And a level of control as well.
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Never dismiss that factor. It’s always prevalent no matter what human entity establishes itself for good or bad.
<And a level of control as well<
Really? I live in south Mississippi. How can the Pope control me? And the other poster who mentioned money. There are plenty of Protestant pastors rolling in money teaching the prosperity gospel.
“The gates of hell will not prevail against it.” It won’t prevail against the church because of Jesus Christ because it His church. Prevail doesn’t mean we won’t be hounded, tortured,or have tribulations. We will prevail however because of Christ.
There is plenty of evil people in the Catholic church just like any other. We will survive this socialist Pope just like we have already survived countless others.
9 people gunned down in a church just trying to worship. Christians all throughout Iraq, Syria and on and on being tortured and murdered in the most brutal ways and you all want to stir up trouble with other Christians. All of this is brought on by the evil one.