1. Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (100%)
2. Evangelical Lutheran Church (98%)
3. Eastern Orthodox Church (92%)
4. Roman Catholic Church (86%)
5. Episcopal/Anglican Church (85%)
I also get 0% for Unitarian Universalism.
(I'm an Anglican, by the way, albeit one who's very Catholic in...
I'd point you to the Pericope adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) in which Jesus forgives the woman caught in adultery*. The death penalty may have been appropriate in the society of ancient Israel, but Jesus seems to bring a new and more forgiving paradigm of looking at these things, so as to educate...
I agree with you that the dietary code in Leviticus was for something more than merely health reasons, but I respectfully disagree that this means we should keep them today. St Augustine, in Contra Faustum, sets out a contrast between Old Testament moral precepts - which are universally valid -...
I don't get why this gives us reason to see the Bible as untrustworthy. Surely the same problem exists with translating any text at all from any language to any other? A Hebrew word often doesn't have any exact equivalent in English (or French or German or Greek for that matter). The best we can...
An interesting explanation, thanks. But didn't Martin Luther, the progenitor of the 'sola scriptura' Reformation ideals, himself attack the canonicity of several New Testament texts including Hebrews, James, Jude and Revelation (as well as the OT book of Esther)?
Personally I'd say the real issue in this case is why someone has chosen to wear a bikini. If you wear one because it makes you feel confident about how you look, and because it's a comfortable and convenient way to enjoy yourself on the beach, then good on you. There would in my view only be a...
Indeed it does. I regularly offer prayers that our political leaders may be guided to make the right decisions. In that respect Franklin Graham is right. My question would be, if Hillary Clinton were the president, would he be asking us to pray for her? I think he should, but I suspect he...
I quite agree. I don't think there should be no Christian politicians, because I think Christians should use whatever skills they happen to have to help improve the world. But Christianity always does itself immeasurable harm when it connects itself to a political movement. God doesn't have a...
From a Christian perspective, I don't think Swedenborg is quite right, but I don't think he's entirely wrong either.
My own interpretation of scripture means that I would advocate an inclusivist view of salvation. Inclusivism has nothing to do with universalism or pluralism, as some...
To be honest George W. Bush wasn't that much different.
A selection:
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."
"I just want you to...
I'm sorry but this one really is based on a few misconceptions. You've cherry-picked similarities between Jesus and Dionysus to draw a false comparison between them.
When you say Dionysus was 'resurrected', you clearly want us to imagine something like Jesus' resurrection, but the story is in...
Might I suggest that you read G.K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man? Chesterton, a Catholic, essentially argues not that pagan religions are all completely wrong and Christianity is completely right, but that Christianity is, in his view, the philosophical zenith of religion - the religious...
I don't entirely disagree and I understand where you're coming from. I consider myself a strong Christian and I believe everything in the Apostles' Creed, but I rejected Biblical literalism when I was just finding out about my faith really, because the idea of scripture as inerrant and without...
I know, yes, I have read about the true story of Hunt and Lauda's relationship. Their rivalry was more or less as depicted on the racetrack, but off the track they had a huge amount of respect for each other. They even shared a flat when they were both lowly Formula Three drivers. Sad that both...
Very sad that he has passed away. I hadn't heard of the man until I watched the film 'Rush' in 2013, dramatising the rivalry of Lauda and James Hunt in the 1976 Formula One season (a film for which Lauda himself acted as consultant). I was blown away by his single-mindedness and determination to...
The verse you mention, Isaiah 53:2, probably refers not to Christ's outward appearance (which probably was handsome) but his circumstances. Jesus came from a humble background, he was born of poor parents, worked a trade, lived in a town out of which by repute nothing good was going to come, and...
Interesting! I have a friend from Romania who belongs to the Eastern Orthodox Church, and we don't seem to have any obvious areas of disagreement. I shall have to attend a service some time and see what it's like (of course, the Orthodox church doesn't have too much of a presence over here in...
Yes, I think a divide exists within the Church of England in that regard too. Most of my local churches (although they’re lovely and do a great deal to benefit the community) very much tend to the low-church, evangelical approach. Whereas I’m sure you’ve figured that my beliefs incline a lot...
I’m nominally Anglican so of course we’re in communion with the Episcopal Church in the US. But sometimes their pivot to theological liberalism does put me off. Not that I see myself as an arch-conservative but some figures in the Episcopal Church seem to take things a little far for me.