Posted on 05/01/2019 2:10:29 PM PDT by Morgana
Great response from these folks. Good to hear folks pushing back against their tyranny.
JoMa
A proper confirmation class would have taught them what scripture says on this topic and on all topics (to put the Church decision in the only context that matters). We have free will and can choose whether to follow God’s word or turn away from Him, but there is no ambiguity in God’s word.
Heard a joke or story one time saying its best to go fishing with Baptists since they won’t drink your beer.
My Granny was Methodist and they sure has H*** did not act nor believe in nonsense like this!
None of Hub’s family would to this day......neither would any of my Baptist kin. I’ve never seen the likes of churches getting away from the Bible and it’s teachings. It’s so sad
Heard a joke or story one time saying its best to go fishing with Baptists since they won’t drink your beer.
So true but I’d be just as afraid that they would.....LOL
Heard a joke or story one time saying its best to go fishing with Baptists since they won’t drink your beer.
So true but I’d be just as afraid that they would.....LOL
I think the joke is “Never go fishing with just one Baptist - always at least two. Otherwise he’ll drink all your beer!”
I think the joke is “Never go fishing with just one Baptist - always at least two. Otherwise he’ll drink all your beer!”
That too......lol
It is almost comical when I read about “differences” between Catholic and Orthodox doctrine. For example:
Catholicism: Mary was/is sinless
Orthodox: Mary could have sinned but chose not to
Me: a pretty finely nuanced difference.
Other points of disagreement seem so arcane as to be well above my pay grade.
I do sort of understand the unleavened bread thing but don’t know what to make of it and won’t spend much time worrying about it as we would not be receiving Holy Communion anyway.
I might convert back and forth between Catholic and Orthodox 10 or so times so I end up somewhere in the middle lol
Ahem--- Catholics also believe that Mary could have sinned but chose not to.
I tend think like you do: the differences between Orthodox and Catholic seem to be verbal tics rather than substantive differences. I know, of course, that some would disagree. But the Byzantine Greek Catholics are, as far as I know thoroughly Orthodox in their language and their theological and theological traditions, but in communion with the Western Church (Rome) --- which pretty much indicates to me that theologically, we are eating off the same plate.
Generally speaking, Catholics and Orthodox define each other as schismatic, but not heretic. Which is to say, separated, but not in obstinate grave error.
I am fairly insouciant about teeny differences. So much of that st4uff is, at best, cultural/linguistic, and at worst, what Freud called "the narcissism of small differences."
The one thing that really bothers me is that they do the Sign of the Cross backward. Just kidding, but I do find the omission of purgatory in Orthodox doctrine troublesome.
Don't necessarily listen to me,since I'm no expert on Orthodox belief, but Toll House Trail not a "Dogma" and kind of nebulous as a concept. But since Catholicism doesn't have a really concrete idea of Purgatory either (we describe it as a "state of being" rather than a place) --- it may be another case of two verbal terms for the same idea of a post-death purification process.
Th Orthodox do pray for the dead, just as the Maccabeean Jews and the Early Christians did, and just as we do, so the logical corollary is that since you can't help people in heaven (they don't need help)and you can't help people in hell (they're beyond help) there must be a temporary intermediate place, too, where the just can benefit from our prayers.
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