**God is not afraid of new things.**
Let’s see how the FRoman Catholic contingent spins, uhhh, I interprets this.
I always thought of the Church as akin to the Marines. There is an ethos that is to be unchanged. That is, regardless of what the surrounding culture is, the culture of the Church and the Marines are to remain the same.
Remarried divorced Catholics can receive communion whenever they want. Gay people are welcome at Mass. There isn’t a “state of grace” scanner in churches. What these forces want is to be told that sin is not sin and for all the faithful to concur.
This Pope scares me so much!
If the purpose of change is to return from evil to good, then change is laudable. If the purpose of change is to accept an adiaphoric cultural phenomenon for the sake of bringing people to Christ, then change is laudable. All other forms of change in the church are damnable, for all other forms of change are turning away from what God has ordained for our good.
Homosexuality is not new. God has already spoken and acted on the subject. We are the ones slow to learn.
I don’t fear change, I fear sin.
The Pope does not know God.
God has anticipated “new things” since the beginning of time.
What a phony, trying to shoehorn the secular into the immutable word of God.
“God is not afraid of new things. That is why he is continuously surprising us, opening our hearts and guiding us in unexpected ways,”
In 60 years, we’ve gone from God the Omniscient, to God the Perpetually Surprised.
If He gets any smaller, we won’t need to kill God with scientism; we’ll be able to squash Him like an insect.
It depends on what the change is. If it is going against the word of God, then it is better to be afraid of that change, are remain on the traditional solid foundation.
The Lord does not change. Therefore is the Church decides to change, that change did not come from the Holy Spirit, but from the traditions of man.
There seems to be a clear pattern coming into focus with this Pope. This pattern strongly suggests that he really wants to pull the Catholic church in a liberal direction. He’s trying as witnessed on many occasions now, but you can tell he is being restrained. However, he appears determined.
God is not afraid of new things? Like, accepting the practice of homosexuality? God is unchanging.
I am not a Catholic, but I am really concerned about where this Pope seems to be pushing the Catholic church. My gut tells me that this guy is a leftist who, given enough space would like to see the Catholic church lurch to the left.
that’s a ridiculous statement
He sounds like 0. 0 admires this pope. Nuff said.
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.”
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.
This Pope thinks God’s word is a living Constitution too?
Hope and Change... ugh
“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.
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
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.