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The enemy revealed (why Christianity is losing the younger generation—and what to do about it)
CMI ^ | September 24, 2009 | Calvin Smith

Posted on 09/24/2009 8:37:40 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts

We are losing our children! Research indicates that 70% of teens who are involved in a church youth group will stop attending church … [1]

Similar statements from Christian leaders aren’t new, but many still can’t seem to identify the root cause of the problem. However, most front-line evangelists in the Western world have reached a consensus. The following quote is from a person who shares his faith more times in a month than most Christians ever will in their lives...

(Excerpt) Read more at creation.com ...


TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Charismatic Christian; Current Events; Eastern Religions; Evangelical Christian; General Discusssion; History; Mainline Protestant; Ministry/Outreach; Religion & Culture; Religion & Science; Theology
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; creaation; creation; embarrasschristians; evolution; forrestisstoopid; generationy; intelligentdesign; knuckledraggers; moralabsolutes; ragingyechardon; science; sin; slopingforeheads; unchurched
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To: wmfights

Right back at you :o)


162 posted on 09/25/2009 12:11:12 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: Buck W.; wmfights
w>“What do you think defines someone as a Christian?”

Apparently, that information is only available to members of your cult.

Buck; you don't seem to display the Chesed(lovingkindness) of Yah'shua.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
163 posted on 09/25/2009 12:11:19 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: Marysecretary

According to a prophesy I saw on Sid Roth’s program, Zero will have an assassination attempt on his life by Muslim extremists. Conservatives (such as FR, Rush, Hannity, etc.) will be blamed and riots will break out.


wow...it almost seems like the table is being set too...

with people like ka-DAFFY and Chavez...blabbering about the “Israeli” Jack Ruby that killed “Lee Harvey” that killed Kennedy and how this investigation needs to be re-opened.

The world gets creepier each day I wake up to it!

Oh well, we all know riots are impossible as well as any assassinations of anyone...zerrhoid promised in his campaign all the world would hold hands and post-racial this and post-partisan that....

anyone that has a zerrhoid the clown/biden the stooge sticker on their car, even though liberals have no shame...MUST feel the least bit uneasy, especially those that said they would no longer have to sweat their car payment, fuel bills, mortgages...

WHERE’S THE PIE?

Liberalism has just got to be some kind of insidious virulent disease that destroys the reasoning part of the brain!


164 posted on 09/25/2009 12:25:11 PM PDT by tpanther (Science was, is and will forever be a small subset of God's creation.)
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To: Buck W.

So are you saying then that you DO want Christian scripture taught as science, right?


Noooo...actually Christian scripture wasn’t taught in science class. The point is, creationism/ID wasn’t attacked, it was actually discussed.

Lunatics with multiple hang-ups with God didn’t shout someone down or sue them if they brought up intelligent design, design in general, intelligence in general, complexity...NON-random explanations, etc. etc. etc.

Design is still evident to the vast majority of people all around you, even many of the liberal loons demand that evolution itself IS intelligent design...or “the way God did it”...

soooo, if anyone need notify any authorities, it should entail how you got off the unit!


165 posted on 09/25/2009 12:37:18 PM PDT by tpanther (Science was, is and will forever be a small subset of God's creation.)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

Thank you for the observation. What’s your assessment of the loving kindness displayed by “Christians” who deny the Christianity of Catholics?


166 posted on 09/25/2009 12:46:48 PM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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To: mnehring
I think I've sent you this link before, but maybe I haven't: "Jesus Was Not A Theistic Evolutionist."

Seems like a strong argument against TE. Please wrestle with that blog, perhaps even following the embedded links. It seems correct. And if you're not correct, then you are propagating something that is not true.

167 posted on 09/25/2009 12:47:21 PM PDT by Theo (May Rome decrease and Christ increase.)
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To: tpanther
Hardly, the problem is the NEA secular humanists that demand young children understand that there’s “no place for God in the science class”, indeed in ANY class; nevermind the vast majority of children that attend school know better, freely accept Him in every other single facet of their lives, discuss Him openly in conversations, etc. etc. etc.
"Teach basic epistemology, avoid category errors, and do make kids choose between religion and science."

liberal lunatics like Micahel Newdow dependent on courts and liberal activist judges to enforce their liberal view of “science” and ideology… Evolution as it is currently taught in public school is anti-theistic and intolerant of dissent. Just an extension of abiogenesis...without intelligence, without design, above all without God...all by sheer chance, and children are taught they’re little more than great apes.

"The problem is with evolution being used to infer religion. It's no help to use religion to derive science."

168 posted on 09/25/2009 12:49:07 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

The story of Adam and Eve is referred to as the “central myth of Christianity”.

Excuse me but wouldn’t the life and teachings of Jesus Christ be the center of a religion named after him? Duh.


169 posted on 09/25/2009 12:49:32 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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To: wmfights

“And yet he knows the definition of a Christian and you couldn’t answer the most basic question “What defines a Christian?”.”

Couldn’t? Hardly. I’m just not a Hare Krishna Christian who has to parade his piety to remain faithful.

No Catholic or other real Christian would even ask the question.


170 posted on 09/25/2009 12:49:46 PM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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To: tpanther
Sorry, same typo. Should be:
"Teach basic epistemology, avoid category errors, and do NOT make kids choose between religion and science."

171 posted on 09/25/2009 12:50:40 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: wmfights; Buck W.

Let’s not forget Philippians 2:9-11:

9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,

10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.


172 posted on 09/25/2009 1:10:51 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: tpanther

lunatic liberal evolution cultists
_______

LOL. Again putting the lie to the notion that only we evos do all the name calling on these threads.

Thanks tpanther.


173 posted on 09/25/2009 1:23:06 PM PDT by dmz
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To: Buck W.
Thank you for the observation. What’s your assessment of the loving kindness displayed by “Christians” who deny the Christianity of Catholics?

The key is being a follower of the Messiah.

Being a member of a man-made corporation such as the
Roman church by itself will NOT provide salvation.

As Paul said in Romans 10:13 you need to call on the NAME of G-d.

NAsbU Romans 10:13 for "WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF YHvH WILL BE SAVED."
Paul is quoting Joel 2:32

NAsbU Joel 2:32 "And it will come about that whoever calls on the name of YHvH
Will be delivered; For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem There will be those who
escape, As YHvH has said, Even among the survivors whom YHvH calls.
The Hebrew NAME of Jesus is Yah'shua which means "YHvH become my salvation".

Then you need to follow His Commandments.

NAsbU John 14:15 "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.
If any organization creates any regulation
which impugns the Commandments of YHvH, they are wrong.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
174 posted on 09/25/2009 5:26:20 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

“Being a member of a man-made corporation such as the
Roman church by itself will NOT provide salvation.”

There is a frighteningly high level of anti-Catholic bigotry around here.


175 posted on 09/25/2009 5:56:54 PM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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To: Buck W.
U-2012>Being a member of a man-made corporation such as the
Roman church by itself will NOT provide salvation.

There is a frighteningly high level of anti-Catholic bigotry around here.

Clearly I did not make myself clear enough for your understanding.

Being a member of the Elks or the Masons will not provide salvation.

Being a member of the Democrats or Republicans will not provide salvation.

Being a member of the Episcopalians or Lutherans will not provide salvation.

Salvation only occurs when you seek to cover your sins with the shed blood of the Lamb of G-d.

Turn from sin and seek the face of G-d and follow His Word.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
176 posted on 09/25/2009 6:17:19 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: tpanther

I agree! The UN meetings were such a farce, weren’t they? Liberalism is a disease for sure. Liberals would rather side with despots than with America. Where did my country go?


177 posted on 09/25/2009 7:30:14 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

“Clearly I did not make myself clear enough for your understanding.”

Ah, but you did. My comment stands.


178 posted on 09/25/2009 9:09:58 PM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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To: Buck W.; tpanther
Are you so unsure of what it means to be a Christian that you need me to explain it to you? Surely you believe that Catholics and Episcopalians are Christian, don’t you?

I know what it means to be a Christian. Don't think that no one can see that you're avoiding answering the question by turning it around and accusing others.

You never answered his question in post 66 which was....Did you ever get around to demonstrating you indeed know the definition of Christianity?

179 posted on 09/26/2009 5:19:29 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Buck W.

You do understand the concept of *narrative* don’t you?


180 posted on 09/26/2009 5:20:11 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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