The Fastest-Growing Churches Have Modern Worship, Teach Literal Interpretation of the Bible: Study

Christian Post ^ | 11/30/2016 | Brandon Showalter

[Elsie]

If done right, one goes to the Bible to prove their point, at least in my opinion.

Golly!

What a concept!!

[Elsie]

Who is Joel?

Osteen

[Elsie]

Protestants don't have this.

Oh?

[Elsie]

Catholics must wrestle with both mortal and venial sins.

Got a link to the List of these?

[Elsie]

My comment was about what God requires of Christians, not what the Catholic Church requires of its members.

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Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

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John 6:28-29
Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?

 Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."

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1 John 3:21-23
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.
And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.

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James 1:27

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

 

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[Elsie]

Is this your opinion or do you have Bible references?

Acts 15th chapter.

[Elsie]

Remember the early days when SCROLL and MARQUEE worked?

We’d forget to close commands and upset the rest of the thread for a while. Big fonts; RED ones; crazy Italians everywhere.

;^)

[editor-surveyor]

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Nothing in your list is anywhere to be found in the word of Yehova.

They are all tenets of a purely man made, man worshiping false “Faith.”
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[Elsie]

She needed all the grace she could get so that her holy Offspring wouldn't get her all proud like the stereotypical Jewish mother.

Yeah; Pharaoh's daughter had HER hands full!

[Elsie]

That is why she needed a Deliverer too.

Oh?

To be 'delivered' from WHAT???!!??

She was SINLESS doncha know!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well we don’t need to get sarcastic about it.

Anyhow, we can see Jesus’ gracious answer to the bit of over-eagerness shown by the woman who certainly had the bragging rights if she wanted to be the proudest Jewish mother evah... that’s an example of how He delivers.

The text says “woman” which probably doesn’t carry the tone well in English. It would be as though He said “Ma’am.” He had to step a bit out of His role as earthly son, because his job as heavenly Son had to take precedence here. A miracle was about to take place, a gracious answer to His mother’s urging.

[MHGinTN]

Are you in the year 3100? LOL

[cloudmountain]

Lol. Since you KNOW darn well what I was talking about, it DOES seem useless to talk any more, doesn’t it?

[cloudmountain]

I see.

[Mark17]

I've found; as a it's easier to teach what is in the Bible, than to un-teach what ain't!

Now you know what I went through when I left that "other religion" I had to unlearn more than a little bit. 😆

Hey MM, I don't have any questions, if you know what I mean. And Arlene 66 is here in the Philippines now. 😃🇵🇭

[Engedi]

Thanks but I don’t want to be a Catholic again. I love my church, the Nazarene. Jesus was from Nazareth. Growing up we never had Bible studies. We learned our prayers, the Saints, went to confession, went thru the sacraments, etc.

I drew closer to God then ever before in the Nazarene Church- it was filled with lot of former Catholics. I went to Bible studies and learned so much about the Bible, the Lord’s word. So many things that didn’t square up to Catholic man made laws.

The Catholic church and schools were good to me for discipline, morals, etc. But I couldn’t handle all the “guilt” that was piled on as well with their teachings.

[metmom]

Reporting the facts is condescension? I see.

Prove your claims are facts.

Unless you can document your accusations they can be written off as opinion.

[HiTech RedNeck]

But then so can the soi-disant reports be thus written off, leaving the field even again.

[metmom]

It really goes to show that the non-Catholic leadership has more trust and confidence in the maturity and discernment of their flocks than the Catholic church does.

Clearly the Catholic church doesn’t trust its membership to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit or have any wisdom or discernment.

[HiTech RedNeck]

There’s a lot of artifacts of self-aggrandizing bureaucracy that appear in that earthly body, in fact.

Is it something Jesus can’t or won’t get souls past to heaven? No indeed. It isn’t.

But we’re wrong to bow down to it.

Leaning on Jesus is a difficult thing for we fallen mortals to learn. One’s resources, one’s wealth, may seem to initially decrease when one does that. But this is the process of shedding the unneeded. Once the seed grows, it will flourish better than what it replaced.