Posted on 10/26/2021 9:44:53 AM PDT by ebb tide
He didnt substitute but he was OK with them. There is an interesting show/documentary called Awakened. I think it’s on Prime that’s worth watching. There is a growing revival of NAs and Christianity. This article shed more light on Billy Graham’s views. Personally, Billy is about all I have left for looking up to a religious leader.
https://stream.org/awakened-new-film-chronicles-the-revival-among-native-americans/
Please see my post #21
You ask the impossible. But you can't deny the Disciples all called Peter - Pope. He was the head guy. It's right there . . .somewhere. I'm looking in my concordance for the word Pope in the Bible. nada. I got nothing. Now I'm really cornfused.
I was fortunate enough to attend a Billy Graham revival as an adolescent. Even before he came out, the air was crackling with energy. Kind of like invisible St. Elmo’s fire. Lots of people went down for the altar call.
That said, I look up to Pope Saint Pius X more than any other religious leader I’m aware of.
St. Francis de Sales wrote some great things, too, as did St. Alphonsus Liguori. C. S. Lewis. G. K. Chesterton.
The "fat guy in the red suit" depiction mostly derives from the cartoons of the notoriously anti-Catholic cartoonist Thomas Nast. Although one may be tempted to believe it, Wikipedia assures us that the word "nasty" is not derived from Nast.
If Jesus is a King, then his mother is the Queen Mother, by definition.
In fact, in the Davidic monarchy, the King's mother had a specific title, gebirah ("great lady"). That's why, if you read Kings and Chronicles, they repeatedly mention the king's mother along with the king, "and so-and-so was king, and his mother was so-and-so". In protocol terms (not in terms of power), the king's mother was the #2 person in the kingdom. (The vizier or royal chamberlain was the king's #2 in a strictly political sense.)
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