Posted on 02/17/2011 6:14:50 PM PST by Gamecock
Here is the AP story: July 1, 2020Just remember before you start counting your chickens, the PCUSA was faithful a hundred years ago. And the CRCNA was faithful a mere generation ago.
The PCUSA was ailing a century ago.
What's happening to PCUSA is the same thing that happened to Princeton University. Seems like all Orthodox institutions eventually go apostate once they reach a certain level of worldly success and enough generations pass. Sort of a law of spiritual entropy.
I didn't say that he was - that would be making it personal, and a violation of forum rules. But Marxism has always been hostile toward Christianity.
Nope, me neither. It’s probably just a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ;o)
True, but very few, if any, within saw it coming as fast as it came. They probably thought it couldn't happen to them. They allowed themselves to be led to destruction by seminary and denominational big wigs and “big steeple” pastors. In his book Cross Fingers, Gary North outlines how liberalism took over in the PCUSA. It began with confessional looseness and ended with the expulsion of conservatives in 1936. Part of the problem was with conservatives who declined to defend the Confession on all points, e.g., creationism. The PCA tolerates framework hypothesis and refuses to discipline churches with females deacons. It's all about incrementalism.
Spelling not withstanding, you got the message.
That is blasphemy.
Yup — whatever it is, it’s noisy. But, it’s a hollow noise if you know what I mean.
Hoss
FOTFLOL!!!!!!!!
I wish I had thought of that. Post of the day.
Quix, cue in the laughing smiley........
Now now . . .
PRISSY-NESS ABOUT SPELLING IS NEXT TO . . . UNGodliness.
or is it . . . let me check . . .
Why yest it IS!
Station #26 of the STATIONS OF THE WHITE HANKY:
26. ICON of the golden spell-check button in honor of PRISSY PONTIFICATIONS about poor Proddy spelling and majoring in minors and minoring in majors as major dogma of the Vatican Cult.
You mean like the religious orders who take a vow of poverty?
Oh, I get it. You mean the Church of The Unabomber Al Gore.
"Release My Second Chakra!"
Cheers!
You mean like the religious orders who take a vow of poverty?
Oh, I get it. You mean the Church of The Unabomber Al Gore.
"Release My Second Chakra!"
Cheers!
I do believe you are making your posts to Metmom personal - which is against the rules.
You are also dragging your little hobbyhorse taunts across threads - which is against the rules.
Finally, you are repeating false accusations even after being corrected numerous times on numerous threads. You are STALKING - and that is DEFINITELY against the rules. I think it is high time the Moderator chimes in on this issue.
Uh, the part about the coloring books costing three billion dollars?
A false charge of blasphemy was the crime for which Christ was killed. Do you even know the meaning of blasphemy? Where do you find the definition in Scripture? What gives you the right, the ability or power to declare blasphemy against anyone?
Blasphemy is directly opposed to the second commandment. It consists in uttering against God - inwardly or outwardly - words of hatred, reproach, or defiance; in speaking ill of God; in failing in respect toward him in one's speech; in misusing God's name. None of that in any way describes the ministerial priesthood of the Catholic Church. Just the opposite, Catholics do everything out of love and worship of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
The prohibition of blasphemy extends to language against Christ's Church, the saints, and sacred things. It is also blasphemous to make use of God's name to cover up criminal practices, to reduce peoples to servitude, to torture persons or put them to death. The misuse of God's name to commit a crime such as leading others into a Reformist heresy or into hatred of their Christian Brothers and Sisters, or to repudiate religion because of the lack of Beatitude by those who profess to be of God is equally blasphemous.
Yup. When asked to provide proof, none is given.
Ever.
And the attacks just keep coming. Besides, it's that hollow noise thing again anyway.
Hoss
If the PCA adds in 5,500 members each year, they will reach 1 million members in 118 yearsThere is much more happening in the PCA than just the steady growth. Several things that will cause an exponential growth over the next 20 years.
Thank you. I don’t take credit for it though, Paul said it first in I Corinthians 13.
Do the math. By 2008, the Catholic Church had paid out three billion dollars to settle priest abuse cases with accusers. The coloring books were produced in 2007, in the words of one article, to alert children to the danger of being sexually assaulted by a priest.
So if the coloring books are supposed to work, what did it cost the Church to not produce abuse-avoidance coloring books until 2007? Answer: three billion dollars.
"I hear kids can get a free copy of "Being Friends, Being Safe" at their local parish, but the coloring book cost the Catholic Church over three billion dollars to produce!"Oh, and I forgot these:
-- Alex Murphy, Post #94 in this thread.
You are also dragging your little hobbyhorse taunts across threads - which is against the rules.
Finally, you are repeating [VERY] false accusations even after being corrected numerous times on numerous threads. You are STALKING - and that is DEFINITELY against the rules. I think it is high time the Moderator chimes in on this issue.
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