(May 20, 2015 at 5:31 pm)Iroscato Wrote:(May 20, 2015 at 4:33 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: My apologies. I forgot to logoff before going to work; I haven't actually been online all day.With all of history behind us, and all that is to come ahead, how do you feel knowing your faith is but one of thousands of religions that have arisen, and will eventually decline and fade into nothingness? How do you still believe in a system that will inevitably be lost to time in the centuries to come, becoming nothing more than a footnote in historical academia?
What was your question?
TL;DR - your religion will one day be lost to time and is in the grand scheme of things, utterly irrelevant. How do you reconcile with that?
I'd appreciate an answer that actually addresses the question, rather than your "Double dumbass on YOU"-esque attempt earlier.
Your questions are based upon some assumptions that I do not accept nor do I believe them to be within the realm of possibility. Consequently, I do not think about these things at all.
Jesus said:
Matthew 16
17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. 18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it[/b].
Matthew 28
19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age[/b].”
The Catholic Church will not fail before the return of Jesus, and I'm not convinced that will be much longer...perhaps not in my lifetime, but sooner rather than later.