Posted on 04/19/2018 2:55:52 PM PDT by ebb tide
That’s interesting. I’m a Catholic, and I have no contempt for you or other heretics. I pray nightly for y’all.
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HAHAHAHAHA.
You like James, right?
“For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. 10From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers,c these things ought not to be so. 11Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? 12Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.”
You spend all day cursing people who were made in the image of God and then claim to pray for us every night?
Yeah right.
ebb, I seriously recommend you read the Gospel of John. Just read it for yourself. Pay special attention to chapters 3 and 10.
Then, read 1 John.
But to address your questions.
We know we've been forgiven because His word tells us we've been forgiven.
Does God talk to me? Yes. Via the Holy Spirit. Remember, all Christians have been given the gift of the Spirit to guide us.
Why do you continue to make up stuff and bear false witness?
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Deny it all you want ebb, but I saw you say it with my own two eyes. I even have a link to the post where you did it.
And no, I’m not going to let you forget, no matter how much you lie to try to cover yourself.
But, but, but if he read the Bible, he might have to admit that maybe he’s WRONG about something.
Does God talk to me? Yes. Via the Holy Spirit. Remember, all Christians have been given the gift of the Spirit to guide us.
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And directly speaks to us in his Word, Scripture.
This is why the concept of ‘sacred tradition’ always baffles me. Because they raise up something to be equal to the revealed Word, and it’s full of so many blatant contradictions that they have to spend volumes upon volumes explaining it.
And for every explanation I’ve seen of people converting to Catholicism, it’s never because they were convinced by Scripture or plain reason. Instead it’s so often because they didn’t WANT to reason and wanted other people to do it for them instead.
[21] He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you. [22] When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them: Receive ye the Holy Ghost. [23] Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained. John 20.
I think it'll be better for all of us if I pray for you two you rather than descend into talk about contempt for each others.
Coming from a Roman Catholic who sites one of the five or so verses they seemingly have built their whole organization around...and completely devoid of context.
If you've paid attention to my postings, and I doubt you have, you will note I emphasize that context is the key to understanding Scripture. I have noted that context is lost on the Roman Catholic.
But, as Christians, we continue to try to share to Gospel with you.
I seriously recommend you read the books of the NT I suggested. They will help you understand the Truth.
He Himself promises it to us in the Scripture that the Holy Spirit inspired.
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Does He talk to you?
Yes, here.......https://www.biblegateway.com/
I don't need men who can be liars to tell me something God already told me.
I depend on GOD not man.
Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church
1 Corinthians 5:1-13 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world. But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler—not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”
There is no point in dialoguing with Bible cherry-pickers.
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Are you arguing that St. John the Apostle contradicts himself?
Do you really want to go down that rabbit hole, ebb?
Do you really?
Do you even understand what the term means?
You are doing the very thing you are condemning others for.
I think it’ll be better for all of us if I pray for you two you rather than descend into talk about contempt for each others.
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Bet you didn’t.
With a side bet of a ‘prayer’ for God to punish us or make us agree with you.
Christ, faith, and virtue are all pretty irrelevant to Francis.
And no, I’m not going to let you forget, no matter how much you lie to try to cover yourself.
Go ahead and post your supposed "link" where I called St. Paul a heretic.
Put up or shut-up with your "threats".
You are doing the very thing you are condemning others for.
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ebb has more in common with Pope Francis than I thought.
Both are prime examples of SJW tactics.
They are big one verse wonders.
They do it with a verse from John 6 to justify eating blood.
They do it with James 2 to justify their works based religion.
They hang so much of their theology on ONE verse from Scripture for both those areas.
And they do the same with the claim that the priests have the power to forgive sin, when nowhere in Scripture is it otherwise even alluded to or shown to be practiced.
So then they are forced to invent and claim *sacred tradition* to justify teachings that are not found in the very Bible they claim their church wrote.
I’m still trying to figure out on what basis they want us to trust out salvation with their church when they can’t even get their act together.
Go ahead and post your supposed “link” where I called St. Paul a heretic.
Put up or shut-up with your “threats”.
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Okay!
freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3608661/posts?q=1&;page=251
Post 267, I quote:
Me: St. Paul says that salvation is by faith, not works, so that no one can boast.
You: No. Only the heretic Martin Luther, and his fellow travelers state that; and Luther’s no saint.
I quote St. Paul now.
“27 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.”
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” For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”
You called St. Paul a heretic by describing what he preached as coming from heretics, and none of your denials or weasel-words will change that.
And no, I will NEVER let you forget that for as long as you are a false teacher that preaches contradictory to Scripture.
I'll say this...protestant denominations basically have no requirements...
they generally support abortion..they support homosexual marriages..they support divorce...
basically they have no rules and thus, its easy to be a good old protestant because there are no requirements, except maybe to give money and act superior...
Catholicism demands a lot....no abortion, no divorce, life long marriage to one person, no homosexual marriages, etc...
so when our so called Pope does away with these very difficult tenets, we in reality, have no rules, no obligations...
we've become protestants...
See post 45 about why I find ‘sacred tradition’ from Caths so baffling.
In addition.
I believe that Jesus gave the special power to the universal Church to forgive and retain sins, and then the church then calls pastors in order to exercise that power on their behalf—because overseers are supposed to, well, oversee. But the power resides within the Church as Jesus gave it to us, not within bishops or priests.
But the power 1: Comes from Jesus, and 2: is meant to be a comfort for Christians, not a terror like the Caths have turned it into.
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