Interesting Quote to Ponder on.....

[Chrysostomos]

"The Church has embalmed Jesus in rules, codes, canonicities, and traditions that have everything to do with the Church's saving itself and nothing to do with saving the world."

Comments?

With humble bow,

Rd. Chrysostomos

[Kollyvas]

Sounds like typical protestantism...and the retort is:

"And the Evangelical power of binding & loosing?"

LOL!
R

[AndyHolland]

Jesus Christ is Lord so why not bind men and loose sin?

andy holland
sinner

[Kollyvas]

The context of binding & loosing (the passage itself, indeed) clearly applies to the government/spirituality of the Church militant (as well as the Church Triumphant). Whether that is taken as the green light for "Tradition" or "Apostolic Succession," it matters not. What it tells us is that Christ commissioned the Holy Apostles to structure our ontology in the Church (His Body) by the Holy Spirit. Or you can have protestantism...
R

[AndyHolland]

Dear Orthodox6,

To what are you referring as an assertion? What is the source of the original quote?

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The following is oft quoted by the protestants, but is none-the-less true:

"For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."

andy holland
sinner

[Kollyvas]

How does St. John 3:16 in any way delegitimate the good order of the Church?! Kyrie Eleison!
R

[AndyHolland]

Thanks Orthodox6.

andy holland
sinner