RE: So, why doesn't Scripture uniquely endorse a specific denomination ?
November 18, 2017 at 3:39 pm
I don't know how I view Martin Luther. He did indeed deliver one mighty hammer blow to the catholic church but the carnage that followed was sickening. Ok, with or without the reformation Christians were butchering one another with reckless abandon but the numbers shot up after Luther.
As for modern day schisms look at the number of baptist denominations in the US, hundreds, thousands? Is this down to new and profound philosophical / theological revelations by devout but misguided preachers that caused the flock to declare: 'this man knows his shit, lets form a new church'. Or is it more likely due to individual wandering con man preachers spotting large crowds outside rural church's. To use F. T. Barnum's line: Every crowd has a silver lining.
No doubt baptist congregations of whatever stripe are indeed most devout but I suspect their understanding of scripture is limited to the platitudes spouted from the pulpit. Like most Christians, they don't know what they believe or why they believe it, if they were to actually study scripture they wouldn't be Christians.
The Anglican church! Much hilarity! What did Avogadro say about diluting stuff, you can only dilute a substance so many times before there's fuckall left to dilute. Same with the Anglican church, there's fuckall scripture left to fall out over. You want to become a member of the Anglican church? No problem, polish your shoes and find a tie, just turn up and you're good to go.
As for modern day schisms look at the number of baptist denominations in the US, hundreds, thousands? Is this down to new and profound philosophical / theological revelations by devout but misguided preachers that caused the flock to declare: 'this man knows his shit, lets form a new church'. Or is it more likely due to individual wandering con man preachers spotting large crowds outside rural church's. To use F. T. Barnum's line: Every crowd has a silver lining.
No doubt baptist congregations of whatever stripe are indeed most devout but I suspect their understanding of scripture is limited to the platitudes spouted from the pulpit. Like most Christians, they don't know what they believe or why they believe it, if they were to actually study scripture they wouldn't be Christians.
The Anglican church! Much hilarity! What did Avogadro say about diluting stuff, you can only dilute a substance so many times before there's fuckall left to dilute. Same with the Anglican church, there's fuckall scripture left to fall out over. You want to become a member of the Anglican church? No problem, polish your shoes and find a tie, just turn up and you're good to go.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
