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| bwellmysoul |
Posted - 06/08/2012 : 14:05:36
The study, listed below, was conducted in 1929 (379 years after the start of the Reformation) and it includes the names of four denominational bodies who are now members of the pro-abortion Religious Coalition for Reproductive Rights.
http://rcrc.org/about/members.cfm
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Many years ago Professor G.H. Betts of the Northwestern University sent out a list of 56 questions on religion and theology to 1,309 Protestant ministers then in active service, and to five Protestant theological seminaries.
Between 700 and 800 ministers, and a large number of students in the five seminaries, replied. The results of the section of Prof. Betts' survey concerning the Bible are as follows (it should be noted that Prof. Betts was himself a Protestant):
2% of Lutheran ministers,
38% of Baptist ministers,
56% of Presbyterian ministers,
60% of Episcopalian ministers,
65% of Methodist ministers,
83% of Congregational ministers, and
92% of the students
denied or doubted the divine inspiration of the Bible.
http://www.catholic-truth.info/apologetics/bible.htm
If you're not familiar with all of the Solas from the Reformation they are:
quote:
1 Sola scriptura ("by Scripture alone")
2 Sola fide ("by faith alone")
3 Sola gratia ("by grace alone")
4 Solus Christus or Solo Christo ("Christ alone" or "through Christ alone")
5 Soli Deo gloria ("glory to God alone")
The Five solas are five Latin phrases that emerged during the Protestant Reformation and summarize the Reformers' basic theological beliefs in contradistinction to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church of the day.
The Latin word sola means "alone" or "only" in English.
The five solas articulated five fundamental beliefs of the Protestant Reformation, pillars which the Reformers believed to be essentials of the Christian life and practice.
All five implicitly rejected or countered the teachings of the then-dominant Catholic Church, which had usurped divine attributes or qualities for the Church and its hierarchy, especially its head, the pope.
Are Christians failing the Solas, or did the Solas fail Christianity?
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| mikejuli |
Posted - 06/12/2012 : 04:07:27
Every Christian is a hieros priest, but not all are presbyter priests. Do your homework gwhiz.
Please provide a lst of the 30000 catholic denominations. I think your confused here, which is nothing new for you. The catholic church does have several rites, that are in unity, but that isn't the same thing as a denomination. The cc isn't a denomination. It's the church. |
| God4me |
Posted - 06/11/2012 : 22:44:19
quote:
Originally posted by Faith_at_Large
Baby3, of course there are gays in the Catholic Church. But according to Catholic teaching, they are not allowed to practice their homosexuality and they are not permitted to enter the priesthood.
When was the last time you heard of a gay wedding being held in a Catholic Church, or the Knights of Columbus catering a gay wedding reception?
Have you heard any Catholic Bishops ordering their gay priests to get married to each other to avoid "living in sin" after gay marriage was legalized?
All of these things have happened in many Protestant churches as a matter of policy, but not in the Catholic Church.
Their is no such office as the "Priesthood" Other than the fact that every Christian is a priest unto God.
The Bishop is the Pastor of the local Church, There is no such office as the catholics so-called bishop or priest.
Which proves the catholics are a false religion. |
| God4me |
Posted - 06/11/2012 : 22:39:52
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Originally posted by Faith_at_Large
And why is that liar still on this forum?
The only way that the Catholic Church would still be considered to have 30,000 branches that teach different things is if one believes that the majority of Protestant churches are still part of the Catholic Church.
Stop telling lies, You naughty woman. |
| Faith_at_Large |
Posted - 06/09/2012 : 07:49:39
And why is that liar still on this forum?
The only way that the Catholic Church would still be considered to have 30,000 branches that teach different things is if one believes that the majority of Protestant churches are still part of the Catholic Church. |
| Faith_at_Large |
Posted - 06/09/2012 : 07:47:59
Baby3, of course there are gays in the Catholic Church. But according to Catholic teaching, they are not allowed to practice their homosexuality and they are not permitted to enter the priesthood.
When was the last time you heard of a gay wedding being held in a Catholic Church, or the Knights of Columbus catering a gay wedding reception?
Have you heard any Catholic Bishops ordering their gay priests to get married to each other to avoid "living in sin" after gay marriage was legalized?
All of these things have happened in many Protestant churches as a matter of policy, but not in the Catholic Church. |
| baby3 |
Posted - 06/09/2012 : 04:26:15
Do you know why there are so many church;s out there? Because they left the Catholic church that made them sick to their minds and many, many, different churches started all from the Catholic ones they were driven in sane by the church rules and not Gods rules so they left and started over with plain faith but just as the Catholic church did they became greedy, and selfish, just as the Catholic church did, and they lost followers etc. Lack of concern for others and their feelings causes divisions and when you steal from others and get away with it some left because it caused a division,hence another congregation done differently because of the one that fail to provide what Jesus wanted for his church.
Plain and simple things like this. All people had to do was take care of others feed the poor and cloth the naked and watch over the little children that have no one to help them Feed them on the word of God and never force anyone to become anything other then themselves,people change by good example and the Love of God in them,God takes care of the tree after you plant the seeds.Most churches out there force you to be like them and you loose your identity.Plain and simple,slow and steady wins the race not force.There is no church out there that is perfect never will be.They all are sinners and God gives them the grace to carry on but there are the tares in between in every church to cause again Divisions,and some know what the church did that caused this to happen it wasn't just heresy it was Fact! |
| baby3 |
Posted - 06/09/2012 : 04:07:34
If you try to tell me that there is not gays in the Catholic church I will have to go to the emergency room to stop laughing out of control!!! There are more gays there then any where else in the universe and child pedophiles etc. Background checks were never checked in the church and they did harbor criminals many many criminals and let them have sanction there,protected the murderers so they could make priests out of them.FACT! |
| God4me |
Posted - 06/09/2012 : 00:09:42
quote:
Originally posted by bwellmysoul
The study, listed below, was conducted in 1929 (379 years after the start of the Reformation) and it includes the names of four denominational bodies who are now members of the pro-abortion Religious Coalition for Reproductive Rights.
http://rcrc.org/about/members.cfm
quote:
Many years ago Professor G.H. Betts of the Northwestern University sent out a list of 56 questions on religion and theology to 1,309 Protestant ministers then in active service, and to five Protestant theological seminaries.
Between 700 and 800 ministers, and a large number of students in the five seminaries, replied. The results of the section of Prof. Betts' survey concerning the Bible are as follows (it should be noted that Prof. Betts was himself a Protestant):
2% of Lutheran ministers,
38% of Baptist ministers,
56% of Presbyterian ministers,
60% of Episcopalian ministers,
65% of Methodist ministers,
83% of Congregational ministers, and
92% of the students
denied or doubted the divine inspiration of the Bible.
http://www.catholic-truth.info/apologetics/bible.htm
If you're not familiar with all of the Solas from the Reformation they are:
quote:
1 Sola scriptura ("by Scripture alone")
2 Sola fide ("by faith alone")
3 Sola gratia ("by grace alone")
4 Solus Christus or Solo Christo ("Christ alone" or "through Christ alone")
5 Soli Deo gloria ("glory to God alone")
The Five solas are five Latin phrases that emerged during the Protestant Reformation and summarize the Reformers' basic theological beliefs in contradistinction to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church of the day.
The Latin word sola means "alone" or "only" in English.
The five solas articulated five fundamental beliefs of the Protestant Reformation, pillars which the Reformers believed to be essentials of the Christian life and practice.
All five implicitly rejected or countered the teachings of the then-dominant Catholic Church, which had usurped divine attributes or qualities for the Church and its hierarchy, especially its head, the pope.
Are Christians failing the Solas, or did the Solas fail Christianity?
What has that got to do with Sola scriptura??
The catholics have nerly 30.000 diferent branches, All teaching different things.
The catholics don't accept the Bible, Thats why they come against sole scriptura. |
| Faith_at_Large |
Posted - 06/08/2012 : 17:29:07
Therein lies the problem - too many solas. There can only be one. |
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