Posted on 11/18/2012 12:31:13 PM PST by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
What Catholic teachings do you view as more authoritative than the Bible itself, and where do they come from? Does the Catholic church hierarchy have some sort of direct line to God...a red phone on the Pope’s nightstand? I don’t see how any of the charges you make toward protestants can’t be leveled at the Catholic church as well. Again, where does Catholic doctrine come from, if not from the Bible?
During the few times in recent months in which I have tried to watch it to see if anything had changed for the better I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Laughing usually won out, especially when the "lady" with the circus clown makeup and fake white hairdo approximately the size of a bushel basket, presumably Jan Crouch, seemed to be in charge of the program. If I wanted to watch a freak show I would patronize a traveling carnival, not a "Christian" satellite TV station.
The flaw in your logic is that sole this and sola that, is not the cause of their grifter lifestyle. It’s the ruse they use to separate people from their cash.
Billy Graham holds the same theology, as do many others who are on the right path, and doing Gods work.
If a thief pretends to be a representative of the gas company to trick you into letting them in, that doesn’t say ANYTHING about the gas company. The thief was a false representative.
Father Corapi was a very recent example of this. But i never saw a post nutty enough to say that his behavior proves that the sermons he preached were incorrect. He used the right words and some good word of God. His sermons were fine by me. But he saw that he could use his fame to achieve his own ends. Same as Trinity.
Another example might be a fake donation jar, set out in the middle legitimate effort, for a kid who needs a transplant. A crook claiming to be part of the cause, does not mean the others were are not fully legitimate.
Trinity claiming to be of a certain theology doesn’t make it so.
It speaks to the crook, not the theology they use to achieve a greedy end. Surely you can see that.
S. M. Lockridge (1913-2000) was a prominent African-American preacher known for his dynamic, passionate, and fervent sermons. His most famous sermon was Hes my King. Several years ago author and speaker Tony Campolo was so impressed by Lockridges lesson on Its Friday But Sundays Coming that he began to deliver the lesson himself and even wrote a book with that title.
I don’t know about their lifestyles but the line up on this and other Christian stations is pathetic. Mostly a bunch of con men and/or prosperity ministers, many of which SUPPORT obama which is reprehensible.
I’m sick of it. I NEED good Christian broadcasting and I just don’t get it at all.
“Laughing usually won out, especially when the “lady” with the circus clown makeup and fake white hairdo approximately the size of a bushel basket, presumably Jan Crouch, seemed to be in charge of the program. If I wanted to watch a freak show I would patronize a traveling carnival, not a “Christian” satellite TV station.”
Reminds me of my old math teacher long ago. She was teaching us to check our work. She said first, just look at it to see if it even makes sense. If you divide 24 by 3, and got 80, she said you don’t even need to know the right answer to know that 80 is incorrect.
Thats how i feel when i see those two on TV. I may not have all the theological answers,,but im sure they ain’t it.
Satellite - The Hooters
Hush little baby don’t cry like that
God’s gonna buy you a cadillac
he’s chosen you to do his will
you can spread the world in your coupe de ville
so jump in the river and learn to swim
God’s gonna wash away all your sins
and if you still can’t see the light
God’s gonna buy you a satellite
look to the heavens and see it shine
heals the sick and leads the blind
tune it in and hear it say
it’s counting down to judgement day
so jump in the river ...
hey satellite man your time has come
your words received by everyone
and should you fall, well that’s ok
you love the ones that you betray
so jump in the river and learn to swim
God’s gonna take away all your sins
and when at last you see the light
God’s gonna buy you a satellite
NO ONE was as bad as Dr. Gene Scott!!
>>And sexual perversion on little boys was hidden and covered up. (ahem,,disciplined internally)>>
No, not disciplined “internally” as you said. It always amazes me that people missed the group of psychiatrists who said that the priests could be cured of their addiction. Eventually the psychiatrists announced them cured and sent them back to the Church. Why not blame the psychiatrists?
I thought E.V. Hill preached an Easter sermon by that title.
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I am sure that is just a historic anomoly. :p
Oh, baloney. I do not have to go to a priest for forgiveness but directly to God.
I'll bite on that. If I say "Paul was infallible [definition: preserved from teaching error by the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit] in writing Romans," who or what have I blasphemed?
Meanwhile, Kenneth Copeland taught that "Jesus died spiritually". That's real blasphemy, right here in River City.
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