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To: sinkspur

Every denomination? What about the charismatic and evangelical denominations?


56 posted on 07/07/2004 10:57:27 AM PDT by Pyro7480 (Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
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To: Pyro7480
What about the charismatic and evangelical denominations?

Those aren't "denominations," unless you consider Baptist churches a "denomination."

In truth, they're individual congregations who follow the whims of whomever the pastor is.

Most of the experience of belonging to an evangelical church is emotional.

59 posted on 07/07/2004 11:05:05 AM PDT by sinkspur (There's no problem on the inside of a kid that the outside of a dog can't cure.)
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Every denomination? What about the charismatic and evangelical denominations?

They have encountered there own deforming problems.

One is the fact that they have generally adopted the Biblically-condemned Onanism of contraception as morally justified and even desirable.

Another is the crass commercialization of Christianity through the "name-it-and-claim-it" school of simony.

Another is the unbiblical idea that the demonic "speaking in tongues" such that no one understands what you are saying is analogous to the Biblical speaking in tongues of the Apostles wherein everyone understands what you say.

Another is the anti-Christian Arian heresy known as Oneness Pentecostalism.

Another is the LaHaye marketing tool of "secret rapture" and a third coming.

All these are of very recent provenance.

61 posted on 07/07/2004 11:05:18 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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