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<blockquote data-quote="Starlight" data-source="post: 1569212" data-attributes="member: 20139">For what it’s worth, the Protestant (“Puritan” as is written in this article) work ethic actually came from the notion of “idle hands make the devils work” not that they thought they needed to work hard to prove they had special material gifts from God due to salvation or whatever…Respectfully, this article is very one sided (obviously, it’s from the Orthodox perspective, which is fine). However, a better dialogue is to ask certain Christian traditions what they actually believe and why they believe what they do… instead of telling them what you believe they believe and why they are wrong. I know I’ve seen my own Christian tradition misrepresented with posts written in this forum by people who are not of my tradition that write “Lutherans believe this” and “Lutherans believe that” and a good chunk just isn’t true.Regardless… this “Brothers War” between Christians must stop. We are in a massive spiritual war… cutting our brethren off because of minutiae needs to be halted for another time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Starlight, post: 1569212, member: 20139"] For what it’s worth, the Protestant (“Puritan” as is written in this article) work ethic actually came from the notion of “idle hands make the devils work” not that they thought they needed to work hard to prove they had special material gifts from God due to salvation or whatever… Respectfully, this article is very one sided (obviously, it’s from the Orthodox perspective, which is fine). However, a better dialogue is to ask certain Christian traditions what they actually believe and why they believe what they do… instead of telling them what you believe they believe and why they are wrong. I know I’ve seen my own Christian tradition misrepresented with posts written in this forum by people who are not of my tradition that write “Lutherans believe this” and “Lutherans believe that” and a good chunk just isn’t true. Regardless… this “Brothers War” between Christians [I]must[/I] stop. We are in a massive spiritual war… cutting our brethren off because of minutiae needs to be halted for another time. [/QUOTE]

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