Greetings all
I am stopping in to share my current view on the church and was wondering if there were any others here that were some kind weird protestant like me.
Are there any other weird people who aren't sure what they are?
I tend to use the 7 letters as being the traits a person has with God that determines what Church they are from. I would be from the 'hot/cold' Church, warmer now than I was 50 years ago. Labels can change traits at the drop of a hat. 'Orthodox' when it comes to observing Passover would have it being the first full moon after a new moon after the winter/summer equinox. Other version allow Passover to be within 14 days of that event. The difference is Passover happens in the 'winter' rather than ASAP in the 'summer'.
Using a few references to explain your 'current view' exposes many readers to material that could be new to them. When that happens, false doctrines show themselves for what they are, quite quickly. The result is a 'stronger Church'.
This covers Rome's full 500-year rule, 63AD-450AD. 325AD can be used to say the 'original Bible' was assembled, original Greek for the NT, original Hebrew for the OT. Revelation was written by 120AD, that writer was the only one in the Bible that had the information that was held back from Daniel. 'We' (21st century believers) have that same material and in an e-bible makes research as easy as normal reading. Revelation is the 'final chapter' that uses many long passages in the rest of the Bible to explain just how that event plays out.
450AD there was a Latin version being used, that is when the truth fell away as the book was meant for 'the people' rather than 'the Leaders'.
Da:8:9-12:
And out of one of them came forth a little horn,
which waxed exceeding great,
toward the south,
and toward the east,
and toward the pleasant land.
And it waxed great,
even to the host of heaven;
and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground,
and stamped upon them. ((Peter and Paul))
Yea,
he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, ((Pontus and Jesus))
and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, (( Jesus dying))
and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. ((Rome acting for God in 70AD))
And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, ((Prayer))
and it cast down the truth to the ground; (change between 120AD and 450AD))
and it practised,
and prospered.
The next big changes in the RCC was the 1300s and the Reformation Wars against 'Romans:13 Christians' and the RCC in Northern Europe. For instance, the Pope's 'Swiss Body Guards' are really the Pope's Prison Guards, and have been for the whole of the last 500 years, as in 1523AD.
Fast-forward to the Protestant Reformation Wars against the RCC, the 30 years war was Christians in the north against Christians in the south. One side has to be 'false Christians', I went for the ones being funded by profits of the Dutch Slave Trade as being the 'false Christian side':
Martin Luther - Wikipedia
Martin Luther; 10 November 1483[2] – 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, composer, former Augustinian friar,[3] and is best known as a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation and as the namesake of Lutheranism.
Luther was ordained to the priesthood in 1507. He came to reject several teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic Church; in particular, he disputed the view on indulgences.
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In 1501, at age 17, he entered the University of Erfurt, which he later described as a beerhouse and whorehouse.[18] He was made to wake at four every morning for what has been described as "a day of rote learning and often wearying spiritual exercises."[18] He received his master's degree in 1505.[19]
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Thirty Years' War - Danish Intervention 1626-1629 DOCUMENTARY
In the previous episode of our animated historical documentary series on the Thirty Years' War we have covered Bohemian Rebellion and the battle of the White Mountain between the Catholic and Protestant forces. This new episode will see Denmark under its king Christian IV joining the war on the Protestant side and fighting a 4-year campaign against the Catholic League and Holy Roman empire armies led by Johann Tilly and Albrecht von Wallenstein. The battles of Lutter and Stralsund represented the peak of this part of the Thirty Years' War.
Gustavus Adolphus - Breitenfeld 1631 - 30 YEARS' WAR DOCUMENTARY
Another episode in our animated historical documentary series on the Thirty Years' War and Gustavus Adolphus enters the field to fight for the Protestant cause. The Swedish King would fight against the Catholic commander Tilly at the battle of Breitenfeld
. I like the the more open canons of Catholicism and Orthodoxy, hey even a little bit of the Tawahedo tradition
