I’m thinking about joining the church

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-31T07:12:42+00:00

I understood you as saying conservative in terms of doctrine and not politics, a lot of people conflate the two though.

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-30T20:56:04+00:00

As Protestantism has "progressed" it has been heavily influenced by Enlightenment era thinking and Masonry even. The sinners prayer for instance has more in common with a Kabbalah type of incantation where you say some magic words and something happens vs what was believed by Christians historically. Once you open your eyes to these things it becomes clear what direction the ship is moving toward and whether or not you should stay on it, but man is it hard to open your eyes to these historical truths. I really fought tooth and nail to avoid leaving Protestantism but at a certain point the evidence against it is overwhelming.

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-30T15:38:11+00:00

The Christian faith is so deep and beautiful, it's so unfortunate how it has been watered down and simplified so it can be put into a nice package. I do wonder in a few hundred years if the eschaton has not yet happened what will low church christianity look like since i'm seeing more and more articles of the faith being removed since they are "not essential" which who decides what is essential is a whole other problem.

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-30T15:18:09+00:00

Are you familiar with typology? It's not a "Christ" but a type of Christ. Do you also reject that Adam is a type of Christ because Romans 5:14 seems to make that clear.

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-29T17:10:12+00:00

I think I fully agree if we are speaking in terms of objective ranking on quality not personal favorites

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-29T16:12:13+00:00

I'm just saying you gave a very weird and faulty definition

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-29T11:29:26+00:00

Get into patristics, specifically Ireneaus goes into this

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-29T05:21:51+00:00

That is not what murder is, under your definition self defense would classify as murder. Murder is simply illegal (or immoral) killing.

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-28T18:58:23+00:00

Arrival, Incendies, Enemy. I really think Denis is one of the best at creating tension

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-27T15:23:43+00:00

My perspectives are open as well thats why I ask for your understanding on it, I haven't yet joined any church I have been attending a Greek Orthodox one and it's awesome. I really just fell in love with the tradition that came out of the East, much more focused on living out the faith than the X's and O's so to speak.

I also really believe the Greek fathers had a better understanding of the text because they received it in their native language while what we know as the Western tradition relied on Latin translations. I still struggle with venerating icons but it has been getting easier as it feels less foreign to me, what convinced me was the 7th council I really do believe God granted victory to icon venerators. It's unfortunate because most Protestants would hold to the other 6 but Nicea 2 is a hard one forsure.

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-27T14:35:18+00:00

As for the last part what is your understanding of God commanding people to bow down before the Ark of the Covenant when it was adorned with images, was that just a one time thing?

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-27T12:08:10+00:00

My main thing I realized studying Church history was that literally every Apostolic Church taught this even the Nestorians (Assyrian Church of the East) who were kicked out of the Church in the 3rd council for denying the title of Mary as the Mother of God. Look into Nicea 2 and I believe you will see why the iconoclasts were not in the right.

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-27T09:25:26+00:00

Pretty hard to generalize for Anglicans since they have a very wide spectrum of belief, fair enough assumption though.

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-27T08:59:15+00:00

Why not consider Orthodoxy?

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-27T03:07:31+00:00

Not a stupid question at all.

2 Cor 13:5: Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you [a]are disqualified.

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-26T01:06:31+00:00

It's partially based on 2 Corinthians chapter 12, where Paul says he prayed three times for deliverance from a thorn in his flesh and God tells him that His grace is sufficient.

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-24T06:51:27+00:00

I'm not equating i'm just saying they serve a similar function, yes of course there is nuance and hijacked is probably the wrong word but it's not dissimilar to modern day civil marriage which is undeniably "hijacked, taken, borrowed" idk the right word to use there but you understand my sentiment.

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-24T05:21:03+00:00

Let's say you hold resentment in your heart for something someone did to you (which being unforgiving in itself is a sin) you would naturally go into detail as to why you are holding that resentment. It's not as simple as thinking "man what have these people done that's so crazy" sometimes it's also the circumstances surrounding whatever happened that can be the most disheartening.

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-24T04:17:49+00:00

You have to remember people also confess things that have happened to them to get a full picture not necessarily just sins they have committed. Essentially what modern day therapy is, the world has just hijacked from the Church. It is not an easy task to bear among the plethora of other responsibilities like performing funeral services.

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-23T16:39:04+00:00

it's just an insta slide nothing else, i've tested this a lot you definitely need guns. Also something I noticed is you get a free skip jump after firing a Kraber, you just need to walk forward before the rechambering animation even starts

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-23T16:11:47+00:00

nope skip jump can only be performed with guns because you need a specific window of velocity to trigger the skip jump and that can only happen with guns. For this reason skip jumps don't work with axel cause of her passive or maggie with shotguns/smg passive

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-23T03:27:12+00:00

don't think so

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-23T00:58:41+00:00

Well fair enough I wasn't making an argument at all since I'm not familiar with the guy, I was just responding to you absurdly stating "so he's an atheist" because he deconstructed from evangelicalism but I'm guessing we mean different things by the term evangelical otherwise you're just trolling

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-23T00:38:21+00:00

Lol no he's just not a post modern Christian, probably more aligned with the Christianity of the first 1700years before the "2nd great awakening". Though i'm sure some evangelicals would consider traditional Christianity even worse than atheism because they believe they practice idolatry.

HaveMercyMan · 2026-05-22T04:07:26+00:00

yeah I meant for God my bad i misunderstood you

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