Who said he was right? The Bible is correct. A Bible study group is not led by one certain man.
Oh, I am misunderstanding. BTW I think its great your on track and feeling better about yourself and direction.
So you are saying your church was started recently by a person who was part of a group who did their own interpretation of the Bible and and was “saved” by a feeling.
You are a Christian, but your theology is reformed. Your theology is that of the Calvinist school. YOu can deny it, but that does not make it less true.
You don’t belong to a church. You belong to denomination- one of housands that have sprung up since man decided he knew better than God. There . You can trace your denomination only back to a group of disentful men a little over 500 years ago. They would have you believe that Jesus Christ was so inept that he allowed people to wallow in ignorance for 1500 years before the truth came out. I personally would not want to worship God who was so inept.
The Bible can only be properly interpreted in the light of the Church. Separating Scripture, Tradition, and Liturgy results in skewed interpretations.
The authority comes not from man but from God. That is what Paul teaches. By the way, the last part of your post is a direct attempt to convert me. Which is not allowed. I cant do it and neither can you.So you are saying your church was started recently by a person who was part of a group who did their own interpretation of the Bible and and was “saved” by a feeling.
By what authority, other than his own personal feeling and personal understanding of scripture did this person establish his very own church?
Do you not know that if Jesus The Christ had wanted mankind to be flummoxed to the point of starting up thousands of different takes on His message, known as churchs or congregations, he would not have left his own seal of approval on the apostles and their actions?
Do you believe that Christ has no problem with men establishing their own mis-interpretation of his words and then argueing themselves into thousands of splinters?
Come home to Rome; the seat of The One True and Holy Catholic Church established on Earth by Christ until He comes again.
But you see, the story of the Bible is always of men who take the teachings of God and do not following them. Then, and only then, does God reveal His truth to a small group or in the case of the OT, prophets.
But to be accurate, that is not true. You could see traces of many theological schools in Fundamentalism. You actually do not know much of my theology CW. I do not think it matters too much. Lets not digress too much.
A couple of thoughts from this Lutheran:
I am curious as to why if everybody can discern the truth from Scripture on their own why there are so many thousands of different versions of the truth? Again it appears to me that you are worshiping a very inept god
There is no shared history between the Lutherans and the Catholic Church prior to 1500. The Lutherans rejected the church 500 years ago. Fortunately they have held on to some of the fundamental truths protected by the Church for the first 1500 years after Christ died. It is well that you are Christian-even better if you would come home.
Did you know when I looked at tradition, big T, seriously, I found them to be later developing and differing amongst the different strands of churches claiming apostolic succession. Some things are the same to be sure! But enough major things that I certainly see the same problems that are also part of my view of scripture.
But you see that is the same argument I used when I was an atheist. How can all the religions disagreeing allow anyone to discern the truth. It has a flawed presupposition. Truth is not determined by mans inability to discern it. It never has been. God revealed Truth. In Christ and in His holy scriptures and through his church, Truth can be ascertained. However, the inability of some to ascertain that does not negate it.
Godbless… RD…for turning your life around, very admirable of you.
I think this overstates your case. Our beliefs come from scripture. The degree to which the Catholic Church, althought the history of the Majority Text is that of the eastern church, gives us the Bible has been discussed.
Part right, but part wrong. Christ started His ministry and as He taught He also taught Apostles, why? Because He knew that ministry would need to continue on earth. And then Christ handed the Keys to Peter who continued the ministry which quickly became the Catholic Church.
It is easy to determine who has the truth. Only one Church can trace its Authority back to jesus and the Apostles. only one Church has held to the same teachings and dooctrines from the Day Jesus rose until today. It is the same Church that gave us the Bible. All other denomoinations sprung from disent born from pride over 1500 years after Jesus rose from the dead
But I didn’t rise…He did it. I never would have.Part right, but part wrong. Christ started His ministry and as He taught He also taught Apostles, why? Because He knew that ministry would need to continue on earth. And then Christ handed the Keys to Peter who continued the ministry which quickly became the Catholic Church.
If there were in fact many paths the church woundn’t have been fighting heresy for 2000-years. In fact theres only one mystical body of Jesus Christ. All denominations are cells of the body not connected to the body.
There is only “One Truth”.
BTW while it great you rose above some personal issues, you do realize people do that every day and haven’t found any God. They just decided to face their issues and deal with them productively instead of living in denial and acting of their feelings daily.