questions about concept and doctrine of the fellowship of all believers, in all places and times
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What are the reasons for calling oneself a “follower of Jesus” rather than a Christian?
In the last several years, I've noticed a trend of people who reject the label "Christian," and instead prefer to use terms like "Christ follower" or "follower of Jesus." (Not to be confused with ...
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Biblical basis for the separation of church and state
I know there are a lot of non-biblical arguments for the separation of church and state. Some Christians also support it on biblical grounds, but I've never looked into the matter myself. Which ...
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Origin of “The Marks of the True Church”
In Reformed Theology, "the marks of a true church" are often delineated, to the effect of:
Church discipline
Teaching/preaching
Administration of the sacraments
(These are the marks often denoted ...
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Did Jesus teach separation of church and state?
Related: Biblical basis for the separation of church and state
In @Richard's answer on the provided link, he mentioned Mark 12:17 as foundation for Christ teaching separation of church and state.
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What Biblical support is there for a non-Churched Christianity?
I'm interested in people who say "I'm a Christian, but I don't go to church."
I understand the sentiment - it really fits in well with the "spiritual, but not religious" Zeitgeist, and it seems to ...
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How should other churches respond to a pastor and congregation who live contrary to the Gospel?
The news recently had a case of a pastor and two deacons who beat up the pastor's nephew and the nephew's boyfriend on church property in order to prevent the homosexual couple from entering. This ...
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What place do ritual and ceremony have in the church today? (Non-Liturgical POV)
Scripture, especially in the Old Testament, goes into great detail about the specific ways of doing certain worship-related things. For example, The ordination of Aaron is a highly ritualized ...
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Is it true that Luther didn't consider anyone of the Catholic clergy to be a member of the true Church of God?
Someone told me that Luther had a teaching about the true invisible Church that was a far cry from what could be seen as the Church at his time. Is it true that Luther didn't consider anyone of the ...
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What defines official Christian belief? [closed]
Almost every Christian I meet believes in something a bit different.
Is there an official set of things you are supposed to believe in order to be considered a Christian? If so, who decides what goes ...
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If our body is the church, why should we go to a place called church?
In the old testament days, God asked Moses to construct a place for Him to reside.
Exodus 25:8 (NKJV)
And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them
But in New testament, We ...
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Jehovah's Witnesses's teaching on the Church
I just read a wiki page on Jehovah's witnesses, visited their official website, and was quite surprised that in the list of their believes there is a striking absence of the definition (or at least ...
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What place do ritual and ceremony have in the church today? (Liturgical POV)
I've already asked this to get a non-liturgical point of view and now I would like to see an answer from a liturgical Protestant, Catholic, or Orthodox view.
Scripture, especially in the Old ...
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Which is more important to the Roman Catholic Church today: Church unity or the actual text of scripture?
I recently did some study on the fact that Augustine objected to Jerome translating the OT into Latin from the Hebrew instead of the Greek because there were significant differences in the texts. ...
