The church considers marriages to be valid only if they can be consummated. Otherwise the definition of a sacramental marriage isn't met and the couple are living essentially as friends anyway. And such a relationship would be dissolvable without recourse to the church.
No, your position is that the indissolubility of marriage has been compromised by streamlining policies. And that doesn't necessarily follow.
What's clear? They can all hold whatever differences they want to. It shouldn't divide the church. Here is my point. Ready for this?
Yeh, different statisticians come up with different totals, but that's only a minor criticism. There are thousands of denominations, it's certain.
I had an email conversation with my pastor and I feel much better now. It’s all good. Besides I don’t think I’d like a conservative liturgical church, but even if I did, there’s no ACNA churches around here.
My pastor is ok with me disagreeing with the 6000 year age of the earth theory.
For any other readers who might care, the only members of the Anglican Communion in North America are The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada.
Right! Well I think since there are thousands some of them believe the same things, they just call themselves something different. Since the living word of God is a double-edged sword, it is easy to misinterpret what it means. For example, the Bible is the one book we have that covers the physical and the spiritual world. So what a "scholar" might call a contradiction in the Bible is just a truth relating to one of the two worlds but the "scholar" in his " science" cannot discern the two worlds seeing that if he is an Atheist, he does not believe in one of them. So, since none of us are God, and it would be audacious to say we know exactly what He means, we cannot say who has it 100% right because we are merely humans falling short of the glory of God.
Diversity is overrated. Would the world not be free of racism and sexism if we all saw ourselves as " the human race" and " One people" under God? If we were mature and civilized enough to see ourselves as a one nation world without the government, no one would go hungry. Even the US motto is United we stand, divided we fall so is diversity good?
Why not just believe what the Bible says? Too many attempt to mix the satanic teachings of man with scripture in our modern era. Next, people will be claiming to be Christian yet worship the aliens that atheists are now starting to say are the gods who created man.
See and that is such a joke. That has red flags all over it. Some things are so frustrating for me because I can see them plain as day where others cannot. Does that ever frustrate you? Like they may honestly think they have proof and it makes sense and blah blah. The Bible says something about a chariot or something but God is not an alien! Wow it is really going to come to that. How sad. You could be right.
