Search found 21 matches
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 3:38 pm
- Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
- Topic: Easter Posting/Zombie Passage Matthew 27:53
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3469
Re: Easter Posting/Zombie Passage Matthew 27:53
The other passage that is extremely strange is the snake handling and poison passage, Mark 16:9-20. Does anyone else ever remember this one being discussed? One of the CoC’s favorite proof texts, Mark 16:16, is also in this passage: “He who believes and is baptized will be saved.” The most ancient ...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:52 pm
- Forum: New Paths -- Non-Christian Paths
- Topic: Learning cuss words in other languages
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16402
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
- Topic: Israel and the 2nd coming.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2656
Re: Israel and the 2nd coming.
I took a course in Revelation when I was at ACU. Three possible interpretations were presented: 1. Revelation predicts events that were going to happen soon: the end of persecution and the fall of Rome. Some of the points made were that Nero (Neron in Greek) reduces to 666 in the numerology of the t...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:28 pm
- Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
- Topic: What did your coC teach about the Trinity
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4602
Re: What did your coC teach about the Trinity
I was taught that God was three-in-one, citing the Biblical command to baptize “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” I John 5:7 was also cited: “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.” (This ver...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:39 pm
- Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
- Topic: Israel and the 2nd coming.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2656
Re: Israel and the 2nd coming.
The Historicist perspective especially picked up steam during the Cold War because most of the hillbilly preachers loved identifying the Communists, particularly the Soviets, as the beast/dragon/any other negative image in the Revelation. Yes, I think people in every generation since Revelation was...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 2:56 pm
- Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
- Topic: Changing Church of Christ!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4327
Re: Changing Church of Christ!
I last visited my childhood CoC about fifteen years ago. It’s in a small Texas town of some 2000 people. In the 1950s they were having around 300 for Sunday morning bible classes. When I was last there it was for the Sunday evening service. There were a couple dozen people there, and they met in the...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 2:49 pm
- Forum: New Paths
- Topic: A Question for Agricola
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8566
Re: A Question for Agricola
Thank you so much for this, Agricola. The topic is extremely interesting to me, and I’m learning a lot.
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 5:04 pm
- Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
- Topic: Reverse consequences of withdrawal of fellowship
- Replies: 12
- Views: 14062
Re: Reverse consequences of withdrawal of fellowship
One of the hired preachers at the CoC where I grew up in Texas (we usually got a new one every few years) started preaching that they should disfellowship all the people who weren’t showing up for Wednesday night services. It split the church; one of the elders agreed with him and moved to a city 50...
- Fri Sep 08, 2023 1:38 am
- Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
- Topic: Christmas at Church?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 27203
Re: Christmas at Church?
Harvard Divinity School, ACUAlum....impressive!! Why only one year (if you care to share). My plan had been to get a degree there and teach at a CoC college. Several of my teachers at ACU were HDS graduates. But after a year at HDS I realized I really wouldn’t fit in with the CoC any more. It wasn’...
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 5:06 pm
- Forum: CoC doctrine, theology and crazy experiences.
- Topic: Christmas at Church?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 27203
Re: Christmas at Church?
It is just not a good church, but children raised in it are taught a lot of Bible stories and are educated with Biblical knowledge. That is something relatively positive, I guess. I spent a year as a student at Harvard Divinity School in the 1960s. Every year they gave entering students a test on b...