smvoice taught me something new yesterday. I agree that the all flesh protestant and catholic want to be in control and right. No one wants to be wrong. This is why my I do not know, Thank God God knows position is so liberating.
My faith walk has really grown when I asked God for the truth, about Israel for instance with no preconceived notions of my own. Growth in Faith requires change.
individual interpretations have created chaos in the church and not unity.
I have spiritual unity with many on FR. I even count Catholic Mad Dawg as one I have unity with. He has a loving heart. Quix is also very loving, though God has called him to a tough love approach at times in his watchman role. The unity here transcends denominations and it is based on Love of God and each other. I love the diversity here. Weeds also exist and shall remain nameless.
We all see through a glass darkly. Pre conceived notions create walls to unity. We should all give room for each others convictions unless they oppose God's Word.
Well marbren I really thought you had something going here until I read this:
“Quix is also very loving, though God has called him to a tough love approach at times in his watchman role.”
God called him? I don’t think so. There is no love there, I see only a person who even when he has been told what Catholics really believe still has his Ishtar nastiness to post.
That isn’t a watchman role, that is a reader of those disgusting comic books role.
Learning something is not the same as being corrected. It may surprise you to know that I learn from protestants all the time. I listen to a couple of protestant ministers on Sunday morning before going to Mass.
I understand the idea behind giving room for each others convictions as long as they don’t oppose the Word of God.
It makes for a very feel good, pat on the back discussion on the forums which I see here all the time. But, who makes the call.
When on the RF, I do not go into protestant threads. I tend to spend what time I have defending my faith from calumny and accusations. Among the protestants all the proper buzzwords are there, grace, salvation, Scripture alone, yet there are very differing beliefs as to the nature of God, Jesus, the church and what it means to be Christian among protestant Christians.
I don’t claim to know the “denominations” of individual FReepers, I am not interested actually. Even among the most recognized denominations there are fractions within the factions. It is confusing at best.
Again, the only unity I see in protestants is that they are not Catholic or Orthodox.