[CS-FSLUG] TD: Orthodoxy (was Re: Benny Hinn)

[Timothy Butler]

>>      I must admit that the Orthodox church really intrigues me. In
>> many ways it seems to have the best claim to Apostolic authority
>> (since it has remained much the same since early church times), its
>>
>
> Yes.....it does. VERY, VERY little has changed in much of Orthodoxy.

     I'm not always for inertia, but sometimes it is good. :-)
>
> I can't find anything in Orthodoxy that I don't agree with. What  
> SHOULD have
> happened with those who rebelled against the Catholic church, was  
> to SUPPORT
> Orthodoxy. Had that happened, the "face" of Christiandom would be  
> totally
> different today.

     Yes, I do wish that had been the case. I think Luther,  
especially, would have found good synergies with the Orthodox, since  
his was a desire to reform, not start something entirely different  
from the Catholic church.

> Well, the Puritans didn't have a clue in some ways either. ;) And,  
> YES, we
> have lost a GREAT deal.

     True. :-)

>>      I have a friend who is Orthodox and I always mean to ask her
>> more on the view from the inside, but haven't. I suppose from the
>> denomination always looks greener from the other side of the fence.
>> While in America, she has been rather impressed with the Lutheran
>> Church (LCMS). :-)
>>
>
> Well, I wouldn't because there are so many liberals. I wish there  
> was an
> Orthodox church close by here, but there isn't. :(

     Wouldn't what? Go to a Lutheran Church? The LCMS is pretty  
conservative, I'd say, at least here, where all the churches are  
within an hour's drive from the headquarters. :-)

     There are a few not much farther than my own church in my neck  
of the woods. Perhaps you should move to St. Louis! <g> I'd be nice  
to have ya, anyway...

     -Tim

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