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Question for Jews and Christians
Trauma-san:
--- Quote ---The Protestant church really in the old B.C. type sense of religion have any true truth. But it does preach about God, and Jesus our savior, so if it helps a couple of people find God, ten so be it. The Catholic church is the main CHURCH of the world. Trauma, you state that most the U.S. is Protestant, though the largest Christian chuch in the world is Catholics. Now some say Muslum is the largest religion in the world, but that is false because there are 2. something million Christian, if you include Catholic, though most seperate the denomation because they always fight. But Protestant does serve it's purpose as reaching people in the modern era that Catholism can't get. The church serves the modern day sense of religion, and that is the fulfilment of the man. Not necessarily the truth, but the fulfilment of a mans spirit.
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There are several, several, even dozens of different protestant denominations. Baptist, Episcopolitan, Presbyterian, on and on and on. ALL TOGETHER, the comprise the largest church denomination in the u.s. If you only hold 1 denomination, the catholic church is by far the largest. Hope that clears it up :)
Also, Islam is not the biggest religion in the world. Christianity is, if you include all the different denominations, Baptist, Catholicism, Latter Day Saints, etc. etc. etc.
M Dogg™:
And I meant billion... sorry. But Christains are the largest over all, but most number seperate Protestants and Catholics, which case makes Muslims larger than either. Also in the U.S., we have a Protestant majority, but in the world, Catholics are greater than Protestants. This would explain the U.S. world views, as we come from Puritan background, so we feel we must save the world, and convert everyone. Though we are trying to have more of an understanding, and open mind to the rest of the world. The fact that we are even getting news that is remotely again Israel shows great change. But change is far from coming. Little at a time.
Trauma-san:
Whew, great discussion, I'll address everybody, LOL.
Jay Ay Beee - No problem, you didn't say anything to offend me, lol.
Big FC - Mormons agree with everything you said, actually. That's totally true. I just got a little carried away with explaining ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLl of it.
Jake - hope this doesn't start a fight, but a couple things you said I have comments for. 1st, when the bible said not to add, or take away, it was a freakin' copyright notice. Back then, they didn't have those, so the authors of works would write that in there, to say that it is theirs, they wrote it, and not to add or take away from it. Simple as that, they're talking about the book, not the collection of books. BTW, the King James version of the bible you read? It's had dozens of books removed from it.
Also, the point Jay is making about the protestant faiths is this... How can they condemn the catholic church, when they sprang OUT of the catholic church? All protestant churches are good, of course, but all they are are further twists on the catholic church. They drop the things they don't like, and add things they do.
The catholic church rose out of Christ's ministry on earth. So, they can always say "we knew christ" you know? I mean, they were here first, lol, their religion came straight FROM christ! The only problem is, it was corrupted, many, many times over the century.
The mormon church maintains that Joseph Smith, the founding prophet, was visited by various old testament and new testament biblical figures, including God and Jesus Christ, who told him certain truths to re-form Jesus's church on earth, under Jesus's direct supervision. So, they are different, because they (we) claim that we were told what was right/wrong/missing from other religions by God and his son himself. Peter/John/James gave a few founding fathers of the church their priesthood blessings, baptised them, all this. Joseph Smith and others even claimed Moses and Peter visited them, and talked with them, lol. I mean, either we're huge frauds, or true. You can't say we just twisted what the catholics believed, or anything like that. This guy really went out on a limb, LOL.
So the point is catholics can always say "We know what Jesus wants, because we were there" and Mormons can always say "God told us to do it" lol it's up to everybody to figure out which one they believe.
As for confessing sins to a Priest... That's like a 'counseling' type thing. The chutch (i love that word, lol) feels that priests can help an individual understand what their sin warrants in repentance... our chutch believes this too. For instance, if you go to your Bishop, and tell him that you once aborted a baby... I mean, that's a pretty serious transgression. The priest/Bishop is going to have to make a decision, talking to you, of whether you want and feel a need to repent, etc. It all boils down to helping out fellow man, the priest/bishop knows better than others, because they are called to that position to be divinely inspired to tell you what the lord wants you to know, in plain man to man talk. (at least that's what our chutch believes). The bishop doesn't judge you or anything, or shouldn't. Everything I've heard of our bishop about stuff like this is he's a real cool guy, and I know i've felt better every time I talked to him. It's good to get an authorities feelings about something.
Peace, all~
Don Jacob:
damn it now i'm confused ,lol
i guess my church is just anti-catholic or something...oh well at least i'm learning shit lol
M Dogg™:
--- Quote ---damn it now i'm confused ,lol
i guess my church is just anti-catholic or something...oh well at least i'm learning shit lol
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Your church ain't anti Catholic, just that they are going off tradition. Martin Luther at his time disagreed with the Catholic church in the 1500's as well he should because the church was corrupt and very shady. He felt he needed to change things, cool, though changing the Bible shouldn't have been one, but others agreed. Don't worry, what ever helps you feel more at home when worshipping the Lord is all gravy with me. I mean, you don't have to agree with what the Catholic church is saying, but don't dismiss it.
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