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Apostolic means an unbroken line of priesthood back to the beginning of the church. Catholics, Anglicans, and Greek Orthodox consider themselves to be apostolic.
There is a difference between the concept of apostolic SUCCESSION and simple "apostolic" which refers to what is perceived as the direct teachings of the Apostles.
A new co-worker told me they attend an apostolic church.
Never heard of it; what are they like? Do they proselytize? Are they very conservative in their attitude and behavior e.g. dress code? This person seems to dress very "modestly." What about the weird talking in tongues thing, do they do that? Anything else special about them?
Just curious and trying to brace myself in case this person might wanna share the Christian stuff with me.
Here's the official website of the Apostolic Christian Church, in case you would like to familiarize yourself with their beliefs and practices. It's probably a more reliable source than any of us here on City-Data are. I'd suggest that if this new co-worker decides he or she wants to "share the Christian stuff" with you, you simply tell him you'd prefer to keep religion out of the workplace. There's a good chance you'll never have encounter anything more unnerving than that, and this new co-worker might even be an okay person. You never know.
Apostolic means an unbroken line of priesthood back to the beginning of the church. Catholics, Anglicans, and Greek Orthodox consider themselves to be apostolic.
None of those denominations would really need to have their laity calling them "an apostolic church"... The laity would most likely say "I go to Catholic/Anglican/Orthodox church." But, I guess, there is always that chance that this particular individual simply likes their "regular denomination" church's claims of apostolic succession.
Here's the official website of the Apostolic Christian Church, in case you would like to familiarize yourself with their beliefs and practices. It's probably a more reliable source than any of us here on City-Data are. I'd suggest that if this new co-worker decides he or she wants to "share the Christian stuff" with you, you simply tell him you'd prefer to keep religion out of the workplace. There's a good chance you'll never have encounter anything more unnerving than that, and this new co-worker might even be an okay person. You never know.
Well, a personal website would be a more "reliable" source for what they want to say and for propaganda, that is for sure. If you care to know about any legitimate negatives you would go outside the horse's mouth, cuz the horse is only going to say nice things about itself or bad things that it has/is "tried/trying to change."
Well, a personal website would be a more "reliable" source for what they want to say and for propaganda, that is for sure. If you care to know about any legitimate negatives you would go outside the horse's mouth, cuz the horse is only going to say nice things about itself or bad things that it has/is "tried/trying to change."
I'm not sure what you mean by the phrase "a personal website." Do you mean a blog belonging to a member of the Apostolic Christian Church? In my experience, you're never going to get an objective picture of a religion by relying on its enemies for your information. If I wanted to learn about Judaism, I'd go to a Jew for my information, not a Muslim (and visa versa). Sure, the Jew might not tell me everything about his religion, but a Muslim (especially one who really, really doesn't like Jews) would almost certainly paint Judaism in the most unfavorable light possible. I'd rather give the practitioner of the religion himself the benefit of the doubt until he gives me reason not to trust him to be honest.
Apostolic means an unbroken line of priesthood back to the beginning of the church. Catholics, Anglicans, and Greek Orthodox consider themselves to be apostolic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_succession
hi MinivanDriver,
But the meaning of Apostolic and Ap. succession is diff from the 'Apostolic Church' itself...
I'm not sure what you mean by the phrase "a personal website." Do you mean a blog belonging to a member of the Apostolic Christian Church? In my experience, you're never going to get an objective picture of a religion by relying on its enemies for your information. If I wanted to learn about Judaism, I'd go to a Jew for my information, not a Muslim (and visa versa). Sure, the Jew might not tell me everything about his religion, but a Muslim (especially one who really, really doesn't like Jews) would almost certainly paint Judaism in the most unfavorable light possible. I'd rather give the practitioner of the religion himself the benefit of the doubt until he gives me reason not to trust him to be honest.
I go everywhere for my information. I want the evidence and thoughts from the propagandists, the enemies, and the neutral observers.
When it comes to religion, there is no such thing as "neutral." You're kidding yourself if you think there is.
Nope, there is neutral. For example, I'm "positive" when it comes to Buddhism (as a general non-theistic concept), negative against Abrahamic sects, and negative against Vedic sects. Neutral for Shintoism and Neutral for Xian.
Neutral does often come with only basic/general information. But once you study something deeply you often either like it or you don't (and that thing you study either tells you not to like other things or it doesn't).
The full spectrum of thought and evidence is very important to get a hold of.
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