Re: Churchgoing on its knees in the U.K.

"**Rowland Croucher**" <rccroucher@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> bam wrote:
>> "**Rowland Croucher**" <rccroucher@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> bam wrote:
>>>> "arah" <arah1958@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>>>>
>>>> "But do not be called Teacher (Rabbi); for One is your Teacher, and
>>>> you are all brothers. Do not call anyone on earth Father;
>>>>
>>>> Rom 4:1 What shall we say then that Abraham hath found, who is our 
>>>> father according to the flesh?
>>>>
>>>> Php 2:22 Now know ye the proof of him: that as a son with the father,

>>>> so hath he served with me in the gospel.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Am I right to  conclude that the many Churches have mislead
Christians
>>>> >from the true teaching of Jesus, they collect money and wealth for
>>>>> their own used?
>>>> Yes you are. Now let's get logical. They all disagree with each other

>>>> on one or more doctrinal points. So they  might all be wrong. Or one
of 
>>>> them might be right. But two of them cannot be right.
>>>>
>>>> Agreed?
>>> No. Two or more people/groups can be right about something, and don't 
>>> realize that they're viewing *part* of the puzzle...
>>
>> No - I'm talking about the same piece of the puzzle. But thanks for 
>> trying.
>>
>> There has always
>>> been a marvelous diversity in the Christian Church, which is not 
>>> appreciated by those who want simplistic answers to everything (see
>>
>> Marvelous diversity? So it doesn't matter what Jesus said or what a 
>> Christian believes?
>
> What Jesus said and did was interpreted differently by his various 
> Gospel-writers and followers. Simple stuff agreed to by even
conservative 
> theologians...
>
>> Are you going to call heresy "marvelous diversity"?
>
> Heresy as defined by whom?
>
>> If it were marvelous diversity, why don't all the Protestant sects
unite?
>
> Why don't all the various groups/teams/chain-stores/political parties et

> al unite?
>
>> Apparently they don't agree with your *****sment.

Another lost sheep........

BAM