Dig Deep

Our Church History class were privileged to have Errnie Manges. We tackled about church history yet more on with Catholicism since Sir Manges studied about it. While listening at him, I got amazed of how he discussed and explain things that can be understood by an AB student.



The Philippines as what he said was not really a devoted Catholic but more on believing spiritism and animism. He usually corrected his US friends who would thought that Philippines was a catholic country but whenever you knew the inner and have been in the Philippines, then spiritism and animism can be manifested. However, with its strong catholic belief as what they say, was influenced by Ferdinand Marcos on the year 1951. It was the Spaniards who inflected Catholicism in our country. Thus, causing it to be the largest religion in this generation today. In our discussion in class, I've learned that the Spanish missionaries made our islands one nation, though our country has many islands yet they had fused it into one people sharing common identity and common belief. They as well succeeded in creating a Christian nation that eventually overthrew Spanish rule without rejecting the Christian faith by introducing books, printing, literature, western science, medicine, music, architecture, technology, and others.

On the other hand, political power and authority are the main aim of the emperor, pope and even politicians 

and sadly some pastors are included. It's a sad reality that they wanted unity in order for them to control the whole nation and be the lord of all. I believe it is biblical. That whenever the earth will be in one nation, we thought that there will be peace but NO! Chaos it will have instead. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places (Matt. 24:7, ESV).