RE: If there is no God....
November 20, 2009 at 8:47 am
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2009 at 8:49 am by chatpilot.)
fr0d0 I don't know how it is in the UK but the Pentecostal movement here in the states are the most extreme and fanatical movement around. They are very intolerant towards other Christian groups and claim that they alone have the absolute truth basing themselves not on scripture but on the so called manifestations of the holy spirit in their movement.
They are ignorant of their own history. Once I was on the church bus on my way to service and a new convert asked where did the Pentecostal church get its name from, and when did it begin? Some elder stated that they got their name from the day of Pentecost when the disciples received for the first time the outpouring of the holy spirit. I told her that that was incorrect and that the Pentecostals were started by John Fox Parham of the holiness movement in 1901. She just looked at me with that dumbfounded look on her face.
When I was studying in seminary the instructor completely skipped the chapter on evolution stating "if you want to believe the devils lie that you are derived from an ape go ahead but I am a creation of god". He presented the history of the Christian church from the book of Acts and did not use any external sources. The JWS are considered a sect here in the US and are not considered true Christians by the mainstream churches.
They are ignorant of their own history. Once I was on the church bus on my way to service and a new convert asked where did the Pentecostal church get its name from, and when did it begin? Some elder stated that they got their name from the day of Pentecost when the disciples received for the first time the outpouring of the holy spirit. I told her that that was incorrect and that the Pentecostals were started by John Fox Parham of the holiness movement in 1901. She just looked at me with that dumbfounded look on her face.
When I was studying in seminary the instructor completely skipped the chapter on evolution stating "if you want to believe the devils lie that you are derived from an ape go ahead but I am a creation of god". He presented the history of the Christian church from the book of Acts and did not use any external sources. The JWS are considered a sect here in the US and are not considered true Christians by the mainstream churches.
There is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition
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