Posted on 10/05/2025 12:13:42 PM PDT by ebb tide
Ping
ummmm. It hasn’t ended? Wow. If we are going to be snippy I’d say the big push from the pope for open borders is to get more illiterate people in the pews who believe in magic. True story. Gotta fill the pews
In the noble words of that great Theologian Monty Python: I ain’t dead yet.
some articles are too stupid to be posted
Did they all leave in the rapture?
Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” pretty much fits modern Christianity. And it’s not so far off in the Francis-era Catholic Church.
Whatever. Trying to start ‘troubles’?
I went to a non-Catholic church this morning and it’s thriving TYVM.
-SB
true to form
Lot of us still here, bubba!
Your invasion and takeover plan is uh kinda runnin into some friction
My “mere Christian” church is growing by leaps and bounds.
That’s odd. Protestantism seems to be very much alive here on FR.
Maybe this is someone’s ‘wishful thinking’.
We are now at an advanced stage of Protestant sectarianism in which many Protestants eschew organized religion entirely and adopt a “me and Jesus” attitude. Needless to say, this is not a Biblical approach as the New Testament depicts organized communities of believers under the direction of authorized overseers (”bishops” or “elders”).
IOW, anything administered by humans is fallible.
Regardless of the situation in any specific church, both Catholicism and Protestantism have seen major declines in membership in the last 40 years.
We had multiple people come to Christ this morning and 8 adult baptisms. Our (protestant) church is growing by leaps and bounds with campuses in multiple states and countries. The Holy Spirit isn’t limited by lame internet articles.
Not only are Seventh day Adventists Protestants and growing around the world.........we still teach the Papacy is the Antichrist power. Just like the Protestants of old did.
Plus, we don’t honor your Sunday and or your saints who are dead. We don’t buy that spiritualism stuff.
We are Protestants on Steriods.....but nice try.
I one time watched D James Kennedy refute the description that his church was dying. He had the cameras pan over the full pews and ask if it looked like his church was dying.
That’s what I saw next: fields of gray hair, over and over again.
In easily 20-30 years everyone there would be dead and gone. And he was too blind to see it.
Should make some people reflect on why.
FWIW, I missed the part where Peter laid hands on Paul to ordain him. All I recall is Paul correcting Peter.
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