Question about denominations...

Yeah man, I know what you mean. I know that at least some catholics (and the lutheran church is similiar to catholocism in many ways, to my understanding) beleive that God manifests himself through tradition. I disagree with this and find it to be really just dogma. Sort of like I know people who think communion should be taken once a week. I think that this takes away the specialness of it. If it is done consitantly every week, I don't see how it is any less routine or any more meaningful than taking up the offering. My views anyway, but to each his own.

I am deffinately planning on visiting the Episcipol church here though.

 

Hahaha, I just noticed I mentioned the catholics in my previous post too, hahaha. Man that was purely unintentional.

 

Yeah, for me though, I really like the concept of the Liturgy. Then again, the only services I've been to have been Litigurial ones.

I agree with what you say about communion. It is sort of like Baptism in a way. If you got baptised every week, the display and promise of your union and pledge to God would become moot.

The thing I like about the Liturgy though is that it is a weekly celebration of the Ressurection, which is reall one of (if not the) most important aspects of the Christian faith. Christ conquoring death, however you view that event (literal or symbolic)

 

Check out Methodists or the Seventh-day Adventist church.


I belong to the Seventh-day Adventist church so I can tell ya abit about us.

SDA's have allways been staunch advocates of Church/State Separation as well as freedom of conscience. Because of our belief in Church/State Separation the Chruch as a corporate body does NOT get involved in politics. Members do get involved on a personal level.

SDA tend to be moderate in our individual beliefs. My father is a Pastor and is more liberal than I am on certain issues (ie gun control). He's peace lovin',pro-choice Democrat and a vegetarian to boot!

One of the coolest things about the SDA church is that they encourage people to think for themselves. The other cool thing is that they are the only Christian Church that includes vegetarianism as part of church doctrine.

PM me if you'd like to know the location of the local SDA church nearest you.

 

I had no idea that the SDA church was so liberal. All I know about them is that one of my cousin's brother is an SDA and he always let his (VERY underage) kids drink but he told my cousin he was going to hell because he was an alchoholic. Is this a common SDA beleif? I also don't think this guy was a vegetarian. He also drinks a lot, but it is evidently okay because he doesn't have an illness that is sending him to hell... Actually, I don't hold him responsible for upholding the entire SDA faith, this guy is actually probably just a jerk. I would like to know however how the SDA's would respong to this.

The Methodists are considered "liberal"? Well, I suppose anything is more liberal than the Southern Baptist Convention, but I mean are they sort of on the left or at least at the centre of the political seating?

 

I want to specify, PLEASE don't take what I said as a generalization or a misconception or that I am judging all SDA's by his actions! I was moreso just being an ass than anything about the whole alchoholic thing. I would like to know how the SDA's would respond to that the guy did though. I thought I'd clear this up because I recently got called a homophobe for saying I didn't find anything attractive about other guys.

 

Well to answer that, we need to find a "conceptor" (not to be confused with contraceptive). The conceptor comes up with the concept then the apponter appoints whatever needs to be appointed, in this case they need a decider to make descisions!

This chain of commands is outlined in The Gospel According To George Dub-Ya. It is near the verse that says "And ye shall tap the wires of your people, and ye shall defend thy father's honor by tearing down his enemies. If someone should question your ways, they are in the axis of evil, and you shall not suffer them to live".