Moorad wrote:
If "Christ gave the church the authority to forgive sins" is so, then the
scribes and the Pharisees were wrong in saying that God alone can forgive
sins. Is that so?
// But that doesn't include the fact the "church" include s people filled
with the Holy Spirit, the third arm of the Trinity. Do the church is
forgiving sins is the same, IMO, as God forgiving sins. We all - who believe
- have the Holy Spirit and Jesus said we would do even greater things than
he.
Also Moorad wrote:
I suppose it is better to believe in the transubstantiation than what I
recall reading in the teachings of George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1866?-1949)
that one had to actually eat the flesh and drink the blood of Jesus.
//Is transubstantiation where it transforms somehow? My M.S. Lutheran church
believes its the true body and blood but my pastor just explains that means
"whatever God means by that" and I'm pretty much in agreement. I sort of
think, 'Who cares?' I'm not trying to be flippant. How important is getting
all the little details correct? I don't think, very. My point that I'm
trying to show is that there are 10^62 different beliefs just in the main
doctrines that separate the denominations. Who can have the exact truth and
be confident they do? Only God. The Holy Spirit in each of us reflects God
only imperfectly this side of heaven.
Wendee
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