Posted on 09/30/2016 4:00:54 AM PDT by C19fan
The Rev. Gretta Vosper is a dynamic, activist minister with a loyal following at her Protestant congregation in suburban Toronto. She is also an outspoken atheist. “We don’t talk about God,” Vosper said in an interview, describing services at her West Hill United Church, adding that it’s time the church gave up on “the idolatry of a theistic god.”
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Poker night fundraiser every other Thursday.
Considering the current pope this is not such an absurd question.
Not much but the United Church has had a long relationship with the socialist NDP in Canada so this latest kink for them was no surprise.
Calvinist would not have a female minister.
When you start redifining what the Bible says you end up with this
2 Timothy 3 v 5-7
‘Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.’
says it all in a nutshell.
Isn’t this what Vanderbilt did to their religious clubs?
Nonsense: your "reasoning" leads (or, can lead) to some unusual places as it means that one can define "Protestant" so widely that you could fly a Unitarian Scientology Swedenborgian Mormon 747 thru it, and here would be more extreme than defining Santeria as Catholic.
Scripture refers to "Christians" as believers as described in Acts (11:26), which, by the way, hardly describes RCs, but means that definitions need to correspond to at least the basic distinctive beliefs. Chief among original Protestants was that of a exalted view of Scripture as the wholly inspired word of God, and of salvific faith as that which effected fruits of obedience and holiness, which excludes both liberals and atheists.
And those who most strongly esteem Scripture as the wholly inspired and accurate word of God are the most unified in core beliefs among religious groups.
You may want to isolate SS from the basic Scriptural interpretive hermeneutic that accompanied it, but which is also historically invalid.
See above. For liberals, the media and Catholics it can mean most anything.
A State run Church. This is definitely an End Times sign. You can bet that the pastor is a member of the clergy response team.
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears, they shall heap to themselves teachers in accordance with their own lusts.
This is what christianity is like in many European countries. It’s considered kind of an ethnic group not a belief system. I once argued with a Euro about calling non-belivers “Christians”. He claimed I was using a “no true Scotsman” arguement. I said, “OK, if Christians can be non-belivers, then vegetarians can be meat eaters.” That hits at a serious belief for them. I’ll bet it would for this woman too.
Some RCs ask, "Is the Pope Catholic? while making atheists Protestant.
I'm starting to see the problem already.
Many “Christian” churches are now 100% in the service of atheistic materialism.
Yeah, what kind of dude. A man? She’s a “dynamic” speaker too.
“We don’t talk about God,”
Then it’s not a church.
Which is the fallacy of the no true Scotsman argument, for "this fallacy modifies the subject of the assertion to exclude the specific case or others like it by rhetoric, without reference to any specific objective rule." (WP) Rather than excluding someone from being a Christian based on an arbitrary standard, excluding non-believers or the impenitent willful immoral as being “Christians” is based on the standard of the original descriptive source of that title.
I said, “OK, if Christians can be non-belivers, then vegetarians can be meat eaters.” That hits at a serious belief for them. I’ll bet it would for this woman too.
Fitting. Or calling atheists believers in Deity.
This is the reason LIBERAL Catholics stay in the church..Best way to destroy it..From within.She wants everybodydy to hate God..
Can Satan lead a “church”? Yes, and many so-called “Christian” churches are being led by Satan to go against the teachings of the Bible, which is God’s Word to lead people to heaven. Jesus warned us that Satan would be leading many on the broad highway to hell. (Matthew 7:13,14)
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