August 08, 2025

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
Early Morning at Moraine Lake — Canadian Rockies, Banff National Park, Alberta

I Googled it.

There have been 267 popes in 20 centuries. That is about 40 popes per century.

There were 4 centuries when the Church of Rome (and the other Orthodox Christian Churches which were in the background) was basically calling the shots for 400 years about what was Orthodox Christianity and what was not.

What should the Bible say? That’s what they were saying for 400 years.

I’m saying the Popes of Rome had 400 years to compose a Bible that gave the Church a solid financial foundation for its future.

“You are going to go to hell, You SINNERS, if you don’t do it like WE say do it!” Can’t beat that for the most solid of foundations, if you’re the Church, no?

That has been the message of the church forever. Based on the Bible the Church of Rome created in 400 years. The Reformation stopped too soon!

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I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

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