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The Christaphelians
FreeRepublic ^ | September 5, 2025 | POF

Posted on 09/05/2025 9:34:43 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom

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1 posted on 09/05/2025 9:34:43 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: moder_ator; admin

Darn! I blew the post title. Should be “The Christadelphians.” Mods, can you please fix?


2 posted on 09/05/2025 9:37:28 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Bourton-on-the-Water is, to me, a most idyllic English village. Were England not Englandistan, with no free speech, I’d move there asap.


3 posted on 09/05/2025 9:41:35 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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It’s nice, but WAY too crowded w tourists. Nearby villages are as nice and uncrowded.


4 posted on 09/05/2025 9:43:22 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

An interesting group of believers. Thanks.


5 posted on 09/05/2025 9:43:51 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

So, they recognize God and Christ, but not the Holy Spirit?


6 posted on 09/05/2025 9:52:06 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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It sounds like they see the Holy Spirit as just God, or God’s own spirit.


7 posted on 09/05/2025 10:00:39 AM PDT by marron
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

𝘢 𝘯𝘰𝘯-𝘛𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯

If a denomination denies the Trinity, it is not Christian.

The Christadelphians are a cult, at best. Like the JWs or the Mormons.

They are not Christian.


8 posted on 09/05/2025 10:01:41 AM PDT by Jack023
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
From "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life", Mister Blackitt, a devout Protestant, rails against the Catholics over-populating his town:

"When Martin Luther nailed his protest up to the church door in fifteen-seventeen, he may not have realised the full significance of what he was doing, but four hundred years later, thanks to him, my dear, I can wear whatever I want on my John Thomas..."

I'd never heard a penis referred to as a 'John Thomas' before or since, and thought it must be some English thing. Now I wonder if Christadelphianism's John Thomas is who they were talking about.

9 posted on 09/05/2025 10:13:56 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (When in doubt I whip it out. Got on the girl's volleyball team it's a Free-for-All!)
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Yes, it's an English thing. "Lady Jane" is the euphemism for the female part. In fact, the original title of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterly's Lover was "John Thomas and Lady Jane."
10 posted on 09/05/2025 10:16:29 AM PDT by Publius
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Uh Oh...

I’ll bet Mick Jagger knew all about that.


11 posted on 09/05/2025 11:11:10 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know The Truth, and The Truth Shall Make You Free.)
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To: left that other site

“Life is secure with Lady Jane.”


12 posted on 09/05/2025 11:24:18 AM PDT by Publius
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To: Publius

As long as you pledge your troth.


13 posted on 09/05/2025 11:28:08 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know The Truth, and The Truth Shall Make You Free.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

If they aren’t Trinitarians, they’re Unitarians.

https://youtu.be/pe6Ol5kO0Ks?si=ETHPCX4f7wPfxhi6


14 posted on 09/05/2025 12:13:54 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: MikelTackNailer

Great connection. That CANNOT be just a coincidence.


15 posted on 09/05/2025 12:28:52 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; boatbums; metmom; Mark17; ealgeone; fidelis; Texas_Guy; MurphsLaw; daniel1212; ..

Thanks. It is very interesting what sola scriptura wrought.

Once humanity opened up the flood gates where each person would interpret completely on their own the sacred texts, we soon ended up with myriad interprtations.

Even during Luther’s lifetime we had anti-trinitatians like the brethren.

The Christadelphians are an interesting sect

the Christadelphians have historical ties to the Adventist movement. John Thomas had connections with early Adventists, and the group drew some initial support from Adventist circles in the mid-19th century, sharing millennial expectations rooted in the Millerite movement’s “Great Disappointment” of 1844.

However, they developed as a distinct denomination, differing from groups like the Seventh-day Adventists in beliefs such as nontrinitarianism and rejection of a supernatural devil.


16 posted on 09/05/2025 1:38:10 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos; ProtectOurFreedom; boatbums; metmom; Mark17; ealgeone; fidelis; Texas_Guy; MurphsLaw; ...
Yeah...because as Elsie notes...those churches in Revelation were all on board with no errors.

Your credibility: ZERO.

17 posted on 09/05/2025 1:43:53 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Cronos

Umm, there was quite a diversity in opinion before Martin Luther. Just suppressed.


18 posted on 09/05/2025 1:46:47 PM PDT by maro (MAGA!)
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Christadelphians base their beliefs entirely on the Bible, which they consider the inspired, infallible word of God.

They are a nontrinitarian, millennial Christian group emphasizing personal Bible study, adult baptism, and a literal interpretation of scripture

They saw the Bible as saying Jesus Christ was a created, mortal man subordinate to God with no pre-existence,


19 posted on 09/05/2025 1:55:30 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: Jack023
"The Christadelphians are a cult, at best. Like the JWs or the Mormons."

"Cult" is kind of a loaded term in our time because people usually use it casually to refer to, basically, "a religion I don't like."

More accurately, as non-Trinitarians who claim to profess Christ, the Christadelphians are a pseudo-Christian sect.

20 posted on 09/05/2025 2:07:58 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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