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Posted on 03/19/2013 11:40:11 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
Doesnt begin to compare with Catholic Church indulgences.
I don't get the desire to put her down with insults, though.
If what she says makes you think up ways to call her a whore, isn't that sort of proving her point? Certainly it's not refuting it.
Ditto for the interdenominational salvoes.
If you really think she's taken the wrong path, shouldn't you be praying for her and leave out the attacks?
Family Trust? Who do you think controls the purse-strings?
So that’s a “no” on providing a link to back up the accusation?
Oh C’mmon, indulgences date back to the early Church and the Acts of the Apostles. Sure, there were abuses that were a product of the culture then as there is now but monies went to construct Churches not the pockets and treasuries of personal family fortunes like the Schullers, Olsteens, and Grahams.
This is plain silly and shallow. What do you say to a grieving family? that their loved one is in hell? Everyone knows God forgives the repentant sinner even while taking his last breath like the thief on the right. Funeral prayers are just that, the hope that the deceased repented and begged for forgiveness in the hour of his death. Salvation comes through belief in Christ and his teachings handed down by the apostles and their successors with the Mass being the perfect prayer.
http://www.therichest.org/celebnetworth/celeb/televangelists/billy-graham-net-worth/
I am sorry, but then again you asked for it.
When someone says a man or woman’s “sexuality” I hear “gay”.
You implied Billy Graham was a huckster only interested in filling his bank account. As evidence you post a link showing that he’s rich. Are you sure you’re on the right website? To you rich = greedy charlatan? It doesn’t matter that the man has written dozens of best sellers? Or are Christians not allowed to be rich?
Getting rich off charitable organizations, and getting rich off selling books are two different things. Of course the line blurs when one is tied to the other. We have seen this with the Schullers and Osteens as well. It’s a standard marketing ploy very much like the “Get Well” info-commercials. You have someone speaking about diet and nutrition etc and then this is soon followed by a diet book. At bottom, these are all shallow preachers with “low-intellect” masses following them. You won’t find any Noble Laureates, renowned authors like GK Chesterton, sculptors, painters, artists, inventors, philosophers, scientists, great lawyers, doctors, theologians, saints, martyrs, and statesmen attach to their sophomoric teaching of scripture. If these “preachers’ deny the central truths of the Eucharist, the Catholic Mass, and the sacraments, all the rest is pure froth in a collection basket.
Now I see the problem. Thank you for clarifying.
Every catholic funeral I’ve been to, the priest talks about the newly deceased person is looking down on us from heaven. How the hell would he know? Many of these priests didn’t even know the deceased person. Comforting words definitely.
You get that kind of stuff at every funeral where the deceased has some kind of connection to a Christian church of some sort.
That's kind of a hot button for me. A lot of things get said at funerals that we really don't have warrant to say.
Leave Billy Graham out of that mix.
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