If you had attended a weekday mass 40 years ago, you would have seen the same thing.
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If you had attended a weekday mass 40 years ago, you would have seen the same thing.
WOW !
You and some of your ignorant friends on here are not for real.
" Catholics are kabballists ", " Crosses are satanic" , " stone the Orthodox ",
you people are haters and destroyers of Europe and the planet.
Learn some history, Catholics and the Church are builders of Europe,
every single one of you would be bowing down and praying to Mecca
if it was not for them. That is just one fact. Despite it's excesses.
One liner haters with their troll posts Vs indisputable history.
" PEARLS BEFORE SWINE " ANTY EP, before he left for good.
Rabbi "Gentiles only exist to serve jews"
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef: Gentiles Exist Only to Serve Jews
http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=29404
StreetsOfGold's Rabbi speaks, he defends him.
Some Protestants treat each other like viruses in many cases,
they are dividers and they hate the builders that matter, they talk
like the Occult in many cases.
Ok, now I take issue with this, and I will show you based on scripture.
Before I get into it, I will say that I recognize that the (Catholic) Church is corrupted from within, but that also goes for all other sects of the Christian faith. In fact, going back to the book of Jude which I exhorted above, you can see plainly that the conspiratorial decievers were already hard at work infiltrating and working towards the destruction of the Christian Faith right at its inception:
Also, in 1 John, chapter 2, starting at verse 18 you can read about the deceivers at work, the antichrists:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jude
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Originally Posted by John
The point I am making is that the Church has been under attack since day one. Humanity and our salvation was under attack long bfore Christ came, which was the reason for his coming to begin with: To save us.
So then scripturally I take issue with your statement, as if Lutheranism or whatever other protestant version of Christianity which holds strict adherance to the KJV is "better than" or more "pure than" the Catholic faith.
I give thanks to the Lord that I have a friend who pointed this out to me when I was bent on discovering "What is the closest version of Christianity".
In the book revelation there are 7 letters to 7 Churches. John was given this revelation by Christ on the Island of Patmos, and was told to write these letters to the 7 Churches. I will not repost them all here, but they are found in Revelation right at the start of Chapter 2.
So then let's look at a significant difference in what Jesus had to say to the 7 Churches that Jesus addressed through John:
Ephesus:
He finds good work and praises their efforts, and He finds bad and scolds their misdeeds. (Rev2:4)
Smyrna:
He finds good work and praises their efforts, and warns them against the synagoue of Satan (Rev2:9)
Pergamum:
He finds good work and praises their efforts, and He finds bad and scolds their misdeeds. (Rev2:14)
Thyatira:
He finds good work and praises their efforts, and He finds Jezebel teaching immorality. (Rev2:20)
Sardis:
He does not find too much of good work, except for a few, and He finds bad and scolds their misdeeds. (Rev3:1)
Philadelphia:
He finds good work. The Lord mentions no fault in this Church. (Rev 3:7)
Laodicea:
This Church is found neither cold nor hot, but Lukewarm, and the Lord says they will be spit out as a result. (Rev 3:140
So then, where are these Churches now? The Catholic Church is not perfect, but then neither is Baptist, Pentacostal, Lutheran, or whatever other label you want to put on it. Simply put, none of the current modern day Churches are the Church of Smyrna or Philadelphia, and whether you like it or not, those are the only two Churches that Jesus Christ Himself addressed and found no fault in.
As I Christian, I find strength in this knowledge. I attend a Catholic Church, but I don't consider myself a "Catholic".
I am a "Christian". I am not a "Protestant" or anything else.
I love Jesus, and Jesus Christ is my Lord, and my faith needs no label put on it, nor do I need other people to agree with me. My faith has been steered and shaped by the Lord through Prayer, Scripture and friends/angels that the Lord has put in my life to help me along the way as I seek the truth.
I am getting sidetracked. The essence is this:
This division in the Christian faith is the work of the synagogue of satan, and there is ample warning of this group of conspirators all througout the Holy Scriptures.
I doubt very highly that any of the modern Churches meet the Holy expectations of Jesus Christ, the Father and the Holy Spirit.
I would say the division in the Church is part of the action of Beast of the Apocalypse (BotA). The reference to the s-o-s in Apoc. refers to the present time for St. John (though it may still have relevance today). The BotA is an agency which has the singular purpose to destroy Christianity. The 7 heads can be thought of as different approaches used by the beast to accomplish it goal, or more precisely, different areas of human thought to control and distort to its purpose (i.e., politics, economics, science, media, etc.). The BotA interacts with the whore and the little beast (who may represent false prophecy which is part of what has lead to the current divisions in Christianity, and to other religions). This is based on the amillenial view- the view the Church has held since Augustine, and which some protestant churches also hold.
meanwhile the snyagouges are bursting at the seems with the young who are eager to read the torah and talmud
Chad, I go church hopping with my neighbor in my county. Regardless of the religion, it's all old people, and very few people our age. The same was true when I was out on the road. I always thought the old-people-factor was because of my location in the country (God's Waiting Room), but in all different kinds of churches, I saw the same thing: almost completely old people.
PS - I think it's absurd that people argue over which flavor of Christianity they believe in. It always reminds me of this Emo Phillips bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2y_k...eature=related
Try going to a Catholic church that serves the Mexican part of the Catholic population and see what happens.