(Warning – Sexual Content, Parental Guidance recommended for children) I recently edited this older post with a few updates so I am sticking this post to the front page for a little while. Celibacy is required for only one Christian denomination, the Roman Catholic Church. And it wasn’t required for the first thousand years of […]
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In the Reformation, Luther and Calvin named the Pope the Antichrist. A treatise of Martin Luther written shortly before his death in 1546 was entitled, “Against the Roman Papacy; an Institution of the Devil.” Luther began his tirade, “The Most Hellish Father, Saint Paul III, in his supposed capacity as the bishop of the Roman
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It would be so great if we could go to a church and hear God’s instruction and be loving Christians without any doubt that what is taught there is God’s absolute truth. But what we hear on many issues depends on the church we enter. In today’s Christianity churches are all over the board on
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Abortion is a powerful issue that divides the church.
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Salvation is the most basic truth about Christianity. Salvation centers on what Jesus Christ did for all men. Being a sinless man, he substituted as payment for your sin and mine. That’s good news. Now the Catholic Church teaches that if you die with a mortal sin on your soul you can go to hell,
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An incredible point in the middle of all the division among Christian believers is that so many churches claim the leading of the Holy Spirit. Look at some of these statements from church and denominational materials. Here are a Methodist statement: We have, therefore expected that the Discipline would be administered, not, merely as legal
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Let’s address a common response to church divisions taught in the Churches. Years ago John Wesley made a distinction between “essentials” and “non-essentials” and appears to use the Bible properly as a guide. “Essentials” includes the doctrines of the Bible (baptism, salvation, etc.) while “non-essentials” includes topics such as foods, hymns, and practices. Lately, however,
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Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing: for what things soever he does, these the Son also does in like manner. John 5:19 The above verse talks about how Jesus did what he did by
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Claims to first-century Christianity are everywhere. “Churches of Christ are part of a great religious movement launched on the North American Continent in the early 1800s, to restore the pure Christianity of the first century. The pioneers of this movement made it their aim to go back to the Bible for their faith, worship, and
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I happened across a PBS documentary on the secret files of the Inquisition. In 2004 Pope John Paul II asked forgiveness for the wounds cased by the Inquisition. In the unlikely event you don’t know what the Inquisition is, the Inquisition refers to a function of the Roman Catholic Church where people who didn’t embrace
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Most of my life I have had more than enough money to pay my bills. Living in the United States, it is easy to think that life is full of things: cars, houses, furniture, clothes and so on. It is easy to run up the bills, and suddenly it seems like such an imposition to
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Jesus came walking on the water. When Peter saw him, Jesus invited him to walk on the water to him. Initially he walked, then he started to doubt and began to fall. Jesus caught him, of course, and he didn’t fall. What do you think were behind the doubts that almost caused Peter to lose
I am looking for people with an interest in Christianity and especially what it was originally.