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by HighLiter871
Wed Nov 15, 2017 2:25 am
Forum: Welcome -- please introduce yourself here.
Topic: New to the Site
Replies: 8
Views: 3318

Re: New to the Site

Congrats on your journey thru RCIA. I did the same several years ago and have never had even an inkling to look back. I too came from a hard-core CoC (never small-case the first "c") background, took a detour thru Presbyterianism (nice folks), and finally found my way home. God bless.
by HighLiter871
Tue Apr 18, 2017 8:26 am
Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
Topic: How did you get into the church of Christ? SURVEY
Replies: 61
Views: 18671

Re: How did you get into the church of Christ? SURVEY

My parents "converted" shortly after they married, which was sometime in the 1930's (kind of dates me!). Dad had never been involved with any church, Mom's family was respectably Methodist, although not overly committed. So they embarked on a quest to sample what was available: our tiny co...
by HighLiter871
Sun Feb 19, 2017 7:25 am
Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
Topic: Heaven and Hell
Replies: 33
Views: 8092

Re: Heaven and Hell

The way it was explained to me, being in Heaven in the presence of God will be ultra-cool, because God is the very definition of "Good" and therefore only good can exist "up there." As in, your top 10 most pleasant and pleasurable experiences ever, rolled into one -- and raised t...
by HighLiter871
Sun Sep 25, 2016 3:38 am
Forum: Welcome -- please introduce yourself here.
Topic: Hello
Replies: 7
Views: 2886

Re: Hello

Please notice that the lower case "c" in "church" is no mistake . . . we were always careful to make sure to keep that first "c" lower case so that others would know that we were not just Another Christian Denomination. . . we were the One True Churchâ„¢. You have just e...
by HighLiter871
Sat Jul 30, 2016 3:27 am
Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
Topic: Withdrawal
Replies: 6
Views: 2359

Re: Withdrawal

Two of the elders had the gall to show up at the cOC that she had moved to four years earlier and tell her "we withdrew from you today". That was followed by them being escorted out of the building by the preacher and a couple of other guys
That is fantastic! Just deliciously kooky.
by HighLiter871
Wed Jun 08, 2016 2:29 am
Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
Topic: Being preached into hell at cofc funeral.....
Replies: 14
Views: 3782

Re: Being preached into hell at cofc funeral.....

A little off-topic here, but there's something about funerals . . . I remember when my mother-in-law died several years ago. She was Catholic, and the funeral was in a small Catholic church, but most of the attendees were protestant. Father WhatsHisName was a stuffy sort, and you could just tell tha...
by HighLiter871
Wed May 18, 2016 8:03 pm
Forum: New Paths -- Ask About
Topic: Ask about Catholicism
Replies: 34
Views: 26676

"Fundamentally" Smug

Catholic evangelist John Martignoni mixes it up (again) with another CoC'er in his most recent newsletter http://www.biblechristiansociety.com/newsletter/349-apologetics-for-the-masses-277 I personally don't have much stomach for this kind of debate -- got awfully burned-out on it all those years ag...
by HighLiter871
Wed May 04, 2016 7:27 pm
Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
Topic: Lingering doubts
Replies: 33
Views: 11169

Re: Lingering doubts

My biggest conflict is less with them and more about convincing myself that the coc is in fact not the only "true church". It took me a long time to realize, at the 'gut' level, the silliness of the coc position -- that what it teaches about itself is nonsense. What helped the most was si...
by HighLiter871
Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:16 pm
Forum: Welcome -- please introduce yourself here.
Topic: New here--recent experience
Replies: 10
Views: 5127

Re: New here--recent experience

It's hard to imagine hating anybody enough to wish them an eternity in hell. Oh, I have a couple of family members . . . well, 15, 20 minutes might not be beyond the pale of reason.
by HighLiter871
Fri Jan 29, 2016 10:53 pm
Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
Topic: Peter as having primacy
Replies: 9
Views: 2217

Re: Peter as having primacy

The article cited by klp above is by Karl Keating, who almost single-handedly established the field of Catholic apologetics vis-a-vis protestant / non-Catholic Christian theology. He verges on sainthood in my book, but this article is rather goofy nonetheless. It has nothing to do with church doctri...