In the Church of Mark17, you are free to tell people what to do.
We are Christians, we do what Christ tells us.
You mean like how ya'll are following the injunction against calling your priests "Father"??
“We are Christians, we do what Christ tells us.”
No. Rome does what paganism added.
Christ never taught or commanded half of what Rome created.
BTW, did Christ tell you to burn women and children alive?
Throw them off cliffs?
Impale them?
Torture them?
Sell church offices?
Cover up sexual abuse of the innocent?
Accumulate wealth?
Force conversions under the threat of death, like Islam?
Institutionalize idolatry?
Create a pantheon of demigods and demigodesses like Greece?
AND SO VERY MUCH MORE.
All are things Rome did.
Christ tells any church to do those things.
I wonder which Christ we are talking about here? There is the Christ of the Bible, and there is the Christ of the cults, but they are not the same.
In the Church of Mark17, you are free to tell people what to do.
Let me see if I can expound on that. In the Church of Mark17, with a few minor variations, we believe we can interpret scripture, as the Holy Spirit leads us. Some might call that YOPIOS. We are our own popes. We don’t ask sinful priests to forgive our sins. We ask God to do that, directly.
Where we are not allowed any variation at all, is how we go to Heaven, and avoid Hell. In the Church of Mark17, we believe we get to Heaven, by being born anew, from above, through FAITH ALONE, and we have total, complete assurance, and confidence, that we will go to Heaven. I don’t know if you have that same confidence, and if you don’t, well, all I can say is, you could if you wanted to. Right now, I am not going to define what true FAITH is, but this is what puzzles me. You claim to be a Christian. I claim to be a Christian, yet our views are about as different as night and day. I fear that one of us will be standing tall at the great white throne. I am thinking, if won’t be me. 😁👍
I know, I know, this is off topic, but I am into off topic subjects. 😇