Christ died for his elect and God calls them His children. Why, then, do people identify so strongly with their denomination when there is no biblical support for denominations?
In all my years in my parish, my denomination has not been mentioned ONCE during the Sunday morning worship service.
I DO think some are SO near-sighted that they parrot the denominational spins and claims without even realizing it. For example, on baptism, you have INSISTED that we just ignore whatever any denomination says and go ONLY by the black-and-white words we all can see on the pages of Scripture. And yet the ONLY thing you've done is chant (perfectly), parrot (verbatim) the unique, new, distinctive spin of the Anabaptist denominations on this and have never even attempted to quote the words of the Bible stating all the prohibitions, limitations, restrictions and prerequisites that are the Anabaptist Dogma on Baptist. You've been incredibly obsessed with your denomination, echoing verbatim its unique new spin - without ever crediting the denomination with it. Happens. Rarely as radically as you have done it, but it happens.
MennoSota said:
Yet we have two threads about why switch from X denomination to Y denomination.
Yes, a Catholic uploaded the first. A very sweeping impersonal one. Rather than deal with that, I choose to do a separate one, and to make it personal (just about me). A staffer drew me back to the Catholics but I've tried to keep my views in my thread. My thread is just do so as the Catholic did but make it personal, MY journey. MennoSota, you may be unaware but it has become quite common for people to switch denominations. And you may be unaware, but people often have their faith journeys that have impacted the church they participate with. If you can't relate to any of this, my counsel could be to simply not read or participate in those threads
Yet AGAIN, I disagree with your rubric that whatever is not ilustrated in the Bible is disallowed (which is why I think it's okay to post on the internet). You are correct, denominations aren't mentioned in the NT. Nor is the internet. Or baptism tanks behind a curtain. Or youth pastors and youth groups. Or colleges and seminaries. Or celebrating communion 4 times a year by passing around to everyone a bowl containing little cut up pieces of Weber's White Bread and little plastic cups of Welchs' grape juice. Or forbidding baptism to any under the never disclosed age of X. Or Gentiles baptizing anyone. Or using the internet. Friend, a lot of people simply reject your whole premise you've been demanding all over this site, this whole weird idea that if we don't see it illustrated in the Bible, it's forbidden and bad (and you keep shouting that by posting on the internet).
A blessed Lenten season to all.....
- Josiah
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