Question:
Why is the postmodern church filled with professional liars & beggars in the pulpit? Is this part of prophecy?
Love Branch
2009-07-09 05:59:57 UTC
Why is the postmodern church filled with professional liars & beggars in the pulpit? Is this part of prophecy?
Nineteen answers:
Acorn
2009-07-09 06:04:06 UTC
Speak for your own postmodern church, man. The church I go to has 3 excellent pastors. They are good, conscientious, honest men who want to do God's will, and the Church is full of men and women like them.
Redeemed R
2009-07-09 13:16:50 UTC
Your question may be of two reasons,1.You are not submissive to the authority of the church,well if that'ss the case then you have to pray an ask God for a way,2.If its the other way round,that God has put this spark in u,then u need to pray for such churches & specially believers and You need to ask God to plant u in a good church.the church that i go is clean and lead by a real nice shepherd,but believe me man i have Gone thru ur experience.If you think that they are liars ask the truth from God.He is pleased in a cheerful giver,so Give ur part rightfully.But liars & beggers are really a part of Gods prophesy "For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many-Mat 24:5",but there is sure prophesy for u ""And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions-Joel 2:28".Be of good cheer,we are in end times,stay holy and seek the truth.c u in heaven bro.
grammyandpopps
2009-07-09 14:09:11 UTC
Many of these church leaders depend on their 6 figure income to support their luxurious lifestyles. I read something outragious a few months ago of one who was demanding more when he was already making a huge amt of money which included vacations, a mansion of a house, maids, expensive cars etc. Hardly sounds like the lifestyle that the lowly carpenter, our savior, and Gods own son lived. He himself said " YOU received free, give free" (Matthew 10:8)



There is a lot of these things going on in Church such as

bingo, raffles and other gambling methods.

By stressing money raising and neglecting spiritual food, the clergy have brought about a situation that is similar to the time in Israel when God's prophet said: "The priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us?"

Jesus said to those who used God's temple for commercial purposes "My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you are making it a cave of robbers." (Mic. 3:11 ; Matt. 21:13)
2009-07-09 13:09:22 UTC
Maybe for the same reason postmodern science is filled with the same.



Science used to be about methodical study, meticulous observation, rational deduction, and the desire to pursue the truth no matter the outcome or result. Now however, it’s all about dreaming up the biggest fantasy with the mind of either becoming famous, or winning the largest grant. Case in point, the Big Bang Fraud.



1. Redshift dilemmas: Not all galaxies in the universe are redshifted (receding from us). A great many in fact, like the Andromeda Galaxy for instance, are blueshifted. What’s more, gravitational shift is not high enough to account for this. To add insult to injury, there are quite a number of quasars with very high redshift values (receding rapidly) associated with galaxies that have very low redshift values (stationary). How can this be? Answer: Because the galaxies themselves are moving, rather than being carried along by some imaginary expansion of space itself.



2. How could the expansion of space have slowed to a halt for a billion years or so (time enough for matter to coalesce), before abruptly starting its expansion again? It can’t. This notion defies Newton’s first law of motion which states an object in motion will remain in motion, unless acted upon by an unbalanced external force. Dark matter, you say?



3. The spurious naming of imaginary fluff as though it were fact rather than imaginary: I refer here to dark matter and dark energy, both wholly imaginary, and both conceived solely for the purpose of saving BB from complete failure (see problem #2). Of course, the fact that make-believe is make-believe doesn’t keep the glory hounds from conjuring up all sorts of pretty names for the press anyway, nor does it keep them from guess-ti-mating just how much of this imaginary fluff there might be floating way up there in that wild, black yonder. Even worse, DM/DE was supposed to be the stuff that held all the galaxies together, until Crézé discovered there was no DM/DE in the Milky Way. Oops.



4. Cosmic background radiation is not an echo of the BB. It is instead, proof of BB’s blunder. As far back as 1896, astronomers were postulating the cause for temperature in space to be the result of all heat sources that occupy the universe. Guillaume estimated a temperature of 5 Kelvin (1896). Eddington calculated 3.18K (1926). Regener calculated 2.8K (1933). We know today with the help of delicate instruments and computers that the temperature is actually 2.7. Not bad, huh. What were the BB’s calculations? 50K!!! That’s right, 50K. And yet they still make the claim CBR is an echo of the BB. Preposterous.



5. There exists no way to accurately measure the Hubble Constant (meaning there is no way to measure how old or young the universe actually is). Of course, pretend know-it-all’s like to play as if they know, but all one needs to do is call them on this fact. There exists no way to measure the Hubble Constant. Over. Done. Next.



6. There exists no logical explanation for the origin of the “ylem” (that ridiculous name given to the imaginary “egg” from whence the entire universe supposedly “supploded” (my word)). Quantum theory falls apart due to the fact random fluctuations of quanta need quantum laws to randomly fluctuate, which means the quantum laws would have had to have been here first, necessitating the question, from whence did the laws originate? Adding insult to injury, the First Law of Thermodynamics states neither matter nor energy can be created or destroyed in nature, yet somehow this ylem just popped right outta nowhere don’t ya know, proving once again, evolutionists obey scientific laws only when it suits them.



7. Inability to explain all the necessary fine-tuning required for life in this universe. Chance stands hopelessly inadequate.

I’ve run out of room, but there are literally hundreds of more examples of why every Christian can rightly, accurately, and truthfully say, there is not one filament of evidence in favor of evolution. The scientific industry as a whole has lots its bleeding mind. And yes, it has become an industry!! Don’t believe me? Well then, I offer you…



!GLOBAL WARMING!



Now excuse me while I go do my victory lap.



Insanity: “In the beginning there was nothing, which then exploded.”



Sanity: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
stonerandnerdoneinthesame
2009-07-09 13:09:57 UTC
because thats what it has always been filled with religion is a tool designed by the governing class elites to distract and control the minds of mass groups of people. the bottom line has always been money and power. which you are giving them by allowing yourself to be distracted by such broad general prophecies... research how some of the ruling class plans to decrease the world population by 80% if you want to uncover a prophecy worth looking at
xaxorm
2009-07-09 13:07:50 UTC
You're talking about a professional class that is paid to act as an intermediary between desperate people with mystical needs who have wallets and an invisible power who doesn't even exist, in my opinion... You don't see that that kind of "job" is tailor-made for hucksters, salesmen and charlatans? That was true from the very beginning, not just in the "post-modern church".
Kissthepilot
2009-07-09 13:08:48 UTC
Yes, it is in the Word of God that there will be many false teachers. I honestly cannot remember the verse, and I'm not that good at looking them up, but there is a New Testament warning about false teachers. It also says there will be many people who think they are christians and they will be quite surprised when they wake up in Hell someday. It's actually a very scary verse for real christians, as we never know who around us is also a true believer. You can tell much by their fruit, which is behavior, but people can be very good at covering things up. This is a very strong warning from God. Good luck in your search.
Keema
2009-07-09 13:08:14 UTC
Yes, it is part of prophecy and will continue until Jesus returns. It started back in the apostle Paul's day and is still going on today.
s D
2009-07-09 13:03:51 UTC
There is always the true believers and false teachers in the church, that is why it is everyone's job to know the bible so we can stay away from the fakes.
Tseruyah
2009-07-09 13:09:39 UTC
Christian preaching is all too often about spin and delivery. That isn't going to attract the thoughtful and humble.
answers
2009-07-09 13:09:18 UTC
I just believe that lying and begging have been latest in fashion..

George Bush was crazy about Fashion and the Latest ins ;))
Old Kid
2009-07-09 13:04:49 UTC
What's changed. Really, I don't see anything that has changed. It's always been filled with liars and beggars...
section hand
2009-07-09 13:13:44 UTC
Who are You to Judge another Man's Servant?
Michael
2009-07-09 13:03:45 UTC
This would be a lot easier to answer if you gave some examples. As it is, I'm not sure what you're talking about.
SpiritRoaming
2009-07-09 13:20:16 UTC
Is that what your church is like? Mine most certainly is not.
Sweeney Todd
2009-07-09 13:03:21 UTC
Everything can be part of prophecy/ambiguous nonsense.
Yes & Amen
2009-07-09 13:08:42 UTC
Eh...who knows.
CJunk
2009-07-09 13:04:24 UTC
Its just consistent within the christian paradigm
panda
2009-07-09 13:03:54 UTC
God says there would be.


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