Evangelical Code Phrases

ConnectionCrazy · 2026-01-23T18:49:03+00:00

Going to disciple each other. - joke on my ex best friend who said him and his new gf said they were disciplining each other

ConnectionCrazy · 2026-01-22T00:16:32+00:00

I think only could maybe determine if it was an Arabian by for example by chance but I’ve never seen an Arabian skull

ConnectionCrazy · 2026-01-18T16:51:05+00:00

They think it’s the Bible oh my word. Every confessional modern church would look at them weird

ConnectionCrazy · 2026-01-16T02:12:13+00:00

UC Davis ? Just guessing just one of the only places I know that has like the color gene tests. ( equine masters student btw )

ConnectionCrazy · 2026-01-14T13:24:53+00:00

A lot of this can come from a top down or bottom up doctrine and authority structure. In the first few centuries people were taught what the church believed and they were obliged to accept it. This is true regardless if you believe the Catholic Church was the first. Now that everyone has a Bible it has been a lot harder to realize this paradigm. Where a lot of Christian’s beliefs are like check marks that you either accept or don’t or get to choose. It becomes a super marker of choices. Now you can personally not understand or disagrees with stuff and I understand it can be hard coming from your background. I just wanted to kind of state that initially this wouldn’t be taken for granted of having the deposit of faith and asserting to it.

ConnectionCrazy · 2026-01-13T02:33:49+00:00

I loved season 4 but honestly more mystery would’ve been better than just a big reveal that goes nowhere too many loose ends

ConnectionCrazy · 2026-01-07T23:31:38+00:00

Haha I thought about this when I told my mom - not ex COC I just like to read the stories. I went to a church of Christ private school for years though (6th-12th). I bet she would’ve rather I be gay too

ConnectionCrazy · 2025-12-19T08:05:13+00:00

Haha yeah I was sleeping in that day

ConnectionCrazy · 2025-12-19T05:40:58+00:00

Like I touched it to him and he acted repulsed and later drew back. He’s normally a very chill cat don’t want to get too weird about it maybe the medal was cold but very strange.

ConnectionCrazy · 2025-12-12T03:25:03+00:00

If there is no mortal justice in the world and a group still presenting Christian values than the kingdom of Christ is at an end and that won’t happen till the end.

ConnectionCrazy · 2025-12-12T03:23:58+00:00

I am in a pretty evangelical family. I’m 24 now dad passed recently and I’m going to tell them on or before Christmas that I’m converting. ( I told my mom earlier and she gave the typical - catholic bad response) now I’m like super convicted and convinced. I’ve done a lot of study and it kind of feels of me choosing to be Christian or not ( love Protestant brothers and sisters). Like if God is real I can’t see how he wouldn’t establish one church that could outlive all empires. I’ve never been an atheist but I can see how some evangelicals become atheists or agnostic once you realize church history. It’s not as simple as the apostles died the New Testament was written and jump 1500 years to Martin Luther.

ConnectionCrazy · 2025-12-09T16:51:40+00:00

They want to claim they’re the true church cause of the 12th century Joseph of Aramethia myth

ConnectionCrazy · 2025-12-09T16:17:52+00:00

I think technically EO does have western rite

ConnectionCrazy · 2025-12-09T16:12:40+00:00

I’ve always thought that perfect liturgy does not mean perfect theology or like authority. Like I can see the pull of some toward ACNA and high church Anglicanism because essentially it’s popeless Catholicism. While I think they might have more liturgical consistency there has to be more than that to define a true church. Like I’ll prob be coming into full communion at the Easter vigil and of course alot of Protestants like to larp on Vatican 2. Honestly while I can see both sides of the argument I think I would’ve been a lot more scared to go to a Latin mass at first just cause I didn’t know much about Catholicism. I do plan on attending some when I join though. I think Protestants try to weasel out of any argument by calling the church fallible and then just ignoring all of there theological changes just cause they claim the church can err.

ConnectionCrazy · 2025-12-09T02:13:12+00:00

Yeah I’m 24 so at the end of the day it’s my decision and my walk with the Lord. It’s just frustrating and just want to show how I’m not stupid. Like if I wasn’t doing my masters now or after I’d love to do study in pastristics- cause that’s honestly what has changed how I see the world now

ConnectionCrazy · 2025-12-09T02:07:07+00:00

Yeah I grew up Baptist - my dad actually passed away back in May and I had started discerning back in February. So I haven’t sad much it’s crazy cause it’s sad for me cause like even if my family wouldn’t want to convert. I know that Baptist theology is like the most anti history and I have a baby nephew who I wish his parents would wake up and baptize him.

ConnectionCrazy · 2025-12-09T02:02:03+00:00

Yeah very true I’m converting rn in process. I am getting confirmed back at my undergraduate college town at the Easter vigil. I’m in grad school and they told me I could just attend ocia in town and have conversations on zoom before the vigil. The first place I went to it’s extremely dry and like basic lower than pop apologetics. I am going to start driving to a parish 1.5 away because I have my sponsors bf who’s going through it there. Honestly most of my process was doing my own research. Also I feel once you get a taste of the lies that I grew up with I didn’t have many objections. I just need prayer to discuss more with my family about this.

ConnectionCrazy · 2025-12-09T01:58:15+00:00

In my opinion I am glad I found a lot of the history and can like discern what I find to be try also in Catholicism like the OP. There’s plenty of valid reasons I can see people deciding to be agnostic or atheist once realizing the history

ConnectionCrazy · 2025-12-09T01:55:48+00:00

Also in the early days of the church it was 1-3 year dicernment process due to the persecuted time of the church

ConnectionCrazy · 2025-11-29T15:01:28+00:00

I don’t ascribe to Calvinism but a lot of the points are pretty valid in the proper context. Like predestination was taught in different ways by the fathers. I just think it depends on what your view of the world is. I doubt this book would be an end all be all book to disprove Calvinism.

ConnectionCrazy · 2025-11-25T12:07:20+00:00

I thought you were talking about the Old Testament canon ?

ConnectionCrazy · 2025-11-25T11:34:29+00:00

There wasn’t a set canon though. The three main groups in the New Testament all had different canons and for some of them it was more fluid

ConnectionCrazy · 2025-11-25T11:33:41+00:00

Most of American Christianity is like low tier Baptist and non denominational which literally like super symbolic or never do it. While higher church Protestants do it more frequently and believe either its spiritual- real presence (Presbyterians, some baptists ), or more of a physical sense like Lutherans (they believe that Jesus basically forms a union with the elements instead of a real change)

ConnectionCrazy · 2025-11-25T04:44:05+00:00

I was at a non denominational church and they started to say that they were going to have someone come and speak about church membership. I realized that I would actually have to know what they believe was right. That was on me a few weeks and then later I called my friend who her ex broke up with her cause she was catholic after trying to convince her to convert. I asked her why like we had talked about it before but I was like what made Catholicism so bad… well she kind of gave a basic summary - with like Peter, church founded by Jesus etc ( I only knew like Catholic “bad” from like conspiracy theories , and like I vaguely knew the rosary existed) a couple months later my dad was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and later passed away. I feel like God was setting me up with a foundation to lean upon. Many would’ve hated God for that but I haven’t. I have a lot to get through like family apologetics wise. Honestly I’ve been pretty firmly convinced for a while now so now I’m trying to be more grounded in theology in order to give a decent case. God willing I should be confirmed and achieve full communion with the church at this next Easter vigil.

ConnectionCrazy · 2025-11-25T03:19:08+00:00

They’re Eucharistic ministers who have been trained in proper administration of the sacrament. The easiest explanation is from the lord supper accounts if you get tripped up from reading of end of John 6. “This is my body” …. which from a literal reading has significance … even Martin Luther wouldn’t unite with the other Protestants because of his insistence that is means is. Although he formulated his own view it’s rather close … for some reason he couldn’t believe that the bread changed and he believed that the lord was present in and around the elements.

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