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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
This is a really interesting thread from before my time on GC. Somebody commented about the issue of "denominationalism" in Christianity, which I think is really interesting and fascinating. One of my best friends in the world will not consider me a Christian (I'm a Catholic) because I don't believe in salvation by faith alone. I really feel like the issue of denominationalism is a particularily Protestant and fundamentalist issue - or maybe I should say evangelical? I don't know of any Catholic or Orthodox churches that place a heavy issue on it.
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It'd be one of those faith issues (along with alot of others) that was floating around in the Christian faith prior to Constantine's recognition of the faith - and one revived during the Reformation.... it could be argued that the theory is faith based; just as it could be argued that it was political... after all the Reformation was as much about faith as it was politics (if not more so) and rejecting the theory that salvation comes through the Church and instead through the Bible is a very direct way of splitting from the Church.... but then again this would fly in the face of the reason why the Church maintains that salvation comes through them - mainly that they preceeded the Bible.