Posted on 01/26/2018 1:04:07 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
We are in a time of the first ever mass conversions of Muslims,” Father Mitch Pacwa SJ told me in a phone interview. “God is doing a mighty work among them.”
Pacwa said that mass conversions are happening even in very fundamentalist countries. There is rapidly growing number of conversions especially on the edges of the Muslim world in the western and southern parts of Africa, he said. “Africa is now growing predominantly Christian despite crackdowns,” Pacwa said.
Some of the noteworthy countries he mentioned include Iran, reported to have 3 million Christians, and Indonesia with reports of 2 million a year converting.
“In Mongolia, the president opened the country to Christians and there’s even an archbishop,” Pacwa said. “They built a Catholic school there too. If I was younger, I would have gone.” He said that the desire for a Western education was the impetus to open up the country to the Catholic Church.
There are even conversions happening in many strict Muslim countries, according to Pacwa. He did not want to go on record with particulars for fear of increased retribution. Mass conversions are also being reported among refugees that are filling up the Christian churches left empty by Europeans. Many wonder if those are authentic conversions or just a response to improving their chances for amnesty, but time will tell.
Signs of this conversion are showing up in the U.S. too, Pacwa said. “I was about to celebrate Mass at a Maronite church in San Diego and I said hi to a man who introduced himself as Achmad. I asked if he was a Christian. He said: ‘Yes, I was recently baptized.’ He said he from Morocco. Christians do not have the name Ahmad—that’s a form of Mohammad.”
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Sure they do....they were there.......unlike the prottys who came along one thousand six hundred years later....
Maybe CATHOLIC hit men or Catholic murderers, but NOT Christians.
Sure they do....they were there.......unlike the prottys who came along one thousand six hundred years later....
Show us the Rosary.
Show transubstantiation.
Show the Assumption of Mary.
Show the Immaculate Conception.
Show Purgatory
Show where priests can't marry.
Show where the Mass is supposed to be only in Latin.
I'll go get a big ol' bucket of popcorn while you try to show your answers.
Galatians 2:15-21 We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not! For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor. For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
Hey, now there you go with Scripture again!
Answered well in 851
Every Catholic I know who has been asked about confession, admits to not being honest with the priest.
did the thief return the property or not????
Why are you changing the subject?
Jesus told His disciples to not call any religious leader *father.*
Catholics do it anyways.
They are disobeying Jesus’ command.
Why do they do it?
He was using a metaphor.
Jesus did not come to change or break the Law but to fulfill it.
Therefore He could not have changed the wine to literal blood.
Metaphor definition.
https://literarydevices.net/metaphor/
Metaphor is a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics. In other words, a resemblance of two contradictory or different objects is made based on a single or some common characteristics.
In simple English, when you portray a person, place, thing, or an action as being something else, even though it is not actually that “something else,” you are speaking metaphorically. For example, the phrase, “My brother is the black sheep of the family,” is a metaphor because he is not a sheep, nor is he black. However, we can use this comparison to describe an association of a black sheep with that person. A black sheep is an unusual animal, which typically stays away from the herd, and the person being described shares similar characteristics.
Furthermore, a metaphor develops a comparison that is different from a simile, in that we do not use “like” or “as” to develop a comparison in a metaphor. It actually makes an implicit or hidden comparison and not an explicit one.
Common Speech Examples of Metaphors
Most of us think of a metaphor as a device used in songs or poems only, and that it has nothing to do with our everyday life. In fact, all of us in our routine life speak, write, and think in metaphors. We cannot avoid them. Metaphors are sometimes constructed through our common language, and they are called “conventional metaphors.”
For instance, calling a person a “night owl,” or an “early bird,” or saying “life is a journey,” are common examples of metaphors heard and understood by most of us. Below are some more conventional metaphors we often hear in our daily lives:
-My brother was boiling mad. (This implies he was too angry.)
- The assignment was a breeze. (This implies that the assignment was not difficult.)
- It is going to be clear skies from now on. (This implies that clear skies are not a threat and life is going to be without hardships)
-The skies of his future began to darken. (Darkness is a threat; therefore, this implies that the coming times are going to be hard for him.)
-Her voice is music to his ears. (This implies that her voice makes him feel happy)
- He saw the soul of dust when passing through the dust storm.
- Chaos is the breeding ground of order.
- War is the mother of all battles.
- Her dance is a great poem.
- A new road to freedom passes through this valley of death.
- My conscience is my barometer.
- His white face shows his concern.
- His kisses are like roses.
- He married her to have a trophy wife.
- Laughter is the best medicine.
- Words are daggers when spoken in anger.
- His words are pearls of wisdom.
O.K. Whatever the highest mountain on Earth was.....sigh
Just how old are the people in the Catholic church who were there and heard the traditions?
And they’re still alive?
For real?
Why are you changing the subject again?
perhaps that's the reason that you know NOTHING about Catholicism....and fell for a wannabe minister who knew nothing about anything.
Because he’s losing the argument....again!
And how high was that and how do you know how much water was on the earth?
I disagree with your interpretation bro, like I ALWAYS disagree with your interpretations. I don’t believe He instituted ANY sacraments like you think. Why don’t you have any assurance of salvation? Don’t you want to go there? Inquiring minds want to know. Of course, if you make it, you will have to spend eternity, with Martin Luther, Dawson Trotman, Bill Bright, Billy Graham, Amir Tsarfati, and me. I can see it now, a trillion eons from now, you and I will still be disagreeing on the OTC. Get used to it. I am comfortable with that. 👍
No, but a few, when I was very young, set conditions...make amends, apologize...etc......taught young people that they were responsible for their bad behavior.....worked wonders!!!!
I can pray for you anytime, and I do, but I am still physically alive on the earth. Once I assume room temperature, and go immediately to Heaven, which I will, then I can not pray for you anymore. I will be in Heaven, and too busy to worry about what you are doing. If, at that point, you try to get me to pray for you, then yes, that is necromancy. I will pray for you now, but don’t ask me to do that, after I croak. That is necromancy. 😀😄
Isn’t that what Bill Clinton did?
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