Posted on 10/25/2020 11:30:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Many Christians have been seeking a new Christian community.
RE: How about CATHOLICISM???
Maybe after this Pope leaves.
That's great. So does Jesus.
Sarcasm aside, i totally understand the impulse to leave a denomination. I was raised in the First Congregational church which was quite conservative. They have since become the United Church of Christ and have gone full liberal with lgbt, embracing illegal aliens, and even ordaining lesbian and gay pastors. I left them over 30 years ago but have not altered my belief in Christ and being a good Christian. I often fail but i still try.
It gets old when the most liberal person in the building is the guy giving the sermon.
Amen. I’m a Bible scholar. And nowhere in the Bible is denominationalism taught or encouraged
Amen. I’m a Bible scholar. And nowhere in the Bible is denominationalism taught or encouraged
1Co 1:12 Some of you are saying, “I am a follower of Paul.” Others are saying, “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Peter, “ or “I follow only Christ.”
"We can use peace," the president reportedly responded.
I almost never read anything about Pope Francis so this is the first time that I have seen this information. I hope that Pope Francis is aware that President Trump started zero new wars, reduced the number of US troops from several wars and has brokered peace between four different pairs of countries leading to four different Nobel peace prize nominations. If Frances even knows about these peace initiatives, I wonder if he will give President Trump any credit.
Good for him. A personal relationship with Christ is what is most important. FWIW, Platt apologized after praying with PDJT.
Well, ostensibly Catholics are christians too, but as a recovering catholic, I speak with some authority saying that many - especially politicians - use the church of Rome as cover and concealment, failing as christians in any sense of the word.
Whenever I hear Nanny Pelosi say “I’m a Catholic,” what I hear is her mispronouncing “alcoholic.”
You can’t support abortion and homosexuality by the word of the gospel.
HEB 1:1 outlines the second very well, the first is old testament “choose life.”
“God left His Word not a denomination.”
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Never mind the 8th Commandment. I am stealing that one. LOL.
Thanks for the smile.
God left His Word not a denomination.
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God did leave one person to be at the head of the church as His representative on earth, Peter.
While Peter was not a Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Presperterian or any other demonination there was “a church” regardless of what it was called. Once Peter and all the other Apostles were gone the church seemed to drift in to different directions. Constatntine who was at the time the head of three other religions decided that the church of his mother was taking over the world and needed leadership and organization. He called together most of the bishops of Christanity and had a council where in he decided what was admissible in the Christian Church and what was not. Many doctrines that we find in scripture were codified by Constantine as Church Cannon. The new organization was no longer called “The Christian Church” but the “Universal (Catholic) Church. It pretty much existed that way for the next 800 years until the Eastern Orthodox Church was established. Orthodox simply meant that they didn’t go along with a lot of new ideas in religion. Both churches claimed the authority of Peter to administer the affairs of their church. A few hundred years later Martin Luther came along and split away from the (Now Roman) Catholic Church and claimed the same authority of Peter because he had been ordained a priest. Today we have over 45 thousand “Christian” denominations or at least churches who claim to be Christian. That is about 2-1/2 billion people.
So, I would say Donald Trump not picking out a particular denomination is wise, very wise. Wise not for political reasons but because how could he know which one is better than the other. He believes in Jesus Christ and probably feels that one church is as good as another. Until God tells one is better than another I think he is doing the wise thing. More importantly that he claimes to be a follower of Jesus Christ is more important than which church he belongs to.
Me too. I had it with these leftist mainstream churches
1 Cor. 3:4,9
When the House of God you thought you had belonged turns out to be a mobile home, it can be quite a disappointment to learn that home has left you behind. Yet, there still are places of worship remaining steadfast who proclaim, “All are Welcome.”
Yes referenced. But not encouraged.
“One Lord, one faith, one baptism.”
Eph. 4:5
Correct. And as Paul indicates in that passage; denominationalism is not encouraged
Nonsense. Only by contortions and twisting of Scripture does one believe that. Read 2 Cor. 11:5. about what Paul would say to YOU. Also James was the leader of the Jerusalem Church. Did not Jesus rebuke Peter and say "Get thee behind Me, Satan"?
So what?!?! I’m a non denominational Jew.
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