Oh I see.
Let’s not be OCD about Scripture.
Oh, being accurate about scripture is OCD? I don't think so, but I am not Catholic.
That’s basically how the world knows that Scripture
So that is where you base your knowledge of scripture as "how the worlds knows" it?
Oh OK.
And be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.--Romans 12:2How laughable if Dr. Thorne sticks by his assertion that the charismatic false prophet aiding the Anti-Christ will be this shy, humble, 76-year-old Pope.“They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.17“Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth.18“As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.19“For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. --John 17:16-19
You are probably right, but it could be. Who is the great deceiver?
I predicted that this Pope selection would be much younger, robust and charismatic and popular even outside Catholicism
I missed it on the age.
Perhaps we have a while to go until the One World Religion, Maybe the next Pope will pull it off.
The Catholics seem to want all other denominations under the banner and authority of the Catholic church.
That may happen, but many Christians will opt out.
That was the situation for the first millennia of Christianity, from 33 A.D. to 1054 A.D. or so.
“Catholics seem to want all other denominations under the banner and authority of the church.”
Of course they do. Because the Lord set up one church.
“my church” -Matthew 16:18
“that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.” -John 17:21
Jesus wants us to be unified so the world will convert and “believe” in Him. He doesn’t want Christians to endlessly divide themselves because it weakens their witness to the world. It’s not a coincidence that he immediately links unity in one sentence to belief and conversion in the next sentence. The world says: If they can’t agree on the truth, is their a truth that can be agreed upon?
Where in the Scriptures does it say it’s okay that we endlessly divide ourselves into denominations? Early in the Acts of the Apostles when the Holy Spirit comes at Pentecost, it says the early disciples were all together as one.