Posted on 12/19/2005 6:23:54 AM PST by NYer
The Puritans?
Do you also agree with their views on predestination and that children who die without verbally accepting Jesus burn in hell?
Tell me RW, do you count the number of steps that you take on the Sabbath? Do you do any type of "work" on the Sabbath, such as washing clothes, clearing dishes after your meal, taking the dog for a walk?
Those phylacteries must be heavy to carry around.
I'd be interested in knowing what the attendance records are of all those complaining. It's like these people who complain about prayer being taken out of schools when 90% of them don't pray with their kids at home.
Sounds to me like a bunch of self-righteous hippocrits.
"That Bible came from the Catholic Church."
That's what the Roman Catholic Church wants you and the world to believe, even though copies of the New Testament were proliferating all through the Byzantine region and northward and westward from the time of the Apostles without anything at all like (what we see as) the Roman Catholic Church having anything to do with it.
Jots and tittles relate to written documents....specifically, documents written in Hebrew.
I am not Hebrew. I am a gentile Christian. While Paul, a Jew, demonstrated that he was not bound by the law, it is even moreso for a gentile Christian.
Sabbath-keeping was part of the written law. Man was not made for the Sabbath; the Sabbath was made for man.
A2J,
Did you miss my post which answered your earlier questions? Because you seem to keep repeating the same anti-church talking points without taking anything that you're being told into account. I'll re-post it for your convenience:
>>Chapter and verse, please. From the bible. You sound just like the Pharisees.<<
- Exodus 20:8 (on the sanctity of the Sabbath)
- Neh 13:15-22 (on the sanctity of the Sabbath)
- Is 58:13 (on keeping the Sabbath holy)
- 1 Cor 16:1-2 (On meeting in fellowship the first day of the week - the new Sabbath day as recognized by Christ's resurrection)
- Acts 20:7 (Gathering in prayer and communion on the first day of the week)
- Rev 1:10 (the Lord's Day being the first day of the week)
- Acts 2:42 (on the importance of meeting together)
- Heb 10:25 (In not forsaking the fellowship)
>>Christians worship every day because worship is not something you do but something that you live...just like eating or drinking which is not bound by certain days or times.<<
I understand that. You must have missed the part of my post wherein I said that a Christian is to worship the Lord privately, and/or as a family every day. However, the Lord's Day, Sunday, is set apart and sanctified for the gathering of the fellowship to worship God corporately.
>>Biblical/historical worship has little to nothing to do with song or being with others but how we live our lives as to whether we please Him or not.<<
Again, then Paul's letters to Timothy on church structure, offices, and order must be hereby null and void, since their not important, right?
To the contrary, public worship, teaching, and exhortation is commanded.
1 Tim 4:13; 2 Tim 4:2; Col 3:16; Eph 5:19
If you were to have your way, there would have been no need for any of the epistles on the subject of corporate worship or church government
If I may, I'd like to ask you a question:
Why do you seem so bent on ignoring and/or downgrading the importance of corporate worship? Did you have a bad church experience, and that is what has jaded you from fellowship with the saints?
The Bible is very clear on the importance of corporate worship, prayer, and teaching, as I have shown in the above verses. Where are your verses which state that corporate worship, prayer, and teaching are not important?
You don't believe that man is judged on his works?
Of course he is. But our power to do them is from God. Judgement on works is based on our cooperation with the grace of God. Those who do not do good are rejecting the Lord and His grace. Those who do good works are cooperating with God and His grace by living in faith.
Good works do not earn, but do merit eternal life because they are the outward sign of the inward working of God's grace within us, regenerating us from the sinful old man to a new man in Christ.
Merit implies that by doing X, which God gives us the power to do, and to which He has attached the reward of eternal life, we will certainly gain the reward. First among all these works is that of conversion to the Lord Jesus from the Devil and sin. All other works are part of that conversion and flow from it, providing proof of its continuing activity within our soul.
Sunday and Holy Days, per command of the Catholic Church, given authority to bind and loose men in obligations by Christ.
Moreover, the grace within the changed soul is the cause of those works, and a man without those works does not have that grace. The works are not from us, but are done by us through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
A man with no good works clearly does not have the Holy Spirit.
Yes, Saint Nicholas was an early Father of the Church, a Bishop at the Council of Nicea, and he really did give gifts in some stockings to help out some poor girls unawares.
No I don't believe in a jolly old man at the North Pole though.
Could you please find someone from prior to the year AD 1500, who taught that 1 Tim 3 meant that Church leaders could marry or continue to have children?
"He (Paul) was not speaking of a man who might persist in the desire to beget children; he was speaking about continence which they had to observe in future." (Pope St. Siricius, Decretal "Cum in Unum", AD 386)
Apparently, everyone who just took a Bible off the nightstand prior to AD 1517 did exactly what you say they would not.
In the Catholic Church, the Sabbath is Saturday. In our Liturgical Books, it is clearly called "Sabbato" in Latin - "Sabbath".
The obligations of the 4th Commandment, however, are transferred from the Sabbath, and the Jewish feasts ordained by God through Moses and by the High Priest (i.e. Hannukah), to the Lord's Day, and Christian feasts created by the Church by the Pope (i.e. Christmas, Ascension, All Saints, etc.).
By what scriptural authority did the Pope do that?
Ergo, Hermann, before you boast, "I can handle it on keeping holy the Lord's Day," and throw stones at others perhaps you should consider that you yourself, and indeed your entire denomination, is not keeping the Sabbath on the day that the Lord Himself set aside as holy. Nor, for that matter, are you keeping any of God's Appointed Times at their appointed times.
Show some grace.
And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven. (St. Matthew 16.18-19)
Amen I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall be bound also in heaven; and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, shall be loosed also in heaven. (St. Matthew 18.18)
Take heed to yourselves, and to the whole flock, wherein the Holy Ghost hath placed you bishops, to rule the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. (Acts 20.28)
They are correct on predestination. Not on babies, if that is what they actually believed.
Certainly true.
However, there is still an appointed day set apart for that.
It does not mean we aren't to live every moment though worshipping God.
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