Greatest Sect of Christianity

[Kidlicious]

The Book of Job is a Persian fairy tale. Too bad Nicean council preceded the Brothers Grimm.

No dummy. There are similar stories. It's not the same one.

[Kidlicious]

Also, I don't wear a cover on my head in church. It's my opinion that washing the feet of the saints is a commandment, but I haven't done it. It's not an excuse, but I would have to go to a specific church to wah people's feet. I've chosen not to do that. But I shouldn't excuse myself because I'm sinning just like most christians. (and yes I know people say that's a jewish thing, but I call that liberal.

[giblets]

Why would you wear a cover on your head? Are you a woman? Didn't know that.

[Kidlicious]

Learn to read

[giblets]

I thought it was implied in your post that it was something you should do, but don't do. You immediately followed up with mentioning that you think you should wash feet, but you don't do it.

[Kidlicious]

I thought it was implied in your post that it was something you should do, but don't do. You immediately followed up with mentioning that you think you should wash feet, but you don't do it.

Oh ok. No, I don't wear hats in church because it says in the bible that it's forbidden. I believe that women should cover their heads, but I don't expect then to. I just think it's a sin, and should be reckognized as one.

[Sava]

Sava, how much pot do you have to smoke to think of so much crap. You and Berzerker should get together and get stoned and talk about this.

Pot came to me naturally because I thought like this before.

But because my brain is creating this entire experience via a highly filtered input system, everything I think is biased by the lie of the world.

Also, there is of course the whole "humans are wrong about everything" principle. I'm a human and therefore wrong.

[Imran Siddiqui]

You're free, of course, to interpret the Bible. I don't understand your position that you can dismiss parts you don't like. Also, if you dismiss parts or interpret parts incorrectly then you may become guiltyy of blasphemy against the holy spirit, the worst sin.

This is a good place to talk about liberally interpreting the bible. Maybe you can tell me, why a person would do that, beyond just saying that's what I believe, because you must have made a decision that interpreting the bible liberally is ok, and there are warnings in the bible.

Everyone interprets the Bible. Yes, even the fundamentalists. Because the Bible isn't exactly clear cut in a lot of places and we have to interpret it just to understand what it is getting at and then, we have to interpret it to apply it to modern times.

And no one is dismissing anything - unless you are referring to reading the Bible in the context of when it was written, for whom, and for what purpose. In which case you are actually working with the text and struggling with it in order to find the meaning as it applies to our lives. That is actually taking the Bible seriously rather than, IMO, mocking the text by treating it like an instruction manual, which it was never intended to be.

[Kidlicious]

Everyone interprets the Bible. Yes, even the fundamentalists. Because the Bible isn't exactly clear cut in a lot of places and we have to interpret it just to understand what it is getting at and then, we have to interpret it to apply it to modern times.

And no one is dismissing anything - unless you are referring to reading the Bible in the context of when it was written, for whom, and for what purpose. In which case you are actually working with the text and struggling with it in order to find the meaning as it applies to our lives. That is actually taking the Bible seriously rather than, IMO, mocking the text by treating it like an instruction manual, which it was never intended to be.

Of course everyone interprets tghe bible, but not eve rf yone interprets it correctly, and it must be interpreted correctly. That's the reason for a conservative approach.

[Traianvs]

I need a manual for all those sects. What's the difference between baptists, methodists, presbyterians and what not? They're all branching off from the protestants right?

[Jon Miller]

A nice handy table:

http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/charts/denominations_beliefs.htm

JM

[Kidlicious]

The baptists were radical reformers, but they've influenced other denominations. Many baptists don't get offended if you call them protestants.

I don't know what the first protestant church is (Anglican maybe). Methodism branched off of the Anglican church.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Of course everyone interprets tghe bible, but not eve rf yone interprets it correctly, and it must be interpreted correctly. That's the reason for a conservative approach.

"Correctly" is in the eye of the beholder. I think the "conservative" approach is dead wrong in Bible interpretation (of course that depends on what the conservative approach actually is - as a lot of a conservatives are against Higher Criticism methods of interpretation or against looking at the context at all). Of course that doesn't mean that I am final authority. The conversation about how to treat the Scriptures should help us decifer it for each of us.

Also I believe in the continual revelation of God's will through the workings of the Holy Spirit. Which tends to mean I'm not a Bibliolater.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I don't know what the first protestant church is (Anglican maybe).

Um... Lutheranism, for obvious reasons . Reformed Churches (following the teachings of John Calvin) came shortly after.

[MOBIUS]

Surely it should be no sects before marriage!?

I think that would solve a lot of the world's problems...