Romans 12:1 - 2 Gods children will not conform to the world or
the Apostate church.
I think we live amongst the luke warm and
apostate church, but if I say that I am also «judging».!
despite the claims here by this church, they do not belong to Christ, and they are
an apostate church.
So, although
those apostate Churches were still advising the State, they had rejected the Word of God and become false prophets crying «peace, peace.»
Not exact matches
Likewise, it is possible to be «bodily» united to the
Church yet cease to be in communion with her spiritually (as an
apostate Catholic is if he keeps going to Communion yet rejects the creed or continues unrepentant in grave sin).
They may grow up bad Catholics,
apostate Catholics, promiscuous Catholics, alcoholic Catholics, but unless they are excommunicated, or somehow themselves renounce the
Church, are still CATHOLICS, especially if they went through Confirmation.
Yes, it breaks my heart too that some Christians think that when someone «stops attending
church» they are backsliding or becoming
apostate, when really, we are only seeking to follow Jesus more closely than we ever have before.
They may only enter into full communion with the LDS
church as adults, no longer in the custody of their
apostate parents, and only by virtue of affirming their faith in the principles their parents reject.
In 1967, Anthony Burgess, author of «A Clockwork Orange,» described the pain of being an
apostate: «It is with no indifferent eye that I view the flood of worshippers pouring into the Catholic
church... I want to be one of them, but wanting is not enough.»
This is central to the Mormon faith; that the revelations of their founding prophet Joseph Smith corrected an
apostate and wayward
Church.
Rogue ordinations of priests and consecrations of bishops are nothing new in Christian history, but with the breakaways to the Old Catholic
Church following Vatican Council I in the nineteenth century, the phenomenon of episcopi vagantes (bishops on the loose) became a pronounced feature of an underworld of
apostate Catholics and sectarian Anglicans.
Benedict notes that, when Julian the
Apostate (d. 363) tried to abolish the
Church and reestablish the pagan cults, the one thing he wanted his old - new religion to emulate was the
Church's ministry of charity.
One who leaves the Mormon
Church is
apostate, especially if one regresses back to the Christianity that is expressly rejected by the Mormons.
In this view, Baptist
churches were the only true
churches that had ever existed in the world, all others being mere human «societies» or
apostate deviations from the Baptist norm.
Regretably nealry all
churches which emerged through the Reformation have turned
apostate today.
The leaders of the ROAC consider the Russian Orthodox
Church to be
apostate and have broken communion with all those whom they consider «ecumenical.»
Most of the fundamentalists who were actually talking to me before, have turned away their faces at this point since I am in a
church, which they have judged sight unseen, to be
apostate.
I believe, like Ellul, that the
church is horribly
apostate and debilitated and borders on complete collusion with its fallen state among the principalities and the powers.
â $ ¦ the
churches are so debilitated and
apostate that a Christian can hardly bear to remain in a
church, and yet, on the other hand, no Christian can leave a
church lest he fail to confess his own part of the responsibility for the very conditions in a
church which provoke protest
Regretably the Catholic
Church has turned
apostate by papacy.
There are some from every
church who are following God properly but Catholics are largely
apostate.
It is ironic that she is being accused of apostasy and leading others astray by the Mormon
church because the Mormon
church itself is
apostate and leads others astray.
I am a pious
apostate, an atheist shocked by the faithlessness of the believers, a fellow traveler of moderate Catholicism who has been out of the
church for 20 years.
Fitzgerald, thought to have become an
apostate, was denied Catholic burial, even though he had expressed wishes about being buried, along with Zelda, close to his Catholic family's gravesite, at St. Mary's
Church in Rockville, Maryland.
These
apostates, new agers, heretics, charlatans - The Lord Jesus Christ will purge from HIS BRIDE - THE
CHURCH and He is allowing The Gay Marriage Issue to truly be the purging and proving ground to expose the «fake, poser, new - age, worldy, progressive, carnal, sinful so - called Christians» that are siding with a STANDARD that is diametrically opposed to HIS STANDARD (male & female).
This is such a heresy that the Spirit has abandoned these
churches and they mock God by infant baptism (warning: nevertheless every infant baptism is valid, because God is the invisible Baptist; even the Catholic infant baptism is valid, although the RCC has completely turned
apostate from the real faith).
SHAME ON YOU POSER, FAKE
APOSTATES that have «crept in unawares» into The
Church body.
You can not blame the true Christian
Church (like Confessing
Church of the Third Reich, which resisted Hitler) for the crimes of
Churches, which have turned
apostate.
Eusebius (260 - 340), the famous early
Church historian, recounted in his The History of the
Church how an
apostate named Natalis came to Pope Zephyrinus clothed in sackcloth and ashes begging forgiveness.
They held that the official
church, with its wealth and formalism, was
apostate.
For the Lord esteems the communion of his
church so highly that he counts as a traitor and
apostate from Christianity anyone who arrogantly leaves any Christian society, provided it cherishes the true ministry of Word and sacraments.
The
churches are
apostate, minorities downtrodden and the middle class being wiped out.