Posted on 08/16/2015 4:33:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Got it. Thanks for clarifying. I sensed it was an Old Testament notion (and as a Jew, the Torah).
BTTT
...then shouldn’t that be _B_M_ ?
America seem to crave pastors, preachers and priests who are *not* lily-livered, socially amoral, personally corrupt, or who are willing to compromise their faith to be trendy.
Sadly, they are few and far between.
In the 1960s and 1970s, seminaries went to Hell. Many who joined were draft dodgers and homosexuals. Philosophies, most of which were atheistic, replaced theology as a core study.
The willingness to liberalize and compromise with their faith foretold the downfall of many churches.
In truth, the underpinnings for failure began in the 1940s, when clergy decided to dispense with the idea of Hell, that Hell even existed, as such. Likely wracked with worry or guilt with their own bad behavior, they became frightened of the idea of Hell, because if it existed, then they were toast.
The seeds of the American revolution were sown by the colonial pastors like George Whitefield. Its why the British were so aggressive with colonial churches and trying to impose government approved pastors.
Funny thing, this ‘pastor’ garbage, as I blame myself vs. blaming others, because I - like so many others - have LET those around me vote the way that led to our current cabal that presently has this train running away.
I’m of the opinion perhaps that we might have been better off beating the bejesus out of those that have led us down this track.
That stated, I also believe Cruz is the best choice to stick I up the a$$ of the establishment.
Palin in his cabinet would genuinely get me excited at the thought of libs’ heads doing 540 rotation and then exploding...
Funny thing.
I wish Ted Cruz and his father had been able to go to Cuba instead of Jeff Flake. It would have been a great jab in the eye to Castro. They could have returned with photos of the empty seats at the embassy opening after the White House claimed that there simply was no room for Cuban dissidents on the trip.
I’m in the Bible Belt; you can barely walk around without someone telling you how Christian they are - whether you ask or not.
When someone tells me unprompted that they’re oh-so-Christian, I ask them to list the Ten Commandments.
Not one of these people has gotten it correct to date, and that includes actual pastors. Also have had the same results with Mormon missionaries, who seem to always come in pairs, and even two of them together can’t do it. Best anyone has done so far is to get seven of them.
Try it. You may be shocked at the results.
I’ve concluded that someone who is really Christian is too humble to shove it in someone else’s face.
Commandment 1: See Commandment 2.
Commandment 2: See Commandment 3.
Commandment 3: See Commandment 4.
Commandment 4: See Commandment 5.
Commandment 5: See Commandment 6.
Commandment 6: See Commandment 7.
Commandment 7: See Commandment 8.
Commandment 8: See Commandment 9
Commandment 9: See Commandment 10.
Commandment 10: See Commandment 1.
Source: The Orange Catholic Bible, Artificial Intelligence Commandments.
Yep,when I refused to vote for a man whose prayers God does not hear, I was blamed for putting BO in office.
If I am reading your post correctly, that was an unnecessary and unkind slam. Disappointed.
dear biggirl,
I was under the impresssion that as Mr. Billy started winding down, easing back, due to health reasons, not in his fervor, there really wasn’t -any-one- individual.
Sure, there were a lot of bookselling-making-the-tour-preachers, but even THOSE books, had NOT the ‘Jonah on the shore talking to the Ninevites’ impact, Billy had.
Franklin, has come forward, and is, yes, Billy’s son.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” - Edmund Burke
“Good men cannot save a great nation, because good men will not go to the lengths necessary.” - Horace Walpole
Both were members of Britain’s House of Commons during the late 18th century.
Americans are especially fond of this quote from Burke, but fewer are so much as aware of the existence of Walpole.
If we expect to succeed, we ought to contemplate the truth of both statments.
I could understand how insincerity could be a risk in a highly “Christian culture” region.
Try a more “moderate” area and you will not see that.
Keep in mind, however, that Christian theologians differ on the significance of the Ten Commandments to the modern Gentile church. The bible literate should know them but that does not translate into literal obligation.
I know.
Got to remember that a Christian is simply a sinner who has simply been forgiven by Jesus.
Look for America to be a new missionary area for those Christian missionaries from the countries which America used to send Christian missionary folks.
It’s certainly the case for American Anglicans who left behind the ruins of the Episcopal church and are now in African Anglican Missionary churches. Completely white congregations who have African bishops and archbishops.
Oddly enough, it couldn’t have happened at a better time for the African dioceses, as these American missionary churches are now sending them money, which they desperately need because of the vast number of black Muslims converting to Christianity. They can’t build churches fast enough, and they are SRO when they do.
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