To: Jan_Sobieski
Unfortunately lots of children are molested by their own parents. Thank God my siblings and I were not among those that were.
Also there are lots of camp counselors and scout leaders that are both married and child molesters.
Celibacy can be a burden, but Jesus asks that we all take up our burdens and with His help they will be light.
The reason there are so many homos in the Catholic Church is not because celibacy is a hard sell, but because there were conscious efforts by homosexuals in the hierarchy to flood the seminaries with homosexuals. This happened mostly in the 60's and 70's.
If your church is not being undermined by the Devil and his minions, then maybe the Devil doesn't consider it to be a threat.
To: who_would_fardels_bear
"If your church is not being undermined by the Devil and his minions, then maybe the Devil doesn't consider it to be a threat."
So a church infested with Sodomites is proof that we are following God? How did the Sodomites get into positions of power in Church hierarchy in the first place? Could it be that the Roman Catholic Church left God's Word and put more emphasis on the infallible Popes? Celibacy is more than a burden. It is demonic!
I Timothy 4: 1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Jesus Christ condemned the heavy hierarchical church calling them Nicolaitans (Revelation 2:6 & 15). Christians have one priest and one intercessor, Jesus Christ the righteous. Pastors are merely shepherds, pointing the sheep to the one that loves them and died for them.
36 posted on
08/18/2018 2:18:05 PM PDT by
Jan_Sobieski
(Sanctification)
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