Posted on 09/16/2020 3:12:54 AM PDT by Cronos
Never Trumper.
Yeah I just saw that when I clicked to read the full article. Not cool. But whatever!
How about submitting yourself to the Word of God? That should (would) work.
as St. Paul wrote in 1 Tim 3:15 in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
The Word of God - Jesus Christ, inaugurated the Church of the pentecost, the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church in 33 AD
Thanks to God's grace this church founded on a rock by Christ has endured, despite the best efforts of bishops and priests!
This theologian has realized that the various movements since the 1500s are houses built on sand and they dissipate quickly.
Good luck to him, although this smacks to me of a jailhouse conversion.
But they heeded Jesus and ran to the hills when they saw the signs
And the earthly Jerusalem and the earthly temple was destroyed. And the heavenly Jerusalem (the Church triumphant) with the heavenly spiritual temple - Jesus Christ Himself was inaugurated.
Salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
His faith journey has taken him from Presbyterianism to becoming an Episcopalian, then Anglican, - so, his path has been forever, increasingly, leftward and farther from Christ
Christianity Today is now a worthless heretical rag and now a huge controversy in the Catholic Church has exploded from the Father Altman sermon against Catholics who vote Democrat. We are in a time of gleaning. It is time for Christians of all sects who love the truth to stand up and be counted no matter where you are.
Doesn’t look so
14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to them, Go in peace; keep warm and well fed, but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. 18 But someone will say, You have faith; I have deeds. Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe thatand shudder. 20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless[d]? 21 Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,[e] and he was called Gods friend. 24 You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone. 25 In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? 26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. |
in terms of relationship, in orthodoxy there is the fullness of the relationship with Christ - mind, body and soul.
in the Divine Liturgy and the Eucharist we listen to the word of God, we then view the One-time sacrifice of the Lord, and then we experience the totality of God’s grace through the eating of His body, then in prayer we experience the soul satisfying relationship with God.
So the mind-body-soul relationship is in the fullness of orthodoxy
Nah, the opposite - if it was farther from Christ, then it would be to the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Btw, how are the watchtower meetings going on?
I was taken in by the incense, candles, stained glass and statues, and all the religious rules. It seemed so legitimate.
Watchtower meetings? I wouldnt know, Im a Christian. Why dont you tell us about them.
are you?
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