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1 | denominations. | Eph 4:3 | Morant61 | 148983 | ||
Greetings EdB! My friend, you are also assuming that there was only 'one' view in the early church. Even the Apostles disagreed at times! ;-) False doctrines sprang up right away. So, who do you think should have the say now my friend? Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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2 | denominations. | Eph 4:3 | EdB | 148988 | ||
Tim Me! :-) Your right disagreements did occur but the best we know the church came out united. It remained united until the church split east and west more over politics than doctrine. It remained that way until the reformation and now it has fractured into thousands of factions. My concern is not for the church surviving though it may one day should the Lord tarry become a factor but more for the image it has before the world. Denominational infighting is becoming a serious problem in the missions field. I understand the denominational infighting threw open the door for the Jehovah Witnesses in Russia, and in Latin and South America the confusion over which denomination is right is all but stagnating some evangelism. EdB |
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3 | denominations. | Eph 4:3 | Morant61 | 149023 | ||
Greetings EdB! Was it united because everyone eventually agreed or because those who 'lost' left! ;-) All I can say about 'infighting' is that I have never been a part of a denomination that would engage in such activity. To me, the denominations themselves are not much of an issue, but the unity of love certainly is! Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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4 | denominations. | Eph 4:3 | EdB | 149034 | ||
Tim I think that is what I'm talking about. In the church today we have Protestants that are sure Catholics are cult and on their way to hell. In the Catholic church we have those that believe no Protestant can be saved. We have Baptist that believe that if your Pentecostal or not baptized by immersion your lost. We have Pentecostals that say unless you talk in tongues your not saved. We have those that believe they can rob banks shooting every one in sight and still go to heaven. We have those that believe in homosexuality and/or abortion and believe everyone that stands against it is hateful and closed minded and does not exhibit the love Jesus said is required to be His follower. There are many many more. All within the confines of Christianity all presenting completely different pictures of what they call truth and we expect the world to embrace us because we know the truth. Then we claim we are united in love. Are we? Or do we merely tolerate those unfortunate wretches that aren’t smart like us and can’t see their being deceived. We use words like we agree on the “essentials”. Do we? Or do we secretly agree that if you do ‘that’, whatever ‘that’ is, your really lost but it far easier to be hypocritical telling you I love you while I in fact pity you because your blinded to the truth I have found. How many Protestants would die before they gave to a Catholic charity no matter how genuine the need? Or how many Catholics would ever think of taking communion with their Protestant brothers in the Lord? How many Baptist would accept a brother into their church membership that was baptized by a Methodist? How many Pentecostals would accept the salvation of Presbyterian that just confessed to adultery? Yet we agree on the essentials but these are the essentials and we don’t agree. Then we say we have Christian unity because we love one another. I don’t think so and as long as denominations exists we prove it. EdB |
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5 | denominations. | Eph 4:3 | JCrichton | 149161 | ||
"Yet we agree on the essentials but these are the essentials and we don’t agree. Then we say we have Christian unity because we love one another. I don’t think so and as long as denominations exists we prove it." Hi, EdB! Excellent post! It is as though we are redefining Christ's Words... we are no longer to abide in His Love, but in love (as in the flower-power love of the sixties)... that we are no longer to abide in Christ's peace, but in the peace of mind that feeling of superiority brings (I am saved, but they are not!)... We are striving to be one with one another as long as what I say goes... if not I'll be one with you from over here... you'll be one with me from over there... or the old "agree to disagree!" God Bless! Angel |
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6 | denominations. | Eph 4:3 | EdB | 149189 | ||
Angel Thank you. I think we (most of all me) all need to rethink our positions on denominations, how we talk about them, how we view them, how we treat people that belong to a different denomination. Are we allowing Satan with his pettiness separate us? Are we really preferring our brother or do we kind of look down our nose and say too bad he has not arrived as I have? Should we rest on the adage of, ‘well we agree on the essentials’ and leave things the way they are or do we say unity is an essential and strive toward that. Do we even consider how the world views our treatment of each other in the name of denominations? The question each of us (me most of all) need to ask ourselves is when we stand before Christ is there anything we are going to regret doing that we did in the name of denominationalism and all that entails? EdB |
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7 | denominations. | Eph 4:3 | JCrichton | 149222 | ||
Hi, EdB! This is so correct! Remember Jesus words on hatred?: But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother[a]will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, 'Raca,[b]' is answerable to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, 'You fool!' will be in danger of the fire of hell. (Matthew 5:22) So when we intentionally remove love from the equation, aren't we evoking hatred? How can we claim to love God whom we cannot see while harboring discord towards our fellow Christians? And when we continuously seek the path of least resisitance by dividing the Body of Christ or by justifying schism, are we not disobeying Christ's Commandment? ("...be one.") God Bless! Angel |
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