To: MarkBsnr; count-your-change; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; ..
The Church was not persecuting. They did their best to convince them to return to the Faith because the Church was afraid for their very souls. What lengths would you go to to stop another from going over to satan? What did Jesus do in the NT?
How does God do it today?
How did the Roman Catholic church historically do it?
Like this???
Inquisition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition
God doesn't force anyone to believe. The church, ANY church, can never be justified in taking any other stand.
2,466 posted on
02/01/2011 5:13:05 AM PST by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: metmom; MarkBsnr
Yet one MUST believe that Jesus Christ is GOD. I gave you a number of bible references that prove that Jesus Christ is Lord. That should be sufficient to convince anyone who claims to believe the Bible that Jesus Christ IS God
To: metmom
“How did the Roman Catholic church historically do it?”
Pope(far from)Innocent issued an order for the extermination of the Waldeneses in France and thousands were killed.
Just makes a person long for the “good old days”.
2,495 posted on
02/01/2011 7:46:54 AM PST by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: metmom
The Church was not persecuting. They did their best to convince them to return to the Faith because the Church was afraid for their very souls. What lengths would you go to to stop another from going over to satan? What did Jesus do in the NT?
As was pointed out before - in the three Synoptic Gospels, He told the 70 that the towns that refused to accept them would be destroyed.
God doesn't force anyone to believe.
You hang out here with a bunch of people who believe the opposite.
2,579 posted on
02/01/2011 6:36:46 PM PST by
MarkBsnr
(I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so..)
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