Interesting reading
I found myself reading the Methodist Articles of Religion this morning. Think of it as the constitution of the United Methodist Church. Some things that surprised me:
- It provides for the separation of church and state, saying, "Although the law given from God by Moses as touching ceremonies and rites doth not bind Christians, nor ought the civil precepts thereof of necessity be received in any commonwealth; yet notwithstanding, no Christian whatsoever is free from the obedience of the commandments which are called moral."
- Marriage is not a sacrament; like confirmation, penance, orders, and extreme unction, matrimony doesn't have "any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God."
Methodists are said to be the largest of the mainline protestant denominations in the US.
- It provides for the separation of church and state, saying, "Although the law given from God by Moses as touching ceremonies and rites doth not bind Christians, nor ought the civil precepts thereof of necessity be received in any commonwealth; yet notwithstanding, no Christian whatsoever is free from the obedience of the commandments which are called moral."
- Marriage is not a sacrament; like confirmation, penance, orders, and extreme unction, matrimony doesn't have "any visible sign or ceremony ordained of God."
Methodists are said to be the largest of the mainline protestant denominations in the US.
posted by onlooker at 10:53 AM
2 Comments:
Hi there, Methodist here. See, I'm not evil! John Wesley was a very interesting, very intelligent man.
Yeah, I was raised a methodist, sort of, until our family had a personal schism with the church over issues with the patriarchy and such. Still, they seemed mostly cool.
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