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well, I'm sure Satan is in favor of anything other than this James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. but I think a lot of bad ideas come from within humans...

I'm sure you agree that there is just one Church, one body Ephesians 4:1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, 2 with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; 3 being eager to keep the unity...

well, like I said before, the words involve and involvement can mean a lot of different things. we may wish to remember that we are not interpreting letter by letter. I believe that is a false dichotomy. I think there are many things that are neither satanic nor biblical. groups of Christians...

speaking of things stated in the Bible, ask a group of Christians if the church is the foundation of the truth. some will probably say no, the Bible is the foundation of the truth. "But if I should be delayed, I have written so that you will know how people ought to act in God’s household...

we do have the power to choose, don't we? "He created humanity at the beginning, and he left them to the power of their choices." https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Sirach+15&version=CEB at the same time You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you...

the words involve and involvement can mean a lot of different things. we may wish to remember that we are not interpreting letter by letter. I think it's like this 1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. of course, we are not interpreting...

thanks for the answer! I think it's pretty important, so take all the time you want.

no, it could happen. but hearing people 50 years ago say that one world government and one world religion were just around the corner makes me very cautious of believing it now. not until now. I also don't see signs that religions or nations are coming together, once the influence of...

another thought, not interpreting CCC 841 letter by letter, it doesn't say that Muslims are worshipping God the way God wants them to, either. would you agree with that?

that's right! they weren't worshipping God in the way that God wanted them to. but they were worshipping God. do you agree with that? and you're welcome to believe that. do you go on to believe that everyone who doesn't believe everything you believe about CCC 841 cannot be a Christian?

well, maybe, maybe not. well back in the 1970s, about 50 years ago, people were talking about how the one world religion was just around the corner. I don't see everyone in the world practicing the same religion, no. I don't doubt that the Catholic church is involved in some way, the Catholic...

actually, I didn't quote from the passage letter by letter. my wonderful Christian brother Jackson, did you read the passage?

interesting conclusion, my brother Jackson! using the method of not interpreting letter by letter, "As I walked around, I looked carefully at the things you worship. ...you don’t know what you are worshiping. Now I am going to tell you about this ‘unknown god.’ He is the God who made the...

oh, he might be. I've been hearing about Satan making a one-world religion since the 1970s. back then people around me were all up in arms over the world council of churches. that was sure to be the beginning of a one-world religion, they said. 50 years later, no one world religion. there...

another thought on the subject of a one-world religion. most people would say that Satan is behind it, that sounds right. when people look at Islamic extremists, they usually say that Satan is behind them, too... and that sounds right. Islamic extremism works against religions uniting. we...

interesting! I've never heard of the WCRP. it seems to me that it has had about as much success in making a one-world religion as the United Nations has had in making a One World Government. of course, modern technology is going to bring about increased globalization and homogenisation of...

of course you're welcome to believe that. there have been Catholic Popes for around two thousand years. if they are trying to mix together all the world's religions, they sure are going about it in an inefficient way! after all that time, it doesn't look to me like the world is even close to a...

I'm not pretending anything. I'm using the approach of not interpreting letter by letter. "As I walked around, I looked carefully at the things you worship. ...you don’t know what you are worshiping. Now I am going to tell you about this ‘unknown god.’ He is the God who made the world."...

did I talk about reading letter by letter? I don't think so, but if I did I meant "interpret letter by letter." like you say here but I'm happy to reword my earlier post: if we follow your example of not interpreting 2nd Kings letter-by-letter, then not interpreting the CCC letter by letter...

yet, I believe you did quote CCC 841 almost letter by letter. using a loose interpretation of the CCC, it can be made to say all kinds of things! so can the Bible! we may wish to read this with the same loose interpretation Acts 17:23 For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your...