I was eating lunch with a mixed crowd of guys and girls today, with all the guys sitting on one end of the table, and the girls on the other. Except for me, I showed up late and had to sit on the end with the girls.
What that meant was that the girls started talking about The Summer I Turned Pretty while the guys started discussing the salvation of members of the Roman Catholic church. Not my favorite situation, but so it was.
The punchline of this anecdote, is that when the girls realized what the guys were talking about, they were all very interested in what was happening, and one of the girls looked at me and said: “I didn’t know guys had conversations like this.” Apparently, she just assumed that men just talked about sports betting and grunted.
I thought it was funny.
Slightly later, I went over and asked the fellas whether they thought that members of the Orthodox church were saved, given their varied positions on Catholics, which got me a blank stare and a request to explain what I meant.1
I just feel like Liberty should discuss church history in a mandatory class. Maybe they do in THEO 201/202, but I suspect they don’t. The church started neither in 1517 (though whether Liberty holds to many of the views of Martin Luther is debatable) nor 1845 when the Southern Baptist Convention was founded.
Footnotes
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While I attempted to do this, the sentence: “so in 1054 the Eastern church was mad at the Western church because of the filioque” is not a useful starting point when the concept of an Eastern and Western church wasn’t understood.
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