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BISERICA PRIMARĂ ÎN CREȘTINISMUL CONTEMPORAN
THE PRIMARY CHURCH IN CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIANITY

Author(s): Nicolae Danco
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History of Church(es), Eastern Orthodoxy, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Mitropolia Banatului
Keywords: syncretism; christians; primary church; contemporary times;

Summary/Abstract: Today’s religious syncretism proposes to choose between many variants in which Christians can address to God. A combination of teachings often foreign to Christian teaching. Its most dangerous part is that it has spreaded out among the Christians that it does not matter where and how you pray, God is the same everywhere. Is this really true? As we are looking at this aspect only from a christian point of view, there are a lot of christian cults that have appeared throughout history, different from the Church of Christ, which offers many solutions for redemption, often adapted to the requirements of the society. Personally, as a person whose soul seeks to be saved, it is very important for me to get to know whether i am working for my redemption in the Church of Jesus or in another gathering which calls itself „apostolic” and which pretends to be from Jesus, but it is actually not. Why it is so overriding this detail? It is principal, because Jesus Christ warns us to beware of „lying prophets” and „lying christs”, who even if they speak in the name of Christ, they will not be from Christ, because they provide a half-Truth. This half-Truth is called also a lie. That’ s why it is more important than any other consideration to find a method or a manner which can lead us to the true Church of Jesus Christ, where we could rescue our souls. Of course, there are plenty of methods which could help in this case, but the method that I want to submit in this article is „the filter of the Early Church”. Through this mechanism, after two thousands of years, i can realize which worship from dozens of contemporary Christian cults is the true Church of Jesus Christ.

  • Issue Year: XXXIII/2022
  • Issue No: 1-3
  • Page Range: 55-65
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian