Posted on 01/08/2018 10:22:20 AM PST by Gamecock
Edited on 01/08/2018 10:36:43 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Bethel Church, a controversial megachurch in Redding, California, is now under fire in Christian circles for allegedly promoting New Age occultism in the use of "Destiny Cards," which critics have likened to tarot cards.
Leaders of the 9,000-member congregation have been accused of working with a Melbourne, Australia-based group known as Christ Alignment, a group that claims to have worked with many churches in that country to do readings.
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Between the Roman Catholic misapplication of The Lord's Supper and the worship of Mary I'm not sure which error is bigger.
“Why would you continually sacrifice Christ over and over and over again as seen in Roman Catholicism when the New Testament tells us His was a one-time sacrifice?”
Two words: syncretic paganism.
“Between the Roman Catholic misapplication of The Lord’s Supper and the worship of Mary I’m not sure which error is bigger.”
Worship of Mary is worse. God is a jealous God.
Good grief, the ignorance and occultic superstition.
Next thing you know they’ll be burying statues upside-down to sell their houses faster.
You're conflating 2 entirely different belief systems. I suggest you study the meaning and practice of sorcery vs the meaning and practice of Christianity.
If you want to argue that Christianity and sorcery have their own "rituals", that may be true. But his can be said of any of a number of things. Judaism has rituals; Hindus have rituals; the Masons have rituals; the Navy has rituals; the Senate has rituals; your family likely has rituals.
To suggest that sorcery and Christianity are somehow alike is far from the truth. Sorcery rejects Christ in the Christian sense. In terms of belief systems, sorcery and Christianity are diametrically opposed.
Now that's funny! For those who don't know, burying statues upside-down to sell their house is an RC superstition.
Altar??? Why would we need an altar??? Altars are for sacrifices...We aren't sacrificing anything...We worship...
yeah, truly stunning,
You'd think they were publishing novenas or something!!
Italian Megachurch Accused of Practicing Occult in excessively adoring and venerating a woman barely mentioned in Scripture.
Visa, MasterCard, and American Express?
-PJ
Do we have enough room for One More Name???
The way it's written:
Oh?
What is THIS practice??
Well; now we know what they SAY.
Now I wonder just what it is that they DO?
I'm not catholic, but this is not how they see it. During mass, they are joining with the one-time sacrifice through time. In this mystery, the differences in time do not cause a new event.
My Church has an altar on which you will find bread and wine. There is no pretend worship as we receive the Body and Blood of Christ truly present in with and under the bread and wine. As a body we would soundly condemn any practice as describe here. Take your catholic bigotry and false feelings of superiority and stuff it. Maybe Mary will kiss your boo boo for you. We worship Christ and Him crucified not Mary and a panoply of saints and angels.
Lots of people call themselves things they are not. That statement was likely written a while ago. Too bad they have strayed from it
I'm not catholic, but this is not how they see it. During mass, they are joining with the one-time sacrifice through time. In this mystery, the differences in time do not cause a new event.
I offer this from a Roman Catholic priest as to what happens during the Mass.
| John O' Brien, Roman Catholic Priest in the Faith of Millions. | Hebrews 9:24-28 | Hebrews 10:11-13 |
| When the priest pronounces the tremendous words of consecration, he reaches up into the heavens, brings Christ down from His throne, and places Him upon our altar to be offered up again as the Victim for the sins of man. It is a power greater than that of monarchs and emperors: it is greater than that of saints and angels, greater than that of Seraphim and Cherubim. Indeed it is greater even than the power of the Virgin Mary. While the Blessed Virgin was the human agency by which Christ became incarnate a single time, the priest brings Christ down from heaven, and renders Him present on our altar as the eternal Victim for the sins of man—not once but a thousand times! The priest speaks and lo! Christ, the eternal and omnipotent God, bows His head in humble obedience to the priest’s command. | 24For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; 25nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is not his own. 26Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 27And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, 28so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him. | Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; 12but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, 13waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET. 14For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified. |
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