Posted on 08/13/2014 5:22:31 PM PDT by markomalley
Not everyone will welcome the Pope to South Korea.
A group of Protestants held a demonstration on Tuesday, slamming the Roman Catholic Church as heretical.
Organizers say about 10,000 people attended the event at a convention center west of Seoul, where a number of Protestant pastors stressed the difference between the Roman Catholic Church and Protestant churches, according to local Protestant media.
Rev. Song Chun-gil, the secretary general of the group, called Catholicism a perversion of faith, according to the reports. He has opposed recent moves among mainstream Protestant church leaders to form a relationship with the Roman Catholics, according to local media. (The Christian Daily has photos from the event.)
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Well then. This thread may get interesting.
Apparently, all of us aren’t on the same ecumenical page. Luckily, these Protestants can commune with Moslems. Is the enemy of my enemy my friend?
Well, they’re wrong and should sit down, STFU and have an ice cold Coke.
This is not good news. Christians have more then their share of prosecutions, specially in N. Korea, China and the Middle East. They should be working together for the name of Christ, we as Christians can’t afford these disputes.
Sounds like FR.
I’ve often thought Muzzies must come here for a good laugh as Catholics and Protestants lob insults at each other.
How charming
I don’t know which Protestant denominations are big in South Korea, but I am not surprised about this protest at all. The seamstress/alterations shop near me is Korean-owned, and there are anti-Catholic tracts sitting on the counter. (When they made my daughter’s baptismal gown I was careful not to mention which church she was getting baptized in.) There is also a picture of a huge crowd of Korean Christians attending a large meeting. I assume the picture was from Korea, and not a gathering of Koreans in America.
Ain't it the truth?
Primarily Presbyterian. And not the watered down American version.
The lucky Koreans will never have to face jihadists.
After what they have seen is happening in the ME, they will make sure that muzzies will never settle in the peninsula.
This is another country that doesn’t have faith in the blessings of diveeeeersity.
South Korea, like Japan, is racially homogeneous.
Although not an island people like Japan, Koreans can easily keep track of muzzies in their midst.
Not too many Koreans look like Middle Eastern bearded savages.
There’s a big difference between a Christian and a Catholic, just wanted to point that out.
Yeah, sure you did. There is no difference between a Christian and Catholic, because Catholics are Christians. The original Christians.
>>Primarily Presbyterian. And not the watered down American version.
They have a lot of United Methodists too and not the watered down American version either.
Christians in S.Korea represent about 20% of the population, with 8mil+ Protestants and 5mil+ Roman Catholics - approx.
Most of the Protestants have theological heritages from the early American Presbyterian and Methodist missionaries, preserving mostly that Conservative Christian theology those missionaries brought and not moving so much in the Liberal direction of the western churches, while in some cases maintaining some institutional linkages with some of them. They also have a number of mega-church’s of something of a Korean-Baptist-Evangelical type. Seems we still export some things to Korea. LOL
I can give an example of the difference between the two, and what being an evangelical Christian means to me. I was just listening to the radio show of a Catholic, Patrick Madrid, and one topic he went into is making decisions and in particular deciding to say no to things because of being too busy. He brought up some “tips” from a woman who seems to be a secular author with a new book on the subject, which were things like consider the importance of something you’re being asked to do versus how many hours you have in a week.
What was missing, though, in this advice on what to do in your moments of having to make a decision and not knowing what to do was asking the Lord. The Bible says in different ways that at such times we are to ask Him and He will give us the answer. I used to be in anxiety all the time before reading the Bible and learning all that and beginning to do it, but I’ve learned so much about going to Him when the anxiety of what to do comes, and I find peace in Him. Even if it (Cont’d)
My question is this - how can Protestants get so riled up about Catholic doctrine when there are thousands of different denominations who are under the umbrella of the word ‘Protestant’. Do they not care about the doctrinal differences among themselves being much more egregious? Jut my humble opinion.
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