Posted on 06/27/2009 10:33:55 PM PDT by bdeaner
Well put, as usual.
Glad someone else sees the double-speak tendency! LOL.
Isn’t the traditional frothing at the fingers on these threads . . . sooooo . . .
uhhhh . . . . familiar?
Perhaps like an old stinking gym shoe one finds cleaning under the basement stairs.
You nor anyone from your religion is any more qualified to interpret the scriptures any more than anyone on this forum...
And when we see how you ignore the scripture that you claim to have the authority to interpret, we know you are lying...
NO ONE is to interpret the scriptures by private interpretation...That includes you and your popes...
To interpret means to change to something you like or can better understand...There is no need to interpret and Jesus said He would provide the understanding...
And Jesus doesn't provide the understanding thru your religion...What is true is that some denominations do not agree on what the scriptures say...That's not God's fault...But what's funny is that your religion is by far the worst when it comes to interpreting the scriptures...And like the others, you claim your's is the best...
Agreed. I recommend you stop.
This is an incredible video that asks President Obama a very good series of questions.
http://tinyurl.com/GodandCountry
Kudos to the gentleman who asked that question.
Thanks.
Will check it out.
GREAT VIDEO.
THX.
It is verified in the heart of each individual believer by the Holy Spirit...Odd that you don't know that...
Plus, there are a few hundred prophecies in the OT about the NT times that have come to pass...Without error...No other book or religion can make that claim...Apparently you don't know that either...
But the only way you know the scriptures are the word of God is because your religion told you so...But they don't believe it either...Because their religious tradition over rides the scriptures...
God is the pillar and ground of the truth...Not your religion...
There is no salvation outside The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
When they say it, it's heresy. When the Papal church says it, it's sound doctrine. Go figure, I always thought Christ was the arbiter of who gets salvation based upon John 14:6 where he said:
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.
Good to know that some men have set up institutions to usurp this role from Christ.
The 16-page document was prepared by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a doctrinal watchdog that Pope Benedict used to head... The document adds that Protestant denominations — called Christian Communities born out of the Reformation — are not true churches, but ecclesial communities...The Vatican issued a document Tuesday restating its belief that the Catholic Church is the only true church of Jesus Christ.
Same old, same old. The counter Reformation never ended.
Semper Reformanda!
"Be not afraid; only believe." -- Mark 5:36
"God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands" -- Acts 17:24
"For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." -- 2 Corinthians 5:1 "We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands." -- Mark 14:58
How many hundreds of times have we seen RCs misinterpret this line and fling it at Protestants to support their myopia?
Their church shamefully tells them this verse means men are not to read the Bible for themselves without first going through the organizational bureaucracy of mother Rome, when what the verse is saying is that no man should read into the Scriptures what isn't there and that Scripture alone interprets Scripture, as we are guided by the Holy Spirit and not some pretender to His throne.
The Catholic Church is "the church of the living God," which is "the pillar and ground of the truth."
The Catholic Church is the pillar and ground of the truth, just as 1Ti 3:15 says it is.
The Holy Spirit does not guide various individuals to mutually exclusive positions. That would make the Holy Spirit a liar.
Yet there are various protestants who hold mutually exclusive positions on Scripture, both (all) of whom claim the Holy Spirit as inspiration.
There can only be one truth, and Christ founded the Catholic Church to protect it for us.
As God wills it.
Bible verse where Christ does that, please?
And when the Catholic Church says it, it is truth.
Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. Good to know that some men have set up institutions to usurp this role from Christ.
That's not "good to know" at all, it's just irrelevant. Christ is the head of the Catholic Church, and His role shall not be usurped.
Well you just condemned yourself on a public forum...Here are just a couple of pages of your 'prayers to Mary'...And many of those prayers DO NOT ask for intercession but are actual prayers to Mary for her to provide relief for whatever ails you...
http://www.marypages.com/PrayerstoMary.htm
http://www.cptryon.org/prayer/heal/mary.html
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