Taking Christ out of Christianity (You are NOT going to believe this!)

The Globe and Mail ^ | March 22, 2008 | The Globe and Mail

[nina0113]

I have glorious hope that this church has a big enough lightning rod.

You're so much more charitable than I. My feelings about this sort of thing come up pretty much every time I go to confession - I don't seem to make much progress.

[Greg F]

Happy Easter Everyone. Praise Christ for all things.

[LucyJo]

Dear Ms. Gretta Vosper, members, and guests at West Hill United Church:

Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, send you warning.

http://www.ccel.org/contrib/exec_outlines/text/lev9_22.htm

[muawiyah]

The United Church is a consequence of the application of COCU principles in Canada.

They thought it worked there.

Anyway, the whole point of COCU has been pursued by preachers who find it advantageous to have the same medical, dental and retirement plan. They can buy into a more stable package if they have a lot of preachers.

[johnny7]

Scary lookin' dame...

[Girlene]

I had people all this week wish me a “Happy Holiday”.

Isn’t it EASTER? What Holiday? Now you can’t say Easter. I made sure I replied by saying “Happy Easter to you”.

Happy Holiday? Maybe they meant to say "Happy HolyDay"? Happy Holiday kind of makes it hard to differentiate between the various holidays, celebrations throughout the year.

[muawiyah]

We are glad you have him too. Now there have been others that were definitely problems for everybody.

SO, keep up the good work.

[Rocky]

“And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.”
1 Cor 15:17 (KJV)

[kindred]

[Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?]

The serpent, a.k.a. Lucifer, supplanter, devil, deceiver, anti Christ, etc. is up to the old trick he used here when he first deceived the woman, beginning with the first sentence out of his murdering mouth;
“Yea, Hath God said, ye shall not...”

His successful strategy throughout fallen mans history always, ALWAYS, begins with the attack on the Word of God, the holy scriptures, and ends with religions without doctrine of God. And so it is today also.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for DOCTRINE,...

This separates the Christian faith from all the Christian cults and is summed up by Paul the apostle by the revelations of the risen Christ;

2 Timothy 3:
15. And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17. That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

[mikrofon]

She wants salvation redefined to mean new life through removing the causes of suffering in the world. She wants the church to define resurrection as “starting over,” “new chances.” She wants an end to the image of God as an intervening all-powerful authority who must be appeased to avoid divine wrath; rather she would have congregations work together as communities to define God – or god – according to their own worked-out definitions of what is holy and sacred. She wants the eucharist – the symbolic eating and drinking of Jesus's body and blood to make the congregation part of Jesus's body – to be instead a symbolic experience of community love

As in all things, not your will, but His will be done...

[Mike Darancette]

The words “Jesus Christ” will be excised from what the congregation sings and replaced with “Glorious hope.”

But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. -Matthew 10:33

[nobdysfool]

Call them "Ichabod", The Glory has departed.

2Th 2:11-12 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, (12) in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

[17th Miss Regt]

Hmm. She looks too young to be a drug addled, burned-out hippie from the ‘60s. But she sure sounds like it.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This sort of silliness is why these liberal “Christian” sects are soon followed by a return of pagan beliefs. The basic problem is why should anyone even go to “church”, if it is just an exercise in pseudo-spiritual leftist masturbation?

Not even liberals want to be cooped up in a room full of other liberals telling each other how wonderful they are, even just once a week. There is more real spirituality in a football game or watching television.

[353FMG]

“lucky for them I’m not God.”

You would be too tired at the end of the day.

[MinuteGal]

This more clever and sophisticated Madelyn Murray O'Hare has to keep some of the church trappings in her words of advice to leftists cleric, i.e., pews, organs, banners, revised hymns, etc. in order for these "progressive churches" to continue to qualify as centers of religion for privileged tax purposes.

Her social gospel movement and those of others like her will be one of the great scams of the century approximating the Gore "global warming" hoax.

Leni

[ought-six]

At least the Catholic Church has staying power, and is not going to throw in the towel and “modernize” itself into oblivion. In fact, many of its congregants want to return to the beauty and mystery of the Latin Mass. I’m one of them.

[WayneLusvardi]

Check this out:

“He (Obama) is supposed to transcend the normal rules of politics and sail sweetly through the Democratic primaries with his message of audacious hope, wonderful hope, GLORIOUS HOPE”
Excerpted from New York Post, Feb. 22, 2007, “Clueless Lib Sticks His Leading Man With a Stinker.”

[narses]

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[IronJack]

"Glorious hope" in this case has the same meter (and metre) as "Cowardice." So it would be just as lyrical to sing "Cowardice is risen today-ay." Wouldn't it?