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- Sun May 12, 2024 6:18 pm
- Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
- Topic: What the CoC is right about?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1180
Re: What the CoC is right about?
The only correct thing I was taught in the COC is that I should think for myself, and not believe things just because some preacher said them. I don’t think the COCers really meant it. Once I followed that instruction, I left their church in the dust.
- Sun May 12, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
- Topic: Child Baptism
- Replies: 8
- Views: 77
Re: Child Baptism
I was 10, nearly 11, when baptized in our NICOC. I was definitely old enough to have the fear of hell.
- Sun May 12, 2024 6:07 pm
- Forum: New Paths
- Topic: Finally out!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 594
Re: Finally out!
Jeremiah, I watched this when you posted it on Facebook. I know it takes tremendous strength and courage to make such a change in a family such as yours. I hope your new church home is a place of rest and rejuvenation on your spiritual journey. For me, the journey is ongoing. My sympathy on the rece...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:29 pm
- Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
- Topic: What did your coC teach about the Trinity
- Replies: 13
- Views: 619
What did your coC teach about the Trinity
As I remember (and husband agrees), in our coCs, we were taught a fairly conventional, if confusing, Christian view of the Trinity. DH even remembers a sermon on the Trinity given by our preacher (the guy who married us.) However, we both left the coC religion about 40 years ago. Yesterday I was tal...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 2:35 pm
- Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
- Topic: Most conservative CoC University
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1799
Re: Most conservative CoC University
It is my impression that Florida College is the most conservative of all. It is affiliated with NICOC churches, which means it has to be conservative to keep drawing students. Anyone have recent experience with Florida College?
- Fri Sep 15, 2023 10:40 pm
- Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
- Topic: Instrumental music in Church Weddings
- Replies: 20
- Views: 25655
Re: Instrumental music in Church Weddings
My NICOC mother (rest her soul) thought it was unscriptural to have weddings in the church building no matter what music was used. She would not even attend such events. Therefore, my 50-year-old wedding pictures do not show my old COC.
- Fri Sep 15, 2023 10:33 pm
- Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
- Topic: Remarriage after Divorce/No belief in Divorce
- Replies: 10
- Views: 18592
Re: Remarriage after Divorce/No belief in Divorce
At my last COC, the preacher (and probably others) told a couple they needed to separate after it was discovered that they had previous unscriptural divorces. I don’t know if the divorces were before or after their baptisms, but anyway I don’t think that NICOC gave people a pass based on the sequenc...
- Sun Aug 27, 2023 3:01 pm
- Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
- Topic: Women in Bible Classes in non-institutional churches participation
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9819
Re: Women in Bible Classes in non-institutional churches participation
If the church where I was raised was “liberal,” I don’t know what a “conservative” church could be.
- Sun Aug 27, 2023 2:59 pm
- Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
- Topic: Deathbed conversions/baptisms
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7434
Re: Deathbed conversions/baptisms
I remember at least one preacher in the church I attended as a child used to tell stories about people dying in hospitals wanting to be baptized. Often they had a bathtub big enough for this and sometimes even had to hold their hands over the tracheostomy tube/tracheostomy to perform the immersion....
- Thu Aug 24, 2023 1:36 pm
- Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
- Topic: Women in Bible Classes in non-institutional churches participation
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9819
Re: Women in Bible Classes in non-institutional churches participation
In every NICOC I attended, women were allowed to comment in Bible class. This was true in both teen and adult classes.