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So recently, I dialogued with the Liberals, and realized I have some common ground with them, after being accused by someone as a liberal, but I have always considered myself a conservative Christian, which is why I left the UCC after realizing any attempt to make a dent in the radical theology of that denomination was futile.
So, how would you rate my conservative Christianity?
So, how would you rate my conservative Christianity?
- I believe the sacred scriptures compiled in the Holy Bible, including the deuterocanonical books recognized by the Anglicans, Lutherans, Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholics, and Oriental Orthodox, specifically, everything in the Septuagint, and everything in the Ethiopian narrow canon such as 1 Enoch, because St. Jude quotes it, as the inspired and inerrant primary revelation of God, but the protocanonical scriptures are our primary source of doctrine.
- I believe in a strongly Trinitarian theology, emphasizing the Nicene Creed, the Apostles Creed, and Quincunque Vult, also known as the Athanasian Creed, although St. Athanasius did not write it, in all cases sans the filioque, which was not originally in the Nicene Creed, and is absent from the Eastern Orthodox version of Quincunque Vult.
- I believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, his humanity and divinity united without confusion, comingling, separation, or division, and in the principle of communicatio idiomatum.
- I am opposed to homosexual marriage and believe people with homosexuality are called to holy celibacy, as are unmarried heterosexuals such as myself, and that casual sex is morally repugnant, and adultery, a profoundly destructive sin that destroys families and ruins the lives of the children.
- I reject Pelagianism; I am not Calvinist, or monergist, but I believe the grace of the Holy Spirit allows us to have the choice to cooperate with him for our salvation or reject him, because God desires our voluntary love, but all spiritual progress we make is enabled by God the Holy Spirit.
- I believe in the ancient Eastern and Oriental Orthodox doctrines of the baptism, chrismation (confirmation) and communion of infants and children, the veneration of icons and relics, frequent communion and confession, and salvation through Theosis.
- I believe that at a minimum, Christians should endeavor to pray the Lord’s Prayer three times a day, and having a more sophisticated prayer rule is highly desirable; it is also of great benefit, and completely satisfactory, to focus on continual recitation of the Psalms or the Jesus Prayer “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have Mercy on Me, a Sinner.”
- I believe that the great moral evils of our time are embodied in abortion, euthanasia, sexual promiscuity, Progressive politics, Islamism and resurgent Communism and militant Socialism, for example, the Communist takeovers of Venezuela in 2000 and Nepal in 2007.
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