Luther would have hated my views on the Lord's supper, because I still go with the Baptist view. But I do appreciate how Bullinger focused on Biblical teaching and trying to find language most Protestants could accept. I really like his breakdown of what the church is and what the authority structure should be. No need to have priests or a pope. There is only one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus and God makes all believers priests. The head of the church is Jesus not a man elected by bishops to sit atop a global hierarchy. Making it worse the pope is called the Vicar of Christ. Vicar in the latin means "in the place of" or "taking the place of". The Greek word with the same meaning is "anti". In Greek the pope is literally the Anti-Christ. I agree with Bullinger though there are many Catholics who are in the universal/invisible church but the Roman hierarchy is something different.
I am with you: Bullinger tried to find a way to make peace across the Christian divides while still staying true to Scripture. We need this today.
Also, on the topic of one mediator, Christ Jesus...I agree. Yet, I find real meaning in taking communion directly from my Orthodox priest. It seems more "real" than the plastic cup and one-quarter-inch wafer passed around by the ushers in my Protestant church (as I have mentioned, I attend both). Plus, in the Orthodox church, we at least say a group confession of sin (albeit, the priest "absolves" me, which doesn't fully sit well....).
It seems that it required the revolutionaries (Luther, Zwingli) to break the door open, and, fortunately, there were those who came after, like Bullinger in this case, to really clean things up and put things in order.
Luther would have hated my views on the Lord's supper, because I still go with the Baptist view. But I do appreciate how Bullinger focused on Biblical teaching and trying to find language most Protestants could accept. I really like his breakdown of what the church is and what the authority structure should be. No need to have priests or a pope. There is only one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus and God makes all believers priests. The head of the church is Jesus not a man elected by bishops to sit atop a global hierarchy. Making it worse the pope is called the Vicar of Christ. Vicar in the latin means "in the place of" or "taking the place of". The Greek word with the same meaning is "anti". In Greek the pope is literally the Anti-Christ. I agree with Bullinger though there are many Catholics who are in the universal/invisible church but the Roman hierarchy is something different.
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I am with you: Bullinger tried to find a way to make peace across the Christian divides while still staying true to Scripture. We need this today.
Also, on the topic of one mediator, Christ Jesus...I agree. Yet, I find real meaning in taking communion directly from my Orthodox priest. It seems more "real" than the plastic cup and one-quarter-inch wafer passed around by the ushers in my Protestant church (as I have mentioned, I attend both). Plus, in the Orthodox church, we at least say a group confession of sin (albeit, the priest "absolves" me, which doesn't fully sit well....).
I like this guy. Thanks.
It seems that it required the revolutionaries (Luther, Zwingli) to break the door open, and, fortunately, there were those who came after, like Bullinger in this case, to really clean things up and put things in order.