snip: Since it seems that presbyterians get all wee-wee’d up about threads critical of their church, they MIGHT realize how it feels. Evidently, that connection is over their heads
Spirited: Long before the Reformation, and long before the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church there was Christian theology. The Christian theology of the Church Fathers.
The enemy must love how the Church has fractured itself. The enemy of course, played no small part in the breakup of the Church, and how wonderful it is to him that not only did it turn against itself, but even after hundreds of years its’ fractured parts still cast aspersions at one another.
A house divided cannot stand. Once the most powerful and influential Church (Roman Catholic) has been decapitated, we can be sure the enemy and his infernal legions will pick off the remainder. And it will be as easy as shooting ducks in a barrel.
And we can blame no one but ourselves. For it will be our stiff-necked pride and our lack of forgiveness that will be our downfall.
Can we not forgive and stand together?
Not to worry. There will always be a remnant. Christ abides.
Forgiveness is not a problem.
I’ve worked with a Mary Knoll Sister on the mission field. Am happy to cooperate shoulder to shoulder with Roman Catholics et al who give evidence of putting God first in their lives and earnestly doing HIS BIBLICAL work for HIS Kingdom.
We are ALSO exhorted to warn brothers who are headed for the ditch/have fallen in the ditch.
There’s a persistently new crop of lurkers hereon who deserve our obedience on such scores.
Thankfully, there’s also persistently a ready raft of rabid types who provide excellent foils for such discourses, assertions of Biblical truth.
LOL. And what was the theology of the Church Fathers?