Ex-Church of Christ Support Board

My Mom used to cuss in French Canadian.

Patate crude (Raw Potato)

And if she was really upset: Coliss (Chalice)

Re (10) No way to resolve the controversy in the letters whether you are saved by faith or works. Today we tend to think of faith as a mental assent to certain doctrines. However, for the 1st century Jew, faith meant trusting in God to keep his covenantal promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. So fait...

Re (4) continued from above ...And Jesus seems to have believed it about himself. The language was deeply coded, but the symbolic action was not. He was coming to Zion, doing what YHWH had promised to do. He explained his action with riddles all pointing in the same direction. Recognize this, and yo...

re (4) No concept of the trinity, believe it or not N T Wright puts another spin on it. https://ntwrightpage.com/2016/07/12/jesus-and-the-identity-of-god/ ...Once we recognize, the “five ways” of speaking about God-at-work-in-the-world in first-century Judaism—something which, as I must stress, neit...

Worst doctrine -- We are saved by keeping law, including laws of pardon. Leads to either self-righteousness, anxiety. or despair. Before being baptized into the CoC I had been trusting in God's loving-kindness toward me as a baby Christian. Two years indoctrination in the CoC, and I was actually ups...

Congratulations, agricola. Sounds special.

And what does that passage mean, I wonder? If you put yourself into the ancient context, it makes sense from an "ownership" perspective, I guess.

Moogy

Where did you go after the Methodists?

Various herbal teas, with no added sweeteners usually. Also Kombucha, which has green tea and black tea of unknown origin.

Hi Reformed Welcome to the Board! That is a really rough situation to be in. I am surprised that your father objects to musical instruments, but not to the fact that you are attending (what a traditional CoC person would see as) a denomination. I remember when I first started understanding God's gra...

Welcome to the board.