Posts Tagged ‘Catholicism’
Worldly Pressure on False Religion (and on True)
Two unrelated reports last week illustrate the pressure the world exerts on institutions that fail to measure up to its standards. The first, “Pope Francis’ Supposed Liberalism Isn’t Making Him Less Popular,” reflects polling by the PEW Research Center, assuring us that Pope Francis, despite losing some support from conservative Catholics, remains popular among Catholics…
Read MoreMany Protestants Forsake their Protest
Matt Recker A Christianity Today article entitled, “From Antichrist to Brother in Christ: How Protestant Pastors View the Pope,” (September 25, 2015) reveals a large percentage of Protestant pastors who no longer protest against the Roman Catholics. A more positive view of Romanism is prevailing among protestants and even among more conservative evangelicals. It is…
Read MoreMorality vs. Holiness and other links
The Eclectic Web We’ve been collecting links for some weeks now. Time to share them with our readers – some of importance, some perhaps just matters of curious interest. Our list touches on these subjects: Christian standards (Morality vs. Holiness) Compromise and mysticism (Beth Moore, Osteen, et al) Canada’s Courts (Prostitution law) Football fanatics (Fantasy…
Read MoreMoritz: the Case for Cessationism
The Eclectic Web Headlining our eclectic gathering of links, Dr. Fred Moritz, FBFI board member and professor at Maranatha Baptist Seminary argues for the cessation of supernatural spiritual gifts in the Maranatha Journal, recently published. His paper begins this way: The issue of whether revelation from God and the supernatural gifts of the Spirit have…
Read More“Is The Pope Catholic?”
Wally Morris In response to a question which expects an answer of “Yes”, people sometimes say “Is the Pope Catholic?” Today that might be a good question to ask all by itself. Just how Catholic is this Pope? In March, Jorge Mario Bergoglio quietly assumed the papal seat of Peter, refusing some of the luxuries…
Read MoreCatching up on the news
The Eclectic Web A lot of interesting stories hit the web every day. The list below are a few that address issues that might be of interest to fundamentalist Baptists and also may have slipped ‘below your radar’. The topics we cover in this of The EW are: Television and Culture History Persecution Gender Issues…
Read MoreBible study and other news | Eclectica
In this edition, The Eclectic Web takes you to a couple of interesting links about modern Bible study, as well as other items of interest. In the Beginning Was the Word – Now the Word Is on an App “More than 500 years after Gutenberg, the Bible is having its i-moment.” An article about the…
Read MoreThe Eclectic Web–2013.3.28
News of interest or oddity collected in recent rovings around the net. Relevance – we need to be ‘with it’, don’t we? Searching for one-size-fits-all religion As I mentioned before, I’m not religious. If I were, however, I think I’d have something more important to worry about than God’s relevance to me. I’d worry about…
Read MoreWe All Want a Pope (or why Jesus is a better leader)
Joel Arnold As white smoke ascended above the roof of the Sistine chapel, the Catholic faithful packed St. Peter’s square, huddled under umbrellas in the cold and rain. Expectations, celebration, and the noise level all ran high when Francis I stepped forward, the first non-European pope in 1300 years. But you’re Protestant. Who cares about…
Read MoreThe Eclectic Web–Feb 21, 2013
This time The Eclectic Web offers links on a wide variety of stories: Church and the next generation Abuse charges from an unexpected source Interesting questions for Catholics The drama of log-splitting (from Norway)
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