Where Have All the FR Protestants Gone? [A Month Later]

drstevej

[drstevej]

Thread from last month...

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Where Have All the FR Protestants Gone?
drstevej

Posted on 04/08/2003 12:29 PM CDT by drstevej

OBSERVATIONS:

[1] There seems to be a significantly reduced number of Protestant Threads (KJV Only being the exception for sure) in the FR Religion Forum.

[2] There seems to be a reduced number of FR Protestant posts in the Religion Forum.

This thread is a place to discuss these observations.

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Now the transformation to a Catholic Religion Forum is almost complete. Must be a Marian miracle or an answer to Jim Robinson's prayer, "Can't we all just get along?" Now all the dissent is within the RC fold ... NO Mass vs. Tridentine Mass. Boredom has descended, the moderators are free to nap without fear of an **** awakening them.

Could someone arrange for a funeral mass? (a clown mass in this case might be in order).

 

-- Pope Piel  I (thinking of abdicating prior to even assuming the Chair of Peter)

[Ephesians210]

We may live to see the RC's, Moslems and Mormons fight over who will rule the world, since they all think they will.

[sr4402]

Thus, many Protestants are staying away.

Ha... I'm a protestant and a Calvinist.

Let me ask you a question. I'm writing a book on prayer. Is prayer a 'good work' theologically, especially when answered by God? If so, when did God decide to answer the prayer?

[CCWoody]

***We may live to see the RC's, Moslems and Mormons fight over who will rule the world, since they all think they will.***

As an Amillennialist, I think that would be grand. Psalms 2:1, Epesians 2:6.

Woody.

[George W. Bush]

Ever the voice of peace... ; )

[Lexinom]

In other words:

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(wanna know how to get the < and > in there without it being parsed by the HTML processor?) :-)

[Markofhumanfeet]

Some the evolutionists had silenced, but now the evolutionists are lonely and with none left to persecute, they are forced to venture far afield, searching, for now they are in darkness without a lamp, with only each other for comfort

[Markofhumanfeet]

Ping to above

[Lexinom]

Perhaps they are huddled together in despair, knowing that their whole system rests on unprovable assumptions and circular reasoning, to wit, "Fossils usually found in certain geological strata prove that evolution occurred. Evolution occurred because fossils are found in certain geological strata."

Evolution has failed the tests of the scientific method. It is neither observable, measurable, nor repeatable.

People believe it out of a wish that there were no God, and no ultimate judgment for man. This is born of our natural (unregenerated) fear and hatred of God that comes with original sin in Adam.

[connectthedots]

If you think you have something to offer, just write the book. Whether anyone buys it will tell you if it is any good; for the most part.

If you haven't figured out the answer to your own question, maybe you need to not write the book just yet. It also seems to me that you are looking for an answer to a question that might not need to be asked.

The Gospel is not that complex.

[xzins]

Character assassination strategy kills cooperation.

Catholics must not engage in that with each other.

[Gamecock]

I have a pic of a rather miraculous image on a communion wafer.

I don't dare post it for fear of being banished to the outer darkness.

[Dataman]

but now the evolutionists are lonely and with none left to persecute, they are forced to venture far afield, searching,

Seems to me more like "harrass" or "shout down" rather than persecute. The fact that they would leave the crevo threads to continue harrassing was predicted more than once and has indeed come true -- which also is in harmony with the assertion that their [sorry] defense of evolution is secondary to promoting atheism.

[Dataman]

Evolution has failed the tests of the scientific method. It is neither observable, measurable, nor repeatable.

People believe it out of a wish that there were no God, and no ultimate judgment for man. This is born of our natural (unregenerated) fear and hatred of God that comes with original sin in Adam.

Yes indeed.

[sr4402]

It also seems to me that you are looking for an answer to a question that might not need to be asked.

Oh, no, it is a very good question and I think it is a very good question to ask. If prayer, that has been answered by God, is a good work (not towards salvation, but to a crown). Then you look at Eph. 2:10 which says that God has prepared good works from the foundation of the world that we should walk in them. Then the question goes to whether God planned these prayers.

Evidence that God planned prayers can be seen in Abimelech's dream in Genisis, where God tells Abimelech that Abramham would pray for him and that he and the women would be healed (God had shut the wombs). Also this is seen in Daniel when Michael (the Archangel) tells Daniel when he first set his mind on praying for the restoration of Jerusalem, the decree went forth.

Indications are that God is the one that initiates prayer (see Abraham again). So if God has planned prayer, prepared us for it, given us His word to pray, and ordained the answer. How should we then pray? What then is the power of prayer? Is it man, or God?

[man of Yosemite]

It's a lot like people arguing at the dinner table. It's more productive to get up and go for a walk, whether it be to another room or another state.