Kneeling to statues

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Darryl_B said:
There is however, this complete void of “the communion of saints”, which I identified early in my conversion.
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I am a little puzzled how a person can read Heb. 11 and not have a sense of this great cloud of witnesses surrounding us.
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What is missing in protestantism
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Yes, it is a sad consequence of the Reformation. Even Luther was scandalized that they engaged in iconoclasm while he was out of town, smashing the church furnishings/decor. The Calvanists and later Puritans replaced the beauty of the “catholic” environment with such austerity as to break one’s heart.

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The rich surrounding of physical elements designed to draw the mind and heart into heaven were stripped away and replaced with…NOTHING!
 
smacks head That’s right.

I’m sure I’ve heard that before.

Didn’t they used to use churches as courtrooms before they had courtrooms or when they didn’t have a courtroom, because often the church was the biggest building in the town? Or am I muddling history?
 
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Didn’t they used to use churches as courtrooms before they had courtrooms or when they didn’t have a courtroom, because often the church was the biggest building in the town? Or am I muddling history?
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No but it goes back even further. In the middle ages, law was determined by the most powerful monarch/landowner in the region. Monarchs held “court” where the nobles would come to press their issues regarding the kingdom. This practice was used as far back as Egyptian and ancient Hebrew. We see in the Scriptures where Moses came into the “court” of Pharoah, and where the woman whose child died in infancy sought to take another woman’s child in the court of Solomon.

In the “new world” the Puritans wanted to establish a system of governance that was run by the community, rather than the monarch. They were quite ruthless with those who did not conform to their religious beliefs, which is ironic, since they came here to avoid religious persecution in England.

As the rule of law began to be codified in the US, Churches were, indeed, the largest, and sometimes the only public building large enough to accomodate everyone, so legal cases were brought there also.
 
Churches were used as schools, meeting places, courtrooms, etc. yes, because they were historically the biggest meeting places in a town.
 
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