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To: higgmeister; Rameumptom
Do you realize that Fred Thompson belongs to a restorationist Christian church which rejects the post-apostolic creeds. As do many other Christian denominations. Even St. Athanasias of Athanasian creed fame was branded a heretic.

It's not true. That smear was attempted on FR back last summer. Fred belongs to a mainstream church.. there is a nutso church with a similar name.

968 posted on 05/10/2008 1:00:08 PM PDT by Ron Jeremy
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To: Ron Jeremy
Fred attends the Church of Christ in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. It is a restorationist church which split from Prebsbytyrianism and seeks to restore the NT w/o the post apostolic creeds. It is not a smear to correctly identify a man's faith. Though if is any consolation to you he said he doesn't attend as regularly as he should. I have no problem with a Church that claims to restore NT and early Christian practice. Why would you consider a smear to belong to a church like that?

From wiki- Churches of Christ are a movement of autonomous Christian congregations associated with one another through common beliefs and practices. They seek to model their congregations as closely as possible to their understanding of how New Testament Churches operated.

Historically, Churches of Christ in the United states were recognized as a distinct movement by the U.S. Religious census of 1906. Prior to that they had been reported in the religious census as part of the Movement that had its roots in the Second Great Awakening under the leadership of Thomas and Alexander Campbell, Walter Scott, and Barton W. Stone. Those leaders had declared their independence from their Presbyterian roots, seeking a fresh start to restore the New Testament church, abandoning man made creeds and interpretations. The names Church of Christ, Christian Church and Disciples of Christ were adopted by the movement because they believed that these terms were found in the Bible. Other names the movement did not believe to be biblical were rejected, such as Campbellite, Stoneite, Campbell-Stone movement, and even Restoration Movement. Even so, the rejected terms were used by those outside the movement to identify it.[citation needed]....

1,018 posted on 05/10/2008 3:46:29 PM PDT by Rameumptom (Gen X= they killed 1 in 4 of us)
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