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They hide the fact that OPC is just a cult of 20,000 and dropping.

I'm not familiar with your OPC, but this is what I know.

Matthew 7:13-14

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Go ahead and run with the big crowd down that highway through the wide gate. I'll stick with the few on the small dirt track and pass through that narrow gate.

Cool, however, stick with the few who are actually Christian. That would be helpful.

There are many truly Christian Protestant groups out there. Let's boil it down to the basics -- and I love the way the Nicene Creed encapsulates it, a basic belief in Jesus Christ as Lord and God, One God with The Father and the Holy Spirit. Most of the folks here on this board believe in these basics.

however, we do have Messianic types who deny the divinity of Christ and Unitarians who deny the Trinity and the divinity. And we do have on open threads like this members of groups such as Dr. E's or the Mormons which do not share these basic beliefs in Christ and His teachings.

You can even notice it in the way they post. Check, say wmfights's (a Baptist) who posts threads on how Baptists missionaries face troubles around the world. He gets murmurs of sympathies or prayers or more from all different Christian groups -- Baptists, Lutherans, Catholics, Orthodox, etc. Ditto when a Catholic or Orthodox posts news about persecution of Catholics or Orthodox in the Middle East or Asia or elsewhere. Yet one group is conspiciously absent -- the same group that shouts out aloud it's message of hate and makes statements like is the enemy of all free republics who do not wish to become subservient to his "global authority" or refer to hitler youth with no aim to teach or preach, but rather to cause hurt.

What tricked me for so long was that I thought that Dr. E's posts of hate somehow characterised the 'all Protestants' because of the way it was worded, seemingly speaking for 'all Protestants' -- and many Catholics and non-Catholics also wonder this. But then I saw OPC members attacking Protestants too and never see them spreading Christ's message, just jumping on board a thread to post barbs -- no questions, just insults. And on studying this cult further, one sees that the OPC is just another group like the lds or Jehovah's Witnesses that pretends to be Christian to entice people in, yet keeps it's Prophets and targets folks with low self-esteem to join. However, with it's message of hate it just turns these poor folks into spouters of hate as we see in their posts.

Go ahead and run with the big crowd down that highway through the wide gate. I'll stick with the few on the small dirt track and pass through that narrow gate.

Amen!

And yet I believe Christ spoke of a wheat field and not a tares field. Therefore I have hope even lost Romanists may find their way to Scriptural truths, if God so wills.

And if He so wills, they will do so by hearing the word of God preached in truth and light.

"And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God..." -- Luke 5:1