Stumbled on this today. Apparently Washington attended services but didn't commune. His wife did. I know he was a mason, what's the deal with this guy?
What's the deal with this guy?
Jeremiah Miller
Brayden Gonzalez
Even though he had the morals and integrity of a pious Christian man, Washington sadly fell for the Deism meme.
Landon Walker
Ignatius says you can tell who the Gnostics are by who doesn't take the Eucharist. This is a trend that is continued in the dualism of low church Protestants today, ESPECIALLY Evangelicals (US definition). When we decide that God is "too big to be found in physical forms," we run into a lot of problems.
Thomas Phillips
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Lincoln Davis
What the hell are you talking about?
Grayson James
he's making a comparison to low church protestants aversion to sacraments with gnostic dualism. It is a comparison that is accurate imo.
Cameron Smith
All protestants I know of take communion.
Christopher White
You should read Tertullian. His writings against the Gnostics is uncanny in how the arguments he cites them using just sound like modern low-church protestants. Including fun things like not believing in transubstantiation and refusing to believe in confession.
Eli Sullivan
what about him
Caleb Butler
Didn't Tertullian also say that Jesus wasn't fully God?
David White
Are we sure this isn't fraudulent?
Washington was definitely a Christian, he didn't even tolerate swearing in the Continental Army because he felt it was offensive to God, and that he was dependent on God for victory.
No. Against Praxeas is a very Trinitarian book, and in it Tertullian argues against the Modalists that their prooftexts show only that Jesus only proove that He is God, not that He is the Father.
Mason Perry
He was a non-Trinitarian, unfortunately.
Connor Davis
Yes. It's from the letters of the first presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.
Chase Sanders
There is no evidence of this
James Davis
Check these out. They're recent. From just a few days ago.
c-span.org
c-span.org
c-span.org
Nathan Martinez
From what i’ve Gathered he was a theist. He definitely beloved in God and that God helped him win the revolution, but to what extent he was a Christian is unknown.
Ian Flores
Rick Wiles also mentions how the practice of taking communion without a physical bread and wine (or wine substitute) that is sometimes practiced in Protestant churches originated from Gnosticism. He quotes one of the writings of the Saints (maybe St. Irenaeus?) but I can't recall from the top of my head.
Carson Russell
Whoa, whoa, really? Give me a quote and sauce. I want to believe.
Logan Bailey
I second this.
Isaiah Edwards
I think you just accidentally acknowledged that the trail of blood meme is correct.
Cooper Foster
And this guy is some sort of expert, kek.
Jonathan Evans
He was a ginger. You know how that goes.