When you get baptized, an indelible spiritual mark is put on your soul, and nothing can remove this.

In some places, the demand for debaptisms has been going up, which could be rather surprising.

“What’s a debaptism?” you might ask. “Is that even a thing? How can you un-pour water on someone?”

The short answer is that No, debaptism isn’t a thing, but that hasn’t stopped people from asking for it. And yes, “debaptism” is the language they use. The Pillar explains:

The Catholic Church in Belgium reported on Wednesday a sharp rise in the number of people asking for their names to be removed from baptismal registers.

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The Church’s latest annual report, published on Nov. 30, said there were 5,237 such requests in 2021, compared to 1,261 in 2020 and 1,800 in 2019. …

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Nevertheless, a rising movement in Europe promoting ‘debaptism’ has encouraged Catholics to write to Church authorities asking to be removed from parish baptismal records. The movement is a consortium of several political and philosophical factions among European secularists.

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A Movement With Some History

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I recently thought of this argument for eternal or everlasting experience and wanted to get feedback. It’s not necessarily arguing that you will have everlasting experience, though that’s possible, it’s more so arguing that a being must exist that will have everlasting experience.

P1: Reality can’t logically come from literally nothing or become literally nothing.

P2: Therefore, reality has always existed and will never cease to exist

P3: Reality is capable of making experiencing beings

C: Therefore, since reality is eternal, it must have already made an experiencing being that’s capable of lasting forever, and is probably an experiencing being itself.

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I think there’s a way to refine the conclusion even further to conclude that reality must be an eternal experiencing being.

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Which correlations concern you. Mine is everything connected to education.

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3. Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a “Trends Blacklist,” which prevented his tweets from trending.

Good evening all, I am badly in need of your prayers. Lately, I find myself feeling unworthy. I do not pray for myself because it makes me feel ungrateful.

Why pray to God for myself if he knows my thoughts? I found a Godly woman, who appears to be interested. Why would she like someone as low as myself? Why would God want to hear me moan?

Brothers and sisters, I am unable to pray for myself. Please pray to God on my behalf.

PSE substations among five attacked in Pacific Northwest in November

I wonder if its BLM attacking the infrastructure of it's far right nuts attacking the infrastructure?

Either way folks in the US. You have some nutjobs down there (which we've all been warned about for a long time) and they seem very content to take steps that will indirectly endanger people's lives.

This kind of actions SCREAMS boogalooboys. But really, that is fully conjecture. It ain't good people though.

Ever wish you had a do-over?
Wish you could hit the delete button, and it would change what happened next?
Would you change your choices or the things over which you had no control?

How far back would you have to go, to make that one change that would fix everything?
How old were you then?

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(Like who you are now? Sorry, I'm not offering that choice in the poll, because that's not what this thread is about.)

That is neither the sign of a strong President, nor a good negotiator.

Hello my friends! I am new to this site, and excited to join and have faithful Christians to discuss spirituality, theology, and all kinds of things with.

A little bit about me: I'm 20 years old, and I spent two years living as a Buddhist monk after graduating high school (so if you have any questions or curiosities about that I might have some insight or experience). I was raised atheist, and my conversion has been a bit of a slow process, but full of passion, and with a lot ahead of me, I'm sure.

I love to read, especially theology, philosophy, and poetry, and I hope to be able to have discussions about those interests here

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@Jonaitis,

To your point: "If I confused you, I apologize. Ryan Mullins, who is an open opponent of DS, came up with this conclusion in his denial of DS. However, if we must affirm DS as essential, then my suggestion is that we must face up to the music of what it ultimately implies: creation has its beginning in a beginningless decree. It sounds confusing, but it makes sense the more you think about it."

Well, Ephesians 3:11 seems to be the clearest comment regarding the Decree's eternality: "This was according to the eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, ..." And to me this doesn't contradict Genesis: the plan is eternal, the execution of the plan is temporal. If this jives with Divine Simplicity then more the merrier I say

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Either great satire or true idiocy.

"A July survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology of found that only 4% of Ukrainians affiliated themselves with the Moscow-subordinated church."


Zelensky also banned opposition news outlets which oppose the war.

So much for democracy in Ukraine.

Hello all,
How many of you here on ChristianForums use Linux as your daily system? If so, which distribution do you use? I am using Mint 21.1 and it is solid and stable. It made me fall back in love with Linux all over again.

State Rep. Joseph Harding obtained more than $150,000 in SBA loans by lying on his loan applications, according to a news release from the Justice Department. Prosecutors allege Harding listed dormant business entities on his applications, fabricated the numbers of people he employed and submitted fake bank statements.

Harding, 35, is set to go to trial for charges of wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements, DOJ said in the release. A wire fraud conviction carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, while money laundering and making false statements carry a maximum of 10 and five years, respectively.

Harding was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2020.

What should those who can run do, for all those who concur with the following, , ?

"After the electoral violations of late in AZ in GA, if anyone thinks we are voting ourselves out of this, they are utterly delusional."

Herschel Walker just wrote Donald Trump's political obituary​

Fox News:
Herschel Walker, the Heisman Trophy winner who led the Georgia Bulldogs to a national championship in 1982, just wrote Donald Trump’s political obituary.
Walker lost his bid to replace Georgia’s incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock, handing Democrats in that chamber a critical majority. A majority which will enable Joe Biden to appoint more judges, enact more legislation and put in place more appointees willing and able to carry out his far-left agenda. Walker was endorsed by former President Trump.

Having suffered the rare humiliation of failing to win a second term in the Oval Office, and having cost his party a majority in the senate – three times – it is time for Donald Trump to step away from politics. It is the right thing to do for his party, for the country, and for himself. Mr. Trump will not win another election. His most glaring political strength today is his ability to energize Democrats, causing not only historic turnout but attracting gushers of campaign cash – for the opposition.

[H]is refusal to admit defeat in the 2020 election, and the tragic aftermath of that refusal, shut the door on his political career. After January 6, and having publicly nursed his grievances for two years, there is no comeback. It is a tragedy that will only be made worse by Trump’s continued presence on our national stage. He has announced he will run again for president, but he cannot and will not let go of his anger about the 2020 election. That is a losing platform.

The editorial neglects to mention the additional stolen classified documents that were discovered in Trump's possession this week, as well as the guilty verdict against his corporation for tax fraud, but perhaps there were was a word-count limit.

Greetings, I am very new to not only this forum/site but also to any forum/site!

Hi,

My faith used to be very strong, I had a strong connection with God, but now I feel like my faith has vanished, I do not have as strong of a connection anymore.

Please pray for me to gain faith, the ability to ask for forgiveness and not be ashamed of sin but to be able to repent again, and to have steadfast faith and trust in the lord. These are things I feel like I no longer have

Is it just me or did the feedback forum for the recent CF upgrade disappear?

Hey I have some great news. In October two things happened. I found a gospel tract on the floor and later that month a man asked me if I knew Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior I said no but I’m beginning to see a light. He replied do it this week we don’t know how much time we have left. Also the day after thanksgiving a lady talked about God in a deep and passionate way. Im convinced that Jesus is at work chasing after my heart. Whatever the Lord puts on anyones heart to tell me I would love to hear. . I am not born again, honestly 100%. I did not have that supernatural experience. just recently I have been really resistant to reading the Word, prayer, etc. My mind has been recently been resistant to prayer. my depression has been hitting me hard. I am thinking this could be spiritual warfare. Any thoughts?

I think it would be better if Trump won in 2020, give me counter arguments

Revelation 1:1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must quickly take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 2who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.3Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near.

apokálypsis – properly, uncovering (unveiling). See 601(apokalyptō).

602 /apokálypsis ("revelation, unveiling") is principally used of the revelation of Jesus Christ (the Word), especially a particular (spiritual) manifestation of Christ (His will) previously unknown to the extent (because "veiled, covered").

Why can’t the universal Church agree on the meanings of the multiple visions in the book of Revelation, if it is an “unveiling” or an “uncovering” or a “revealing”?

Why are there hundreds of different and disagreeing interpretations on this eschatological forum alone, if revelation is an “unveiling” or an “uncovering” or a “revealing” of truth?

Dina Boluarte became Peru’s first female president on Wednesday, capping off a dramatic day which saw her predecessor detained by police and impeached by lawmakers.

Boluarte, the country’s former Vice President, was sworn into the top job at Congress to become Peru’s sixth president in under five years.

The ceremony took place hours after a majority of 101 members in the 130-person legislative body voted to impeach former leader Pedro Castillo.

The tumultuous day began when then-President Castillo announced plans to dissolve Congress and install an emergency government, ahead of a looming impeachment vote by lawmakers, which Peru’s Ombudsman described as an “attempted coup d’état.”

He also called for parliamentary elections to work on a new constitution.

The move prompting a string of cabinet resignations, fiery reactions from top officials and condemnation from regional neighbors – and ultimately failed to prevent his impeachment in Congress.


"If something isn't going the way I want, that means we should suspend the preexisting rules, up to and including the ones laid out in the national constitution"

Sounds familiar... Although, in this case, it was coming from a sitting leader, and not one who lost months and months ago and is refusing to let it go.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, the panel’s acting chair and ranking member said in a statement on Wednesday.

The committee did not specify what exactly it was probing regarding the congresswoman and noted that its statement “does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred.”

The House Ethics panel received the matter from the nonpartisan Office of Congressional Ethics in June and said it plans to “announce its course of action” in the next Congress.

The House Ethics Committee typically has 45 days to review a matter referred to it by the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent entity that initially examines allegations of misconduct against lawmakers and other House employees.

At the end of the 45 day-period, the committee can choose to extend its consideration of an issue but must make a public statement, as it did in Ocasio-Cortez’s case.


Not much details yet...but it'll be interesting to see what the "matter" was that spawned this whole thing.