Posted on 12/06/2018 11:52:12 AM PST by I got the rope
People on Twitter are calling out President Donald Trump for failing to recite the Apostles’ Creed at the funeral for former President George H. W. Bush on Wednesday.
Footage from the event shows much of the church, including the former presidents seated with Trump, standing to recite the profession of faith.
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If you’re going to recite something, let it be something found in the word!
Neither Yeshua, nor any of his apostles or disciples ever recited any creed. They preached the Gospel of the Kingdom.
Yes, they do.
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Have to say the special words to be admitted to the coven!
Poor President Trump, left out again!
“In particular, they worship a “Spirit” (not the Holy Spirit) who is doing a “New Thing,” e.g., legitimizing homosexuality, transgenderism, polyamory, etc.”
And that, my friend, is why I am no longer a member of the Episcopal Church. I was sad to have to leave after so many years but it had to happen. I pray that one day they will see their error and repent but I’m not holding my breath.
Reciting scripture (if it is scripture) is one thing. Mindlessly chanting/repeating it and/or man made reformulations is another matter.
First, I read the creed text. Although it expresses many scriptural truths, it is not scripture.
Second, Jesus commands not do this:
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
9 After this manner therefore pray ye:... (Matthew 6:7ff)
We are to engage the mind and spirit and formulate prayer "after this fashion". I was taught a simple mnemonic to aid in one's CONVERSATION with God: PRAY. Praise God, Receive Forgiveness, Ask, Yield to the guiding of His Spirit.
However, people repeat this prayer! Jesus just told us to use it as a model, not to repeat it.
Has language lost all its meaning?
Haha yeah heaven forbid we condense our (Biblical) faith into a single Creed! How horrible!
Sure the exact words of the Nicene (or any Creed for that matter) are not in Scripture (like the Our Father or Lord’s Prayer is). But does that matter? I don’t see how it does or else we could never say “Jesus is my personal Lord and Savior”, because that exact phrase is no where in Scripture. (But its sentiment certainly is!).
Same with the Nicene. Every concept in it is in Scripture. Not word for word but the concepts surely are.
The last word is yours though; I’m out. (Don’t need 30 rounds of “my Bible ideas are right” today, really, not any day).
The Apostles Creed was written and adopted well before the Catholic/Orthodox split and before the Protestant Reformation, so the word “catholic” does not refer to the modern Catholic Church, but to the (more or less) united Christian religion of that time, before many of today’s doctrinal differences had hardened into distinct denominations.
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The faith of Yehova cannot be condensed.
It takes a book of 1000 pages to describe it.
Please prove that every President recited the Creed. How does he know Trump did not? I have often recited the Creed to myself and not out loud. I suppose if he had sang and recited the Creed something would have been wrong there.
All of this is Absurd!!!!!!!!!!
You must be a bot, randomly responding with one-liners containing text gleaned from posts...
Only on Trinity Sunday! :)
Okay. And the rest of the examples I posted?
That is nobody’s business.
I would say shame of HuffPo, but they are well beyond that.
The one that really burns me is changing "Lord, I am not worth to receive you..." into "Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter into my house..." I just can't get my mouth to express that unweildly line, no matter what I do. I screw it up every single time, then I shut up out of embarrassment. That marginally improved wording hasn't helped me.
But then, I'm that curmudgeon who think that the responsorial psalms should never be sung because 75% of the church sit there mute while in contrast almost 100% says them aloud when they are spoken. So that I might seem thoughtful and pious about it I tell myself that I feel that way because it separates us from the liturgy to make it all sing-song to the point where we tune it out. But the truth is, my church growing up never sang them so that's what it seems like how it ought to be to me. Old habits formed over decades die hard.
Yup, especially for a $50 steak, or at least so I imagine. I don’t think I have ever eaten a $50 steak, for sure never paid for one. I guess the ketchup must help with the shoe-leather look and feel.
Freegards
There's a lot of ritual I don't participate in when I go with my wife to her Catholic church. I don't understand it, I don't know it, so I don't recite it. I don't take communion there, either. When my uncle died recently, at his Catholic funeral, I actually caught crap from his sister because I wouldn't go up for communion. I'm not Catholic, and I think it's disrespectful to co-opt a religious ritual you are not baptized into.
Other's mileage may vary. Trump was probably thinking the same.
I hadn't seen that. Have a link?
Leave it to the rabid God-hating left to get upset when the Trumps DON’T do something religious.
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