[Faith-talk] anglicans

[RJ Sandefur]

anks for explaining Anglicanism. RJ
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>I was attending a conservative Anglican church until it closed because of 
>lack of membership last August. Now, I attend a Missouri Synod Lutheran 
>Church. Both churches believe in the Nicene Creed as basic doctrin. 
>Salvation is through Christ's death on the cross. He became sin for us so 
>that God could see us as Righteous, that is, if we accept his salvation. We 
>get it by asking Him into our lives and believing that He alone saves us, 
>we can do nothing of ourselves for Salvation. One scriptural basis for this 
>belief is Ephesians 2, verses eight and nine. Both churches believe in the 
>God breathed, or inspired, inherent, infallible word of God. There is a 
>verse in Revelation 20 or 21 that says cursed be anyone who adds to or 
>takes away words from my book. That is serious stuff. One area where they 
>differ is in Apostolic succession, the idea that priests are consecrated or 
>ordained, and that their gift is directly descended through the apostles to 
>Popes, and to both Catholic and Anglican priests. The church I now attend 
>does not take this view. As to Communion, the Anglican church believes that 
>it is both bread and wine, but also the body and blood of Christ. As to how 
>it could be both, that is an unexplainable mystery. Read John 6 in order to 
>hear Jesus Himself instruct his disciples to eat His flesh and drink His 
>blood.
>
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