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If God won't communicate with a person, how does that person make contact with God?

That's wonderful! All good things come from God. I take solace in my belief that nothing but good awaits us when we are reunited with our loved ones after we finally depart this place.

I welcome good-faith input, even if I strongly disagree, but I feel I can't respond appropriately if I don't understand the point somebody is making.

Thanks. Jesus is almost always depicted as having long hair. Would Paul have disapproved?

I know what you mean about modesty, seems to be a thing of the past. What is an 'effeminate color'?

Since I don't know how to respond to him, I just don't respond at all.

While I appreciate everyone who takes the time and effort to respond, sometimes I don't get what someone is trying to say.

And do you make sure none of your women cut their hair short?

Then you'd better require your women to wear a head covering in church.

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Some excellent posts here. I've enjoyed reading them, so thanks!

And where is that?

Who does communion today as it was done by Jesus and the apostles? With them, it was not just bread and wine, it was a meal!

I watch a lot of Christian television. I see a lot of Pentecostal preachers on there, teaching that Christ procured our healing in the atonement. They say that we are alreday healed but that we have to receive or take that healing. One precaher in particular says that we should nit talk to God...

I don't have the answers either, that I once thought I had. But I do firmly belive this: Nothing bad comes from God, but from Satan and the evil kingdom. So, while I don't believe God causes the bad, what I don't understand is why He often doesn't prevent or stop it.

I meant that if people had the freedom to accept or reject God under the Old Covenant, then under the New Covenant so do we. And once we accept Him, our right to choose is not taken away.

So, Old Testament people could choose, but we cannot?

Fiction. In the New Testament, the words for bishop, pastor, elder, overseer were used interchangeably -- all synonyms for one and the same office. Monarchial bishops were at the earliest a mid-second century development. That is factual church history, and it destroys the Catholic notion of...

One thing that disproves Catholicism as apostolic is that there were no monarchial bishops in the apostolic church. A bishop in the NT and early church was simply a pastor of a local church, as 'bishop' and 'pastor' were synonymous terms for one and the same office. There were not two separate...

I would like to hear of members' personal, firsthand experiences with God. Now I'm not discounting people experiencing God speaking to them through reading scripture. But I would like to know about people's direct experiences of God. How do you know there is a God unless you have had an...