Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

How much self-hatred does it take to make it in the Church of Christ??? And at what point did it become too much??? Unfortunately in many coc's the culture can be one that encourages a great deal of highly disfunctional behaviors. Some people never reach the breaking point, others of us do. Church ...

Anyway - a reasonably straightforward reading of Jewish scriptures PRIOR TO the Babylonian exile shows no belief in any sort of 'afterlife' and in fact that entire topic was avoided like the plague. Possibly a reaction to the cult of death which was so important in Egypt? who knows. At any rate, pe...

BH:

When are you going to start an "Ask about Islam" thread.

I'm genuinely interested.

Got time for a few more? Noachide Laws: I had only recently heard of these, and as I understand, according to Jewish teaching, and Gentile to adheres to these laws is considered a righteous gentile, and has a place in the world to come. The World to Come: what is this, exactly, and how does it relat...

Many Christians 'know' about Judaism only from what is said in the NT and in churches. It is a selective and semi-deliberately false image of a real 'Judaism', but it is also a selective and semi-deliberately false image of a Judaism WHICH NO LONGER EXISTS. I am coming to this realization more and ...

I've enjoyed reading these posts. Judaism is an interesting religion. We're fortunate to have a knowledgable teacher on board. Judaism is interesting, and Agricola is great. I have learned a lot from Agricola that I didn't know. And I have learned that a lot of what I thought I knew (i.e., what I h...

I remember there were a number of members that would use their vacation days at work during gospel meeting weeks, that way they could attend both morning and night services. I can imagine how that conversation would go at work. "Hey, I see you're taking next week off, where are you going on va...

Thanks for your responses, Agricola. The concept of the Trinity, I would say, is actually one of the contributing factors to my deconversion, though probably a more minor one. The more one considers it, the more it doesn't really fit the mold of monotheism. At least that's how it seemed from my poin...

Soooo, Agricola: Can we talk about the Trinity? Specifically, what is the Jewish position on it? Do Jews consider the Trinity to be polytheistic, or is a legitimate form of monotheism? What about the messiah? Are the Jews looking for a messiah as I always learned in coc? If so, do they believe the m...

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