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What better place to pose this question than in the Religion Forum of FreeRepublic where nearly every christian denomination is represented. Have at it!
If America is like Sodom (or worse) this place may be turning to salt..
No doubt about Sodomites running the streets like gangs..
If America has become a democracy... this would be normal..
Cause democracy was, is and will continue to be MOB Rule by mobsters..
Many kinds of Sodomite mobs.. are available..
Actually America is worse than Sodom from what I can see..
Babys regularly murdered(put down) like dogs and cats at a humane shelter..
It seems many have more compassion for the dogs and cats..
God only knows the extent of the depravity of our current President..
Negrodamus may be the prophet of Doom.. and a harbinger of WORSE THINGS to come..
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I also see big changes coming. Young people especially are not satisfied to accept questionable beliefs and practices, are tired of the false prophecies of millennialists:
http://worldviewchristianchurch.wordpress.com/
I also see big changes coming. Young people especially are not satisfied to accept questionable beliefs and practices, and are tired of the false prophecies of millennialists:
http://worldviewchristianchurch.wordpress.com/
The extension of the political concepts of freedom and individualism runs against religious beliefs that God makes the rules.
There are and always have been two kinds of churches. Ones where the Holy Spirit resides and those where He does not.
Well?.....I am curious.
The Episcopal Churches, (whose priests and entire congregations), that have joined the Catholic Church, do these congregations adopt the Mary rituals ( rosary etc.) and praying to the saints that is so much a part of the Roman tradition? What about the belief in purgatory and praying for the dead or the practice of indulgences?
Is it possible to be a Roman Catholic and ignore the Mary rituals, Mary prayer, prayer to the saints, indulgences, and purgatory?
Right now they are dealing with their little problem of having advocated for humanist state, controlled collective “health care” and it's centralized anti-life agenda and machinery. They still have not figured Marxism is the opposite of social justice and Christianity. Even after hundreds of millions of collectivist State murders, the Catholic church still does not see that Christian action is for Christians among Christians and spread out from there.
The rest is true in the Protestant analysis. The megachurch, “we believe nothing in particular” and “we are all prophets now” is undoing Christianity from that end of things. The communist thieves are alive and well in the Catholic church. The shysters are doing their thing in the Protestant “community.”
My prediction - all the churches go dark under the rule of and total power of an amoral humanist State. Home churches will thrive and be persecuted mightily with the approval of the Catholics and Protestants.
These first two sentences are not Biblical, so the predictions that follow are easily classified as being the product of self, not of God, and can therefore be rejected as being any form of prophetic utterance.
I'll throw out a projection based upon current trends that I in no way claim as prophetic, but that is based upon recent trends: the route to maintaining or expanding the number of adherents in the Catholic Church lies in becoming more like evangelicals. Evangelicals will not be becoming more like Catholics. If there is to be some meeting of the two, Rome has the greater distance to cover.
So called “non-denominationalism” is in itself a CONTINUATION in the extreme of denominationalism.
Why? Every so-called non-denominational or “Bible” church has its own distinct theology (or set of theologies) which at least the head pastor holds (and each assistant may well have a different theology too). This means the bigger and more “mega” such churches get, the less they cooperate with other churches—as their pastor, his personality, not a tried and tested approach to the Bible....dominates their beliefs.
Most such churches are baptistic in practice, and Zwinglian in assumptions... making them, historically speaking—at the edge of Protestantism (even if pretty well center in American evangelicalism).
Typically they substitute the modern/hyper-individualist SOLO scriptura (individual interpretation only, with NO respect for past Christian belief or traditions) for the classic Protestant/Reformation SOLA scriptura (yes, one letter “a” different) which respected past Christian belief and practice—but just put scripture—as discovered by the Church corporate...as the full and final authority. (yes, that is a seemingly subtle difference, but important).
What this means in practice is that when a mega-church pastor dies/retires or leaves (under a cloud or not) from such an “independent” church, that body finds it nearly impossible to replace him—as the Church’s essential beliefs ARE the founding pastor’s individual beliefs....
Classic Protestant groups however, rally around the Bible as their final authority—but while reading it in respect to generations of devout Christians who came before. Such confessional churches rely on a confession—an agreed upon summary of biblical truths, arranged in a systematic way. This actually builds MORE unity with other churches, as one can be in direct communion with many other churches (a denomination) and not be standing alone (or reliant on a pastor with a charismatic personality), mis-trustful of other churches....as so many so called “non-denominational” (hyper-individualist/divisive) churches are.
I’ve seen it happen more than once. Show me a “non-denominational” church, and I will show you a body with its own unique spin on the Bible, which really doesn’t give respect to either other equally biblically orthodox churches now, or the rich history of 2,000 years of the Church.
“A Priest is someone who speaks to God about men, .... A Prophet is someone who speaks to men ... from God,... “