On May 11, 7:30=A0am, "1st Century Apostolic Tradition Endorcer"
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> On May 7, 11:57 am, cartercc <carte...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On May 7, 12:23 pm, Charles Hohenstein
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> > > Hard words for Anglicans from the head of the Council for Christian
> > > Unity in Rome. Cardinal Walter Kasper has told the Catholic Herald
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> > > now, with Lambeth approaching, is the time for Anglicans to decide
> > > whether they are Catholic or Protestant. 'Ultimately, it is a
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> > > of the identity of the Anglican Church. Where does it belong?' he
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> > > 'Does it belong more to the churches of the first millennium
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> > > and Orthodox - or does it belong more to the Protestant churches of
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> > > 16th century?
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> > WWJD? Would Jesus insist on either identity? How did Jesus and the
> > apostles handle this?
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> > Jesus was crystal clear: if you love Jesus, you follow him in
> > obedience; if you don't follow him in obedience, you don't love him.
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> > The apostles were clear as well. According to Luke (not an apostle, I
> > know, but certainly an evangelist), to be saved a person must believe
> > on the Lord Jesus Christ.
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> > Not one word about what 'church' you belong to.
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1Ti 3:15 - But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou
oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of
the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
> Right!
> "Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: 35 But in
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> nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with
> him." Acts 10:34-35 (KJV)
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Isa 64:6 - But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our
righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and
our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
> Not forgetting our Ethiopian brother of course....."Who went on his way
> rejoicing" even though he had come from another country and had no
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> 'church' to go and worship in.
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Yes, Ethiopia has kept the Faith!
Trinity Cathedral, Addis Ababa
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/ethiopia/addis-ababa-trinity-cathedral.=
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> Jeff...
> So many put a question mark where God has already put a full stop.
Mt 9:13 - But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy,
and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but
sinners to repentance.
Jim
Pr 16:18 - Pride goeth before destruction,
and an haughty spirit before a fall.
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