Posted on 08/02/2004 6:36:06 AM PDT by missyme
Christianity is the only hope for the world, developed or developing. Let's pray it continues to grow!
This is great news.
I nerver thought in my lifetime I would see what has been prophesized in the Bible come to "light" But with wide eyes open we are Seeing "Bible Prophecy" coming to life...
I suggest people that are sleeping need to Wake-Up before it's to late...
It is indeed.
What is really distressing is that the United States and Europe is embracing Homosexuality like a Beautiful work of art? and we are suppose to have the highest populations of Bible Believing Christians and Jews....Has Money Power and Greed of the West over-shadowed our belief in GOD's Holy Word?
A hideous problem, indeed! That is why the enlightened European liberals must recomnquer the continent of Africa to bring the light of agnosticism and socialism to the benighted Christian savages in their land of darkness! (Liberalism off)
The Bible's promises about Gospel Victory in history are certainly true. Praise God the Church is not predestined to defeat and the Gospel to failure, but that the dominion of King Jesus will ultimately stretch from pole to pole and from east to west!
In coming generations we can expect to see the Gospel of Jesus Christ continue to triumph over all foes.
Optimistic postmillennial bump.
Jenkins says in just 20 years, two-thirds of all Christians will live in Africa, Latin America or Asia.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of them dying of aids. Sorry to not sound optimistic.
How True, when you look back of the Ministry of 'Jesus" it was full of Humbleness and Truths. As Jesus said it is easier for a Camel to go through a eye of a needle than a Rich Man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven... Money has become people's GOD and in 3rd world countries they have no worry of the Money Seduction Curse....
"Overwhelmingly, the kind of Christianity is one which is very Bible-centered, which takes the Bible very seriously, takes authority very seriously, both the Old and the New Testament, in a way which I don't think western Christianity has done probably since the Enlightenment."
That's the most remarkable and most postive aspect of this phenomenon.
While leftist ministers in the U.S. ignore scripture and salvation to preach against immigration laws, gun rights, the death sentence, etc., these people have gotten the real message and are following it - often in the face of Islamic persecution.
Europe is in a Post-Christian era where socialism reigns. Young Europe has no spiritual core from which to draw strength in the coming battles with the hyper-religious muslim cult. They will either fold and become the western province of a greater Eurabia or turn in desperation to nazi-like fascism.
"It's not just Anglicanism" ping
Both Voltaire, and Rousseau hoped that eventually Catholicism and other religions would no longer be needed but they were in no hurry to try the experiment. It was safer for the lower orders to believe, so long as the elite was not forced to conform. The lower orders will behave nice, and the rich will be protected.
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We've just had plenty of time to be lulled to sleep by propaganda and philosophy. There is much out there which pretends at Christianity and the world doesn't always know the difference. There are a great many cult groups, for example, which the larger press views to be just as Christian as the pentecostals - Jehovah's wittnesses and Mormons are among them. There is a reason that antichrist (in place of Christ) will be able to nearly decieve the elect (if it were possible) - the devil's false church looks so much like the real thing on the surface, that even Christians sometimes don't realize the difference. Prophecy is prophecy. We should expect this. And though we can't stop prophecy from being fulfilled, we can seek God's will in serving Him while it happens. Frauds who can't stand up to inspection against what the Apostles told us cannot be allowed to lead people astray without a fight.
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