Many are more concerned with looking like a "good person" than
actually being a "good person".
No one at your funeral will be talking
about who you voted for, your profile
pic, or your keyboard warrior heroics.
How you treat people, even those you
disagree with, is everything.
@theolawrence220@JoshuaTCharles From conversations I’ve had with believers my parents age. Their fathers never spoke about their faith with their kids. They remember them hyping up Christmas and you better be good, Santa is coming, etc.
So that’s my statement.
@Protestia It’s a retarded… but it’s a ticketed event they host annually. Not “Sunday service”. Comes across like people are saying they do this every Sunday. They might. But context should be represented.
@BernieSanders Remember when you tried to make this a talking point, and Joe Rogan asked you a simple question how much they spend on Harris’s campaign? And then you shut up real fast. Maybe you should shut up real fast again.
1. The idea that there is no worship without sacrifice is well, let’s let the scriptures do the talking. Sacrifice is a kind of worship, but there are many places in the Scripture where “worship” occurs with no sacrifice being offered. Here are just the New Testament examples, leaving out ambiguous ones that do or may involve sacrifice: The “wise men” (magoi) from the east came to “worship” Jesus (Matt 2:2, 8, 11). Satan requested Jesus bow down and “worship” him and Jesus instead insisted on the worship of God (Matt 4:9–10 and parallels). The disciples “worshiped” Jesus in a boat (Matt 14:33) and when he appeared to him after having been raised (Matt 28:9, 17; Luke 24:52). Anna “worshiped” with prayer and fasting (Luke 2:37). The blind man who received sight “worshiped” Jesus (John 9:38). The disciples at Antioch “worshiped” with prayer and fasting (Acts 13:2–3). Sin is the “worship” of the creature rather than the creator (Rom 1:25). Offering our bodies as living sacrifices is our “worship” (Rom 12:1). The unbeliever who sees the Spirit at work in the church will “worship” God and declare he is among us (1 Cor 14:25). The angels in heaven worship Jesus (Heb 1:6) and so do the twenty-four elders around the throne (Rev 4:10; 5:14; 7:11; 11:16; 19:4). Unbelievers “worship” the dragon and the beast (Rev 13:4, 8, 12, 15; 14:9, 11; 16:2; 20:4).
2. It’s worth noting that nowhere in the scriptures to the best of my knowledge is the Eucharist associated with worship. As I just showed, worship occurs in many contexts, but i don’t see it with communion. That’s not to say taking communion or receiving the eucharist isn’t a form of worship, but to speak as if it is the very essence of Christian worship is at best a bit misleading based on the examples listed of worship.
Perception time.
I think Protestants and Catholics overcompensate incorrectly and to their own faults at times based on differing beliefs that end up downplaying the core of what is a good belief.
Protestants perceive the veneration of Mary by Catholics to be “overdoing it” and that we should only spend that time praying to and giving God that attention. So in response the completey underplay the importance of Mary. Often to their detriment for not holding to beliefs most Protestant held about Mary for 500 years. She’s not just a vessel, she is special. Calling her the mother of god in the first century church was super common and often said more about Jesus than it did about Mary. It’s meant to underscore the idea that Christ’s divinity and humanity exist completely in perfect union—it’s called the hypostatic union
Catholics perceive the doctrine of sola scriptura as offensive and incorrect because of the teaching office of the papacy and sacred tradition. Protestants don’t subscribe to it. I’ve seen many Catholics pigeonhole themselves to a place where they call the sacred scriptures “just a book” or say things like “Jesus left us a church not a book” which of course he did leave us a book too via the father and the spirit… Or are they somehow less the work of God and or in anyway diminished in their authority because they were given by the inspiration of the spirit and not penned by Christ himself?
X is a toxic ground where I think the world is looking and judging us. Calling each other Demons in the public (social) square I don’t think bodes well for our testimony as changed creations trying to live our lives for Christ. It’s no different than how the world treats those who are opposition. And we are supposed to be citizens of the kingdom.
I think we can all do better. If not for ourselves for the Christ we claim to serve. We are his witnesses and sometimes I read the things we say about each other and if I didn’t know Jesus I wouldn’t want anything to do with either side.