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A diverse group of leaders in the United Methodist Church proposed a plan last Friday to split the church into two denominations.
Guthrie Graves-FitzsimmonsThis is not the first time American Methodists have split over the issue of human dignity. The predecessor to today's United Methodist Church split over the issue of slavery in 1844 and did not reunite until 1939. The issue of ordaining and marrying LGBTQ people has been contentious within the denomination for decades. Now the United Methodist Church, the nation's second largest Protestant denomination, has reached another breaking point.
Opinion Sometimes people really, really need to get divorced.
Opinion From the network founded by a guy that called Christians “Jesus freaks”.
Opinion As far as relating the Old Testament and Paul to Jesus, Christianity is not Christianism but Judaism. Jesus has nothing to do with Hebrew Bible and Paul.
Opinion The Methodist church of the deep south and outside of America is simply a different church than the one in Northern America.
Opinion Absolutely! Weed out the heathens!
Opinion But which part is following God’s law, and which part is heretical? 🤔
Opinion I am so afraid that the traditional Methodists are going to be attacked my the gays, lesbians etc if we have separate worship places
Opinion The main branch is going to be small.
Opinion Christians can't even agree on what they believe but still want to force it on the rest of us.
Opinion the methodists still exist?
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