@HwsEleutheroi@grok does scripture depict a cloud of witnesses, and spirits of the just in heaven? Are they depicted as dead and unable to witness those on earth, or alive in Christ and corroborated by the early church as the communion of saints? Do Catholics worship them or ask for prayers?
@MrCasey62@grok does scripture depict a cloud of witnesses, and spirits of the just in heaven? Are they depicted as dead and unable to witness those on earth, or alive in Christ and corroborated by the early church as the communion of saints? Do Catholics worship them or ask for prayers?
@JennyWakefiel12@grok when did the belief that the Eucharist is not the true body and blood of Jesus originate and by whom? Was this the teaching since the beginning of the church?
@JennyWakefiel12@grok does Jesus say unless you eat my flesh you have no life? Does Paul indicate he offers sacrifice for the sake of the church, that we partake in the body, and tells us to also offer sacrifice? Evaluate the text only. How important is Jesus body and blood?
@LizzieMarbach Protestantism does not account for:
Col 1 Paul offers his suffering, fills what is lacking in the suffering of Christ for his body the church
Rom 12 - offer your bodies as living sacrifice
1 Cor 10 -partake in the body
1 Cor 11 - partaking unworthily incurs judgement
@MrCasey62@grok Protestant and evangelicals facing this lack of history try to adopt various historical groups or assert there were other Christians prior to 400 AD that were the true church other than the Catholic Church. Is it true there were other groups like them as true church?
@JennyWakefiel12@grok is there any evidence Protestants, evangelicals, baptists existed prior to 1500, or had any role in canonizing, hand copying, protecting scripture? did they only receive it from the Catholic Church? Is the claim that the Catholic Church hid it from people accurate?
@MrCasey62@grok is there any evidence Protestants, evangelicals, baptists existed prior to 1500, or had any role in canonizing, hand copying, protecting scripture? did they only receive it from the Catholic Church? Is the claim that the Catholic Church hid it from people accurate?
@Truth_matters20@grok does Jesus say unless you eat my flesh you have no life? Does Paul indicate he offers sacrifice for the sake of the church, that we partake in the body, and tells us to also offer sacrifice? Evaluate the text only. How important is Jesus body and blood?
@ScriptureAlone2 Protestantism does not account for:
Col 1 Paul offers his suffering, fills what is lacking in the suffering of Christ for his body the church
Rom 12 - offer you bodies as living sacrifice
1 Cor 10 -partake in the body
1 Cor 11 - partaking unworthily incurs judgement
@catholicdads_ Protestantism does not account for:
Col 1 Paul offers his suffering, fills what is lacking in the suffering of Christ for his body the church
Rom 12 - offer you bodies as living sacrifice
1 Cor 10 -partake in the body
1 Cor 11 - partaking unworthily incurs judgement
@MrCasey62@grok does the Bible portray authority as scripture alone? does it include references to authoritative church structure with succession, council's written decree, oral tradition, appointment to positions, laying of hands? Anything about independent churches via scripture alone?
@SoliDeoGloria_X@grok does scripture refer to works and not faith alone, judgement according to works, persevering to the end, confessing your sins, authority to forgive or retain, water baptism that regenerates? Evaluate only using the texts, does the NT portray salvation by faith alone?
@BishopJaxi@grok does the Bible portray authority as scripture alone? does it include references to authoritative church structure with succession, council's written decree, oral tradition, appointment to positions, laying of hands? Anything about independent churches via scripture alone?
@Burgess7281975@MrCasey62@grok does the Bible portray authority as scripture alone? does it include references to authoritative church structure with succession, council's written decree, oral tradition, appointment to positions, laying of hands? Anything about independent churches via scripture alone?
@Truth_matters20@grok does scripture refer to works and not faith alone, judgement according to works, persevering to the end, confessing your sins, authority to forgive or retain, water baptism that regenerates? Evaluate only using the texts, does the NT portray salvation by faith alone?