Posted on 10/22/2007 2:13:05 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
Nah, David was just cracking jokes and Goliath rolled on the floor with laughter shouting, “Stop it Davy, you’re killin’ me!”
Oops! The bishops and ministers of the liturgical and “mainline” churches haven’t done their jobs!
Christians are funny that way. We actually BELIEVE what the Bible says !!!
Things are worse than I though, this is the principle doctrine of our faith.
Things are worse than I though, this is the principle doctrine of our faith.
There's a whole lotta fornicatin', shacked up, church avoiding pagans out there who call themselves Catholic because their grandparents used to go to Mass. I'd say roughly 18% of those who called themselves Catholic in this survey.
Could Jesus have literally built the temple
back up in three days?
Just as Paul said, there is no gospel unless it is true.
“Things are worse than I though, this is the principle doctrine of our faith.”
One of my CINO colleagues didn’t believe in Christ’s Divinity. Oddly enough, she insisted her unchurched teenage son receive his first communion (at age 17). He accompanied her to church, took communion along with her and she considered it appropriate.
I asked whether she considered it mere superstition or performance art and she sloughed my comments off with a smirk.
You must understand this profession is highly PC and very liberally oriented along with a leftist slant and I left long ago to pursue a career that had no possibility of being PC because of it. Perhaps she was infected.
Every religion has those who are going through the motions simply to see and be seen. I’ve known some “born again” Baptists who could make a prostitute blush along with Protestants who consider church a social club so until God pulls them up by the shorthairs and gives them a considerable box on the ears, I guess this will happen.
pgk, I suspect you are correct. but that 18% aren’t even CINO, they are not even in the cafeteria.
Could he build the temple back up in 3 days? He did. The temple Jesus was referring to was his life which he laid down at Calvary and took back up 3 days later !!!
Like many other passages it has to be read as analogy. When he rose on the third day the news flashed throughout the known world. It was big news. They didn’t have Internet or commsats, but everybody that wanted to know knew within a week.
Could Jesus have built the Jewish Temple back up in three days if it was torn down?
It does? Who is Jesus?
Oh here we go.......
Ya know, folks.........it just ROYALLY chaps my rather HIGHLY educated arse to read bovine excrement such as this. "Oh, the rubes believe this, but not the intelligentsia......of course........"
B.S. The Bible is THE word, period, end of discussion, end of argument. If it says it, I believe it....and it has never, ever been proven wrong.
Far better track record than any liberal blather, wouldn't we agree?
He resurrected in three days. Now try to keep up. Fercryinoutloud.............
Let’s see...Jesus is God. God created the Universe in six...I think he could handle the temple in three...i’m just sayin’...
On the other hand, faith is discernible from rationalism.
Just as the rich might have a more difficult time in accepting faith, likewise, those who live by rationalism alone are also counterfeiting their reason for faith and/or the object of their faith.
Perhaps a better indicator is to compare statistics of the “highly educated” and wealthiest respondents of the survey in contrast to the least worldly and poorest believers.
I would like to see how many of these also believe in a hell and in eternal judgement?
I don’t know that worldly wealth is a good indicator either way. You can think you’re rich when you’re not (e.g. pride) and that is quite independent of how much money you have.
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