re: Arguments and Contradictions

I love the Eastern Orthodox

Greek or Russian?

or perhaps a dirty Slav?

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Pedro

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I didn't vote for you.

It's all good. I enjoy them myself and only recently decided to participate in them, trying to steer them toward actual discussion without the ad hominem. I fail sometimes. I wonder when Christians attack other Christians where they're coming from. I don't mind disagreements, but name-calling doesn't help anyone and seems a bit ironic to be using in a Christian discussion.

Well one it's the OT, so just by environmental influences, it's gonna be difficult to have a serious discussion about theology on this board

and B

As mentioned I've always taken great interest in theology and even considered it being my major I had two uncles who had doctorates of theology, one of them was the one who introduced me to CS Lewis

But I remember a discussion in a class where just as discussion we came to the conclusion that perhaps all the different denominations were that God knew that as the world expanded the message was going to have to make allowances for times in human history and that the Catholic Church and then subsequently the Eastern Orthodox Church served best at establishing THE FAITH In what was then the remnants of the Roman and Greek empires the homes of the Cathlic and Orthadox

Western Civilization progressed as we had continuous splits over a verse or two the message while drifting from the messenger, Christ.

There have long been charismatic Catholics. Often ascetic monks have shenanigans comparable to holy floor rollers.

I think both are condemnable.

Boom

early Christianity was tribal as was the communities the message spread to

The church fit what progressed civilization

Including the inquisition

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Out of curiosity, does the Pope fly commercial?

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Matthew 7:3-5 comes to mind.

3 “And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own? 4 How can you think of saying to your friend, ‘Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend’s eye.