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Only if they eventually come to ascribe to the same definitions for the terms they use, but I'm not sure that happens. Language is a tool to convey meaning, and it seems to me that if we do not ascribe the same meanings to the words we use, then we are not really communicating. Maybe it is due to i...

Of all the presentations one could view this season, I think it would be hard to find something that Jesus would be more pleased with than this one.
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Any discussion on the use of specific words and phrases presumes a prior agreement on the use of a specific translation. Are we using the vocabulary of the 1769 KJV, or something more recent? Maybe we should be conversing amongst ourselves in Greek and Hebrew if we want to be more rigorously script...

Northern Youth Programs has some booklets that I think have some thoughtful and helpful things to say. You can email them and request these booklets. Hosea, a Broken and Restored Marriage Rebuilding a Marriage - An Alternative to Divorce When Dad and Mom Don't Love Each Other A Time to Be Pure (Sex...

If the CAs want to convince the world of their position, they need to stop trying to build their case from a strictly exegetical standpoint, and rather make their case from a simple reading of scripture, coupled with a historical narrative of what it takes to build societies who intend to demonstra...

Unfortunately, ernie, we CAs are no less culpable of glossing over the 'simple reading of Scripture' when we want to make a point, and I'm not necessarily referring to anything in this thread. More and more I am urging the teams that I am a part of to use scriptural terminology and phraseology as m...

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Neto wrote:What i see too often is the tendency to try to validate or support one's own viewpoint by representing it as "what the early anabaptists taught" without actually KNOWING much at all about them or their actual beliefs.

Bootstrap wrote:But it certainly is ironic when people suggest that you can't be an Anabaptist or a Mennonite if you believe what the original Anabaptists and Mennonites taught.

I don't know of anyone who believes this. Do you know of some?

However the fact remains that almost any modern church that has accepted your view is only a generation from experiencing divorce and remarriage at nearly the same level as society around them. And some of us cannot accept that that is in fact what God has in mind for followers of his. I'm not at a...