It's attitudes like these that 100% drove me away from organized religions.
It's a spiritual act not a literal act. This is where you constantly go wrong and why you believe absurd things like the flat Earth. Also you conveniently forget the judge not lest you be judged verse. Who are you to tell me I'm not saved? You'd better pray for forgiveness for that one. I haven't said you aren't saved you cretin.
If you haven't found the truth then why waste a good sunday sitting in church? If people drove you away from pursuit of the truth then you will probably never find it for that reason. You let people get in your way. I understand where you are coming because that's where I was coming from for about 20 years post protestantism. What drove you from the church is the confusion in western christianity where it's all self interpreted. Also, I never said you were going to hell for not being orthodox. That's not an orthodox belief. Even the unbelievers are not necessarily going to hell so at least get the theology clear before you go on the attack there thumbpicker 2.0.It's attitudes like these that 100% drove me away from organized religions.
Every single one of them have the same attitude. That's great you believe, but you have a different interpretation of the minute details so you're making a mockery of everything I believe. My religion is the only true one and everyone else is wrong; have fun burning in hell. Sing me up for that level of closed-mindedness...
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"Saved" is past tense. It's an ongoing work, not some one-and-done prayer at a random sunday morning or bible camp. I said your church isn't really christian because you deny the ltiurgy and holy communion that existed for 1500 years before Martin Luther came along.
Nowhere in the Bible does it talk about divine liturgy. We do not deny communion we interpret it differently. We do not think we have to worship like Jews. We were freed from the "law". Jesus railed against Pharisees for thinking following the law and being ritualistic was what it's all about. The early church made a lot of mistakes. Paul constantly had to correct them. He didn't live forever. The church went off the rails - especially the Catholic Church.
Thanks for repeating orthodoxy back to me. The divine liturgy and holy communion was central to every church service for nearly 2000 years before the people who founded your church were even born. Everything else you go on the attack with is the same tired arguments. There is no legalism within orthodoxy. That you make those comparisons shows that you just don't know what you're talking about.
But you keep carrying on about how you have to follow a prescribed and traditional method of worship like the divine liturgy. That's legalism.
No, it's the tradition of the early church passed down from the people who wrote the bible to us. Unbelievably, you attack the very core of the faith and think you are right in doing the devil's work.
Church traditions are not the core of the faith at all. The Bible and the words of Jesus are the core of the faith. The Catholic church did things for thousands of years too and before I was born and they were dead wrong and changed the religion into something it was not meant to be.
You can play this game all you want. For 1000 years the church was in unity. Then the Catholics broke, then the Lutherans.....you reformers are way down the line but you are still heretics just like they are, theologically speaking. The core of the earliest church was the service centered around holy communion.
Holy Communion is still important.
May not have been clear, but I wasn't talking specifically you and/or your religion. I was commenting about organized religion in general and used the euphemism of "burn in hell" to exaggerate a point.
It's the entire point of attending church. If it isn't the focus of your church you are attending the wrong church. In protestant churches it's a sidebar. The focus it he preaching because minus the traditions the only other thing to do there is sip coffee and talk and listen to bro country level worship music.
It's not the entire point of attending church. It is one of many reasons to go to Church.
That's the beauty of orthodoxy. It is the earliest christianity. It is pre-denominational, meaning it existed before sects of christianity broke away and took various names. It is eastern and is completely foreign to the protestant mind.
