Do you think he is not only supreme governor of the CofE but of the whole Anglican Communion? Should he be on par with the Archbishop in spiritual matters? Do you he should be bound to deliver Christmas/Easter messages?
I have heard that up until the 1960s children were required to memorize it in order to be confirmed. I dont know how much of this story is true, but I am genuinely as to how you got 12 and 13 year olds to memorize almost 10,000 words worth of doctrine.
I am particularly worried about the pastoral epistles, to be confessional and hold to a least some of form inerrancy, do I have to hold that they were authored by Paul.
I know this may sound odd and iffy to say the least. But it’s been 4 years that I have realized that Roman Catholicism was a man-made and man-centered religion. Me and all my family were very much practicing Catholics, we went to mass daily, prayed the whole rosary, abstained from meat on Fridays and celebrated lent twice a year. My mom to this day prays 3-4 hours/day.
The thing is how am I supposed to fill the time I dedicated to prayer chains, saints and rosaries. How am I supposed to live out my new found faith? Do you guys do examinations of conscience once or twice every day, etc? How do you guys fill the 4-5 hours of free time in weekdays? Should I eventually ask for an excommunication letter from the RCC?
I know this may sound odd and iffy to say the least. But it’s been 4 years that I have realized that Roman Catholicism was a man-made and man-centered religion. Me and all my family were very much practicing Catholics, we went to mass daily, prayed the whole rosary, abstained from meat on Fridays and celebrated lent twice a year. My mom to this day prays 3-4 hours/day.
The thing is how am I supposed to fill the time I dedicated to prayer chains, saints and rosaries. How am I supposed to live out my new found faith? Do you guys do examinations of conscience once or twice every day, etc? How do you guys fill the 4-5 hours of free time in weekdays? Should I eventually ask for an excommunication letter from the RCC?
I know this may sound odd and iffy to say the least. But it’s been 4 years that I have realized that Roman Catholicism was a man-made and man-centered religion. Me and all my family were very much practicing Catholics, we went to mass daily, prayed the whole rosary, abstained from meat on Fridays and celebrated lent twice a year. My mom to this day prays 3-4 hours/day.
The thing is how am I supposed to fill the time I dedicated to prayer chains, saints and rosaries. How am I supposed to live out my new found faith? Do you guys do examinations of conscience once or twice every day, etc? How do you guys fill the 4-5 hours of free time in weekdays? Should I eventually ask for an excommunication letter from the RCC?
I know this may sound odd and iffy to say the least. But it’s been 4 years that I have realized that Roman Catholicism was a man-made and man-centered religion. Me and all my family were very much practicing Catholics, we went to mass daily, prayed the whole rosary, abstained from meat on Fridays and celebrated lent twice a year. My mom to this day prays 3-4 hours/day.
The thing is how am I supposed to fill the time I dedicated to prayer chains, saints and rosaries. How am I supposed to live out my new found faith? Do you guys do examinations of conscience once or twice every day, etc? How do you guys fill the 4-5 hours of free time in weekdays? Should I eventually ask for an excommunication letter from the RCC?
Is it out of a sense of love to the BCP? Is it because of the individual preaching at your local Anglican church? Is it due to availability reasons? Or is there any doctrinal or theological matter that made you choose Anglicanism over other traditions?
I am curious because the Westminster standards were kind of binding across the late 1640s and 1650s. I know that Cromwell objected to strict Presbyterianism and that there were independent churches, but the Westminster standards around that time took the place that the 39 articles of religion have today, standard bearer of orthodoxy.
How have you gotten around to choosing the Three Forms of Unity or the Westminster Standards, the 1646 or the 1689 Baptist confession, the Heidelberg or the Westminster catechisms. Did you choose your church based on its official doctrinal standards alone? For those who hold to the Heidelberg, is there anything in the Westminster standards that you object to? For those that hold to the French La Rochelle Confession, do you use the Heidelberg or the Genevan catechism?
Is it out of a sense of love to the BCP? Is it because of the individual preaching at your local Anglican church? Is it due to availability reasons? Or is there any doctrinal or theological matter that made you choose Anglicanism over other traditions?
I am not an Anglican BTW, I am former Roman Catholic
What is really getting to me is that the Christian Atheists are taking pretty much every mainstream church. The Protestant Church of the Netherlands, the United Church of Canada, the EKD and those churches are dying. And the majority those people are not becoming necessarily becoming evangelical, but secular. I am really worried about it. Look at how famous and influential are John Dominic Crossan, Lloyd Geering, Klaas Hendrikse, Robert Price, Paul van Buren. Look at how frowned upon is being an evangelical Christian today in most of the western world. Even in once very religious countries like Portugal, most people on the street already take offense upon hearing “God bless you”. I am worried that being a theistic Christian will be a criminal offense 40 years from now. Anyone thinking the same?
I am considering moving to Europe, but the situation is sticky. How will I find a church where if you believe the resurrection and exaltation actually happened people will take you for an imbecile. When I was Catholic I was in a very liberal Roman Catholic I had the impression that many priests were actually atheists and were not trying very hard to conceal it. I keep hearing of people who convert to Catholicism because they say the theological liberalism which leads to atheism is running amok in their churches.
My family is basically split between old school left wingers and MAGA. The left wing side basically seems to be as homophobic/biphobic as the right wing side, they talk shit about the gays behind closed doors even more than the conservatives. Does that resonate with anyone here?
I really admire the whole Reformed system of doctrine. I would like to know it as much as any as lay reformed could. I am not very much into modern philosophy, Hebrew, exegetical modern Bible commentaries. I find myself drawn to really digging into the sacraments, the Ordo salutis and the attributes of god, as opposed to the escathology or to the debates on inerrancy and hermeneutics.
Is anyone similar?