Greatest Sect of Christianity

[Barnabas]

The so called Eastern Orthodox are the greatest sect of Schismatics in number, the Catholic Church isn't a sect, it is the real Church.

[Kidlicious]

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. - Gen 1 (God has always been loving)

[giblets]

The so called Eastern Orthodox are the greatest sect of Schismatics in number, the Catholic Church isn't a sect, it is the real Church.

I don't think the word "sect" has that meaning. If Catholics are a subset of all Christians, they are a sect of Christianity.

[Kidlicious]

Barnabas doesn't seem to think non-catholics are christians.

[Kitschum]

Swedish Lutheran

[Uncle Sparky]

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. - Gen 1 (God has always been loving)

What was His true motive? What if it was an elaborate Ponzi scheme?

Besides, Irish Catholics are the chosen:

[Kidlicious]

He didn't live with his mother. She lived with him. That's why catholicism is wrong

[molly bloom]

Google

Don't be dull-if you ain't heard of them, it's no great surprise.

They're in a 'History of Heresy' (Oxford University Press), for instance, and another book on a similar theme, whose name escapes me which, alas, I unfortunately left in Australia.

I could have picked the Donatists or the Montanists, the Pelagians, the Sabaeans, the Mandaeans or the Muggletonians...

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Irish ... do we actually have anyone Irish on here ...

[Proteus_MST]

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. - Gen 1 (God has always been loving)

Biologists create elaborate Labyrinths / Test arrangements for their test animals, without loving the animals.

Considering that god according to the bible also created a temptation (the 2 trees) for its 2 sentient inhabitants (a tempation which, as every psychologist would have been able to tell god, its inhabitants wouldn´t be able to resist forever) it looks a lot like a test arrangement in behavourial research to me (probably to find out the exact time that it takes till 2 newly created sentient beings succumb to a tempation that gets presented to them)

(at least that is my interpretation from genesis ... Gnosticism AFAIK interprets it in a way that the Demiurge (i.e. YHWH) created earth because he desires to be worshipped and therefore needed beings to worship him (which is why the old testament is full of punishments for praying to the "false gods") .. whereas the "real god" who is above YHWH and sent Jesus to the world doesn´t need displays of worship, but rather wants us to find him in our hearts)

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Makes a point of what is love - letting your test rat out of the lab so that the cats outside eat it, but he enjoys the excitement of running for dear life until the day he gets caught... or keeping him in the lab, where he has to be in the cage (not to ruin the lab)... feed him until he grows fat and dies at 3x the age of the freed one. Which one is more caring?

[molly bloom]

Irish ... do we actually have anyone Irish on here ...

I have dual nationality (both parents Irish, all grandparents Irish). I grew up on stories of the Easter Rising and the Black and Tans. On St Patrick's Day we used to receive shamrock from my aunt in Ireland. Our school had ceilidhs and occasionally I'd receive a Dubliners' album as a birthday or Christmas present.

Not quite the thing you want most when you're eight.

[Kidlicious]

Pelagians

[Kidlicious]

Biologists create elaborate Labyrinths / Test arrangements for their test animals, without loving the animals.

Considering that god according to the bible also created a temptation (the 2 trees) for its 2 sentient inhabitants (a tempation which, as every psychologist would have been able to tell god, its inhabitants wouldn´t be able to resist forever) it looks a lot like a test arrangement in behavourial research to me (probably to find out the exact time that it takes till 2 newly created sentient beings succumb to a tempation that gets presented to them)

(at least that is my interpretation from genesis ... Gnosticism AFAIK interprets it in a way that the Demiurge (i.e. YHWH) created earth because he desires to be worshipped and therefore needed beings to worship him (which is why the old testament is full of punishments for praying to the "false gods") .. whereas the "real god" who is above YHWH and sent Jesus to the world doesn´t need displays of worship, but rather wants us to find him in our hearts)

@ literal interpretation of the creation story

Two questions. One, if God created beings to worship him isn't it implied that he loves them? Why would he created us if he didn't love us.

Question two is about your God who created my God (or whatever). How are you suppose to find him in your heart if you don't worship. Christians have the Holy Spirit in us . He worships God through us.

[Lorizael]

One, if God created beings to worship him isn't it implied that he loves them?

You're terrible at logic. Oh man.