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I'm not former SDA @Wrangler. I'm just a guy who got used to arguing with them online on their pet topic, and for good reason (they believe it is or will be the Mark of the Beast). The history of Sunday worship is not super well documented, but that is true for almost any subject of ancient...

Off topic in the strict sense, but not in the wider sense. Jesus had a saying towards the Pharisees where he mentioned that they "Strained at Gnats but Swallowed Camels". That saying is extremely true of Seventh Day Adventism if you study the movement from it's earliest days as a part of...

We do. The below verse is about as plain as it gets. Colossians 2:16 New International Version 16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. But if that verse is not enough there are others...

In terms of the that verse it is literally the notion of Christ as the object and fulfillment of Old Testament revelation and the various expositions of the Apostles on the significance of that fact and it's meaning to everyday life and worship of God as shown in the various epistles we have and...

Well, I have been toying around with doing my own in-depth thread on the issue, but I tend to see a lot of the typical sloganeering on issues like this so that makes me less likely to do it (as far as a fruitless time sink). But to carry on a bit here, since I know you are interested, a lot of...

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My years in the Coptic Church found the prayers of the hours handy for personal devotions, and thanks to the internet age such resources are available online for free. https://www.agpeya.org/ There are some YouTube videos for some of the hours, I tend to do Prime (6 am) the most just because...

I became an Eastern Christian over 27 years ago, quite accidently. But music ended up being a big part of it, previously as a "nondenominational" Charismatic Protestant I really liked the more modern choruses that were sang in the 90s by most Pentecostals and Charismatics of that era. But I...

I suspect I may have inspired this thread in some way since I am probably the fondest one here in citing that verse. :) Seeing this also is somewhat timely because I have been wanting to do a thread on the Eastern Christian approach to dogma etc. The short answer is we not only look to the...

Well on Eschatology I usually don't take a side because I learned the truth early on that this Biblical Scholar speaks of. On your other statements 1) On Nimrod etc. some of your statements make me think you might be a fan of Alexander Hislop's "Two Babylon's" a work that has been...

I've listened to a lot of pitches as far as Mystery Babylon in the Bible and I think Walid Shoebat probably makes the best one. Other ones I've heard seem to do their best to shoehorn a side they got a grudge against. I will probably also include a link to Joel Richardson first pitching his...

I actually don't question the Bible. My issue is more with the Rorschach Inkblot nature to scripture. This is really true the more people have a Nude Scripture view they project all kinds of stuff into the passages that come from their personal perspective rather than what would be true of...

Sure, but the estimates I give are based more on scholarly speculation but other kinds of new Testament studies and Church history studies. Like looking at the Canon of Constantine, and the Canon of the East Syriac Church all of which are considerably shorter than the main received Canon's we...

Thanks for reading it Jericho. I would however disagree with your conclusions based on the Bible itself. There is no need for a supernatural revelation outside of the scriptures to have that authority. All that is needed is for the ancient believers, the Ecclesia/Church to pass on the...

Yes, I did because it was a lazy stereotype and strawman, that didn't really deal with anything presented.

Yeah, Marks something tells me you didn't read the article, seeing how you responded to the OP as if it was something written by the Counsel of Trent or modern Roman Catholic Apologists when the author is actually a Calvinist theologian who wrote a well-known seminary textbook called "The Shape...