Ex-communication means nothing when you recognize the fact that salvation is through by grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone.
If you believe that ex-communication affects your salvation, then you are placing your trust in the church to save you and not Jesus.
Churches don't save and churches can't save.
Peter speaking here..... Acts 4:12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
Ex-communication means nothing when you recognize the fact that salvation is through by grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone.
Ah. Nothing. Gotcha.
If you believe that ex-communication affects your salvation, then you are placing your trust in the church to save you and not Jesus.
Once again, I see the reason that people leave the Faith. Their faith is in themselves and their religion is what they construct. Everything is justified 'in the name of Jesus'. I hear that argument from everyone from Osteen to Swaggart to Oral Roberts to Bakker to Haggard to...
You keep telling me that nobody leaves the Faith for personal reasons and you keep showing me in your posts that that is exactly what you have done.
Churches don't save and churches can't save. Peter speaking here..... Acts 4:12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
But as was ably demonstrated by the good Dr. E., it is the definitions and the doctrines as taught by the Church that teach orthodoxy, else anything goes and whatever springs from the whims of men may be construed as Christianity.