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Post by notavailable on Sept 15, 2009 13:34:25 GMT -5
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Post by davo on Sept 15, 2009 15:58:45 GMT -5
moved to FB&O due to too much serious business.
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Post by Scott on Sept 15, 2009 21:20:38 GMT -5
I was under the impression that Orthodox and Catholicism were mostly the same thing, save that Orthodoxism doesn't recognize the pope? The main catalyst of the schism was the injection of "filioque" into the Creed of Nicea-Constantinople by the bishop of Rome. When the rest of the Church rejected it, Rome split away and took most of the West with it. You can find a lot online about the differences.
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Post by Maarten on Sept 16, 2009 10:04:56 GMT -5
Damn straight. I can't believe how thick people are to not realize that all the bulls**t hundreds of denominations out there keep sprining up because some dumbass kid decides they're just gonna follow the Bible. SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS INTERPRETTING THE BOOK. It's inescapable. Unless you're a literal prophet, you are just reading the book and sorting it out in your mind. You become your own clergy, that doesn't make you any less fallible. How on earth does non-denominationalism cause denominations? The reason I don't like any denominations saying what I say, is because they became denominations. I'll just go to a congregation somewhere near me, one that I feel is best for me, I won't care at all about their denomination, and I certainly won't support anything that tries to start some movement or denomination. Somebody will always interpret the bible, it's inescapable. Unless you're a believer and you are filled with the holy spirit, called 'the spirit of truth', and about whom has been said he will teach us all things, and whom will remind us of everything. Now the deal with reading the bible is that you're very likely to listen to your own thoughts, rather than the holy spirit. Therefore, I believe one shouldn't just read the bible, but pray it, and meditate on it. One should however always be carefull to not read ones own interpretions into the bible, which I know I have done too much....... Did I ever claim I was less fallible than anyone? I claim I'm equally fallible as everybody else, so I don't see why I should let somebody who did come up with his own interpretation in years of studying tell me what is meant, more than somebody unintelligent, and unlearned, to whom it has been revealed by the holy spirit.
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Post by conner on Sept 17, 2009 18:21:51 GMT -5
I'm Baptist.
I hate everything.
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Post by Van Zan on Sept 20, 2009 18:21:46 GMT -5
I was raised Baptist. It's true, they hate everything.
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Post by Scott on Sept 20, 2009 18:52:02 GMT -5
Except food. And America.
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Post by Brent on Sept 20, 2009 18:53:40 GMT -5
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Post by Van Zan on Sept 21, 2009 21:06:26 GMT -5
America is too important to be a thing.
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Post by feverstone on Sept 22, 2009 23:41:12 GMT -5
I'm a turkey.
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Post by Van Zan on Sept 23, 2009 21:34:44 GMT -5
He just keeps sinking...
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Post by Josh on Sept 23, 2009 21:52:39 GMT -5
Soon he'll be worse than me!
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Post by feverstone on Sept 24, 2009 5:37:06 GMT -5
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Post by Zhou Tai 04 on Sept 26, 2009 14:20:46 GMT -5
Then you're probably a faggot that thinks you're smarter and more groundbreaking than people who have put decades of study into something you apparently take so lightly I guess I'd be one of those faggots, since my beliefs/etc. do not entirely line up with any branch of Christianity that I know of. I've spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out what I would fit best with, and most of them I have about 50% or less in common with.
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Post by Van Zan on Sept 27, 2009 18:51:53 GMT -5
The whole view that you take of religion (as I understand it from your repeated statements here) is that it should line up with your thought process, and all your personal preferances. That mentality will certainly lead you away from any kind of organized religion, organized Christianity most of all.
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