Pope & Pageantry what Jesus intended??

According to Catholic Catechism, the Catholic Church professes to be the “sole Church of Christ,” and that all duly consecrated bishops have a lineal succession from the twelve Apostles. In particular, the Bishop of Rome (the Pope), is considered the successor to the Apostle Peter, from whom the Pope (so called) derives his supremacy over the Church. There are also other Christian groups that make similar claims, but does God recognize any of these as His representative on earth?

When Christ established the early church through the Apostles, there were no complex ceremonies, no large structures, no soaring columns made of marble, no choir lofts and costly statues. There were only small gatherings in humble homes where his followers met together to study his words and the inspired words of his Apostles. Their example of the “simplicity that is in Christ” was meant to be a template or pattern for future gatherings of the church to follow throughout the Christian Age. 2 Corinthians 11:2, 3

This subject should be approached prayerfully and honestly. If there was but one church in the beginning, established by our Lord, there should be but the one church in the end – the faithful church triumphant in glory. Colossians 3:4

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Preceding

Catholicism, Anabaptism and Crisis of Christianity

Missionary action paradigm for all endeavours of the church

A Church without Faith!

Funeral service only belongs in church building according to Catholic Church

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Additional reading

1. Religions and Mainliners
2. Getting out of the dark corners of this world
3. Scepticals of the Bible
4. Signs of the times – As the Day approaches
5. 25 Orthodox rabbis issued a statement on Christianity
6. Youngsters, parents and the search to root in life
7. A new decade, To open the eyes to get a right view

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1. Why I am NOT a catholic! / Waarom ik geen katholiek ben!
2. The Dislike of Catholicism: Understanding the Holy in the Catholic Tradition – 5 – Psychological reasons
3. Who belongs to the Catholic Church?
4. “The Intimate. Polity and the Catholic Church” (Dobbelaere, Pérez-Agote, ed.)
5. The Proper Response to the Crisis in the Catholic Church: Give the Laity a Role in the Appointment and Removal of Diocesan Bishops
6. Religion and Young People: The Lost Generation?
7. What is the urge to follow the Spirituality?
8. My journey of faith
9. Public Preaching and a Very British Dilemma
10. Mary worshipped as a God?
11. Trinity: The Truth about Matthew 28:19 & 1 John 5:7
12. The Sabbath Principle in Modern Life

Did the first followers of Jesus have ‘church’

A popular television programme and a new website

Question Time (TV series) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Who does not know the popular topical debate television BBC programme “Question Time” based on BBC Radio 4‘s  debate radio programme Any Questions?, which is usually broadcast on Thursday evenings on BBC One after the late news (and slightly later in Northern Ireland). Repeats are usually broadcast in the following days on BBC Two and BBC Parliament. You can also catch up with previous episodes via BBC iPlayer, and listen to the most recent debate in full via BBC Radio 5 live.

David Dimbleby who has presented Panorama, 24 Hours, People and Power, The Dimbleby Talk-In and This Week Next Week, The White Tribe of Africa and An Ocean Apart, A Picture of Britain, How We Built Britain, and Seven Ages of Britain.

In front of a live audience with a single take recording, precisely as if it were broadcast live, David Dimbleby as a major presenter of current affairs programmes and documentaries for BBC television knows to catch his public.

In 2007 the BBC commissioned a new programme called The Big Questions, which has a similar format to Question Time but focuses on ethical and religious issues. It is broadcast on BBC One on Sunday mornings between 10am and 11am and usually presented by Nicky Campbell. Both programmes are produced by Mentorn Media. Each week, in the faith and ethics television programme replacing The Heaven and Earth Show as the BBC’s religious discussion programme, panel and audience debate three ethical, moral or religious topics which featured in the week’s news.

In those shows you might have found notable atheists, like Richard Dawkins, converts to Roman Catholicism like Ann Widdecombe, but also Imam Ibrahim Mogra, Muslim commentator Mohammed Ansar, Scottish philosopher John Joseph Haldane, Bible scholar Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Lord Carey, Jonathan Bartley, Peter Hitchens, Alexander Goldberg, Ian McMillan, Andrew Pinsent, Stephen Law, Tommy Robinson, Michael Nazir-Ali, Samuel Westrop and Decca Aitkenhead.

All those big names you probably would not find on the simple new website Qusetiontime-Vragenuurtje from ‘Flanders Fields’.
But at that place there is also made time free for asking questions and is taken time to look at certain or possible answers on many questions humans can have in their head. It is hoped for that several people shall find their way to that place to come up with more questions and answers and would not mind sharing their information on certain subjects around our way of life, ethics, faith and religion. It shall look at monotheistic as well as polytheistic-religions.

To start of the site looked first at the beginning of everything, wondering what caused everything to start coming into existence. It questions if there is something or somewhat or even Some One behind it all. Looking at man and how he tried to find explanations for everything the site can not be blind for the worship of or belief in multiple deities, which are usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with their own religions and rituals. When looking at history we also can find that there where doubts if there different gods responsible for the different things we can see, or if there was just One Creator God responsible for the Big Beginning or was there just a Big Bang from nothing?

In the 7th and 10th article is discussed how there are many primal ancient gods or creator gods worshipped in the world. When looking at history we can see many peoples have chosen to have mother goddesses and father gods, but we must also be aware that from ancient times there have been people who choose only to believe in One existent Divine True Creator God, Jehovah. It seems that many people had and have an other perception of God.

One of the many tri-une gods peoples worship or worshipped. One of the gods which is spoken about also in the Bible. “The Lord” (הבעל, Ha Baʿal) Baal, Baäl or properly Baʿal, a Phoenician deity and false gods.

Surprisingly also by people who worship one God there  are different names to be found. The most known and worshipped ‘singular’ gods being Yahweh and Jehovah, though for the name Yawheh we must be well aware that there was in ancient times (Iron time: 1200-900 BCE) also the pagan god with that name who was part of a pantheon of Canaanite gods. the same as we may find a tri-une god by several Christians, there have been other bi-une, tri-une and four-une gods.

At the site there shall be looked at how in most religions which accept polytheism, the different gods and goddesses are representations of forces of nature or ancestral principles, and can be viewed either as autonomous or as aspects or emanations of a creator God or transcendental absolute principle (monistic theologies), which manifests immanently in nature (panentheistic and pantheistic theologies).

You are kindly invited to come and have a look at the new site, where you are also welcome to have your say.

 

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Find additional reading

1. A Place for Questions
2. New platform for questions and answers
3. The very very beginning 1 Creating Gods

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Further reading

1. Six Things you might not Know about BBC Question Time 
2. Question Time event returns
3. Question Time could be interesting today
4. Continuing futility | Question time
5. Question Time Wrath
6. Well…
7. Growing old gracefully
8. Is It Just Me: Horrified After Question Time?
9. Don’t go to bed angry
10. Question Time from Stirling.
11. Question – Who do you look up to?
12. Can I Question Time?
13. Starting something futile | Question Time
14. The Big British Ed Debate: Grammar vs Comp
15. Question Time
16. Created
17. Sunday Short & Sweet – The Beautiful Glory of God
18. Created in God’s image
19. In the Image of God?
20. In God’s Image
21. Nuggets – God’s Image
22. My self image vs God’s image of me…
23. Self image and God image
24. Our Image
25. Image of God
26. There is a difference between God’s “image” and God’s “likeness”.
27. I Am God’s Impeccable Image
28. Who Is This God?
29. Who Is the Real God?
30. What is God Really Like?
31. Pagan Gods – The Deities of Powerful Ancient Civilizations
32. God the Mother
33. The True God
34. The One True God?
35. Christmas Without All The Trimmings
36. America Worships Pagan Gods
37. A Christian Testimony and the Norse Gods
38. “Anti Christ Beliefs and Christian Beliefs Do Not Mix” by Dr.J.
39. Eve is Mother-in-Heaven
40. Rawhead Rex: An Answer to my Pagan Prayers
41. Multiple Gods, Multiple Practices
42. Using Your Gifts for the Gods
43. Is Getting Tattoos a Sin against God?
44. Debunking Anti-Christ Rhetoric Part 1-B
45. Does Scripture Support Substitution Theology? Part B
46. “And Yet… ” Part 1, Playing with paganism
47. Is Hinduism the Truth?
48. Mormons Have More gods than Hindus
49. A Fearful Secret
50. The New Places Of Worship
51. The gods of our society
52. Forgetting the Glory of God
53. Penalty for Serving False Gods

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