As the Catholic Church began its descent into the unholy practice of altering its religious strictures, those that followed doctrine according to the laws set down in the Holy Book, they saw a sharp rebuke from those that were offended by the practice and ended their relationship with the Vatican through protests. Hence the Protestant Church.
Many were responsible for this movement and it was so hated by the Catholic rulers that they ensnared Protestant leaders with lies of meetings or conferences and, when the leaders arrived, were either imprisoned for heresy or simply convicted and executed.
The practice of accepting pagan celebrations and morphing Catholic doctrine to “fit” with the pagan holidays and rituals was so anathema to what religious purists believed that many of those that chose to make the long perilous journey to the New World years later did so because they thought that the practice would end with their separation from the Catholic Church.
It didn’t. Now, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden, established in 1536, has been steadily moving toward this same practice.
In fact, even today, the practice continues. In Stockholm, where the Church installed the first lesbian bishop, who then took it upon herself to order the removal of crosses and crucifixes in another church to appease Muslim worshippers and welcome them into their midst so that they might face Mecca without those terribly demeaning Christian symbols distracting them, the local bishop has now unilaterally decided that the Holy Bible is flawed and needs correction!
No longer will God be referred to as solely male, nor will He be called Lord. These are exclusionary practices and this radical Leftist feminist has decided that she will not tolerate it! Turn to the next page to read more!
Not everyone who says they are a Christian truly is. I would run as far away from this person.
Listen you$#%&!@* you need to go away. God doesn’t want you in his house and we don’t want you on earth so, go to hell!!!!
Ghastly – pride goeth before the flaw
SHAMEFUL
It is as written!!! No need to rewrite!!!
Heathen!
Eve still eating the forbidden fruit!
YOU GONNA BE IN BIG TROUBLE YEP
According to the Bible Bishops no longer exists. She does not speak for the Church or does the Pope. Bible is today the absolute dictator in all spiritual matters is the completed Word of God, the Bible. NOT the pope – Apostleship was a temporary spiritual gift. It was designed to carry the church until the canon of Scripture was completed. Apostles had the authority of complete and absolute dictatorship in both written and verbal communication of the Word of God. The apostles were the recipients of direct revelation from God. When the apostle John finished the book of Revelation on the Isle of Patmos in 96 AD, direct revelation from God ended. There will be no more direct revelation from God until the Tribulation period, after the Church is gone. Such an authority did not exist after the completion of the New Testament. Today apostolic authority is non-existent. There are no such persons as apostles. According to the Word of God, there is no such person as Pope, there is no such person as Bishop who rules an entire denomination, there is no such person as archbishop. There is no ONE who has the right to have control over more than one church. Qualification that one had to possess before he could receive the gift of apostleship in the church. He had to have been an eye witness of the resurrected Christ. Acts 1:22, “….these must be a witness with us of his resurrection.” This covers the eleven disciples. Paul, the twelfth apostle to the church saw the resurrected Christ on the Damascus Road. Only the one with the spiritual gift of pastor-teacher is authorized to exercise spiritual leadership over a local church. God must give a commission. God the Holy Spirit commissions certain men to be in authority, and He does this on the basis of grace, on the basis of His own judgment. He does not consider any human merit, ability, talent or personality. There are no apostles of any kind today. The highest and greatest gift given to anyone in the Church Age today by the Holy Spirit is the gift of pastor-teacher.
They up there in frigid Sweden are drunk all the time I guess!