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Early on, I considered doing that. But as I studied over the years, it became increasingly clear to me that there were just too many Orthodox doctrines that I could not accept. If something contradicts with scripture, I must go with scripture, and I found too many man-made traditions in...

Undoubtedly there are fake healers and fake healings. I have seen what I believe are both fake and genuine.

Where do you get that? I don't see it.

From reading your posts, it seems that your view of the atonement is close to mine, which is also the Orthodox view. But the RCC holds to the Satisfaction theory, doesn't it? That theory is the one upon which penal substitution was founded and expanded. As a Roman Catholic, aren't you required...

I am saying that I don't anywhere see that Jesus limited miraculous healing to the Apostles. Jesus said "He that believeth on me", not "you Apostles who believe on me."

How do you get that "He that believeth on me" was limited to the Apostles. I see no basis for believing that. Jesus did not qualify it that way, in my opinion.

I don't see any basis in scripture for believing that healing has ceased or should cease. Do you? If so, point it out, please.

Does you church believe in divine healing? Do you see miraculous healing on a regular basis? If not, why not? The Bible says we'll do greater works than those miraculous healings seen in New Testament times. I don't see that today, except for the purported healings in charismatic circles. Even...

No offense intended. There are Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-rite Catholic Churches.

Roman Catholic?

Actually the only major doctrinal difference I have with the believers' only baptism churches is the atonement. And maybe if they would allow me to maintain my belief on that, I wouldn't have a problem becoming a member. I must say, since I have begun this journey away from Orthodoxy and toward...

In that case, what would you do?

That makes sense.

May I ask what denomination you are a member of?

I think that is quite a good suggestion. But what about major doctrinal differences, even if only a few of them? For example, what if you lived in a community of Roman Catholics, or Lutherans, or any other that you had major differences with? Could you become a part of that?

I will definitely keep visiting churches. But my atonement views won't change. I've studied the issue in depth, more than any other doctrinal question because I consider it of central importance.

I was not trying to do that. I was just trying to be realistic and choose the best fit, taking into account the denominations that I could go to close to where I live. I know I won't find any who fit perfectly. The ones I have to choose from around here are Methodist, Presbyterian, RCC...

Why do you think I've been visiting churches, if I want to be my own boss and live as a rogue Christian? If you can't be helpful, why don't you just be quiet?

I spent the last month or more visiting local Baptist and Pentecostal or charismatic churches. Since my views seem to be somewhere between these two denominations, I limited my visits to them. I don't know if I resolved anything. I asked one Pentecostal pastor if I didn't believe that tongues...

I thought SDA believed in penal substitution.