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To: muawiyah

“Frankly, I’m holdig out for the “many mansions” doctrine ~ and YOU AREN’T?”

No. I also do not believe there is any exclusive “One True Path”. That said, I’ve known folks who were in congregations of no more than a couple dozen that met in an old 7-Eleven storefront church that were convinced that they had the One True Path.

The point is that Protestantism can not be legitimately referred to en mases when proclaiming one doctrine is better than another - So if I assumed you were posting from a Catholic perspective, I apologize - that is generally an error that is confined to the Catholic perspective, but I guess there are always exceptions.


52 posted on 02/06/2011 12:06:00 PM PST by RFEngineer
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To: RFEngineer

You really do have to study up on this stuff. Nope, not a Catholic. Not a Lutheran either. Go read about John Leland ~ that kinda’ church.


53 posted on 02/06/2011 12:09:17 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: RFEngineer
BTW, Leland is famous for a hymn "The Day is Past and Gone" ~ it is, in part a translation of a pre-Dark Ages Greek Christian hymn. He translated it. Scored it. Popularized it (Published 485 times in an age when that meant something really serious).

He also appears to have been the main contributor to the language of the First-Amendment.

What I find most fascinating about his hymn is that it is considered foundational to the music genre meant by Black Gospel.

It's hard to find anyone of note in the field of Gospel who hasn't recorded that song. I played it in the background today when they were leading up to the talking part of the Reagan Memorial. Actually I played about ten versions of it sung by a wide variety of artists ~ including Aretha Franklin who has a few months left due to her cancer.

Ron Was a member of the Christian Church ~ so he'd known that song if he ever attended a funeral.

I suspect other people just accepted what the people running the program put on the chart. For this I came with my own, and his, music.

54 posted on 02/06/2011 12:17:14 PM PST by muawiyah
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