Ecumenism: "Why Can't We Be Friends?"

[Wolf Bridges]

This is a really appropriate addition to this talk.

[Your closest friendnt]

Just now, simplejeff said:

There's a whole town of Samaritans that would say otherwise !

Never preach to them after he said it was done on the Cross, he sent Philip to them. 

Jesus Christ preach the Gospel to those the disciples could not be sent to preach , the dead, to all the people who had died before him , including Abel, the first to die and Adam the first man.

JESUS CHRIST preach 

In the place of the dead.

JESUS CHRIST died for all, everyone must hear the Gospel and be judge according to the Gospel.  

 

[Wolf Bridges]

It goes to a picture arrived at in imagery reading the scripture itself. 

 

[Wolf Bridges]

1 minute ago, Your closest friendnt said:

Never preach to them after he said it was done on the Cross, he sent Philip to them. 

Jesus Christ preach the Gospel to those the disciples could not be sent to preach , the dead, to all the people who had died before him , including Abel, the first to die and Adam the first man.

JESUS CHRIST preach 

In the place of the dead.

JESUS CHRIST died for all, everyone must hear the Gospel and be judge according to the Gospel.  

 

Well, Philip can't make it today. Now what? 

[Churchmouse]

People who think that Christian's could get along with different views of should take a good look at the political side of this very forum and see how those of us of different viewpoints work together in harmony.

To me the Bible is enough to tell me what I need to know. Jesus is not only our savior, but our teacher. He is a package deal and if we don't reflect in our actions what he has commanded of us, then how can we say we truly accept him? how can we accept him when people have added, subtracted and modified their way of worshiping according to their own appetites? Sooner or ladder we will dilute his majesty so much that we will not know him and he will not know us.

What is the difference between denying him and clouding him over with our assumptions and intricacies that have more to do with us than with him?

We know everything about him from the Bible and that is why I say what I say about this acceptance of diffusion. It is not for Gods glory, but of man's satisfaction. There is a reason why the path is thin and that isn't because of consensus.

Edited May 12, 2017 by Churchmouse

[Churchmouse]

3 minutes ago, simplejeff said:

This is the whole (insidious) purpose and plan of the world, government, and world church.

and Ecumenism as well, I think. Mixing and matching does well in Walmart and Goodwill, but not with the path that is before us. We have until we die or the world ends to get ourselves right. We hardly have time to venture off in a Baskin-Robins of belief systems.

[simplejeff]

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[appy]

A lot of reading in this thread but, in order for there to be “unity”amongst the groups one or the other must forego their views and adopt the other. One can't hold to both views equally, just not going to work. This appears to be the goal and desire of the rcc for everybody to gravitate over to their views and customs or at the least applaud those ideals. In spite of what rc believers say. . . their catechism paints a different picture for those looking in.

[Wolf Bridges]

53 minutes ago, simplejeff said:

"an image" = on first sight ,  and second,  and third.... according to Scripture

idolatry....

Is that a picture in your profile?  

What of Moshe the leader of the tribes of the chosen? When he lifted a staff with a serpent wrapped round? And all who gazed upon and were infirm were healed. Idolatry?

Do you wear a cross pendant? Idolartry? 

Reading the scripture gives a running narrative of events unfolding. And those words create pictures in our imagination that allow us to see what is being said. 

Did you burn the picture on your state driving license? Idolatry? 

Don't be silly. 
 

 

[Guest Teditis]

I've not seen any evidence that the RCC is out to recruit all religions into one, worldwide church.

I haven't even seen any recruiters locally that have tried to woo me back into their fold. It seems

to a ludicrous idea that they would even try such as this given the climate of relations with Protestants

much less all the other religions around the world.

To me, ecumenism is merely an attempt by certain members of the Body of Christ to do the will of God

that Jesus set before us... Love thy neighbor as yourself. To get along with each other using the Love of

God for the purposes of unity among the brethren. I don't hear anyone asking for me to switch my denomination

or take up other ways of worshiping God. Just quit the bickering and in-fighting.