-- "David Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Blaine wrote:
> ... the Eastern Orthodox Church has more members/adherants than
> Protestantism and Catholicism combined. They just never got into
> all the apostasy of the Western Churches, therefore are closer
> to original doctrines. ... Before you write more to condemn that
> which you OBVIOUSLY know little about, you should read up
> on the truth
LOL. Do you realize that there is no one church known as the Eastern
Orthodox Church? They believe in the concept of more than one church and
have maintained such, although they have apparently lost sight of the city
church concept. They also would reject the LDS structure of having a
President / Prophet over one church. Do you have a reference for the
statistic that there are more Eastern Orthodox members than Protestants and
Catholicism combined? I'm skeptical but I don't have time right now to
check out the veracity of this statistic.
**BLAINE: You undoubtedly know more about the EOC than I do, but from what I
have read, there are GENERALLY about 175 million adherants to the basic
doctrine of deification, or man becoming as God through the grace of Jesus
Christ. The article I posted from one of the sites I found on the net
indicated several scriptures, all of which support the doctrine. The doctrine
is plain enough in the Bible, I didn't really need to go to the EOC beliefs for
help, except for the fact that since Bro. Perry is familiar with the Bible, he
should have knowledge of the scriptures, yet remains convinced the Mormon
version of this doctrine is heretical!! I find this astounding!!! Perry is
not the only one I find incredible on this point--as you are probably aware,
several others contest this point, apparently oblivious to scriptural support
for it. My only reasonable conclusion is that they are so locked into the
doctrines of their respective anti-Mormon religions, they are as blind leading
the blind . . . and look to one another for support,
which support seems to be more important to them than the truth--in this case,
Biblical truth!! (:>)
By the way, I agree with your argument that believers partake of the divine
nature. I think your argument would be stronger by appealing to Scripture
rather than the Eastern Orthodox tradition.
2 Peter 1:4
(4) Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by
these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the
corruption that is in the world through lust.
Peace be with you.
David Miller.
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