John Yurich USA wrote:
I agree that Francis will permit priests and nuns to get married but I doubt that he will permit women to be ordained priests.

1 Timothy 4:1-3 - 1Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 3Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

neighbor wrote:
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Well if you will insist as a nation to have a gun and assault rifle shop on every street corner what can you expect.
Discussions on here have revealed some to be of the lynch mob justice mentality, thats why they are armed to the teeth - thats why people are killed every six hours in your country.
The right to bear arms has become a dangerous and murderous basis for murder and massacre in America today.
What about the "right to life" in peace and safety in America?? Never mind love your neighbor - can you trust him with a gun??
"There are ~14,869 more gun stores in America than grocery stores. Specifically, there are 51,438 gun retailers and 36,536 grocery stores.
There are almost as many gun dealers in America as gas stations..." (businessinsider.com)

The master's Slave wrote:
... The world will be overtaken by Islam and Christians will be tortured and killed by the religion of peace and that's that.

Revelation 17:6 - And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

Adonai wrote:
The Jews and Christians worship the Tetragrammaton: yodh he waw he. The unpronounceable name. Muslims worship Sin the moon god whom they also call Allah. ...

Jim Lincoln wrote:
Gentlemen, may I suggest you look around the Internet, for other material? I assume SA puts up many of these articles for discussion, Protestants unlike Catholics, are suppose to be able to reason and dig just a little anyway, to determine how accurate a comment is No, I don't expect Ph.D. thesis on every thread, I would hope for just a bit of common sense and [URL=https://soundwords.org/books/preaching/teaching/come-let-us-reason]]]Come, Let Us Reason[/URL] together.
excerpt from, [URL=http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/archives/2013/04/army-accidentally-blocks-southern-baptist-convention-website.html]]]Army Accidentally Blocks Southern Baptist Convention's Website[/URL].

never knew love like this wrote:
The Tsarnaev brothers are totally depraved. Calvin taught that so are we all... any one of us would have done likewise.

Hot Rod Nate wrote:
That's true. But its no good reason to hate on our troops. They didn't decide that the feds did. The troops are in the middle of it all. They follow orders.
We need to support our troops, not spit on em as they come home as happened during Vietnam.

Further, they are not currently in the business of defending our freedoms. This is something you have heard from Faux News or other such propaganda outlets.

I.M. Wright wrote:
Whewww! I had to clean my reading glasses off and then my computer screen to make sure I was reading it correctly!
For a minute, I thought Philip Howard (very well know to all, I think) had died! Good to know he's still kicking.
Now, who is this guy? I've never heard anything about him. What college did he play football for? Or was he a tennis player at Wimbledon? Or won a few Master Tournaments knocking the little white ball into the holes?
Maybe I'm a little dense, OK, but I don't get it--why is this guy worth any mention at all?
But I like the input on loud worship. Too bad electric speakers and amplifiers had not been invented in the Old Testament.

SteveR wrote:
Im in the crowd that believes that 'loud' means to sing as loud as one can with joy, not the mind numbing noise that is played in some churches today.

SteveR wrote:
Their music is so loud, they might not even notice those changes

Psalms 33:3 - Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.

Christopher000 wrote:
I have to Google some of these labels. I thought Evangelical just meant Bible believing, born again, etc. But then, I thought Charismatic was the same as Pentecostal...or is it.
Anyway, too bad there are sooo many labels when there is only one Bible. I don't understand how anything in the Bible can be interpreted so many ways that it causes Christians to actually splinter, and berate each other. Pretty sure that isn't what was intended. Out of the seven churches, I wonder which one(s) Christ is happy with.

The major reason so many things are interpreted differently by so many folks is, while everyone says they believe in the same book, they mostly believe in different books. There's a hundred+ English versions of the Bible and if none of those say what one wants them to, they can always go to the original Greek and make it say something else. 'Tis hard to be united doctrinal, when we are divided scripturally.

Angela Wittman wrote:
Howard Phillips is listed as an Evangelical Christian on his Wikipedia biography page. I knew Mr. Phillips from the Constitution Party and have no doubt that he was a Christian and is now home with the Lord.

Carse wrote:
Well said Christopher!
I have noticed this same phenomena in the "next" generation (I am an oldy of 63 years). So I observe it happening in our grandchildren. I wonder if this is common to the problem we identify in that "authority" in society is being removed.
The church and the Bible is no longer respected as an authority in the community and even in some churches. Moral standards as an authority are being rejected in the generations. Justice is weakened and criminals receiving more quote "human rights" which are mollifying them. Other institutions such as education are suffering as an authority too.

Christopher000 wrote:
Ridiculous. I have two nieces and a nephew on my wife's side. They have had iPads, iPods, smartphones, and gameboys, Nintendo's, Kindles, etc, since they were very young. Take them away for any amount of time, and look out. Not only that but the girls are never disciplined, appreciate nothing, respect nobody, including their parents, get waited on, and all they have to do is cry to receive cimfort when they should be sparked. I say spanked because nothing else works. Talk to the parents and they will tell you they are super parents raising the most well rounded girls. Frustrating.

SteveR wrote:
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So I say "Koool Enuf" and drive home with all the new books
I return yesterday to return the magic marker & books, and he isnt there. How spooky is that

The Master's Slave wrote:
Some food for thought for those interested.
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