Posted on 07/12/2006 10:43:24 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
"If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead." (Luke 16;31)
I have a cast on my right arm & it makes typing quite tedious. Rather than writing out my own response to you,
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AMEN & AMEN!
This is my favorite subject!! No--not the homosexual marriage/abortion subject--I'm talking about my Jesus!
Hallelujah, He reigns!
I once asked my daughter, "What would Jesus drive?"
She answered, "A Chrysler. Obviously."
The problem is that makes the God of the OT different from the God of the NT. There have been a number of heresies from way back that took a line of thought similar to yours and followed it to its conclusion.
Remember this about the Canaanites. When the Romans (hardly the standard of virtue) fought the remnant of the Canaanites (the Carthaginians), they were horrified at the child sacrifice and other things that they did. Scipio razed Carthage both in retaliation for Hannibal, and to put an end to their horrible ways. These were not nice people whom God just decided to pick on.
They seem to be overlooking comments about his fulfilling rather than abolishing the Law.
I suppose that all depends on what, precisely, you mean by that. Jesus did not tell anyone to stop being Jewish--that would be as absurd and undoable (to a human) as telling the Irish to be Polish, or Swedes to be Mongols. In other words, it would require changing the past. However, if you mean that Jesus never said that OT laws were obsolete, you are wrong:
""Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him 'unclean'? For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body." (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods "clean.")" Mark 17:18-19 (Emphasis mine).
what does one expect from the national council of churches?
He also didn't say anything about sprinkling Rice Krispies all over someone's floors and then unscrewing all the lightbulbs.
I'll have to pick up the New Testament and find out Our Lord's views on Kyoto and Iraq...
Membership Statistics
For The National Council of Churches' Member Communions
Current as of 07/07/2005
Religious |
Year |
Number of |
Inclusive |
Number of |
African Methodist Episcopal Church |
1999 |
2,500,000 |
7,741 |
|
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
2003 |
3,236 |
1,432,795 |
3,285 |
The Alliance of Baptists in the U.S.A. |
2002 |
128 |
63,870 |
286 |
American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. |
2003 |
5,834 |
1,433,075 |
4,277 |
The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America |
2003 |
226 |
390,000 |
400 |
Armenian Apostolic Church, Diocese of America |
1991 |
72 |
414,000 |
49 |
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada |
2003 |
3,717 |
770,793 |
3,412 |
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church |
2002 |
3,300 |
850,000 |
3,001 |
Church of the Brethren |
2003 |
1,062 |
132,481 |
796 |
Coptic Orthodox Church |
2000 |
100 |
300,000 |
140 |
Episcopal Church |
2002 |
7,305 |
2,320,221 |
6,060 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
2003 |
10,657 |
4,984,925 |
9,225 |
Friends United Meeting |
2002 |
427 |
42,680 |
306 |
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America |
2003 |
510 |
1,500,000 |
570 |
Hungarian Reformed Church in America |
2001 |
27 |
6,000 |
27 |
International Council of Community Churches |
2003 |
126 |
108,806 |
283 |
Korean Presbyterian Church in America, General Assembly of the |
2003 |
302 |
55,000 |
465 |
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Diocese of America |
||||
Mar Thoma Syrian Church of India |
2003 |
72 |
35,000 |
45 |
Moravian Church in America (Unitas Fratrum) |
2003 |
92 |
24,650 |
90 |
National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. |
2000 |
3,500,000 |
||
National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. |
9,000 |
5,000,000 |
||
National Missionary Baptist Convention of America |
1992 |
2,500,000 |
||
The Orthodox Church in America |
2003 |
731 |
1,000,000 |
798 |
Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the U.S.A. |
31 |
7,000 |
45 |
|
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends |
2003 |
104 |
11,874 |
0 |
Polish National Catholic Church of America |
2003 |
60,000 |
120 |
|
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
2003 |
11,064 |
3,241,309 |
8,945 |
Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. |
1995 |
2,000 |
2,500,000 |
|
Reformed Church in America |
2003 |
897 |
278,739 |
828 |
Serbian Orthodox Church in the U.S.A. and Canada |
1986 |
68 |
67,000 |
60 |
The Swedenborgian Church |
2003 |
40 |
1,677 |
26 |
Syrian (Syriac) Orthodox Church of Antioch |
2003 |
31 |
32,500 |
26 |
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. |
2000 |
115 |
13,000 |
103 |
United Church of Christ |
2003 |
5,738 |
1,296,652 |
4,219 |
The United Methodist Church |
2002 |
35,102 |
8,251,175 |
24,269 |
Totals |
106,288 |
45,125,222 |
79,897 |
Current as of 07/07/2005
(tribe of Benjamin)
And yet another perfect example of how GOD deals with sexual immorality!!!
Spot on YOUGOTIT!!!!! Spot on!!!
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