of the Old Man has to be alive before we can say that a Christian isn't saved?

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