Posted on 09/18/2010 8:26:32 PM PDT by markomalley
21 is a good post. The Holy Spirit is not limited to nor housed by denominations or establishments. He has demonstrated that with Catholics, Lutherans, and yes, Baptists.
I’m Southern Baptist, but some of the most lifeless congregations I’ve seen were in the SBC...although they had severe competition for the title of dead!
“6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
To the extent America was filled with a people who feared God, it prospered. But can anyone deny we are not in any sense a God-fearing nation now? Or that the Judge of Sodom and Gomorrah will likewise judge America, if there is no revival?
THX FOR YOUR KIND WORDS. I GREATLY AGREE:
21 is a good post. The Holy Spirit is not limited to nor housed by denominations or establishments. He has demonstrated that with Catholics, Lutherans, and yes, Baptists.
I’m Southern Baptist, but some of the most lifeless congregations I’ve seen were in the SBC...although they had severe competition for the title of dead!
“6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
To the extent America was filled with a people who feared God, it prospered. But can anyone deny we are not in any sense a God-fearing nation now? Or that the Judge of Sodom and Gomorrah will likewise judge America, if there is no revival?
That is correct, always.
The state, however, often imposed harsh punishments for heresy, which it equated to treason. Plus, torture was considered a valid method of interrogation.
Well, if something does not accord with the doctrine that that action itself is a heresy. No one defends that.
I hope, soon. On the other hand, the really egregious abuse such as pederasty happened decades ago; entry into priesthood as already barred for homosexuals and the wannabe priestesses running around are only a minor nuisance. The worst excesses of post-Vatican II madness are also chiefly in the past.
do you deny the Inquisitions sanctioned by your own popes?
Why would I deny it? I am proud of it. Christ purifies His Church (Eph 5:26-27)
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The Christlikeness just shines right through, doesn't it?
It doesn’t seem any stranger than the Calvinists’ trial of David Joris. They dug up his corpse, put it on trial for heresy, then burned his corpse at the stake as punishment. How many times have you brought up this trial by the Calvinists vs. the trial by the Catholics?
I wonder where they got that idea from....
Ironic, isn’t it. Calvinists are criticized and condemned for not being more like Catholics and when they are, they’re criticized and condemned for that as well.
Ya just can’t win for losing.....
Sure it does. That poor pope's corpse was mannhandled well beyond just one trial. They couldn't leave the poor guy alone. At least that burning at the stake put an end to it for good instead of dragging his corpse all over creation every time there was a change in leadership in Calvinism.
I wonder why the Calvinists have the habit of criticizing the Catholics for doing something, but when Calvinists do it they blame it on the Catholics. The agenda of bigotry is obvious.
Like the Calvinists left David Joris alone. Hypocrites.
This makes the agenda at work here obvious.
That's a laughable statement. There is not a "leader" in Calvinism, because Calvinism is a fractured mess with new versions and denominations popping up all the time then quickly dying out.
It’s not the first time that they have made the agenda at work here so obvious.
A moldy, but a goodie.
"The state" did not conduct the many and varied Inquisitions, such as the Roman Inquisition and the Medieval Inquisition.
The papacy in Rome did.
Even the Spanish Inquisition, while supposedly under control of the Roman Catholic monarchs, was instituted to maintain Roman Catholic control of those conquered.
And you say you want to introduce America to these Inquisitions.
No wonder the RCC is fading in this country.
There is a HUGE difference between what the Catholic church states as *official church doctrine* and what it in all actuality practices.
The RCC hides behind that claim of *official church doctrine* every time someone shines the light of truth on its despicable practices. That does not exempt the RCC from the responsibility of its barbaric past.
AMEN! Barbaric. It's pathetic that some Roman Catholic apologists on FR long for the rack's return.
For us to believe that all Presbyterians are of like mind you will have to explain why there were so many different types, denominations, varieties and schisms. If you can manage that you can then tell us why all Catholics are of like mind.
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