Posted on 01/14/2011 9:20:43 PM PST by Salvation
The more liberal the churches get, the fewer people they will have in the congregation
The Bible is filled with reference to ‘that’ day. IN those days and the day of the LORD.
Yes there is allegory, and ancient before the foundation of this age history recorded by John as he is given a look back to the beginning... (Genesis 1:1-2) and in part a look even to ‘eternity’.
Revelation overlays Daniel writings as can been read when Daniel is told to close up the book Daniel 12:9 And he said, ‘Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and *sealed* till the time of the end.
verse 10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days’”
And John writes that on the first day of the LORD’s day there are 7 churches and even their doctrines are listed.
I cannot imagine the Catholic Bible has a different writing of the book of Revelation than even the old KJV.
Mainline “churches” theology base are often pretty thin. People really looking for substance either get depressed and drop out or they keep looking for a real place.
I think it’s interpretation. No, the Catholic Church does not have a different Book of Revelation.
I’ll look for my Bible study leader’s guide tomorrow and see if I can locate the info about the cities.
I believe the poster and I were discussing “Independant” Baptist churches of which most do not belong to the World Council of Churches.
That youtube video was spooky. That’s not a Christian ceremony, that’s some pagan/occult filth. Obviously that church has gone rotten and I’d get out of it if I was involved in any way.
I could only watch up to about 2:31 of this quasi-liturgical train wreck before the mental gag reflex kicked in and I fumbled for the kill switch. Does a Christian symbol of any sort ever turn up in this thing? Or would that have been too Christocentric and disrespectful of otherly-transcendent religious diversities?
Processions like this seem to be composed of basically two sorts of people: those who have no self-respect, and those who have way, way too much. Well, and that bewildered-looking little boy who was probably drafted into this thing by a cripplingly hip parent or other care-giver.
The Broadway production of The Lion King is going to have a lot to answer for before the Throne of God!
* A prayer, not an oath.
OK, I admit I am thinking like a Catholic, because a church cannot have the name Catholic in it unless they are aligned with the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. And, yes, there are some apostate ‘Catholic’ churches out there not aligned with Rome or any other rite. (Mel Gibson’s Catholic Church that he paid for comes to mind.)
So how can there be an independent Baptist Church with the word ‘Baptist’ in it?
To me, that would mean a Baptist Church that was not aligned with your rules of conduct, rules of worship or whatever they might be called.
yup, especially drastic is what’s happening to Presbyterians. The PCUSA still dominates in numbers and the PCA and OPC groups together are only 300,000 (and OPC numbers are dropping as well)
The PCA is missing from that list, yes. Or it could be the UNitarian Universalists or the LDS, all three are ripe
Is the book of Revelation a story John dreamed up or is the book a DIVINE INSPIRED instruction from the LORD? All this arguing and murmuring over when John wrote the book is irrelevant. JOHN writes what he is shown WHEN he is in the Spirit ON the LORD's day. Now historically speaking there were 7 churches as named by John, AND John is told what their individual doctrine was and still is on the first day of the LORDS DAY.
IIPeter 3:8 But, beloved, be NOT ignorant of this one thing,
that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (Peter's keys, not an evolving locksmith business to recut keys as people pressure swings to and fro.)
God already had Ezekiel write His most favorite place in all that He created is Jerusalem... Ezekiel 16. I understand that some believe that all roads/paths lead to and come out of Rome.
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