RE: Going to church
August 10, 2010 at 10:13 pm
(This post was last modified: August 10, 2010 at 10:16 pm by RAD.)
Quote:skeptics rip xtianity apart BECAUSE they have tried it and found it wanting.....dumb bloody xtian!!
Really? Prove it.
When did you last speak in tongues or excercise one of the 9 gifts Paul mentions?
Without looking it up, what is the "wedding garment" in Mt 22 parable?
What is imputed righteousness?
When you believed in Jesus, did rivers of living water flow out of your innermost being as he promised? (If so please describe your experience for us)
What sort of natural works or change in behavior did you have which might have proved your faith was real? Did you visit orphans and widows?
Or, since not all sincere Christians have mucany spiritual gifts or power in their lives (due to going to ungifted, power-free churches) just give a testimony that shows you were actually converted. "I was raised in church" is completely meaningless, and actually explains why you would NOT have been converted.
Personally I have only met one agnostic who convinced me, via a testimony, that he was once a Christian. Perhaps you or someone else will be #2.
(August 10, 2010 at 6:03 pm)leo-rcc Wrote:(August 10, 2010 at 2:58 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(August 10, 2010 at 2:01 pm)leo-rcc Wrote: Our Roman Catholic church had nice pictures on the walls, I could look at the details for hours. I was a bit spoiled as our church was an exact scale replica of St. Peters cathedral of Rome.
To what scale?
Does that mean you sat on itty bitty chairs, looking at an itty bitty altar?
I've got it you live in a community of midgits!
Scale is 1:3 of the original. And that is still ridiculously big and can seat thousands.
Did they ever have a meeting remotely like what Paul describes in 1 Cor chapters 12-14?