An Opinion about rituals "in religions:"

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You are those that burned people at the stake for having a different opinion. You have no love for others if they do not believe what you believe.

I think you worship the golden calf of lies and falsehoods. No Protestant historian or Protestant bible college teaches that burned people at the stake for having a different opinion nonsense. You have no evidence from the last 50 years. It's hate propaganda from the 18th century. Bible Christian hate cults won't let it go.

Someone said "You don't have enough faith to believe Jesus would preserve His Church."" The church is not what you think it is. Paul calls it His Body.
Church = The Church is a "Spiritual Church" (spiritual house 1 Peter 2:4 5) (Mark 14:58) (Acts 17:23 25) (2 Cor. 5:1) (Heb 9:11 and 24) made up of Christians. Since it consists of 'born again Christians' the true Church is as Jesus described a born again Christian in John 3:8.

Well, you are half right. The Church is spiritual AND physical. A purely spiritual church can't bind and loose anything. The only thing you can do is invent an unheard of meaning of binding and loosing.

John 3:8 NKJV
8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

In other words, you cannot tell where everyone who is born of the spirit comes from and where they are going. There is something wrong with your exegesis.

Therefore, the Church is a spiritual entity, made by the will of God and built without human hands of flesh, and the head of the Church is Jesus Christ who gave his life for it. I, personally feel that no man is to be considered as head of the Church. The Church's visibility in the world is shown through Christians that profess that faith in Jesus‘ work on the cross has saved them, individually and as groups. It is not a religious organization, or building, or certain place. Read LUKE, 17:20 "The Kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, nor will people say, here it is, or there it is, because the kingdom of God "is" within you.

The first clue that we come upon to prove that our Lord expects for His Church to be visibly one is the word ‘world’ in John 15:11. “I speak this in the world so that they may share my joy completely.” He is praying here for a tangible and visible reality in a tangible and visible world. The word world (Greek: ‘kosmos’), which is being used in the text of this prayer, means ‘the orderly arrangement, the world’. Meaning, that in this context of this prayer, our Lord was speaking of the visible world that God created, not the world (‘alon’), which refers to the Messianic age, as in “. . . the harvest at the end of the world . . .” (Cf. Mt. 13:39) – nor the world (‘oikonmene’), which is the known world of man or the world men govern (i.e. the Holy Roman Empire), as in “. . . shall be preached to the whole world . . .” (Cf. Mk. 14:9)

The next clue that Christ is praying for one Visible Church is found in His triple use of the word ‘consecrate’ in vv. 17 and 19. Consecrate (Greek hagiazo, ‘to make holy, be, purify, to venerate, hallow, sacred) is used in Scripture to denote a visible object being made Holy, and that which is Holy belongs to Him who is Holy, Holy, Holy. Some of the visible objects in which the word hagiazois used in conjunction with are
gold (Cf. Mt. 23:17, 19),
individuals (Cf. Acts 20:32, 26:18; Jude 1),
groups of people (Cf. Rom. 15:16), a Church (Cf. 1 Cor. 1:2),
and Old Covenant animal sacrifices (Cf. Heb. 9:13).
It is also clear from sacred Scripture that hagiazo is
(1) an operation of God the Father (Cf. Heb. 2:11);
(2) an operation of God the Son (Cf. Heb. 13:12); and
(3) an operation of the Holy Spirit through the Blood of Jesus Christ (Cf. 1 Pet. 1:2).
in other words, it is the Holy Trinity, who sanctifies and guides the visible Church towards visible unity and oneness – conforming Her (the Church) to the image of Christ Jesus.

By the way, thank you all for your kind words that give me crowns in heaven. You don't seem to remember that it is Satan that makes religious people attack others just as the Pharisees did Jesus. God does not do that nor does He look kindly on those that do it.

Accusing Catholics of burning people at the stake with no scholarly documentation and no historical context is hate propaganda. Maybe you are not informed enough, but nobody of any academic integrity teaches that lie anymore. You burn Catholics at the forum stake and you really need to stop.

We ask for nothing in return, and proselytizing is not permitted.

Richard says: You have no love for others if they do not believe what you believe

We even serve those that don't like us.

 

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When a person, or religious organization, keeps inventing sacraments, then it is they're keeping of the sacraments they have faith in, not Christ. Otherwise, why keep those invented sacraments?

Indeed, why keep the term sacraments when it promotes making something more than what it is in God's eyes that deny Him as the Savior?

Lutherans and Methodists and any other Protestant denomination that uses that term are not done reforming from the words & works of Catholicism so that our faith in Jesus Christ may shine out from under the works of iniquity that denies Him as the Savior.