BK's bible discussion thread

[Aeson]

I'm pretty sure you're going to hell just for thinking about it.

[Ben Kenobi]

Are you serious? Why the hell would anyone care, including God?

I am serious. It's an important issue, communion or no communion.

[Fake Boris]

Too bad for you then. You're burdening yourself with a false question...

[Lancer]

I go to the Catholic church in the Phils, so what? Go where you want and do what you want. I'll go to any church that doesn't reject Christ. It's a social thing anyway, your relationship with God needs no such filter as a church. The girls get all dolled up, that's reason enough to go.

[Ben Kenobi]

Though it was for educational reasons, there was no lightning and parting of the heavens, so I guess you should be okay

I hope you do know I am a convert from the mennonite church.

[Ben Kenobi]

I go to the Catholic church in the Phils, so what? Go where you want and do what you want. I'll go to any church that doesn't reject Christ. It's a social thing anyway, your relationship with God needs no such filter as a church. The girls get all dolled up, that's reason enough to go.

Well it cost me two years to get confirmed just so I could take communion, so you'll have to forgive me if I say it's important to me to be able to take communion.

[Lancer]

So, get a bottle of wine and a loaf of bread.

[Ben Kenobi]

You should know better then most folks, what did I say to you so long ago Lancer?

[Lancer]

So much stuff that it astounded me. Got a laugh out of it though, those are always appreciated. Regarding thie thread subject however, I don't recall that it came up.

[Elok]

It's fine from the Orthodox perspective as long as you don't partake of the sacraments (except for baptism/chrismation or marriage to an Orthodox person, and I suspect you aren't after either). If you want to know the Catholic perspective, ask your priest or some other Catholic source. If you don't know, we certainly aren't likely to, are we?

[Ben Kenobi]

I just threw it out in case someone else did. I also wanted the orthodox perspective too, which I hoped you would be able to answer.

[Lancer]

Eh, if I knew I would certainly tell him. We are all followers of Jesus Christ.

[LotC]

What does the guy with the big funny hat have to say about it?

Better yet, what do you think?

[onodera]

Originally posted by Elok


...um, no. We wouldn't get any converts if we were so unfriendly, and there is no such part of the church. Not in America, anyway. My GF was just chrismated a few weeks ago after over a year attending services as a lapsed Presbyterian. Perhaps it's a Russian thing, akin to the part of the service where you bow down to the statue of Putin?

Seriously, all you have to do is avoid taking communion, since we understand that to be a sign of full dogmatic agreement. Otherwise it's all good. This thread is misnamed, though. Not that I mind. I only clicked out of morbid curiosity, to see what the justification was for restarting a locked-down thread...

Next thing you tell me, you sit in your church. :P
When I was younger, I had great interest in profane aspects of the Orthodox church, and I clearly remember there were three sections: the narthex, the nave, and the sanctuary. BK should stand in the narthex during services.
Well, probably your church is like those fabled Ukrainian mosques that tell that it's okay to eat salo and drink horilka to get any converts. Here in Russia the chruch has no such need, so the rules are followed strictly.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Lancer
So, get a bottle of wine and a loaf of bread.

Do what Lancer says. Then go hang out with the homeless people. It's what Jesus would do.