I agree with you,,,I find it very important.
I had left the Catholic church and had to find out about the beginning and what I believed to be true since those doctrine are different from those of Protestantism.
What do you think is not practiced today?
I tend to think more about what IS practiced that was not at the beginning.
For instance....confession to a priest; the belief that salvation was not secure, but was secure only In Christ and only by doing good works; some denominations baptize babies BECAUSE they fear they are lost --- the early fathers baptized babies but not for this reason. (for a blessing).
Well, I think all denominations teach something or other that I don't find in the early church.
I do think it's important to fellowship with others that are of like beliefs. Right now I can only attend Catholic church and I do every now and then...but haven't been going steadily for more than a year, but the priest I know does know this and he tells me Jesus loves me anyway...he knows us well. I think it's a problem if you don't feel comfortable in any church...I think a little bit of discomfort is not so bad. Maybe eventually we get to miss it? I don't know.
I agree with the above. I've said that some of the O.T. was written by man and not God (the Torah and VERY FEW verses) but I'm scolded for this! Every time Jesus said: You have heard it said....He was CORRECTING something.This is just HISTORY, speaking of HISTORY, repeating itself again. Christians today replacing the meaning of Gods words, like the Jewish leaders did thousands of years ago so that they could validate their sinning by changing the meaning of the Mosaic law to the people, changing it even more as time passed - watch the movie "Fiddler on the roof." Just kidding.
But if you study it out, you'll find a huge parallel between how the leaders in the Jewish faith and the leaders in the Christian faith have almost identically changed the meaning and purpose of what God and Jesus had given in word to their respective faiths.
In fact Jesus actually commented on it to the Jews in Matthew 5:17, "..where 6 times Jesus said, "you have heard it said, but I say" - a condemnation of their Hipocricy.
The Pharisees had become religious and forgot about faith and love.
Some churches today are like this: They say that we must follow THEM instead of God.
I don't care for this.
OK, but let me ask you this:So, is it important to know church history? Maybe not to some, but to me it's vital to knowing the truth.
You'd be "Shocked" at the changes made in the last 2000 years that changes your ability to find true salvation.
I hope you decide to study it out and make it your own as I was called to. PRAISE GOD
What I have learned I could just barely skim the surface of trying to share here. It has to be studied for yourself so that the Holy Spirit can cause what you learn to be your own, something you live for and would die for, because the truth from God the way I got it became so COMPELLING, it was irrestable.
I invested thousands of hours and thousands of dollars, and over 40 years of my life because that's a small thing compared to eternity which is forever and forever.
I counted the cost, because there's a price to pay for every Christian to find the truth, especially with todays teachings, and I paid it at Gods calling, and wouldn't sell what I've learned for any amount of money because what I've learned is priceless.
No matter what anyone says, Christianity isn't free. Jesus said it would cost us everything, because in truth, it's all HIS.
What if someone has not studied and they have some doctrine or other wrong...
do you believe they are still saved? IOW, does our doctrine save us or does Jesus save us?
I didn't count the cost at the beginning. God spoke to me through Jesus...I accepted and believed what I was being "told". I found it to be true and the rest "is history".
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