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

"Dan" <dannyk1001@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 May 12, 6:24 pm, "bam" <mcca5b...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "**Rowland Croucher**" <rccroucher@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > bam wrote:
> >> "**Rowland Croucher**" <rccroucher@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>> bam wrote:
> >>>> "arah" <arah1...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>> "But do not be called Teacher (Rabbi); for One is your Teacher, and
> >>>> you are all brothers. Do not call anyone on earth Father;
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> >>>> Rom 4:1 What shall we say then that Abraham hath found, who is our
> >>>> father according to the flesh?
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> >>>> 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.
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> >>>>> 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.
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> >>>> Agreed?
> >>> No. Two or more people/groups can be right about something, and
don't
> >>> realize that they're viewing *part* of the puzzle...
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> >> No - I'm talking about the same piece of the puzzle. But thanks for
> >> trying.
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> >> There has always
> >>> been a marvelous diversity in the Christian Church, which is not
> >>> appreciated by those who want simplistic answers to everything (see
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> >> Marvelous diversity? So it doesn't matter what Jesus said or what a
> >> Christian believes?
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> > What Jesus said and did was interpreted differently by his various
> > Gospel-writers and followers. Simple stuff agreed to by even 
> > conservative
> > theologians...
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> >> Are you going to call heresy "marvelous diversity"?
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> > Heresy as defined by whom?
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> >> If it were marvelous diversity, why don't all the Protestant sects 
> >> unite?
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> > Why don't all the various groups/teams/chain-stores/political parties
et
> > al unite?
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> >> Apparently they don't agree with your *****sment.
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> Another lost sheep........
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> BAM-

>As opposed to a "found sheep"?

No, a sheep must first be lost in order to be subsequently found. You had
a 
point, I presume?

BAM