Thought that was an unnecessary lock.
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I didn’t lock it but I would have locked it too. That conversation would turn south pretty quickly.
It would have turned into a bash Mormon thread. *****
But sometimes they do disagree
The precogs are never wrong.
Political debate on here is bad enough….a theological debate is even worse because it ends up being political too.
Nothing you wouldn't recover from after a good, long, warm soak.***
For the record, Dad or me are the only ones that can banish someone to Hell. Now you guys are right that thread was heading for nowhere productive. It was just going to be golfer and the other liberals yelling at potus and the other conservatives about all things theological. Long-drawn-out posts going nowhere with each side trying to appear to be more intelligent than the other by the judging of post lengths.
Literally look at this thread and the locked one and see who made it political, Your Lowness.
Sixpack- tougher on Christ than public schools
But Kevn Kinney has a Get Out of Hell pass, right?
For the record, my previous political post in this thread was completely in jest. Jesus is clearly in favor of a monarchy.
Religion Trivia (if we're allowed):
Only two evangelical denominations did not record a decrease in membership from 1987 to 2021.
Without looking it up, any takers as to which two?
A. Northern Baptist (ABCUSA)
B. Southern Baptist (SBC)
C. Assemblies of God
D. Lutheran (ELCA)
E. Presbyterian (PCA)
F. Presbyterian (PCUSA)
G. Episcopal (TEC)
H. Church of Christ (UCC)
I. Methodist (UMC)
Only two evangelical denominations did not record a decrease in membership from 1987 to 2021.
Without looking it up, any takers as to which two?
A. Northern Baptist (ABCUSA)
B. Southern Baptist (SBC)
C. Assemblies of God
D. Lutheran (ELCA)
E. Presbyterian (PCA)
F. Presbyterian (PCUSA)
G. Episcopal (TEC)
H. Church of Christ (UCC)
I. Methodist (UMC)
C and H
Also, what's the distinction of Evangelical Protestants and Mainline Protestants from dorn's original article?
I'd guess A & C although the premise is flawed, D,E,F,G,H,I aren't evangelical (I'm not sure abt A, don't know much about them).
An evangelical church is one that emphasizes personal conversion, the Bible and the spreading of the Gospel. In theory, all of these churches meet that criteria except possibly F, G & I but I still think most consider those three to still be evangelical. I'm getting my definitions from the World Evangelical Alliance and Google's AI. So take that for what it's worth.
The answer is C & E. And E is the fastest growing by a long shot. Up 101% over the time period. C up 4%. Everyone else down.
I should have read the question closer; since PCA didn't exist at all until the 70s (I think?) and then took off in the 90s and into today. Good trivia.
I'm not presenting this to argue with you, here's a decent primer on the difference in evangelical and mainline Protestantism; to be clear, the margins bleed into each other and different folks can and should arrive at different conclusions. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jesus/evangelicals/evmain.html
To my knowledge myself and Mazikeen are the only ones to ever escape hell.
I did not check to see who made it political. I was just guessing, but it seems I was right.
Honestly
Honestly, we are just keeping score. It is really you humans that determine where you are going. We are just kind of the gate keepers.
One of the comments in the locked thread was by someone who clearly doesn't understand Christianity.
The problems within a church are not necessarily a denominational problem, but an individual church problem.
I believe the Apostle Paul wrote about these things in his letters to the churches in the New Testament.
The problems within a church are not necessarily a denominational problem, but an individual church problem.
I believe the Apostle Paul wrote about these things in his letters to the churches in the New Testament.
I disagree. There have been well documented cases of sexual abuse cover-up in both the Catholic Church and more recently Southern Baptist. In both cases church leadership, at the national level, helped cover-up abuse by Priest and Pastors. I'm sure there have been other cases in other different denominations.
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