Posted on 11/08/2013 8:23:18 AM PST by Gamecock
The Hail Mary position has been replaced with the new Halal Mary. And, btw, Mary has also been replaced by Marzuq. Halal Marzuq.
A flood of Methodist and Episcopal graduates are seeking this new office.
:)
then their draft order was predetermined
So, where does Hobbes come in?
41,000 is a made up number that keeps growing with the retelling.
Our manual of denominations in the Army Chaplaincy had a couple hundred maybe, and we had a legitimate reason for having information on denominations since we had to deal with them regularly.
Were one to try to find a list of “the 41,000” it would be a lot like Taze Russell’s 144,000, known only to the prophet himself.
Glad you asked!
Back when the number was in the 30,000 range, they were including every independent baptist church, and many thousands of non-Christian cults. Since every baptist congregation is free to choose its own statement of belief, we baptists can account for many ‘thousands’ of denominations all by ourselves.
It is all in how you define ‘denomination’. And since most Protestants believe in the priesthood of the believer, I expect the Catholic apologists to soon complain the SBC has millions of denominations within a denomination.
“Wouldnt the Calvin Award winner normally be drafted first anyway?”
If it’s “the Calvin Award” it was probably predestined.”
I suspect you’re right. Someone’s playing fast and loose with the definition of denomination.
“No doubt the same Roman Catholic apologists who so gleefully cite the erroneous 25,000-denominations figure, and who might with just as much glee cite the revised 8,196-denominations figure, would reel at the notion that there might actually be 223 distinct denominations within Roman Catholicism! Yet that is precisely the number that Barrett cites for Roman Catholicism. Moreover, Barrett indicates in the case of Roman Catholicism that even this number can be broken down further to produce 2,942 separate denominations and that was only in 1970! In that same year there were only 3,294 Protestant denominations; a difference of only 352 denominations.”
http://www.jmm.org.au/articles/19106.htm
We were a bit more balanced in the Army since we needed info for real purposes. And the Baptists who didn’t have conventions or organizations were just “Baptists”.
That’s my point.
Satire. Methodist pastors come from the Conference (our state level organization).
Next stop, the superbowl! I hope we play against the Catholics, since all they do is throw Hail Marys every play.
Wouldnt the Calvin Award winner normally be drafted first anyway?
Why? God knows men's hearts. He seeks His will to enact His plan. We don't know what that plan is or why things happen the way they do. Otherwise, all missionaries would be lottery winners and all Reformed pastors would be drafted first.
Apparently God knew their draft position before He founded the universe, eh?
Indeed He did.
Knew?
He foreordained the entire draft!
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