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How to visit a Church? Can someone just walk in there on Sunday during opening time? What rules and etiquettes are followed there? I know about the divine liturgy, and that's it.
 
I made a cross with the snake fidget toy thing, it looks cool. It has a church color/vibe I don't know how to describe it
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What do you guys think of the Seventh-day Adventist Church? I hope it isn't a weird heretic movement like Mormonism or JW. The SDA is solo scriptura which is good, I think
 
BrimBurner said:
How to visit a Church? Can someone just walk in there on Sunday during opening time? What rules and etiquettes are followed there? I know about the divine liturgy, and that's it.
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Depends wheere you go.
Divine liturgy in orthodoxy is miles away from a pentecostal protestant service.
In general, you can do most of what others do in the Church, but if you're not a christian, and a christian from the denomination you're visiting, abstrain from taking part in communion, which is the part where christians eat and drink the consecrated bread and wine, aka the body and blood of Christ.
 
Nihilma said:
, but if you're not a christian
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What defines a Christian? Can it be anyone who reads the bible and has Faith in Christ? Or is it someone who is baptised and participates in a Christian community heavily, or some other answer? And what defines someone's denomination?
 
BrimBurner said:
What do you guys think of the Seventh-day Adventist Church? I hope it isn't a weird heretic movement like Mormonism or JW. The SDA is solo scriptura which is good, I think
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They used to have a heretical standpoint in reguards to nicean doctrine, and had sympathetic tendencies towards arianism.
But with time, they walked away from this and became trinitarians.
They respect the jewish sabbath, and instead of having sunday be the seventh day like all other christians, it is saturday
 
BrimBurner said:
What defines a Christian? Can it be anyone who reads the bible and has Faith in Christ? Or is it someone who is baptised and participates in a Christian community heavily, or some other answer? And what defines someone's denomination?
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What defines a christian is what the definition of the word christian is : someone who follows Christ.
Now what that means, not everyone agrees on it. But the fundamental principle which everyone or close agrees on is to follow his teachings, accept his nature, recognize salvation in his sacrificial act and accept his salvation based on faith.
But even what those things are, not everyone agrees on.
The Bible is the common ground of most christians, and everyone agrees on the canon of the new testament, except for gnostics.

I'm not gonna try to confuse you, so I'll keep it simple. Being a christian is recognizing Jesus Christ as being the messiah, the Son of God, God incarnate on earth, who through his willing death at the hands of human, became the perfect sacrifice for humanity to to be freed of sin, at the cost of accepting said sacrifice.
To accept the sacrifice, you must accept Christ. Accepting Christ means accepting his nature as God, accepting his teachings, and rejecting sin. That is because you cannot both accept to live under sin and accept to be freed from sin, it is an incoherence.
This passes through multiple things that God gave us. Baptism is understood in the christian faith as one being assimilated to the death and resurrection of Christ, therefore trully making you a part of the Church, which is Christ's body. And the Church is both the congregation of every christian, and the institution created by Christ through his apostles to help us live as christians, through the many rites and way of living it offers.

So, short answer : being a christian is following Christ.
The implications of the short answer is the long answer.
And the long answer is : Faith in his teachings, his nature, his sacrificial act and his Church, and the transformation of your life through these things.
 
Nihilma said:
They respect the jewish sabbath, and instead of having sunday be the seventh day like all other christians, it is saturday
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That is also heretical, right? Sunday is an important day when God rested. These weird niche small splinters(mostly heretical) keep growing in my country. I think Christianity, united and undivided as much as possible, is the best course, because those small communities are corrupted easily or corrupted from the start.
 
BrimBurner said:
That is also heretical, right? Sunday is an important day when God rested. These weird niche small splinters(mostly heretical) keep growing in my country. I think Christianity, united and undivided as much as possible, is the best course, because those small communities are corrupted easily or corrupted from the start.
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As a heresy just means an error, I believe that it is in fact a heresy.
It's not as major a heresy as other heresies, but it's still enough to cut you from the fullness of the faith. I personally have been convinced by the claim of fullness of faith in orthodoxy, mostly by experiencing it.
But yes, you'll always have "niche" and marginal groups being created, growing and making other people fall.
In the first centuries, gnosticism was such a bad problem that there were more gnostics than trinitarian christians, until the council of Nicaea finally took place and affirmed Saint Athanasius right.
 

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