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Church should not fear change, pope says at synod close
Reuters ^ | Sun Oct 19, 2014 | Philip Pullella

Posted on 10/19/2014 4:42:49 PM PDT by Gamecock

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To: Gamecock

God does not change. His Word does not change. This pope must not have read to the end of Revelation:”For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophesy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophesy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” (Revelation 22:18,19)

“Change and decay when all around I see. O Thou Who changest not, abide with me.”


21 posted on 10/19/2014 5:12:44 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Gamecock

Let me suggest the unexpected alternative. Francis, as a bishop, was always hard to pin down, and when people tried to he usually proved them very far from the mark.

I use that in a lead up to this: sometimes the best way to kill ideas, or to knock down a contentious group that work to undermine “the system”, is to send up a “trial balloon” of their ideas. This not only shoots down those bad ideas, but exposes those who advocated them.

Of course the Vatican is seldom though of a palace of intrigues, conspiracies, cabals and Byzantine plots — heh, heh.

Yet if this were the case, Francis and others now know who are pushing for “modernity”, yet he can remain above the fray and dagger fights. Triangulation.


22 posted on 10/19/2014 5:16:51 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Gamecock

I interprets this.

...you interprets what...?


23 posted on 10/19/2014 5:17:11 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Gamecock

This Pope thinks God’s word is a living Constitution too?

Hope and Change... ugh


24 posted on 10/19/2014 5:18:04 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Gamecock

“God is not afraid of new things”

How can God EVER be afraid?

How can anything be “new” to God?

This Pope speaks like a non-Christian who does not know God or the gospel. He is in the wrong occupation.


25 posted on 10/19/2014 5:21:55 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Gamecock

There’s nothing to spin. The guy runs off at the mouth and says some dumb things.

Haven’t you read all those quotes we’ve been posting about what would happen if the Pope were a manifest heretic? He would lose the office and everyone would move on.


26 posted on 10/19/2014 5:24:17 PM PDT by Claud
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To: Gamecock; Wyrd bið ful aræd

Here’s an idiotic leftist trying to make light of everything:

Todd Unctuous on the Synod
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/standingonmyhead/todd-unctuous-on-the-synod


27 posted on 10/19/2014 5:24:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Obadiah

Nah, he is a progressive and his job is to push for and set up the one world religion.

The religion is do whatever you want, it is all okay.


28 posted on 10/19/2014 5:24:56 PM PDT by dforest
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To: plain talk

He is acting like a community organizer for the left.


29 posted on 10/19/2014 5:27:22 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Gamecock

God never changes. Nor do his views on sin. What was written in the Bible as sinful always had been sinful, and always will be sinful. No ifs, ands, or buts. This is not a negotiable thing.


30 posted on 10/19/2014 5:29:11 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo (Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.- John Adams)
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31 posted on 10/19/2014 5:31:18 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Homosexuality is not new.


Bingo. Our society is taking a sick turn. But we are so prosperous and arrogant that it will take decades before the real effects become apparent. Then it will be too late.


32 posted on 10/19/2014 5:33:04 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: dforest

Your comment brings up another point. It does seem quite coincidental that we have both Obama and Francis at the same time in history. They both have similar leftist leanings - at least to me.


33 posted on 10/19/2014 5:34:12 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk

You are right. The NWO needed a progressive to be Pope. He really isn’t a Pope, he is a fraud like Obama.


34 posted on 10/19/2014 5:38:29 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
Nobody has any desire to spin anything. The pope was wrong and he was beaten back by the bishops — again debunking the protestant line that the pope has absolute power in the Church.

No he wasn't beaten back by the bishops...A good majority of the bishops sided with your pope...He failed to get a full two thirds of them on his side is the problem...

Be interesting to see if they start working on a rule change to a simple majority being the deciding factor...

35 posted on 10/19/2014 5:39:43 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: Gamecock

sinners are listening to this and wondering why be a Christian if they can sin and have the Pope be ok with it!


36 posted on 10/19/2014 5:45:44 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: Gamecock

Evidently Frances thinks that Church doctrine is a “living document.”


37 posted on 10/19/2014 5:58:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that needs to be subsidized is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: Parmy

As long as church doctrine is based on the Bible, that shouldn’t be a problem. But when you get a bunch of people together and they just make stuff up as they go along, then there is a problem.


38 posted on 10/19/2014 6:00:35 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Gamecock

9. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
10. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. - Soloman


39 posted on 10/19/2014 6:01:06 PM PDT by inpajamas (Texas Akbar!!!!!!!)
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To: Gamecock

Francis is a Jesuit. No one should be surprised by much of anything he does.


40 posted on 10/19/2014 6:01:52 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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