To: D-fendr
I should add an important point: the Communion of Saints. This too was left behind in the Protestant revolution.
I think Protestants understand the term "saint" to mean all true believers in Jesus Christ. Since they fellowship and worship together with other "saints", they understand this as having communion with saints.
To: SeekAndFind
I think yours is likely a common protestant understanding of the term.
It’s quite different from the one in the long history of the Church, as she listed in the creeds.
This difference is at the root of much of our differences in theology, as it developed in protestantism after the reformation, as well.
23 posted on
12/30/2008 5:46:04 PM PST by
D-fendr
(Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
To: SeekAndFind
I didn’t explain properly. What was left behind was not the term “Communion of Saints” nor a definition of it. But in that new definition, well over two-thirds of the Saints were ‘left behind’.
31 posted on
12/30/2008 6:10:01 PM PST by
D-fendr
(Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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