is it Adultery

i could give you names and places, dates and times. i know the name of the church in question.. have been there for service once..i could give you the manes of the mother and daughter, and her other 2 kids, the name of the preacher, the name of the convict.. err.. ex-husband. i could even tell you the first name of the cop (i don't remember if i ever knew his last name).

i can't and won't make any blanket statments about the CoC as a whole... but i know that at least ONE CoC did indeed teach these exact things. i can speak with considerable knowledge on a couple of different CoC's and the things they teach, but i can't say with any accuracy that those churchs are good examples of the demonination as a whole.

just because you don't liek the information isn't an indication that it was made up. if your church doesn't teach things like this, just ignore my posts and be glad that yours isn't one of the ones i'm talking about.

that's one of the few things i DO like about the tenets of the CoC..

the bible says what it means, and means what it says. no interpretation needed, no omissions, no translations... here it is - deal with it.

unfortunatly, i rarely find any CoC members who acctually follow this idea hard and fast.

Well I might have been fooled, but I was sympathetic toward

Mary Winkler and I don't believe any church had anything to do with it.

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i haven't LOOKED anywhere... but when discussing things, it comes out that the things they are trying to convince me of are 'interpretations' of what was written.

just as a brief example... alcohol.... there is no place that says alcohol is a sin... but people start backing and filling and saying ' but if you take this verse here, and this one, and put em together, it means..." yadda yadda....  that's interpreting and picking and chooseing to prove soemthing you want to believe.

it DOES say that strong drink is a bad idea, and that wise men will not partake of it....

but it doesn't say that it's a sin....

there are other examples.... that was just the easiest off the top of my head...

Nagel, ever been to the Fourth Street COC?

bahahahahaha! nice!

Uh willie, I have family that go there.

not ever been there, no.

Uh willie, I have family that go there.

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uh jennifer, i have family that started that church!

and family that still go there... and friends that go there....

what's that got to do with anything...  you picked a shining example of a local CofC!

don't tell anyone else, but they're the only ones going to heaven!

I didn't pick it, I wasn't COC, but I do have a couple of family members that married COC.  One family goes to Fourth Street and the other goes to a church near Cherokee, Can't think of the name of that one.

Divorce is a "Sin"? How in the world did lazy fat chicks who put out on the first date manage to get that passed? I guess we weren't paying attention.

I was raised in Valdosta. "Upper Valdosta".

How come Christians get so worked up over who is bumping uglies?

Well, that explains it!

I haven't seen anyone try to make you ashamed of the COC & I haven't seen anyone "get their back up". Most people identify the COC as believing/teaching they are the only church going to Heaven. Every COC I've ever been in teach they are the only church in which their members will go to Heaven but that you can't know until you die if you're going to Heaven. The people I know that are members of the COC believe this.

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I have never read the word shunning in the Bible, nor have I heard it used in any worship service, etc. That is Amish and Mennonite and perhaps some others.

Black Balling does not "throw anyone out of church." It prevents one from placing membership. The congregant at the Central church was a member at First Baptist and wanted to "move his letter." It takes just one person to black ball, and one person chose to do so because he didn't like a beard. That does not mean anyone else in the Baptist Church feels that way.

The Bible teaches that the saved are added to the church, so according to the Bible, anyone who is saved is a church member. I understand that what church is open to interpretation.

  .........That's a double whammy giggle!!

are you trying to say you were raised on "sugar hill"?

No not on Sugar Hill. Richmond Hills.