Glib apologist gunslinger: “Just as soon as I smack down the infidels who mock that which I myself do worship. It is an affront to .. to .. well .. to what I call God Almighty!”
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You can disagree, it doesn’t change the fact that using pipe organ and organist or using a guitar has nothing to do with fundamental matters of faith and morals. It’s just logic. One can argue what is more conducive to the sacred (which is why I, for example, prefer the ancient Catholic Mass and the Divine Liturgy of the Orthodox Church, I like them both more than the modern Catholic Mass), but truths on matters of faith and morals are a completely different kettle of fish.
The problems starts when the divisions are on fundamental things.
You speak as if denominations weren’t divisive by their very nature.
A lot of what Jesus said does imply a right and wrong.
Yes, I would say that.
I thought we had covered that. Where do you draw the line? What is fundamentl to you?
But not theologically. Most of Jesus ’ teaching was social and ritual, and much of that was against ritual or rules (laws) for their own sake. eg Mk2:7 Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
He was more interested in the reason and thought behind actions than the actions themselves. It would seem that you place value on specific actions or ritual.
I am sorry, but we seem to be going round in circles.
If we are talking fundamentals then we seem to have a fundamental difference over Personal and corporate belief and worship and the need or not to conform or agree.
Richard