Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

I saw a 9-year-old get wet with my own eyes. I was appalled. My brother's son was baptized at 6 in a General Baptist church, but I didn't witness that one. He's now an atheist.

Ivy wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:42 am Zeek, we might be related. My ancestors hailed from right around where you are.

Ivy, based on what I know of you from this site, I'd be proud to know we were kin.

When I went through a school of preaching in the midsouth in the late 80s early 90s we were required to take the Greek courses they offered. I still have a copy of Thayer's Lexicon and an interlinear text New Testament I had to buy for the classes. At the time and still today it seemed absurd to req...

Probably the best analogy I ever came across concerning the trinity was an egg. An egg has three distinct components...Egg the yolk, Egg the white, and Egg the shell. A sample of any one of these if properly identified will be called "egg" just as there is God the Father, God the Son and G...

All the congregations I ever participated in did acknowledge the trinity more or less. The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost...We never got much instruction about that last one; I suppose He's just too mysterious and spooky and it was my experience that the coC had pretty much reduced the Holy Spir...

Just about everyone I ever heard comment on Billy Graham, admired his sermons on morality, but all contended that he crashed and burned at the end with his altar call with no teaching of the necessity of baptism for salvation.

This is the very reason President Jimmy Carter worked so hard to make peace between Israel and Egypt. Bless his soul, he sincerely believed he was helping usher in Christ's return.

Personally, I like the "I am what I will be." rendering. To me that speaks to the unchanging character and nature of G_d. Only G_d exists on the single plane of actuality. We and everything else in the universe is in constant transition so we exist on two planes, actuality and potentiality...

OK, I read once in a Jewish commentary concerning the place in Exodus where Moses is before the burning bush and asks G_d's name and the reply in the KJV is "I am that I am." That according to Hebrew scholars that would have been better rendered as "I am what I will be." Don't as...

That is a lovely prayer. Thank you for explaining. Also, please forgive my misspelling. I have a dear friend who is Jewish; his grandparents, on both his father and his mother's sides, emigrated to the U.S. from Russia before the Bolsheviks took over. I've heard him speak of saying kaddish for his p...