Just out of curiosity... can you show me any scripture that segrigates people within the body of Christ? You know, like Catholics over here.... Pentecostals over there... Baptists on the other side... etc?No. Well, at least that's not entirely it. It has do with the fact that Catholics -- unlike Orthodox (or at least unlike Oriental Orthodox, though I've been told in the past that you guys also disagree with the RC on this) -- believe that the sacrament of baptism (and that of priestly ordination, if I recall correctly) confers an ontological change upon the person, marking them permanently with an "indelible mark" as Catholics.
So it's impossible to leave not because you can't leave the Catholic Church and join another one, but because being Roman Catholic makes you into something ontologically different, and you cannot change what you ontologically are...even though, oddly enough, you do being baptized RC in the first place.
(See, e.g., this bit of apologetics)
Or, are we all Children of God who believe in Christ as our savior..... all with different ways of looking at things and different methods of worship, prayer and celebration of the fact that Christ is risen?
So, if we like to where clothes... as all descent people do.... and I like genes and T shirts... and you like cargo shorts and a golf shirt....someone else likes dress pants, shirt and tie... yet another likes sweat pants and a tank top..
Then... one day... I get up and decide to wear a three piece suit.... It's just a different attitude and way of wearing clothes...
We need to stop with this "branding" of a certain denomination... ownership and such.
There are many things about different denominations that I disagree with. Some, I downright think are stumbling blocks to the unsaved as well as the congregation.
Time to stop with the borders... Do you believe in Christ? Do you trust in Him to save your soul? Do you believe you are a sinner and need a savior?
If yes.. then you are not to waddle away to one of the selected pens in which you will be given a name tag for life.
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