You are kind of outnumbered here!If I enter a room of Baptists
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I'm sleepy so I'll address the other issues tomorrow morning. (if someone else doesn't beat me to it!)
You are kind of outnumbered here!If I enter a room of Baptists
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Now I ask Protestants when do they Bless Mary? After all, its in the scripture to do so. You can imagine the stares and questions that I get. I do it daily.
Yeah... we're not really cool with the whole "blessing" thing...
We sing "Bless the Lord, oh my soul..." but that's about as far as we go without a safety net.
I been to other churches, incl. RCC... saying "Peace" while shaking hands gives me the heebee geebees.
I never said a thing about vestal virgins.
You can not prove they had these children together biblically unless you rely on your own tradition. Even the early reformers did not interpret the scripture as you do.
What would that look like to you? That we agree on all and every point of theological contention? That sing the same songs? That we all use same language during Baptism? That we follow the same creeds?I am not arguing so much against unity as asking you to SHOW it. A major reason there are different Baptists is because there is not unity.
Why should they? Merely for the sake of saying, "look at us! We're one big happy denomination!"During the period of slavery during which many churches divided, were they essentially unified? They were teaching the same salvation message. Why did they not reunite post Civil War?
I can get behind a religious crusade against the undead anyday.
Welcome to Catholicism.I can get behind a religious crusade against the undead anyday.
I so very much want to play the game...Now I'm hungry for dessert and it isn't even lunch yet.
You can kiss my mint chocolate chip, JK.
Deep breath... and...
Humans - all of them. There's a lot of doctrine they held to that I'm sure you would disagree with. We've got a lot more knowledge and insight to rely upon.
That has some appeal. However, tonight I get the distinct notion that tradition takes the place of distasteful or pointless theology. It's as if tradition becomes a millstone around the neck.
There's a whole lot of historical and modern men I'd like to emulate. There's a whole lot of biblical characters that were faithful. However, they were still sinful, still required grace and still died an earthly death.
Is your argument, "if it doesn't matter that much to you, just accept what we say"?
I guess it's a fear of a slippery slope that the RCC fell down. First we ascribe a virtue and situation with no support, then we add a bit more, then a bit more, then ... Marian cults.
Whoa. Pope is an INGOer?
ThePopeDude266 said:"There are many Catholics who are like this and they cause scandal," he said. "How many times have we all heard people say 'if that person is a Catholic, it is better to be an atheist'."
What would that look like to you? That we agree on all and every point of theological contention? That sing the same songs? That we all use same language during Baptism? That we follow the same creeds?...
Kinda like your posts!!!!The History of doctrine in the west to the 1700s would fill 3 more volumes and would be busting at the seams by the end of the 20th century.
I think I just addressed these concerns in my most recent post
so short answers.
No. Yes, but only when in Church. (you guys don't sing from several different hymnal pages all at the same time do you?). Yes, but it should be in the local language. AS an aside, it was the Orthodox promulgated that the preaching and reading should be done in the local language not the Protestants. We had the jump on that by about 700 years when Cyril and Methodius went north and gave the Russians the "Cyrillic" alphabet!
and finally, Yes.
I so very much want to play the game...
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