I can understand that. A day may very well have been a hundred years back then, and who knows how chronologically correct the stories are given the fact that they weren't assembled in any kind of volume until many hundreds of years later.
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I can understand that. A day may very well have been a hundred years back then, and who knows how chronologically correct the stories are given the fact that they weren't assembled in any kind of volume until many hundreds of years later.
Roman’s 10:9-10 defines Christianity. Whosoever will.
Technically Catholics, Protestants, and the Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxies are all Christian. Some of the evangelicals here are claiming only their branch as true "Christians" which is where the confusion is coming from.
Make us some sammiches bitch.
Is American Christianity a "branch".
Like they are right and everyone else is wrong? I don't keep up with this kind of thing.
Keep Jussie in your thoughts tomorrow...
All the Christians here who aren't Catholic are Protestant. There are a bazillion tiny branches of Protestantism that all trace their roots back to Martin Luther's Reformation in the 16th century. Lutheran, Methodist, Pentecostal, Mormon, Universalist, Baptist. Some consider all Christians as worthy of heaven as just different followers of Jesus, others see only themselves and their narrow interpretation as the one true path to salvation. The Amish live like it's the 1800s thanks to their interpretation.
Ha - 4444 - I am trying to formulate a transparent/alpha joke.
I just cannot figure it out. Maybe another drink will help me solve it.
What happened between 0 and 16th century to make everything before that wrong? Was Luther a prophet? A distant cousin of Jesus? Seems sketchy.
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Short answer: they are different. LCC did a masterful job describing some of the differences.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Sit this one out, champ.
LCC? Can you point me to a link? Legitimately interested in the difference.
The main difference and it’s a big one is the method in which salvation occurs. Catholicism being works based (person works their way to heaven) and Christianity being solely based on faith in the work done by Christ on the cross as being sufficient alone.
Before that was the time of the Church. There was only one Church in western Europe, led by the Pope in Rome, and they were the boss and all the priests and everyone was all them. That's what we know of today as the Catholic Church. By the 16th century the Church had been around for over a thousand years and so was, as you can imagine, corrupt as all get out. So a smalltime German priest named Martin Luther compiled his grievances with the Church and famously nailed them to the All Saints' Church door in Wittenburg for all to see. People agreed with his complaints and while they were initially meant as reforms to the Church, the Church didn't take too kindly to that so ultimately they broke away from the Church(Catholics) and formed their own 'truer' version of Christianity based on Martin Luther's protests(Protestants). Those Protestants have been splintering off into their own smaller groups with different interpretations of the Bible ever since.
Why? Point to a single thing I've said here on the topic that's incorrect.
So Catholics believe in works only, and Christians believe that regardless of anything else, it's all good if you believe in Jesus? I appreciate the honest response. So Catholics don't believe in Jesus? That seems counterintuitive to everything I've ever heard as it relates to religion. Granted, I'm hardly a religious scholar.
Sounds like something the son of Fidel Castro would say.
The GoP wrote and passed the law. It's main purpose was to remove single party voting because they felt it had a DEM advantage. The expanded mail in was just extra. Then the bill turned against them when covid hit and they freaked out. The ruling will be appealed and overturned. This was a bill passed fully through the republican legislature, not some governor EO.
It used to be. You can't thank the GoP and all trumps buddies for making it 100% legal.
All good. Catholicism does believe in Jesus, but also believe that “extra” things are needed for salvation. Christians believe Christ death and resurrection on the cross did all the work that was needed.
The Jews also believed in a works based system, so when Christ came on the scene and claimed to be the only way to salvation, was a hard pill to swallow.
From a Christian perspective, the issue with works is that it gives man the ability to take part or credit for a portion of salvation when the Christian faith believes all that glory belongs to Christ alone.
However, works are obviously part of the Christian life but they are the natural response of a true faith so to speak. For instance the weatherman says it’s going to rain and you say ok and then walk out of the house and get soaked or you take the umbrella. Bad example but one proves you believed what you had heard. Christianity believes works are the fruit of a genuine faith and not something to be done to earn salvation.
If this guy is really KBA as has been speculated, we're all getting epically trolled right now 🤣
I actually used this 2 days ago to login my IRS account. It 3d scans your face with your phone camera and then compares it to your DMV photo. Not sure why they added it but it's interesting tech. My scan failed the 1st time, I assume because I have a full beard atm and none in my pic.Some of you have been talking about this in the last few day.s I believe.. @UKUGA
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These are malware infested links for fake news sites. You should be banned for posting them.
Evangelicals think they are special because they have fancy indoctrination schools. They all believe the same BS with small variation.
Thanks for the reply, Blue. I guess I fall into the category that being a good person is paramount regardless of belief system. I believe in God because I cannot reconcile the fact that our reality was created by a random event, but I come up short on a specific religious belief such as Jesus or any of the other purported saviors of the world. At the same time, I've got no hostility to anyone who chooses to believe in something or believe in nothing. The world is a complex place. We are living in a time where the outside influences are overwhelming. It's hard to block out all the noise and pick a path. I admire those who are able to be single threaded enough to pick a said path. I'm not there yet.
Every city I have ever lived in has at least one Catholic High School. Do you also consider that indoctrination?
I dunno half the board when he first showed up. Maybe it was just @TheFrontRunner doing his usual paranoid thing. Just thought it was funny cause of how complicated the canuck's religious history was. He knew all this stuff, he lived it lol.
Keep on Rockin in the Free World....unless that world is in disagreement with my narrow beliefs.
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