Posted on 01/25/2014 11:26:41 AM PST by Gamecock
wow...
Now now, take off with assurance I’ll still be on FR when you get back from your fruitless evidence search. Bring sandwiches!
“42 million gone to Protestant churches and counting over a few decades”
I needed a good laugh tonight. News flash: The Catholic Church is growing, not shrinking.
I do love when you share your extensive 4 piece art collection!
Why not roll out the whole collection all at once and we can critique it?
“It has nothing to do with denominations.”
Then what teachers, seminaries or church authorities do you believe teach the Truth today or historically? And why would those who do teach with authoritative truth, in a world of a thousand or more flavors of doctrine NOT have a label or name that the faithful could trust?
If you want to cut to the chase, you ought to read the question, I think.
If you do NOT consider Aquinas to be “deep intellectual and theological thinking”, then it explains your odd answers.
“I needed a good laugh tonight. News flash: The Catholic Church is growing, not shrinking.”
You didn’t study things like math or statistics? Not that there is anything wrong with that...
Repeat to yourself... “There is no hole in my bucket.”
I read that 30,000 priests have converted to Protestantism.
Church membership in 2011 was 1.214 billion (17.5% of the world population),[1] an increase from 437 million in 1950[36] and 654 million in 1970.[37] Since 2010, the rate of increase was 1.5% with a 2.3% increase in Africa and a 0.3% increase in the Americas and Europe. 48.8% of Catholics live in the Americas, 23.5% in Europe, 16.0% in Africa, 10.9% in Asia and 0.8% in Oceania.[1] Catholics represent over half of all Christians.[38]
“Church membership in 2011 was 1.214 billion “
Does that count include the millions of Belgians (90%) that no longer attend or participate?
How about CINOs in all other countries? Sadly, I bet worldwide, half are almost uninvolved. If so, will you still count them as active members?
You posted some pretty paltry growth rates. Is that net of the millions leaving?
If you want to see growth, look at Brazil!
Half of Brazils population will be evangelical Christians by 2020.
I was kinda with you until this getting taken out of here one day. God created this earth and He intends on reclaiming it and it is here that Christ will establish His Kingdom. Where is it the Christians intend to spend this time?
The vast majority of those priests left to get married, not to become Protestants.
Their problem was celibacy. Some of those ex-priests may have joined a non-Catholic church, but 30,000? LOL.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL...That was a belly buster...
“God created this earth and He intends on reclaiming it and it is here “
How do you square that with the present heaven and earth passing away and a new one being created?
Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.’
This ‘run to and fro is apostatize , or ‘those who turn aside’ and knowledge is calamities, or wickedness.
As Peter explains, there are three different heaven/earth ages. IIPeter 3. That first heaven/earth age Peter says that WAS, is described in Genesis 1:2, Jeremiah 4:22 -31. That destruction took place when the first rebel rebelled. What will be passing away and destroyed is anything that 'offends' the Creator, not the physical earth. Even the children fresh out of the bondage of Egypt knew that to see God meant their flesh died. And the flesh body houses the soul/spirit intellect and when that flesh dies the soul/spirit intellect returns to the Maker that sent it.
Ezekiel 16 tells us that Jerusalem is the most favorite place of the Creator. He intends to clean her up not destroy her.
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