jb
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Post by jb on Apr 22, 2008 10:22:35 GMT -5
Frankly, formal reception bestows on you no particular benefit (other than formal membership, listing on the parish rolls, a right to vote at the annual meeting, and another number to calculate an increase in the parish's diocesan assessment). I'm not convinced that, at this point in your faith journey, formal reception has any real value to you or an Episcopal parish. Sojourner, thanks for this and other depthful responses. I am grateful to be in communion with you all. pax! jb
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Post by comanche250 on May 3, 2008 7:51:10 GMT -5
I've become a convinced ecumenical Christian over the last decade, and now want to go the extra step of leaving the Catholic Church. Anglicanism, with its liberal orientation, appears to be the best option. My personal theology centers almost entirely on Jesus Christ, as opposed to any Christian sectarian doctrine, including deification of the Bible. In fact, I've come to disdain sectarianism in the Christian world, and want to hang out with open-minded, yet committed, followers of Jesus. So far, I haven't had much luck finding any. Religion is frought with extremism and stubborn sectarian strife, both of which don't correspond with human survival in the 21st Century.
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Post by christian on May 3, 2008 14:45:24 GMT -5
I don't know much about deification of the Bible, But in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.
This is certainly a reference to the divine nature of the content of the Bible, though to overly revere the book itself, to idolize the paper and ink, is an error.
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Post by comanche250 on May 3, 2008 19:20:28 GMT -5
The Bible is important, but it's not God. The 'Word' was meant to be Jesus. Jesus came before the New Testament. I worship Jesus, not a book or any church.
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