| Worldly? Balderdash. My "attitude," as you describe it, is anything but worldly. There is no question in my mind that when I shake off this corporeal shell, I will stand in Judgment before our Almighty Lord. I abide His Judgment. |
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Posted on 12/30/2014 5:11:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind
How about your talk about leaving a Church or a Church leaving you?
Where is the promise of God in this?
I detect a worldly attitude.
Wow...Just Wow....
It is simply amazing how much this story has snowballed... Stories have already started writing it for Pope Francis. The new Narrative now be, “Pope Francis condemns evil humanity for polluting the earth.”
One would think that he isn’t even writing it, just a copy paste job from NYT/Guardian.
Does eternal truth even matter to this man? And if you had asked me a few years ago if I was capable of imagining such a time, if I would ever ask whether Truth mattered to a Bishop of Rome, I would have said, no, I couldn't.
I know Truth matters a great deal to Our Savior, and the Holy Spirit is called "the Spirit of Truth." But there is little that is true about the modern phrenology known as "climate change."
I couldn't be more alienated from this Pope if he'd suddenly reversed the Church of Rome's position on Ptolemy's Cosmos.
If any of my Catholic brothers are inclined to say now to me that I "hate the Church," don't bother. That would be a slander. I've been seriously examining the Catholic Catechism in recent months, particularly the matters of transubstantiation and the status of Mary, for example, things that touch upon prayer most especially. This is a huge stumbling block for me, and I don't think I have to remind anyone who has studied Christ and the Gospels what a sore subject stumbling blocks are for Our Lord, nor of their necessity. God's will be done.
I will continue to study the Fathers, etc., without regard for this Pope's "strange new respect" from our enemies in the West, without regard for his populist moves. The Truth will remain.
Thank God for the Bible, and thank God for those believers in ages past who remained zealous for the truth of God's word and His Christ. If all I knew of Catholicism was this Pope, well... it's very discouraging. Not unlike a radical Socialist being elected president.
they elected him
If Francis has been quoting Humani Generis of late, I had missed it, and what don’t you like out of Humani Generis?
Not being a good steward of creation is a sin. Not believing in the man made climate change hoax is just being smart.
Excellent point!
| Worldly? Balderdash. My "attitude," as you describe it, is anything but worldly. There is no question in my mind that when I shake off this corporeal shell, I will stand in Judgment before our Almighty Lord. I abide His Judgment. |
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Can a man closely connected to God be so easily deceived?
Ah, then you are doomed.
You must abide His grace.
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The Catholic church needs another Martin Luther.
Eff this leftist, SECULAR BS.
He is calling on all Catholics to push for the transfer of donations and resources from solving poverty, suffering, disease, and spreading the word of God to a group of atheists intent on doing just the opposite.
In order to be saved, that is.
This grace may or may not steer you in the way of the fashionable church outcry of the age.
The bible preexisted Christianity?
Weird claim, before even putting out the encyclical.
Duh. Unless you want to believe that Moses was a chrstian, which is about the equivalent of believing he was a moslem or a mormon.
Exactly. We are called on by the Bible to be stewards of creation and to care for the environment. But that has nothing to do with “climate change” or other greenie nonsense.
Humani Generis gave evolutionism an opening.
How many of the 66 books were in the bible before Christ? Caution trick question?
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