Posted on 04/24/2015 7:07:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I will predict that most of the institutional “churches” will simply fall in line.
Not this Roman Catholic Deacon.
1930’s National Socialist Germany. True believers will have to wear yellow crosses and wait for Kristallnacht. Read Bonhoeffer
I think it would be a wakeup call for the Christian community to push back.
I recently read something (can’t remember title) by Dr. Hahn on this very subject. The persecution of Christians, infanticide, immorality, etc. mimic what the early church faced.
I have one problem with the author’s views. In early Rome, catacombs and other places were relatively secret. With cell and satellite phones, smart phone cameras, drones, electronic tracking devices, etc., where are the secret places for Christians to meet today?
I agree in general with his forecast, but it may be even more difficult in some ways for 21st Century Christians than for those in Roman times. At least lions are almost extinct!
I do not think it needs to be secret, for now I think it needs to become unofficial and unregulated.
Mark of the Beast
I refuse to sit quietly in the corner while my faith is under attack. The difference between the first century Christians is they had no basis for comparison because Christianity was in its infancy. That’s not the case now, and I refuse to be marginalized by society because I’m trying to abide by the Good Book and the teachings of Jesus.
How about what the left wingers did to the Christians and priests during the French Revolution? We don’t have to go back to the Romans, there are far more recent examples of left wing violence, aggression and criminalizing of Christians.
We are going to need God’s help in this fight.
I know the Muslim community in the US will not surrender.
Different fight, there were no Muslims in the 1st century.
Not talking about 1st century. I meant what will happen here when SCOTUS approves gay marriage.
To say what, exactly?
The magisterium will not fold to gay marriage nor will it fold to abortion. If they attempt to force the RC church to marry gays, the church just stops performing civil marriages. You want to be married in the Church, then do the civil part after the church part.
Abortion will never be sanctioned by the RC church. I can see hospitals being shut down before they will perform abortions.
Genesis 1
English Standard Version (ESV)
26 Then God said, “Let us make man[h] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
I disagree completely.
Every faith group that has accepted ‘gay marriage’ only did so after first accepting female clergy/pastors. Guess how many accepted ‘gay marriage’ without first accepting civil divorce and remarriage...
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