Keef wrote:S-word, I don't know who you worship or what church you belong to, but let me assure you that I am not associated with
the churh of the non-christian and theoretically illiterate King Constantine in 325 AD, some three hundred years after the establishment of the Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem
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My church is the Church of England, established in the 16th Century. It doesn't recognise the 'Church of King Constantine' - indeed, I don't know of any branches of that church in this country. The C of E follows the received Old and New Testaments and their teaching, in line with Jesus' commands, and the work of many synods and councils since then. It is deeply involved with the scholarship of the major universities around the world, and has a caucus of very learned (certainly not illiterate) scholars. It encourages theological study and reflection, Bible reading and exegesis, prayer, and activity in the world. It obeys Jesus' command in Matthew 28. 19-20.
If you choose to follow a different faith, you are of course totally free to do so. If you wish to worship Baal or whoever, then that is your choice. However, I do not and will not worship Baal, despite your insistence that I do. I will remain in the faith in which I have spent the last 68 years. I will thank you not to malign it with ill-informed and incorrect speculation about its origins.
[Keef wrote].......My church is the Church of England, established in the 16th Century. It doesn't recognise the 'Church of King Constantine' - indeed, I don't know of any branches of that church in this country. The C of E follows the received Old and New Testaments and their teaching, in line with Jesus' commands, and the work of many synods and councils since then. It is deeply involved with the scholarship of the major universities around the world, and has a caucus of very learned (certainly not illiterate) scholars. It encourages theological study and reflection, Bible reading and exegesis, prayer, and activity in the world. It obeys Jesus' command in Matthew 28. 19-20.
[S-word’s Response]……The history of the Church of England has its origins in the last five years of the 6th century in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent, and the Gregorian mission of Saint Augustine. The Church of England emphasises continuity through apostolic succession and traditionally looks to these early events for its origins rather than to the changes brought about by the English Reformation. Events such as Henry VIII's schism with the Roman Catholic Church or the excommunication of Elizabeth I or the wider Reformation in mainland Europe are all events that contributed to the development of the Church of England as it is now established, but are regarded as a continuation of the arrival of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church to the British Isles.
The preferred Bible of your Church is the King James version, which states in Luke 6: 16; and Acts 1: 13; that Jude is the brother of James the son of Alpheaus, but you reject the teachings of your very own church. Just who do you believe.
[Keef wrote].......If you choose to follow a different faith, you are of course totally free to do so. If you wish to worship Baal or whoever, then that is your choice. However, I do not and will not worship Baal, despite your insistence that I do. I will remain in the faith in which I have spent the last 68 years. I will thank you not to malign it with ill-informed and incorrect speculation about its origins.
Unlike yourself who belong to a breakaway branch of the universal church, which was astablished by the non-christian and theoretically illerate king Constantine , which was established in 325 AD, some three hundred after the true Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ was established in Jerusalem, I would never worship the immortal God in the form of a mortal man, you see I believe God's word, I do not, and never would, wordhip my brother "Jesus," who is my chosen King and high priest, as My God, who is his God.
Yes! I do follow a different faith than that of the mother church from which the spirit/teahings of your church were spawned, I, unlike your church, am not a Baal worshiper.
