Was it our punishment for becoming too involved in temporal matters?
2007-11-13 05:31:08 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
actualy they allowed themselves. we have his word, they had his letters, from Paul, John James all of them, the fact that they chose NOT to read and learn the truth themselves can not be blamed on God.
2007-11-13 05:43:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Roman (Catholic) church was an organization designed to enslave and control people - and still is. It is/was used by people in positions of power to mind-control the masses. (pun not quite intended).
Also, you are presupposing that God actively interferes on behalf of particular groups of people, which I do not think is the case. Why would Christians be regarded as being worth delivering from slavery than any other enslaved peoples throughout the ages? (I cannot quite swallow the story about Israelites & Egypt) There may have been plagues & diseases but I cannot believe that these were the result of Divine intervention.
2007-11-13 13:50:08 · answer #2 · answered by pstottmfc 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look up the definition of the word catholic in a dictionary. It refers ot the fact that the faith was one worldwide creed under the leadership of holy men who devoted their lives to God and kept the hierarchal model of the Acts Church from Peter on. The spinning off of the Orthodox Churches not withstanding, it was 1500 years before enuogh people inside the church decided that since the leadership had been wrong about x, y, and z it was not good for them to have totalitarian control over doctrinal and personal matters.
The fact that Protestants today accept the doctrines of their own leaderships that succeeded the Roman Catholic authorities hook line and sinker should indicate to you that there is absolute no escaping (1) human fallibility to get doctrine wrong for long stretches of time and (2) the human instinct for mimesis, which makes us want to accept and follow inherited authorities. We may feel we have escaped some controls, but really at some level all Christians believe this side of death we never overcome all the things to which we enslave ourown selves, much less those external things by which we very often and subtly WANT to be enslaved.
I'm Anglican Protestant, by the way.
2007-11-13 13:45:35 · answer #3 · answered by ledbetter 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The non-catholic, non-protestant churches have always been free.
Outside of the Roman Empire
In Armenia, Bulgaria, Briton.
Later in Northern Italy & Southern France.
In Holland & the Americas.
2007-11-13 13:47:02 · answer #4 · answered by realchurchhistorian 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Imprisonment was actually used by God to spread the word of what his son Jesus died for.
Consider how many people were imprisoned by the Roman empire. Prisioners brought in from lands far away received the gospel and if released could return to their land and share it with others.
2007-11-13 13:39:15 · answer #5 · answered by doug 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christ created one Church that He said would endure for all times. That Church is the Catholic Church.
In Christ
Fr. Joseph
2007-11-13 13:45:06 · answer #6 · answered by cristoiglesia 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What??? I am not enslaved by anyone, and I don't see that anyone else is either.
2007-11-13 13:35:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
enslaved in the truth hmm, an interesting concept.
to whom would it be that was "enslaved" by us?
2007-11-13 14:07:27 · answer #8 · answered by Adam of the wired 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋