....in it's first 300 years?
a) Sweetness and Light
b) Fire and Brimstone
c) Predestination and election
2006-12-05 00:58:46 · 5 answers · asked by Mike 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is easy.....choose A, B or C.
Come on, you can do it.
2006-12-05 01:19:57 · update #1
A - Sweetness and Light.
Why wouldn't it be. They believed that Jesus is the Messiah. They heard a Gospel that was actually Good News and that God actually actually loved them as who they are. They just wanted everyone else to know about the Good News. They were enjoying the message that Jesus actually taught. Of course it was sweetness and Light. All that other stuff came later from the theologians who learned how to make a buck using it.
2006-12-06 11:50:16 · answer #1 · answered by johnatplayct 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If with the aid of disaster you mean those subject matters are causing, or will reason, dissension contained in the Church to such an volume that a third Vatican council might want to change into had to unravel them -- no, i don't believe of there's a disaster in any of those instructions, even if the abuse scandal maintains to be correct in many minds to priestly celibacy. i have not offered into that fullyyt, a minimum of no longer contained in the experience that lifting this self-discipline and allowing monks to marry is the treatment-all. Papal infallibility is doctrine. no longer going to regulate. the terrific 2 are heavily correct, and proponents of one are also (with the aid of and great) supportive of the different. women human beings contained in the priesthood? This We-can-do-something-adult men-can-do element has been occurring seeing that I got here of age. yet there's a distinction between the priesthood and, say, wanting to be a firefighter or perhaps a sumo wrestler. Frankly, i'm no longer effective it change into smart for the Church to sanction having ladies as altar servers, yet that horse is out of the barn. If faster or later the Church sees in superb condition to ordain women human beings as both deacons or monks, that is one element. yet I resent the activist communities attempting to rigidity the challenge, which contain the girls those who were lately "ordained" in St. Louis (no longer the wisest determination of an archdiocese in which to push this time table contained in the first position, and that i applaud Abp. Burke for his instant shutting down of this little bit of performing-out). in my view, i do no longer help the efforts nor am I wanting to work out a lady celebrating Mass; there is purely so a procedures a lady can bypass, and no more desirable, in performing "in personality Christi" because the nature of Christ that is human is ... male. And the girls opt to manage that. no longer each thing is, or must be, gender-impartial or "inclusive". As for birth control, each body likes to position AIDS in Africa and the parable of overpopulation on the ft of the Church, as if this change into causative. Nonsense. Of each of the products you stated (except for the infallibility doctrine) it truly is the least in all danger position the position the Church will "bend" -- and with reliable reason.
2016-11-23 17:54:53 · answer #2 · answered by belous 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of the above, I suppose, not to mention persecution and martyrdom.
I Cr 13;8a
12-5-6
2006-12-05 01:00:57 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would opt for the "persecution and martydom" choice but of your three, i believe that i don't know...
god bless!!
2006-12-05 01:07:36 · answer #4 · answered by happy pilgrim 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You skipped (d), "Struggle to define God."
2006-12-05 01:02:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋