"So instead of keeping the churches open, they are shutting them down in the name of climate change...Do you think that is what Jesus would have done?"
Peter, I usually agree with you but think...
Judaism, as a whole, was corrupt in the time of Jesus. So are most "Christian" churches in these days - some much worse. And we have even less e…
"So instead of keeping the churches open, they are shutting them down in the name of climate change...Do you think that is what Jesus would have done?"
Peter, I usually agree with you but think...
Judaism, as a whole, was corrupt in the time of Jesus. So are most "Christian" churches in these days - some much worse. And we have even less excuse than they did.
Around 40 years later, the pagan Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple.
Now, equally "Pagan" authorities in Sweden are attacking outward manifestations of "Christianity" in Sweden.
But when Jesus died the Curtain of the Temple was torn from top to bottom to show two things:
1. God had now made a way of open access for "Whosoever" into the very presence of God.
2. The Ark of the Covenant, which was supposed to be there inside the curtain, was missing. Their religious traditions were empty. You said yourself that "The Church of Sweden is very progressive". It is sad to see historic buildings abandoned but - in eternal terms - what use are empty shells from which the glory has departed?
What is being done to Swedish churches is all wrong but God doesn't need special buildings or holy places to worship him in. The true Church, those who truly belong to Christ and seem to follow him fully - will not die even if the outward places of worship are no more.
Hebrews 9:7 following and Hebrews 10:19-20 explains some of this.
"So instead of keeping the churches open, they are shutting them down in the name of climate change...Do you think that is what Jesus would have done?"
Peter, I usually agree with you but think...
Judaism, as a whole, was corrupt in the time of Jesus. So are most "Christian" churches in these days - some much worse. And we have even less excuse than they did.
Around 40 years later, the pagan Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple.
Now, equally "Pagan" authorities in Sweden are attacking outward manifestations of "Christianity" in Sweden.
But when Jesus died the Curtain of the Temple was torn from top to bottom to show two things:
1. God had now made a way of open access for "Whosoever" into the very presence of God.
2. The Ark of the Covenant, which was supposed to be there inside the curtain, was missing. Their religious traditions were empty. You said yourself that "The Church of Sweden is very progressive". It is sad to see historic buildings abandoned but - in eternal terms - what use are empty shells from which the glory has departed?
What is being done to Swedish churches is all wrong but God doesn't need special buildings or holy places to worship him in. The true Church, those who truly belong to Christ and seem to follow him fully - will not die even if the outward places of worship are no more.
Hebrews 9:7 following and Hebrews 10:19-20 explains some of this.