Posted on 09/24/2009 8:37:40 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
We are losing our children! Research indicates that 70% of teens who are involved in a church youth group will stop attending church … [1]
Similar statements from Christian leaders aren’t new, but many still can’t seem to identify the root cause of the problem. However, most front-line evangelists in the Western world have reached a consensus. The following quote is from a person who shares his faith more times in a month than most Christians ever will in their lives...
(Excerpt) Read more at creation.com ...
Rather hypocritical of evos to reject creationists determination of what is and isn't allegory and then demand that creationists accept theirs.
Because God clearly stated that He created man from the dust of the earth, not another already living creature. Otherwise, breathing into his nostrils the breath of life, would be redundant. At that point, God could have just said that He imparted a soul, or some such think.
Clearly the man He created wasn't alive until God made him alive, thus ruling out another living creature.
Innumerable. It's falling on deaf ears.
Apparently some people can't distinguish between churchianity and Christianity.
Christians make the Church. The Church doesn't make one a Christian.
Absolutely clueless. (not you)
I never did until I got on the FR creation debates. I'd guess most of the people I've ever met haven't either.
It's funny how evos blame creationists for making themselves look bad, when evos are the ones telling everyone that creationists are *anti-science*, *anti-intellectual*, *Luddites*, islamists, want to send us back to the Dark Ages, etc.
And just who is making who look bad? Creationists aren't spreading the rumors like that about themselves.
Heck, on a thread just recently, some evo claimed that creationists advocate stoning anyone who doesn't believe in a 6 day creation.
So they start these lies, pass them around as fact, and then say that some guy no one hardly ever heard of is what's turning people away from Christianity.
Exactly right.
Being the head of a denomination is no guarantee of salvation.
FWIW, Catholics are the only ones who recognize the papacy and consider that the position of the pope is authorized by Scripture. Just because they do it does not mean it's fact, does not mean that everyone else is obligated to agree with them and recognize it, too.
If Catholics want to consider that Jesus established the papacy and gave Peter the authority to continue the position, that's their business. But don't expect non-Catholics to acknowledge it or his authority. He's the Catholic's pope, not all Christian's pope.
Ah, but you did. My comment stands.
May you one day seek His Salvation: Yah'shua All of this can be found in His Holy Word. Call on the NAME of YHvH's Salvation. When you have found Him May you one day seek and find the creator of the universe: YHvH.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
and repent of your sins
you will be given His Shalom.
“May you one day seek and find the creator of the universe: YHvH.”
Your assumption that I have not is a clear demonstration hubris derived from uncertainty of faith.
“He’s the Catholic’s pope, not all Christian’s pope.”
To the Catholics, that’s your loss. What if they’re right? Perhaps you’d better start at least intimating that they may be Christian!
When one refers to a passage as allegory as I have with regard to Genesis, it is a most ineffective rebuttal for you to then quote a subject passage as evidence of its literal truth!
You do understand that, don’t you?
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
Your assumption that I have not is a clear demonstration hubris derived from uncertainty of faith.
Mazol Tov ! May you enjoy your journey on the wide road of life. I pray for your salvation
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
and you accuse me in an
un-parseable sentence
of excessive pride.
My sentence wasn’t un-parseable, but all the best to you as well. BTW, I have visited numerous sites in Israel, including Masada, Caesarea, the Dead Sea, Galilee area (Lake Kinneret), etc.
As a side note, not only will Buck W. not confess Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, but he also refuses to identify himself as a Catholic, even though he spends nearly all of his time trying to turn these threads into Catholic-Protestant flame wars.
—Matthew 7:15
“—Matthew 7:15” [excerpt]Acts chapter 17, verses 5 and 13 also comes to mind.
I have identified myself as a Christian on numerous occasions; GGG is therefore plumbing the dark depths of ethical inadequacy once again (as is his custom). To prevent a flame war, all he needs to do is answer the question with a yes/no response: Are Catholics Christians? If that’s too difficult, he can substitute Episcopalians for Catholics.
No, it is not a simple yes or no. You have created a false dichotomy. But in partial answer to your question ...
Mat 7:21 ¶ Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
“No, it is not a simple yes or no. “
Funny, but a majority, no, a supermajority of Christians disagrees with you.
Same answer.
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