No shocker there. Methodists are almost as bad as the Anglicans who have avowed athiest priests.
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Apocrypha and Book of Enoch?
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No shocker there. Methodists are almost as bad as the Anglicans who have avowed athiest priests.
Yeah, and not to pick on Methodists too much, the survey actually had a lot of interesting juxtapositions of 'who believes what'. The takeaway was not 'this group is better than that one' as much as 'they're all a mixed bag'....
And same thing for MethodISM v. individual Methodists as for the Mormon thing....
And same thing for MethodISM v. individual Methodists as for the Mormon thing....
Oh, the average churchgoer couldn't tell you at all what is different about their church vs. any other. Even if they grew up there. And in todays world of church hopping for the best program or clique, all the worse. Even many pastors are poorly educated about their own theology. Most of the differences are historical cruft with little effect on the day to day beliefs. Practical theology tends to run generic evangelical, generic catholic, generic mainline protestant, etc. even though there are hundreds of denominations. And even then, all these are chasing after the culture as hard as they can to be more like them. Only exceptions *might* be the orthodox and a few fundamentalist sects. This affect is even worse outside the Bible belt.
Confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead. That's my hardline hard line. You breach that and you're no longer a Christian brother. You may be a friend, someone I value and admire and enjoy but I would consider you to be an unbeliever.
Not wanting to be picky but if by "Catholics" you mean the Roman Catholics, I disagree. The RC's claim to repeatedly sacrifice Christ in the Mass whereas it is written that "Christ was offered once to bear the sin of many" (Heb. 9:28). The RC's also have a Christ who they approach through his mother Mary as mediator, whereas it is written that He is our mediator to God (cf. 1 Tim. 2:5). In every RC building they have images of a Christ still nailed to a cross but the Christ presented in the pages of Holy Scripture was crucified, died, buried and is risen again; He is the risen Lord and Savior. There are many more differences between the RC Christ and the Christ presented in the Bible but the most serious difference is that the RC's trust in their religion and good works for salvation whereas He is our only hope for salvation (cf. Titus 2:13; 1 Peter 1:3; etc.).
But underneath all of that they know who He is. They get His relationship to God the Father right.
I cannot agree with you more. We just left the Methodist church about a year ago because the bishops were living in open sin, but we still have fellowship with many methodists who Confess with their mouths that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in their hearts that God raised Him from the dead.