What denomination am I?

[mark46]

With regard to Anglicans, you might consider ACNA churches. They are in continuing diolog with the Orthodox Church of America with regard to moving toward fuller communion over the coming decades, so I suspect they would be conservative enough for you.

There are also still some conservative TEC dioceses. Either might meet your needs. However, I suspect that you need more theological structure than we tend to provide.

I might have to give that book a try!

BTW it is interesting I have two votes for anglicism. Personally I agree more with the Catholics then them, mostly on maters of communion and non-straight priests. furthermore, I don't like the fact that the reason for the Anglician church's conception was to allow for divorce. Not a great way to kick off a Christian community in my opinion, and what is with making th ing the head of the church? that seem like a horrible idea.

 

[sunlover1]

I am completely opposed to debt. I do not use credit cards and encourage the people in my flock to not use them. If they can't afford to eat with using credit cards they have no business giving to the church. That does not honor God in any way.

Sounds like my own pastor's view

I am looking for a denomination, but I am having a difficult time choosing which one. Here are some of my beliefs, feel free to ask about other ones, or to ask for further explanation of what I believe:

1 I am a full TULIP Calvinist
2 I ask intersession from Mary
3 I believe in transubstantiation
4 I believe that the Bible is not inherent, but it is inspired.
5 I believe that the charismatic gifts are for today
6 I think purgatory is a place for beautifying the elect, not punishing them.
7 I am an annihilationist
8 I don't believe the sacraments are required for salvation.
9 I don't believe that sins should be confessed to a priest
10 I don't believe the pope is infallible
11 I am a premilenialist
12 I lean towards young earth creationism
13 The OT laws are not still valid today, only what they teach is
14 I don't believe in penal substitution, but rather a substitutionary/ransom view

Hi Bibleblever!
Hey, why not just call yourself a Christian and be done with it lol

Sectarianism is Carnal​

3 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to ababes in Christ. 2 I fed you with bmilk and not with solid food; cfor until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; 3 for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and 1behaving like mere men? 4 For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal? ​

Seriously...

And if you seek God's face and heart.. He WILL send you to
your very own "tribe" to worship with. NOTHING in this world
can beat being in God's perfect will. And i mean nothing!
Why settle for anything less.(I'm sure you already know that)

He is GREAT
He does miracles...... so great.

 

[ebia]

I might have to give that book a try!

BTW it is interesting I have two votes for anglicism. Personally I agree more with the Catholics then them,

Virtually everything you've said would fall somewhere in the Anglican spectrum, whereas some of what you've said would be completely antithetical to Catholics.

mostly on maters of communion

In what way?

and non-straight priests.

Don't equate TEC with the whole of the Anglican Communion, let alone all that self-identify as Anglican.

furthermore, I don't like the fact that the reason for the Anglician church's conception was to allow for divorce. Not a great way to kick off a Christian community in my opinion, and what is with making th ing the head of the church? that seem like a horrible idea.

Virtually every tradition has been mixed up in political expediency at some point, whether Roman, Calvin's Geneva, whatever. Cranmer used King Henry's wishes to give him the independence he needed to reform the Church in England.

To get back to the OP, I don't know what it means to say you are a full Calvanist and then assent to some things Calvin denied.

 

[Timothew]

I took a food box to a woman who tithes 10% to her church, as per their request.

Pretty cool trick, huh?

That is so sad.

Why do churches devour widows houses and then give them the scraps that fall from their sagging tables. And then call it "charity?"

 

[Timothew]

For the OP, I voted Baptist.

In a group of 100 baptists, there are 200 points of view.

 

[Tangible]

For the OP, I voted Baptist.

In a group of 100 baptists, there are 200 points of view.

But a sacramental Baptist walks a very lonely road.

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

But a sacramental Baptist walks a very lonely road.

Welcome to the Denomination of "Lonesome Doves"

http://www.scripture4all.org/

Matt 7:13 Enter ye thru the cramped Gate, that broad the Gate and spacious the Way the one leading-away into the Destruction/apwleian <684> and many are the ones entering thru Her.
14 That cramped the Gate and having been constricted the Way, the one leading-away into the Life and few are the ones finding Her.

apwleian <684> Used in Reve 17:8,11

Revelation 22:14 Happy the ones rinsing the robes of them, that it shall be the authority of them on the Wood of the Life and to the Gates they may be entering into the City.

 

[mark46]

espcially accompanied by a devotion to Mary

But a sacramental Baptist walks a very lonely road.

 

[bibleblevr]

Virtually everything you've said would fall somewhere in the Anglican spectrum, whereas some of what you've said would be completely antithetical to Catholics.

really? do tell

In what way?

I believe in transubstantiation, and as I understand it, the anglicians don't

Don't equate TEC with the whole of the Anglican Communion, let alone all that self-identify as Anglican.

Ok, fair enough

To get back to the OP, I don't know what it means to say you are a full Calvinist and then assent to some things Calvin denied.

I believe the 5-points of tulip, and agree with much of what Calvin taught, but my views are no where near identical.


BTW I visited an Anglican church just last Sunday, (it was my first time in a non-Protestant church) I liked it pretty well.

 

[Tangible]

Just to be clear, you believe in full-on Transubstantiation - à la RCC - not just the Real Presence?

 

[Aibrean]

Well, they're not ALL lesbians...

I'm referring to this (i.e. practicing gays are allows to preach):

ELCA NEWS SERVICE
August 21, 2009
ELCA Assembly Opens Ministry to Partnered Gay and Lesbian Lutherans
09-CWA-34-CA


The 2009 Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) voted today to open the ministry of the church to gay and lesbian pastors and other professional workers living in committed relationships.

Read more if you could stand to

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

Just to be clear, you believe in full-on Transubstantiation - à la RCC - not just the Real Presence?

http://www.christianforums.com/t6423324-19/#post40707508
Early Church Fathers on Transubstantiation

http://www.christianforums.com/t7385593/
The Eucharist: Symbolic, Real Presence, Transubstantiation

 

[bibleblevr]

Just to be clear, you believe in full-on Transubstantiation - à la RCC - not just the Real Presence?

I am a little hazy about the differences, but from what I understand, I would be fine with a church that simply believes in real-presence.

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

I am a little hazy about the differences, but from what I understand, I would be fine with a church that simply believes in real-presence.

Hmmm.....I am one that doesn't believe in the RP myself and perhaps one reason I can't/won't partake of the RCs communion wafer [tho I have been to their Mass a few times]

 

[bibleblevr]

For the OP, I voted Baptist.

In a group of 100 baptists, there are 200 points of view.

I think that the baptist would kick me out of the church if I suggested that we pray to Mary

Unfortunately, I think that my views on Mary may disqualify Lutheranism, however, alot of my other views are pointing towards the Lutherans

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

I think that the baptist would kick me out of the church if I suggested that we pray to Mary

Unfortunately, I think that my views on Mary may disqualify Lutheranism, however, alot of my other views are pointing towards the Lutherans

I would definately find one that doesn't focus on Mary as does the RCC/EOs [and yes, even as Islam does ehehe]

http://www.christianforums.com/t7406352/
Was Mary the greatest woman that ever lived?

 

[Aibrean]

I think you are ok with your views on Mary...just take Luther for example. http://www.davidmacd.com/catholic/martin_luther_on_mary.htm

Acutally - RC's aren't supposed to give communion to anyone who isn't RC. They rarely give it to O's but unless you are in a life and death situation you aren't supposed to partake if you don't believe in RP.

Whoops - I did at my B-I-L's funeral...I think all of our family did (including the ones who didn't even believe in RP).

 

[SummaScriptura]

I voted "other".

I banking on it being this one:

 

[Chesterton]

I am looking for a denomination, but I am having a difficult time choosing which one. Here are some of my beliefs, feel free to ask about other ones, or to ask for further explanation of what I believe:

1 I am a full TULIP Calvinist
2 I ask intersession from Mary

If you're a full TULIP Calvinst, what could you possibly ask Mary to intercede about? God cannot change the pre-determined course of things just because someone asks. I mean He's omnipotent, but He's not that omnipotent.

 

[Tangible]

I think you are ok with your views on Mary...just take Luther for example. Martin Luther on Mary

Bear in mind that Luther's position on Mary and praying to the saints shifted as he aged. His early writings were very much colored by his background in Roman Catholicism, and he was a very conservative reformer after all. Later on he distanced himself and advised others to distance themselves from veneration of and asking for intercession by Mary and the saints.

Lutherans nowadays have a wide spectrum of beliefs regarding Mary, and as long as marian devotion doesn't take your focus off of Christ, there is a lot of room for freedom here.

Please see here: Mary | The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod

Also, this is a good, in-depth discussion: Luther's Theology of Mary