since Martin Luther is you’re inspiration (not Christ) are you going to be a monk of st. Augustine also?
Or a Rosa crucian occultist?
Did Bishops protect the priests that sexually abused children? Or is this propaganda also?
If the Bishops knowingly protected child abusers, did these child abusers become Bishops also?
The Bishops most certainly hid and otherwise protected those priests. Why? And this isn't to be questioned? Without the Bishops help this wouldn't be the issue it became.
The CHURH'S Bishops one task is to KEEP the church looking as good as possible. Doing this to the point of labeling most if not all questions, using the tools of the Bible, herecy
The nuns that beat the Church out the students in the schools they ran are going history when my generation passes on. But in my generation they still are known, in fact. But yes men and women my age suffered those nuns. I have been privileged to know many men and women that the nuns beat supposedly satan out of but in fact beat the church out of. Did parents complain to the BISHOPS, yes they did! Parents of Children with health concerns complained that the nuns unreasonable beatings were jeopardizing the kids health. Which if anything caused even more beatings on those kids. This was Church Sanctioned so Bishop sanctioned. I am not allowed to question it?
Relics and icons the worship of, at least once in history was the only way to work righteousness? The forgiveness of sins. I guess that is propaganda also? What of worshipping idols? What else can be worshipping the relics and Icons be?
And I by myself in the Bible am not allowed to question this? That's for the bishops alone! Wait whose driving this bus? And over the cliff no less.
These are the reasons that Jesus taught us to question the leaders and direction of a church! LET ALONE THE CHURCH!
One unholy spirit unquestioned, unquestionable turns God's Church into a house of satan! It is so easy that satan has to delude people into that it can't happen! To get such vehement denial of a believers right to question the Church it's leaders, it's Bishops? Satan is dancing with joy!
JESUS, taught us to question, because rules and traditions of men are so enticing. PAUL, taught us to question all leaders, EVEN himself, because rules and traditions of men and false prophets can so easily corrupt a church.
If the Church is uncorruptable why the teachings? Why the warnings? Why the tools to measure? Given to all that hear and believe!
Yes Luther is a teacher and like Luther leaving THE CHURCH, I broke away from a Lutheran sect that is drifting away under the control of it's Bishops even though they refuse the title.
The Holy Spirit not long ago put me in a church that thr sect I was in claims is untrue. When I saw the Name of the Church the only one available because it was the same as the church of my youth I fought going into. The brief time I visited the Holy Spirit used that church to prove how far the church of my youth had drifted off course.
The Holy Spirit very active in me for several months met me in a church of the sect that confirmed the drift. The pastor of that church was droning on, way off base from the point trying to be made and I was in the Bible working up a corrective critique, in scripture so as not be a braying ass. When the Holy Spirit took me to a place of incredible wonder. For weeks I could enter the wonderful place freely. I questioned the place and the Spirit, the GRACE FORGIVENESS AND LOVE in that place convicted my heart.
Do I question the Church? Every and any church? Yes I do! God told me to! God taught me to! God shows me how to question! Why to question!
It is my soul in the balance!
Satan wants unquestioning followers to follow him into ................!
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