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This New Testament provides reasoning for the “personal relationship” theme and brother/sisterhood among believers. “In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what...

You could phrase it that way, but another way to describe it as “God’s Word unfiltered”. After all we don’t live on “bread alone but every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Mat 4:4). The printing press and literacy made great impacts that help reform religious organizations, what some call...

I still agree, at least in terms of considering the early church from a Catholic orthodoxy and organizational perspective. However, you peaked my interest so I started reviewing the New Testament for this. There is a reference to “breaking bread” but I haven’t been able to find where the...

“In the United States, evangelicalism is a movement among Protestant Christians who believe in the necessity of being born again, emphasize the importance of evangelism, and affirm traditional Protestant teachings on the authority as well as the historicity of the Bible.“ Notice, Communion is...

If you are not in USA and an explorer it would be hard to understand. I think the evangelical churches could be grouped together for their strong similarities, which would be much more centered around “born again” and baptism rather than the eucharist. Even this Pew research poll understates. I...

I missed the word “more”. The Roman Catholics are in the minority overall among USA denominations. I could some change with the number of Hispanic speaking immigrants but there tends to be conversions to evangelicals over the generations. Palermo’s “free market” is at work. “The majority of...

Thanks, but please recognize I grew up in mainline Protestant and Roman Catholic churches. As an Irish background marrying to Hispanic, we did the classes, etc. in the Roman Catholic church. However, I have been a member of evangelical churches for years. I think two of your comments are quite...

I have attended a variety of church services in the USA. I have never thought that Communion was a high priority in most denominations in the USA other than Roman Catholic. I have attended evangelical churches in the past years and I don’t remember taking Communion. Maybe sometimes it is done at...

The lead post uses conflation to reach a eye catching headline. I admit it worked on me. One thing that is not a logical connection is to jump immediately to pork as a type of meat. I don’t recall anywhere in the Bible where pig is connected with Jesus or the Messiah. He is referred to multiple...

I don't understand how you are using the word "richness" in this question. Please explain.

BTW, this the year we should see an unveiling of the L21 tree. We are only seeing a skeletal outline of it now. Here is the current draft version. Chromo 2 has added some nice definition under M222 in particular. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17907527/R1b-L21_Tree_Chart.pdf We've got...

I'm not quite sure what part of anything I've said that you are citing here. I'm a little nervous about your interpretation of something I've said. Obviously, today there are P312+ all over the world. The majority are surely found in IE speaking peoples, but some are not. That doesn't mean the...

I agree with your general premise but not to the point that I would say no R1b (of any kind) was involved with Bell Beaker folks. I particularly agree with your points 2 and 4. The distribution patterns of R1b-L11 subclades fits more of an overland east to west expansion (versus Mediterranean)...

I think R1b-L21 might have fairly high levels going a little east and north from Bretagne. Look at the Normandy project: http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Normandy/default.aspx?section=yresults France needs much more thorough testing.

Goga, you might have to dial the timeline back further than the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (2300–1700 BC). Also, please take a look at the R1bx297 project administrator's map for his (Vince Vizachero's) proposed early R1 subclade branching...