Recent content by OldAbramBrown

because you quoted St Paul's usage of the present tense, which coming from him (and many others) doesn't only have one usage. Take care.

Very interesting nuance you've noticed! I'm (single and) now 10 years older than the next oldest in my church and he is 10 plus years older than all the rest. I'm not sure whether my implicit perspective is an object of obliviousness or suspicious discomfort . . . Anyway, with a continual...

Fear is struck in inarticulate family members who find that quango culture has turned their own into memes, and that is mistaken for hostility. (The loved ones are human shields for the quangoes.) I remember when we all knew we were original and officialdom was (more or less) content to leave...

In a completely different milieu some of the people I have something in common with call themselves non binary for a variety of very good reasons and in their case it is not about letting themselves be used against others.

The alleged criteria for gender identity promoted by these contractors were fashion statements invented by prayerless theologians of the body. Before them, people were too busy living like they had to. Lots of boys and girls wore similar clothes (with a bit of attention to fit). These...

the Wisdom of the age parabolically is that Christ wants to guide the church. Parables have their respective literal truths too in various ways. When believers pray, church leaders will pray, and this will help all and not only some of the meanings of Scripture to be fulfilled. When ordinary...

I'm very happy to go to that church as part of my act of worship. Furthermore, that church do do some work for others. But their contrived descriptions or implying of their relation with me was disorientating. Prizing apart your many combined thoughts: I don't think my church have...

the best way to help keep people's "evangel" quotient up is prayer life especially generic prayers. When and as you gain insight beyond the initial basics, you can share that with them and it will help them along / reassure them.

St Paul uses the present tense of general theory, and also any nominally overarching statements don't deny that there were believers in heart.

Not following your earlier syntax but addressing your last sentence: The OT continually says God didn't attach moral importance to meat and grain sacrificing. People who came unstuck all had a moral problem. The ceremonies were intended as mnemonics for the transmitters of the repository of...

Unless I've linked to the wrong post the poster said that we were pre-existing this life which is why I grouped it with any other form of pre-incarnation also. That there is no reincarnation doesn't mean we weren't created at the time of our conception. Of course God pre-knew about us, we are...

1 - We are not bound by ceremonial law, only moral law, and indwelling and re-infilling with Holy Spirit helps us fulfill that. 2 - Prior to 130 AD, some christians did synagogue member things with synagogue members one day, and all the christian believers did their thing the next day.

I've observed the trend, hopefully it didn't impact grandvizier1006 or his parents. Lately I found I can't discreetly visit a smattering of churches in turn, they pry unasked. Grandvizier1006 didn't do wrong, neither from his account did his parents. The best way of evangelising fellow...

I didn't state that we can unharden our own hearts. We let them get hardened, often against our will. Of course my God accepts His responsibilities.

Some of my family members knew there were some people around who couldn't be trusted when it was just about the world's biggest city. Some of my family members lived in very vulnerable places. What size hamlet do you live in? The viewpoint within your sequence shifts. What should be the...