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Has modern Christianity formed a new Church? [vanity]

Posted on 01/10/2013 9:33:42 AM PST by MeOnTheBeach

Has modern Christianity formed a new Church?

I'll keep the journey into history simple. In the last 2000 years the churches large enough to survive the attacks by larger established churches could survive.

They were not civil nor peaceful. They conducted massive wars against each other.

However, over the last several decades, something different has happened, a new church has formed. All these churches that used to slaughter each other now accept the baptisms and membership performed by their one time rivals.

Individual doctrines no longer matter. Their adherents now claim everyone is "saved" in the body of Christ. Modern Christianity has even brought new scripture with them. The various "new" translations of the Bible.

They've changed doctrine too.

So, would this be considered a new Church? Instead of a thousand individual religions, there is now just one Church?

Thoughts?


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To: Biggirl
what took place back then was the “worsT” example of when Christian brother fought against Christian brother.

Thats disputable -- I'd put it in the top 3 yes, along with the Crimean War and the Siege of Vienna

in MY mind the worst was the Crimean war -- willingly two major Christian powers allied themselves with a Moslem power against a Christian power. That was utterly despicable.

61 posted on 01/11/2013 4:33:20 AM PST by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Cronos

I think that war, the Crimean war was started over the issue of the Church of the Nativity of Jesus, the site where Jesus was born. This is the shrine where the “star” is located.


62 posted on 01/11/2013 5:02:55 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: kidd
The Catholic Church doesn't recognize protestant marriages.

Untrue. Strictly speaking, we "recognize" all marriages, as long as both parties are actually capable of marrying. (We don't recognize divorce, so divorced-and-remarried folks fail the "capable of marrying" test.). A marriage between two Hindus is "recognized" by the Church, but it's a "natural marriage", not a sacramental one.

A marriage between two validly-baptized Christians is recognized as a sacrament. Since most Protestants are validly baptized, most Protestant marriages (again, where both parties are capable of marrying according to the church) are recognized as sacramental, just as the marriage of two Catholics would be.

What you may be thinking of is the Church law which does not recognize a marriage contracted by a Catholic in a non-Catholic ceremony without church permission.

63 posted on 01/11/2013 5:57:47 AM PST by Campion ("Social justice" begins in the womb)
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To: Cronos; Tzar

A civil wedding between two validly-baptized Protestants (with no living ex-spouses, etc.) would be both valid and sacramental. A civil wedding involving a Catholic would not be.


64 posted on 01/11/2013 6:04:48 AM PST by Campion ("Social justice" begins in the womb)
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Strictly speaking, we "recognize" all marriages, as long as both parties are actually capable of marrying.

Given the extreme perversity of XXI Century America, I suppose it has to be said that of the two parties proposing to marry, one only must be male and one only must be female. Two male individuals, or two female individuals, cannot marry each other. The acceptance and celebration of such perversion in some parts of what might loosely be called Christendom is an act of apostasy and a huge barrier to Christian unity.

65 posted on 01/11/2013 6:09:27 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

Right. To be perfectly clear, both parties must be capable of marrying (in the abstract) and also capable of marrying each other. Any grouping other than one man and one woman fails the latter test.


66 posted on 01/11/2013 6:16:41 AM PST by Campion ("Social justice" begins in the womb)
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To: Biggirl
yes. It's a horrible fact that in Jerusalem you'll see the worse, unholy bickering.

But the Crimean war appalls me because 2 western powers used Christianity as a pretext to fight alongside the Moslems AGAINST Christians.

no wonder Orthodox see a madness -- and I agree with them

67 posted on 01/11/2013 8:01:09 AM PST by Cronos (Middle English prest, priest, Old English pruost, Late Latin presbyter, Latin presbuteros)
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To: Campion; Tzar

Campion — thanks for clarifying. I, of course, was thinking of two Catholics only, because I remember that there was a guy who got a civil marriage here in Poland, had a kid, then divorced and still got a Church marriage. In the eyes of the Church I guess he was unmarried and the other “purely civil union” marriage was not valid.


68 posted on 01/11/2013 8:02:58 AM PST by Cronos (Middle English prest, priest, Old English pruost, Late Latin presbyter, Latin presbuteros)
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To: Cronos

That is why for years, until the time of Blessed JPII and now with Pope BXVI, the Orthodox are slowly begining to have what looks like fruitfull talks.


69 posted on 01/11/2013 8:15:37 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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