Anglican Church Sign...."Our God is Too Big for only One Religion!"

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Thoughts on this?

I personally didn’t take it as them simply referring to different denominations within Christianity, but rather that their are other paths to God, (perhaps Muslim, Hindu, etc. etc.) despite what the Bible Teaches about Jesus being the only way to God.
 
heart4home said:
Thoughts on this?

I personally didn’t take it as them simply referring to different denominations within Christianity, but rather that their are other paths to God, (perhaps Muslim, Hindu, etc. etc.) despite what the Bible Teaches about Jesus being the only way to God.
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Could be.

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heart4home said:
Thoughts on this?

I personally didn’t take it as them simply referring to different denominations within Christianity, but rather that their are other paths to God, (perhaps Muslim, Hindu, etc. etc.) despite what the Bible Teaches about Jesus being the only way to God.
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It does depend on what they meant by it. If they meant different divisions of Christianity, I would agree. I have doctrinal differences with Catholics, Orthodox, and many of the Protestant denominations, but they’re all Christians. If they meant Muslim, Hindu, etc., I would strongly disagree. Which is not to say that no religion but Christianity has some truth; they all do to varying degrees – but only Christianity has Christ, crucified and resurrected.
 
heart4home said:
Thoughts on this?

I personally didn’t take it as them simply referring to different denominations within Christianity, but rather that their are other paths to God, (perhaps Muslim, Hindu, etc. etc.) despite what the Bible Teaches about Jesus being the only way to God.
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Its always hard to tell with anglicans exactly what the mean. Our Lord prayed that “that they may all be one” (cf john 17:21) if one religion was good enough for the God-man and His early followers (cf Mt 16:18, 28:19, and Eph 4:5) its good enough for me.
 
Makes sense from their point of view. I am reminded of something William F.Buckley once said: “The Anglican Church is so eclectic that no one, from the Pope to Mao Tse Tung can assert with any degree of certitude that he is NOT an Anglican.”
 
The Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has said that there are many paths to God outside the Christian faith.
 
Ridgerunner said:
Makes sense from their point of view. I am reminded of something William F.Buckley once said: “The Anglican Church is so eclectic that no one, from the Pope to Mao Tse Tung can assert with any degree of certitude that he is NOT an Anglican.”
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That is brilliant! Anglicism in a nutshell!
 
hn160 said:
The Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has said that there are many paths to God outside the Christian faith.
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While Christ said that there is only one path that is straight and narrow and few there be that find it.
 
This acceptance of syncretism among many modern-day Christians is truly absurd. One of the main reasons early Christians were persecuted was because they did not accept the belief in syncretism.

The various pagan religions accepted the concept of syncretism and would make animal sacrifices to each others gods. This really angered the Pagans as well as the Empire which required syncretism. That is whyt the NT instructs Christians not to eat meat sacrificed to idols. Eating meat sacrificed to idols would be syncretism.

The Jews were also hated by the Pagans for refusing to accept syncretism. However, unlike Judaism, Christianity was an illegal religion and therefore had no protection from persecution by the Roman Empire.
 
The Catholic Church teaches that even a Muslim or a Hindu may be saved. So, in fact, you do not have to be a formally, publicly recognized member of a Christian Church in order to be saved, according to the Catholic Church.

Yes, “Our God is too Big for only one Religion” is true, even from a Catholic perspective.
 
Are you sure this was an Anglican church or an Episcopal Church specifically. Its important to specify which type of Anglicanism this church belongs to. The diversity that one sees in the Anglican communion and even in bodies not recognized by the larger Anglican communion is mindboggling.
 
SedesDomi said:
The Catholic Church teaches that even a Muslim or a Hindu may be saved. So, in fact, you do not have to be a formally, publicly recognized member of a Christian Church in order to be saved, according to the Catholic Church.

Yes, “Our God is too Big for only one Religion” is true, even from a Catholic perspective.
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Being a publicly recognized member of a Christian Church does not guarantee salvation. You are correct that even a Muslim or a Hindu can be saved they are sincerely trying to worship God the best way they know how.

However, I think you are missing the point that Christians may not give validity to other religions. The Catholic belief is that Jesus is God and he made one Church as the ordinary way to salvation. Anyone outside the Church that is saved is saved despite not being Christian.
 
Hail_Linus said:
Being a publicly recognized member of a Christian Church does not guarantee salvation. You are correct that even a Muslim or a Hindu can be saved they are sincerely trying to worship God the best way they know how.

However, I think you are missing the point that Christians may not give validity to other religions. The Catholic belief is that Jesus is God and he made one Church as the ordinary way to salvation. Anyone outside the Church that is saved is saved despite not being Christian.
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The problem is that the Muslim, Hindu or any other non-Christian worships a god that is not the Triune God of the Christian. Christ said that no one comes to the Father except through Him.
 
hn160 said:
The problem is that the Muslim, Hindu or any other non-Christian worships a god that is not the Triune God of the Christian. Christ said that no one comes to the Father except through Him.
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I agree Salvation is through Jesus. They just don’t know it yet. They will find out when they die.

Consider Jesus’ conversation with the Samaritan woman in the Gospel of John (4:21) where Jesus says to the woman, “You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.”

Today we can say to a non-Christian “You worship what you do not know; we Christians know what we worship, for salvation is from Jesus Christ.” May non-Christians are sincerely trying to worship God. They just know how to do it.
 
Would it be vandalism to take red duct tape, X out the “Episcopal” part of their front lawn sign and tack a sign next to it saying “Unitarian?” Just wondering…
 
manualman said:
Would it be vandalism to take red duct tape, X out the “Episcopal” part of their front lawn sign and tack a sign next to it saying “Unitarian?” Just wondering…
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yea, it would. Along with incredibly disrespectful. First off, you don’t even know its an Episcopal Church, only that its Anglican. Secondly, mind your own affairs. Threads like this serve no purpose except to scandalize those wishing to be scandalized.
 
Oh lighten up, nobody is actually doing anything of the sort. Rhetorical questions are for provoking ideas, not getting answers. And yes, there are plenty of catholic parishes that could be (maybe ought to be) subject to the same treatment. Last I checked, just the Unitarians believe that one religion is as good as any other…
 
nhylan said:
yea, it would. Along with incredibly disrespectful. First off, you don’t even know its an Episcopal Church, only that its Anglican. Secondly, mind your own affairs. Threads like this serve no purpose except to scandalize those wishing to be scandalized.
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Nhylan, I don’t even know for sure if the church in question would even be wishing to be scandalized here.

But to answer the OP, we don’t truly know if the sign was referring to Chrisitan religions or also non. I will only say I do consider God as being bigger than our human finite minds though. Peace.
 
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