Posted on 01/27/2015 9:03:53 AM PST by Salvation
Mostly the Apostle Paul
Thanks for the article. I’ll read it when I have a chance and see what he has to say.
Chuck Missler is a good teacher and we have found a couple of teachers we keep up with. As I tell my students, drink the soup but spit out the bones. One very relevant, weekly prophecy update we enjoy is Pastor J.D. Farag out of Hawaii Calvary Chapel. He takes Scripture and applies it to today’s Headlines...very relevant.
Now if you want hard core teaching try http://www.thepropheticscroll.org/ Again drink the soup/spit out the bones
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well.....IF you find a new church that seems pretty good for you.......and IF it does go bad sometime in the future...
well, quite frankly you will then decide whether to stay and fight..... or quit and move along to a better, third church.
just the way things are. but suppose your new church stays good? or suppose it stays good for a few years anyway, before going sour? You’ll be way ahead!
“nothing ventured, nothing gained...”
At any event, it makes perfectly good sense you quit the PCUSA. What an awful U-turn that church took...you could very well say... it was on a pretty good path to Heaven and then went 180 degrees staight for Hell.
Several churches have gone soft, liberal..without adding in all the hateful IslamoNazi krap like PCUSA
for what its worth, there are a number of Baptist=type churches that are somewhat Calvinist in their perspectives, and many are mostly local outfits, not controlled by a centralized hierarchy, or at least not beholden to one... (this is a common trait in Baptist circles, relatively autonomous or independent local churches, plus or minus...). Nazarenes the last time I looked seemed pretty staight-up in their prayers, too. And there are many more possibilities Roman Catholic is of course hierarcial.. and has a number of distinctives that may or may not be agreeable to you... but anyway the central idea is usually still pretty much there, IMHO. It will depend entirely on where you feel the most comfortable that you are both welcomed and in a basically sound church, and it won’t matter one whit what I might think from afar, so I will shut up ...
but it is just something I would want to do ...eventually anyway..find a reasonably-compatible new church to attend at least some of the time...
and they ARE out there!
Go for it!
Best,
fhc
indeed. I have left a couple congregations when they started to pursue a big expensive building fund campaign.
i wish them well, I just don’t want to invest a ton of money in a fancy building... a church is the parishioners, not just a glorious pile of bricks
anyway just my thoughts,
and it sounds like you’re doing pretty well there!!
keep it up,
Best,
fhc
“History is written by men who have hanged heroes...”
Thanks.
BirthWRONG!!!
I wouldn’t have thought of Dispensationalism as being a very Catholic doctrine especially Jesuit sourced.
No ... not at all Catholic. The main thing is that Catholic doctrine is along the lines of “Replacement Theology” (Supersessionism) which basically says that Israel has forfeited all the promises of God (to Israel) and that the “church” has now inherited all those promises. And that Israel is no longer prophetically significant in prophecy (in other words, God is finished with Israel).
On the other hand, Dispensationalism teaches that all the promises of God to Israel will be fulfilled and not one promise will go by the wayside. And it teaches that Israel is not only prophetically significant, but it is KEY to the future as announced by God. Also, what goes along with that is that the “church” and “Israel” are distinct and separate from one another and that one must know when the Bible is speaking to the church and when it is speaking to Israel.
Catholic doctrine is extremely AGAINST ISRAEL while Dispensationalism is extremely FOR ISRAEL. The two teachings are the OPPOSITE of one another.
However, it is all part of what the Bible says is going to happen. So while it is “trouble” ... it is the trouble that was foretold by God that would happen. AND ... this is yet another indication of the closeness of Jesus’ return to set up his one-world government upon this earth!
When the PCUSA ordained women, the changed the text of 1 Tim 3 to remove “husband of one wife” in favor of “married once”.
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