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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Learned here on Free Republic in discussions with Roman Catholics.
Really? What an interesting spin on history.
Do tell.
In terms of their eternal destination is there a difference?
Please see my post 36.
It's nothing to do with what my pastor preaches.
The question is....do you believe this from The Preacher?
14“As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; 15so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life. 16“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
17“For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
18“He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19“This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.
20“For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. John 3:14-20 NASB
LOL!
Not a bot attack so much as a boiler-room attack. So who’s paying the bills?
I would certainly bet the farm that they are! Free rides are always gratefully accepted!
And just what can you do to earn your salvation that is equal to the one-time sacrifice of the Cross?
How many "Hail Mary's" do you think it takes to be saved??
It started in the 3rd-4th century.
When people did try to correct Rome they had, shall we say, rather convincing ways of silencing people.
The Catholics do far more if the bashing The usual is to start the fight then run behind the mods
I read it. So in your view are the Eastern Orthodox to be considered Christians?
It is a greater sin to stay in an apostate denomination and not attempt to bring them back to Truth. Catholic apostasy? Let me count the ways. Indulgences or the idea you can buy your way onto haven. Elevation of Mary to co-redemptix with Christ, Queen of heaven and other blasphemous and unbiblical titles. Salvation by works only to members of their particular club. Elevating their leader (pope) to Christ’s representative on earth calling him holy father and other blasphemous titles. Robbing believers of the security of salvation. Doctrines like purgatory and denying the sufficiency of Christ’s atonement ( you still have to pay or suffer for your sins in purgatory. That’s a short list for starters
Buy your way into heaven. Big fingers little keyboard
I’ll ask you the same question. Are the Eastern Orthodox Christians in your view. And if so, why?
No.
Christians are the ones who read & follow the Holy Bible and believe who Jesus said He is.
I’ve known a handful of Catholics over the years that fall into that category.
The Body of Christ isn’t a man-made entity with a label. It belongs to God and has a future far brighter than any group that has ever lived.
The religionists and denominationists will have their day soon enough in front of the White Throne of Judgement.
Anyone who repents from their sin and accepts Jesus Christ as their savior and His sacrifice as complete atonement for their sin without other requirements is a Christian and saved. Denomination does not matter. Some of those individuals are undoubtably catholic, orthodox and protestant. That said there are denominations that teach unbiblical doctrines and place serious roadblocks between their congregations and a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. They teach another gospel than the one we find in Scripture and add all kinds of man made requirements or teach a different path to salvation. By the Catholic Churches favorite word they are anathema. They should be condemned soundly by believers.
Exactly! Except maybe Mormonism—if Romney is an example; and definitely not Unitarian—leftists are as bad as Muslims. Just kidding!
Anything would be better.
A lot of people are going to be surprised when they see their “apostate” neighbors on the other side of the pearly gates. I must have missed that commandment: “Love thy sectarian neighbor; hate everyone else.”
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Well that's at least a concrete date. But I am not going to settle for vague accusations of progressive corruption.
Hippolytus of Rome...died around 235. Was he orthodox or heterodox? If heterodox, then why? How about Pope Cornelius (251-253)? Cornelius was friends with Cyprian, bishop of Carthage. Was Carthage being corrupted too around that time?
Can you show me someone on either side of your cutoff, and tell me what the person pre-200 believed that the person in, say, 400 or 500 didn't?
Or can you point me to someone in the 200s or 300s in Antioch or Alexandria, or Byzantium, or Gaul who remarked on Rome's gradual apostasy? There were churches all over the place outside Rome...surely someone noticed and complained, right? Chrysostom in Constantinople? Jerome in Jerusalem? Augustine in Hippo? Ambrose in Milan?
Show me one ancient author who wrote about this alleged Roman apostasy when it was happening.
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