re: Pope, we must avoid rigid ideologies

I believe St. Augustine was the first major Christian whose writings survive that show an obvious anti-slavery bent. He wrote in City of God (published in AD 426) that slavery was contrary to God's intentions and a direct result of sin.

quote:

---

So you’re saying that Christians once thought slavery was okay

---

Some did, some didnt.

But most reformers were Christian. That sucks for you marxists.

quote:

---

It means that as times change, so does religion/church.
Not sure how this can even be a controversial statement.
Are the churches the same as you grew up in?
Has their message changed?
What about in the 1800’s?

The message of church changes with time. If not, they would go extinct.

---

This is nonsensical, God never changes. So, if men leading churches change they are not of God but evil. I n other words if you think you can say God forgive me and then be a person who advocates for abortion & homosexual marriage and God will be deceived by a heart like that you are sadly mistaken, that person who advocates for such is not ever going to make it to heaven unless they repent. This means ANYONE, Period. Don't kid youself.

quote:

---

we must avoid rigid ideologies

---

“Doctor , my wife is about to die”

“Yea, but there’s a 0.000001% chance the baby will live. And if both die, it must be God’s will.”

Sounds to me that our Holy Father is being practical.

I have a feeling that a lot of my fellow Christian’s are actually doing the devils work for him. The msm is misleading on the actual reading of what the pope said about blessings. I would suggest you all checkout Michael lofton on youtube (reason and theology). I’m not a fan of this pope but there’s a lot of misleading in the media.

quote:

---

I don’t like this pope but the narrative that the media is saying about what the pope officially said in his document about blessings is not true at all. Stop believing the main stream media. They lie

---

Revelator is an ex-Catholic who absolutely despises the Catholic Church. He's at war with the RCC. He will gladly amplify any negative info here on this board concerning the RCC.

Meanwhile he hides behind his own Protestant Baptist religion, never again admitting he's a Baptist, in order to avoid scrutiny of his own beliefs.

quote:

---

Why couldn’t god just tell us what he wanted to know without us needing an interpreter

---

He literally did. That’s literally the story of Jesus. There are entire sections of the gospels dedicated to different priests and lawyers and religious sects of the day trying to trip up Jesus with man’s interpretation of God’s laws and Jesus is there every time with a brilliant and perfect answer that remains as relevant today as it was then.

And then after Jesus ascended into heaven he sent the Holy Spirit onto earth to the hearts of all mankind.

That’s the problem with how we view the Old Testament and the so called contradictions in the Bible. We are trying to view it in the context of post-resurrection fulfillment. We cannot imagine the state of the world and the hearts of men before Christ rose from the dead; fulfilled the old covenants with Israel, and shed his blood to established the new and everlasting covenant for all people.

Before Jesus we have only the interpretations of imperfect sinful men. All of them, even God’s most chosen and beloved men like Abraham, Moses, David, and Simon Peter were imperfect sinful men who fell multiple times to their own pride and greed and lust and lack of faith.

quote:

---

Meanwhile he hides behind his own Protestant Baptist religion, never again admitting he's a Baptist, in order to avoid scrutiny of his own beliefs.

---

I’ve said I was Baptist many times on here in the past. What do you think I’m afraid of? That you’ll badmouth Baptists?
I know there are sorry Baptists, so you aren’t telling me anything new.
And since our churches are autonomous and each church is different, I don’t see how what one Baptists church does would have any bearing on my church. Baptists don’t claim to have any exclusive hold on biblical truth
And lastly, I don’t have to protect a denomination like you do. I’m free to evaluate each church and pastor by what they preach and how they conducted themselves.
Like I said previously, no one that stands in front of God at judgment will be asked what church he belonged to, and it won’t merit anyone any favor.

quote:

---

Then why do you do so?

---

I don’t. I have things I believe about salvation that have never changed, but my theology about eschatology has changed a great deal in 40 years and probably will continue to change as I grow in knowledge.
I’m open to different viewpoints and listen to preachers and teachers that don’t believe the way I do.