Posted on 04/12/2002 8:52:15 AM PDT by Richard Poe
As for the other issue, the burden of proof here is on you. Name me one thing that is, in a tangible sense, permanent and everlasting. And I beg you, please don't say something trite like "Christ's love."
The "nightmare" is people believing the lie of easy believerism and that their actions have no consequences. That is the nightmare.
SD
This title is false. There will be no end to the kingdom of Jesus Christ. It will endure forever, long after all earthly kingdoms have fallen into the dust.
SHOULD WE TAKE everything in the Bible literally? Author and journalist H.W. Crocker III says no.
Where it is clearly meant to be taken literally, God Almighty says "Yes." I believe I will go with God, Mr Crocker.
His new book Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church (Forum, 2002) accuses Protestant fanatics of destroying Christendom, through their obsessive Biblical literalism, thus paving the way for Nazism, Bolshevism and other bloodthirsty cults of the post-Christian era.
This is such an outrageously stupid statement! Please show me how a literal interpretation of God's Holy Word led to nazism and communism! Both of these sicknesses reject God altogether and glorify sinful man. Totally against the Word of God!
It took guts to write this book.
Why does it take guts to slam fellow believers in Christ? I love the stand that many Catholics take against abortion and I applaud them for it. But of course I'm one of those Bible-believing Christians so that make me scum, right?
And as I'm fully aware, energy can be neither created nor destroyed and as such have no choice but to acknowledge that the human veil is not all we will ever know.
This does not mean that I need to believe in Jesus or St. Peter's gate or any of that tomfoolery.
Couldn't help but follow the thread and this caught my attention. Out of curiousity, and if you don't mind me asking, what are your beliefs regarding "life" after death?
1)There were other strands of Christianity which are just as old as the Roman/Orthodox Church, such as the Coptic Church in Africa and the Thomas Church in India.
2) The idea that the peasants should be content with a non-intellectual faith does not follow the model of its parent religion, in which all Jewish young men were to be literate enough to read the bible and be the spiritual leader in their home. The religion which Jesus practiced involved some public rituals at the temple, but was mainly a home based religion with rituals practiced at home, led by the father.
In the end, even the elect will be deceived. Here's proof.
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