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| bio | website | theonion.com/content/node/… |
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| location | St Louis, MO | |
| age | 38 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 8 months |
| seen | yesterday | |
| stats | profile views | 27 |
I started out as a member of the Churches of Christ, also known as the Campbell-Stone Movement or the Restoration Movement.
At age 25 I converted to the Eastern Orthodox Church. I currently attend a Russian Orthodox parish.
I'm a C# programmer.
I have a wife and two beautiful children.
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Oct 4 |
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As a protestant, may I participate in the Eucharist (Communion) when visiting a Catholic church? I'm an Orthodox, and even though in theory I could take communion in a Roman Catholic church, my own church would tell me not to. Receiving the Eucharist in a Roman Catholic church, as an Orthodox, would imply a unity which does not in fact exist. |
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Sep 29 |
answered | Is there any sense in being baptized as an adult after being baptized as an infant? |
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Sep 25 |
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What is the basis of my fractured understanding of “Sola Scriptura”? "or understandably derived from" - Aye, there's the rub. Who decides whether a belief is understandably derived from scripture? |
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Sep 21 |
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Do all Christian views need to have a Biblical basis? Sure, I'm familiar with that argument. It ignores the historical record, though, and I think point 2 explains this. If we have to wait until the fourth century to find a canon list identical to our own, and if in the fifth century we can still find "non-canonical" books bundled with the New Testament books, then how can we say the canon is self-authenticating? |
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Sep 21 |
answered | Do all Christian views need to have a Biblical basis? |
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Sep 9 |
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Atheism is the default position. Isn't the burden of proof on the Christian to assert that God exists? I think the best answer to the question in the header was given by E. P. Sanders in his Jesus and Judaism. He deals with a similar quandary, about which position is the default position, and concludes: "...the burden of proof should always be on the one making an argument." |
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Sep 6 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Sep 3 |
awarded | Supporter |
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Sep 3 |
answered | If Adam and Eve were perfect, why did they choose to sin? |
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Sep 2 |
awarded | Autobiographer |
