Posted on 12/04/2006 7:52:47 PM PST by Pyro7480
That or a bunch of book worshipers corrupted the faith, and as St Paul warned, began stealing the faithful away like wolves.
I really was just asking.
We don't worship a book. We worship our Lord. We read His Word as what He revealed and use it as the rule of truth for doctrine and practice.
I remember last 'western easter' [The Orthodox don't have a holiday named after a pagan festival] watching a BAPTIST CHURCH SCHOOL TEACHER spend dinner calling the ressurection implausible and unlikely, Christianity an invention of Constantine, and the Da Vinci code 'a very possibile alternative theory'.
Enjoy the number one spot.
Some people read it early on...
"For all the saints and the Elect of God are gathered, prior to the tribulation that is to come, and are taken to the Lord lest they see the confusion that is to overwhelm the world because of our sins."- Ephraem the Syrian
Sure you just 'venerate' the book you don't WORSHIP it. (/sarc)
I strongly prefer calling it Resurrection Sunday myself.
Pascha is far more fitting, not to mention historicaly accurate in context.
Heresu does not mean "wrong belief" (generically or relatively). It means "that which the Church does not teach." The church invented the term.
Not even that. We read it. We take God at His Word which is written in it. We don't pray to it. About the most we do to the physical object is sometimes bind it in leather with our name stamped on the cover so people know who the particular volume belongs to.
Such as passover?
Oh and don't dodge the point; combining all baptists is a stretch, and the baptists are not universally propetuating their 'faith'. There's a reason this joke is funny:
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump. I ran over and said: "Stop. Don't do it."
"Why shouldn't I?" he asked.
"Well, there's so much to live for!"
"Like what?"
"Are you religious?"
He said: "Yes."
I said: "Me too. Are you Christian or Buddhist?"
"Christian."
"Me too. Are you Catholic or Protestant?"
"Protestant."
"Me too. Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?"
"Baptist."
"Wow. Me too. Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord?"
"Baptist Church of God."
"Me too. Are you original Baptist Church of God, or are you Reformed Baptist Church of God?"
"Reformed Baptist Church of God."
"Me too. Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915?"
He said: "Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915."
I said: "Die, heretic scum," and pushed him off.
To Christ, naturally. This is to Whom the saints pray.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death, amen.
Pascha is greek for passover. (Hint the Old Testament holiday Chirst celebrated during the last supper was...?)
Baptists don't kill their heretics. Typically it has been done to them by people accusing them of heresy.
Hint, I've been a Christian for 30 years. I know what the Passover is.
Lookup what happened in Ukraine in 1569-1600s and try to play the persecuted card again...
Well judging by the baptist sunday school teacher i encountered last 'Easter' not all baptists are so informed.
In a company of invalids a woman with two legs is not "human like the rest of them". But she is human -- more fully than the invalids.
Of course she needed a savior. This is who redeemed her ang granted her her holiness.
If you could choose your mother, you would wish no less for her.
Sigh
Anabaptists and Modern Baptists can differ quite a bit. Sometimes I think we had more in common with Menno Simmons. There were radicalists, but mostly Anabaptists were seperatists. And Anabaptists WERE persecuted. Muenster, for example, was not typical of Anabaptist Behavior.
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