Which 'church?' Man-made 'churches' created 1500 years after Christ, and later?
For for the sake of "fainess" to man-made inventions, I am to accept such 'churches' as 'pure Christianity?' Your God is by everything I heavr and read form Portestant lips and writings is not the same God the Church knew from the beginning.
To you Christ is merely a "mediator." I tell you, I never realized how much Arainism and Gnosticism subsided in Protestant beliefs. This was an eye-opener into what heresy really means.
“I never realized how much Arainism and Gnosticism subsided in Protestant beliefs. This was an eye-opener into what heresy really means.”
Quite frankly, I never realized how much the deism of Plato and Heraclitus has influenced Eastern Orthodoxy. The belief that God does not interfere with human life (extreme freewill)and the laws of the universe (natural theology, the rejection/reinterpretation of supernatural events, prophecy, miracles, indwelling/leading of the Holy Spirit) really is “an eye-opener into what heresy really means”.
If man was given complete freewill to choose, and God only creates the good, who created evil? If man was given the capacity to choose evil, then there must have been evil to choose. If you say God in His foresight saw the evil then it must have preceded man, so who created it?
Even to say that God is not bound by time so He sees all things immediately, man still can’t create ab initio, only copy, since he is created.
***To you Christ is merely a “mediator.” I tell you, I never realized how much Arainism and Gnosticism subsided in Protestant beliefs. This was an eye-opener into what heresy really means.***
I lived for six years in a small county in Indiana where we had only one Catholic Church and were surrounded by literally hundreds and hundreds of different churches. The phone book was an interesting read.
The belief systems are individually generated, normally copied from the surroundings and tailored to the individual. The creation of God in man’s image, as it were.
Church hopping was frequent; it was like people shopping in a large mall, going into the different stores.
But it all comes down to one thing - believing the Church, or making the church an individual entity that believes in its own doctrine.