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Church Discipline: Darkness at Noon and church discipline
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Monday, September 3, 2007. Darkness at Noon and church discipline. The book details the "discipline" of Rubashov who was an elder communist party official, during the time of the Stalinist purges. Sins are reversed, but I can make minor changes and rewrite the above as:. When the accursed inner voice speaks to you, hold your hands over your ears. .". Rubashev is guilty as well, and its his guilt that leads to him to plead guilty to six capitol offenses he never committed. Ultimately there was a "sin"...
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Church Discipline: List of Cases
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007. Some key court decisions on church discipline:. Yoder v. Helmuth. Ohio Court, 1947). A church member, Andrew Yoder, attempted to switch churches to buy a car. His previous church excommunicated and then shunned him. He argued that his business was destroyed and he and has family had been made to suffer intense emotional pain. He argued that this sort of discipline constituted religious coercion. Bear vs. Reformed Mennonite Church. Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1975). A Jehovah...
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Church Discipline: Sects to Evangelicals
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Friday, September 14, 2012. This is my 3rd versions in the sects series. This image is large and may not be laying out clearly on your browser. This link is to a vector graphics version link. At this point the chart covers the origins of the those sects that were fundamental to the development of American Christianity, going all the way back. Arrows are for strong influence. In terms of the colors of the circles:. Is for groups that I can meaningfully call Catholic, western or eastern rite. When Alexande...
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Church Discipline: Paula Kirby on Atheism
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012. Paula Kirby on Atheism. I couldn't resist reposting this essay from the Hibernia Times (Ireland's newspaper). Here is a link to the originals: part1. Everything below this line is Paula's. What happened was four little words: “How do I know? Was there any better evidence for the version I accepted than there was for the versions I did not? So what else was there? A Roman Catholic I was debating with once argued: “To those who say there is no proof, there is the questio...
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Church Discipline: How to leave a church
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007. How to leave a church. Series in particular there is overlap with How to Survive Discipline - Resign quietly (part 7). What your church's transfer process is. If you need to transfer to a specific congregation, inform the pastor (and hand him a written document) that you are initiating a transfer process and will be " shopping" for an alternate church. Once you have a specific congregation:. Ask for a letter of transfer. Join your new church. The act must be persistent. The pe...
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Church Discipline: A defense against Patriarchy (part 1)
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Sunday, July 8, 2007. A defense against Patriarchy (part 1). This is an answer to my first request for a specific topic to cover. I'm grateful to finally have a group of steady readers and I hope this proves useful and helpful. A good introduction to the doctrine, is posted on vision forum ministries: Biblical Patriarchy and the Doctrine of Federal Representation. By Brian M. Abshire, and a more "catechism" oriented version Tenets of Biblical Patriarchy. Abshire says things like,. Again, this blog has a ...
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Church Discipline: King James Onlyism Interview (Initial points, part 2)
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Friday, July 31, 2009. King James Onlyism Interview (Initial points, part 2). This is a continuation of the King James Only series. Part1 links here. Questions will be in purple. Answers in black. Headings in red ,. Explanatory comments by CD-HOST in green. What is the King James Bible. What do we mean by King James Bible? Does the inerrant part of the bible include bracketing information like chapter titles and conclusions. For example the ending in 1611 for Hebrews, ". Here you are confusing two very d...
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Church Discipline: Christian Origins
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Monday, August 29, 2011. This post is for historical reasons only. Please go to Sects to the Reformation. For an expanded and updated chart. Arrows are for strong influence. Or descent, these sects are interacting with one another and passing ideas between them just as religions today do. Where possible I've tried to include a sample work in parenthesis for each sect making it clear how I'm using the term, and also letting the chart do double duty explicating the origins of the bible. In terms of colors:.
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Church Discipline: Lifeboat, what is this supposed to teach?
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Thursday, November 8, 2012. Lifeboat, what is this supposed to teach? So I ran into a reference to an exercise that's taught in schools called "lifeboat". I'm rather unclear what this is supposed to teach. I believe the idea is to explicate how values lead to morals, but if someone has used this exercise and would like to weigh in I'd love to hear. The exercise is below. African-American activist, second-year medical student. Rabbi, 54 years old. Japanese accountant, 31 years old. My son, who has Asperge...
