Not so. We believe in the Virgin Birth, as the Christians do. There was no sex involved.
You have a good day now.
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BUT they believe god
BUT they believe god is some pervert who had sex with Mary..
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Brigham Young only said that what took place happened via "natural means".
Don't make God out to be a perv, or try to use a human explanation for something of the divine .
Quackery don't work on me.
BUT they believe god is some pervert who had sex with Mary, AND they teach convert or die...
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It's the critics of the church who argue that sex took place.
According to this site, the Catholic Church is Christian, I’m sure the Catholics would be surprised.
Ugh my bad because they sounded like a muslim, then again I can't expect much from a religion that denies Christ.
According to this site? Well they are wrong.
Well according to this site they also allow heathen in, but does that make it right?
Ah, so we have ourselves a good old fashioned Fundamentalist that doesn't accept Catholics and other normal Christians as being Christian. That would explain a lot actually.
-CryptoLutheran
Don’t forget the idolaters too.
Muslims aren't heretics either. They're Muslims. Islam isn't a heresy, it's a separate religion altogether.
-CryptoLutheran
Then I recommend not partaking in the worship of Zeus or Poseidon. I have no idea why you bring this passage up.
It would seem confusing wisdom with bigotry would be the opposite of being wise.
"Our fight is not against flesh and blood" writes the Apostle in Ephesians ch. 6, "but against the cosmic powers of darkness". Attacking and ridiculing your fellow man created in the image and likeness of God by conflating him or her with the devil is certainly not a Christian thing to do. I believe St. James in his epistle has a few choice words about being double-tongued.
That and you seem to be under the erroneous idea that Muslims worship a different god than Christians do. Jews, Christians, and Muslims all recognize the same Deity, the God of Abraham. Our differences are theological, what we believe about this God.
I'm not interested in what you imagine or think Muslims or people of other religions do. I'm talking about how our Lord Jesus Christ teaches us as Christians to act, how He commands that we live toward our neighbor.
I'm quite familiar with my Bible. Might I recommend you crack yours open, you seem to have missed the important parts.
Oh, I get the point in trying to use religion to justify hatred and anger toward those different. I just think it's wrong. Morally, theologically, and exegetically.
-CryptoLutheran
I would first probably nitpick about some of those. For one it depends on what we mean by "Catholic Church", because it's important to remember the 5th and 11th century schisms: The Nestorian and Miaphysite Schisms in the 5th and the Great Schism in the 11th. Because the Eastern Churches are as much the Catholic Church as the Roman Catholic Church is (insofar as we're talking about those churches which, formerly, were united together in the catholicity of the Christian Church of antiquity). Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox confess the same Creed (the Niceno-Constantinoplian Creed), worship on the same day of the week as given in apostolic tradition, more-or-less share the same Canon of Scripture, and have the same major Feast Days (the Armenian Church excluded as they retain the ancient tradition of incorporating the celebration of the Nativity as part of Epiphany/Theophany rather than the more universal practice of celebrating it on Dec. 25th).
But yes, it is this ancient catholic Church which, springing from the apostolic and sub-apostolic Church of antiquity that has given Christendom the Canon of Scripture, the Church Year, the Creeds, and our historic forms of worship. (As a Lutheran I consider being Lutheran part of that ancient catholic continuum of faith, which is why I freely confess faith in the holy catholic Church).
I only nit-pick because I think it erroneous to include Roman Catholicism to the exclusion of the rest of the catholic churches (Eastern and Oriental Orthodox specifically).
Though largely speaking anti-Catholic sentiment arises from a certain ignorance of history that does not quite conceive how to think about the larger Christian world, or the history of the Christian faith. The complex and nuanced history of the Christian Church usually isn't going to register on that sort of radar.
I've also found that usually knowledge of the Creeds is very limited in such circumstances--personally speaking I had never heard of any of the Creeds until I was an adult and stumbled upon them when I started studying the history of the Church. Also, speaking personally, the question of how the biblical Canon came to be simply wasn't a question that was addressed when I was growing up, I don't think I even remember wondering how it happened--the narrative was simplistic and straightforward: The Bible just was.
-CryptoLutheran
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Shouldn’t that read “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto Me, but by Me.” remember, Jesus is God.
BUT they believe god is some pervert who had sex with Mary, AND they teach convert or die...
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