Posted on 10/24/2016 12:45:41 PM PDT by Borges
There’s a set within Protestant denominations that believe the Roman Catholic Pope is the worst poison there could possibly be for Christendom.
I’d disagree with that, and some would disagree with me, but I believe I have good reason. The problem of a worldly (and ultimately, devilish) slant in a Christian worship organization does not depend on there being a Pope. It can happen with a Pope and without a Pope. The Pope brouhaha is more a distraction from a larger problem among men’s worship organizations than a center of all the difficulties in Christendom.
Jack Chick is getting slammed for the conspiracy stuff in his tracts, but a lot of his work is very powerful, especially the ones calling people out of drugs, or out of sin and into repentance. His prodigal son tract brought tears to my eyes. Great stuff! And, yes, “pure Americana.”
If a tract stays out of the tinfoil areas, it does better, that is agreed.
They are still there. His operation is still up churning out new tracts every 6 months or so. Don’t think he created new ones himself in years.
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Interesting point. He may just have been the illustrator.
“Few hundred popes in heaven. Not bloody likely.”
There have been just over three hundred Popes in Church history. Present your theological evidence as to how few of them are in Heaven. Oh, and are you Australian, mate?
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Warlocks usually do.
Some went to extremes, and some were superficial regarding conversion, but many were quite or very good, such as Hi There!, Bad Bob!, Room 310, Best Friend, This Was Your Life Long Trip, The, Doom Town, As for very anti-catholic, that was sometimes one of his extremes, but the Bible is anti-catholic.
My father in law claimed he married one too. :-)
Well, among other things,,the NT church as in seen in Acts onward, did not teach perpetual ensured magisterial infallibility, which is unseen and unnecessary in the life of the church, nor did it have a separate class of believers distinctively called "saints" or distinctively titled "priests ," offering up "real" flesh and blood as a sacrifice for sin, which is to be literally consumed in order to obtain spiritual life. Nor is it otherwise Scripturally manifest in the life of the church as being the central, overarching priestly sacrament around which all else revolves, the "source and summit of the Christian faith," "in which our redemption is accomplished."
Nor is the NT church manifest as looking to Peter as the first of a line of exalted infallible popes reigning over the church from Rome (which even Catholic scholarship provides testimony against), and praying to created beings in Heaven, even beseeching them and prostrating before statutes, nor enduring postmortem purifying torments in order to become good enough to enter Heaven, and saying rote prayers to obtain early release from it, and requiring clerical celibacy as the norm, among other things. No wonder Catholics rely on amorphous "oral tradition," for under the premise of magisterial infallibility all sorts of fables can be channeled into binding doctrine, even claiming to "remember" an extraScriptural event which lacks even early historical testimony. , and was opposed by RC scholars themselves the world over as being apostolic tradition.
Indeed.
Maybe he really meant the DNC and not the Vatican :-)
Well said. His basic Gospel tracts were solid.
He used 23 frames to get the basic message across. He was not teaching deep theology.
He loved Catholics...It was the religion he hated...It was his life's ministry to turn Catholics (and others) to Jesus Christ...
Might be a point there, where somehow the Democrats manage to bring out the wicked side of the people in that denomination like nothing else can.
We can't know how many people turned to Jesus as a direct result of Jack Chick's tracts but I'll bet the number is huge...I don't believe I have met another Christian who as a young person did not happen to read a Jack Chick tract before becoming a Christian...No doubt Chick was planting the seeds that lead to salvation...
You’ve probably moved in very small circles.
I have traveled the country considerably...Jack Chick tracts are everywhere...People read them...Obviously you have as well...
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