Posted on 06/19/2018 8:43:07 AM PDT by amessenger4god
This time I was smart. I scrolled down to see how long it was before I started reading. This post is a bookmark. :)
I will say I’ve been saying for over a decade now that just as the invention of the printing press gave us the reformation, the invention of the internet will further purify the church.
Old teachings that can’t really be supported biblically will fall away like scales - ARE falling away like scales from Paul’s eyes. We are living in interesting times.
The writer of the article better do a little more research on the history of Hinduism. :-)
Interesting and well researched. But clearly anti-Catholic and a trifle self-serving. This is a triumph of “reason” over Faith, which I believe God rejects.
aaaah yes, scroll scroll scroll...and there it is, anti Catholicism....
[[how can anyone know what to believe?]]
“Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.”
Gotta be Anti...
For anyone interested in being more evangelical, here are some recommendations for booklets and a tract to hand out.
Mark Cahill has a booklet called “One Second After You...”
on his www.markcahill.org website site. It is about one second after you die and is a very small handout with lots of information.
We handout a booklet call “Heaven” from Randy Alcorn at hospitals especially.
We also insert a tract “You’re Special” found at www.christianbooks.com. It is wonderful.
My husband and I regret we got started late in life evangelizing as it is what is so important.
Thanks for this article.
About the Reformation: yes, moveable print was invented a few years before the reform principle broke loose, but the access to information and raid communication of it hastened the modern age of Bible publication.
However, one must pay respects to Desiderius Erasmus (the illegitimate son of a Catholic priest) who researched and colllated the best manuscripts for a publication of the Byzantine/majority textform.
This Greek text gave Luther and then Calvin a true New Testament superseding the poorer and biased Vulgate Latin translation, which was not generally understood by populations conversing only in their particular vernacular languages.
It was the translations of Erasmus' Greek text that gave force to the public recognition of Romanism's many fallacies and led to reform both within and without the Catholic culture.
Thus Erasmus was the father of the reformation, with printing as its tool for multiplication of Bibles in the peoples' tongues.
It is obvious that in Western societies, being founded on / dominated by Judeo-Christianity, the concepts of Judeo-Christianity will be "common" and seem woven into the very fabric of what it means to be upstanding and moral. But this is nothing more than circular reasoning!
The "holy scriptures" of the Fungo-Fango Tribe on the island of Bango-Bango all contain "common" (for Bango-Bango) concepts such as "Don't eat squid during a Full Moon," "Spit three times if you see a dolphin," "Kill your new-born babies if they have six toes," "Never forgive your enemies," etc.
All other religions (Judaism, Lutheranism, etc.) are sad and twisted imitations - or don't even reference this "self-evident and common" wisdom!
Regards,
This reminds me of ...
“There are lots of different religions out there. Maybe thousands. We both agree they are all fairy tales - except one. I disbelieve in one more religion than you. You disbelieve 99.9% of the religions, while I disbelieve 100%. So we both have a healthy skepticism of religion, but I am just slightly more skeptical than you.
What you think about all those other religions, I think that about yours, as well.
If you can understand why I don’t believe in all those other religions, then you’ll understand why I don’t believe in yours, either.”
Thanks
n the midst of this doubt and reinvention, Augustine wrote The City of God, which promoted the idea that prophecies of Christ's second coming and "end things" were somehow different than the rest of Scripture.
OK. Augustine's the big poopyhead. I think I see where this is going.
(If you actually read the relevant part of City of God, you might be surprised.)
oh boy , more anti Catholicism....
No, the article states what true Christianity is like, how it originated, and how it has survived all the attacks upon it: nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else.
no, your response about ‘the fallicies’ of rome, is the typical anti catholic b.s. that is still bandied about as if it has any merit...nothing more , nothing less, and nothing else....
Excellent overview of the history of religion and Christianity.
Some people will see everything as *anti-Catholicism* if what is presented is the truth and not favorable to Catholicism.
Kind of like the race card these days.
The truth about Catholicism is the truth about it.
If it doesn’t make Catholicism look good, it’s not the fault of the messenger. The RCC itself is the one to blame.
It’s THEIR history.
But instead of admitting, yes, our church did some stuff a long time ago that wasn’t right, and having some credibility and integrity in that admission, we have the see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil monkeys who turn everything into *anti-Catholic*.
I guess then, the only ones who are not anti-Catholics would be the ones who would lie about Catholicism’s history.
Interesting, that.
Well and truly offered.
How so?
And where in Scripture does God r3ject reason?
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