Posted on 07/27/2013 1:35:20 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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Well it's all over then...Shut 'er down...
Forget the fact that you couldn't find Peter's church in the scripture if you turned and pointed the Hubbell telescope directly at it...
Forget the fact that Peter was instructed to seek out Jews to preach to, not Gentiles...
Forget the fact that Peter was rebuked by the apostle who WAS given the duty to teach and preach to Gentiles, especially to the Gentiles in Rome...
Forget the fact that Peter wouldn't be caught dead in a long robe with red shoes and something akin to my son's first cowboy hat...
Let's forget all that and much, much more because Jesus said, 'Thou are Peter and upon this rock I will build my church'...
What are the keys??? What do they look like???
No force-feeding, no waterboarding. I suppose they knew even then that the court officials had got it wrong. The Church had used the Copernican model decades earlier to reform the calendar (1582), and the Jesuits at the Colegio Romanum in Rome had duplicated Galileo's telescopic observations and gone even further than he did.
Galileo finally returned to his villa at Arcetri near Florence, where he spent the rest of his life in comfort, remained in the Sacraments, and was buried with suitable honors in the Church of Santa Croce in Florence.
With a papal blessing.
I really recommend Dava Sobel's "Galileo's Daughter."
If the RCC really has the key(s), why don’t they produce them? (A trick question but the responses might provide some amusement). They seem to know very little about the key(s).
It’s the Catholic position that this is precisely what Jesus does in Matthew 16:18-19. Peter identifies Jesus as the Messiah, which means, among other things, acknowledging his kingship. Christ then shows his kingly authority by bestowing on Peter something only the king could give—the keys of the kingdom of heaven—thus making Peter the messianic equivalent of Eliakim.
What a convoluted fairy tale...Out side of these unGodly fantasies, there is nothing whatsoever is scripture that points to your religion as the church Jesus founded...
The claim is that pedophile, murdering, lying, cheating, queer popes have held and passed on the keys of Heaven for Centuries is clear enough that the gates of Hell have prevailed against your religion from the beginning...
That’s going to leave a bruise(d) (ego).
No it can't...
Joh 4:20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
Joh 4:21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
Joh 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
It can't mean from the Jews as a place of origin because salvation comes from God, not the Jews...
It certainly can not mean from that time forward since that would make no literary sense in the context...
The only word that could be used in place of 'of' is 'for'...Salvation is for the Jews...
We know this is true because the narrative of the scriptures tells us so...
Jesus came to his own and his own received him not...Jesus then, to make his own jealous, came to the Gentiles and offered adoption to the Gentiles to take the place of his own who rejected him...
Catholics are so in love with Charles Darwin. Has he been canonized yet?
The teaching is that Evolution does not contradict Scripture. I am aware of no doctrine that says one who develops scientific truths becomes a saint.
There is no doctrine of Papal Impeccability.
One of these days you Catholics will learn that women can't give birth without a male seed (unless some sort of test tube thing is going on).
I guess Mary having to consort with someone doesn't contradict scripture either. After all, only trailer park trash don't roll over and faint at the mention of science.
You do realize the Virgin Birth is in Scripture, right? Also, by denying the possibility of a Virgin Birth, you are denying God’s absolute power over all Creation.
You do realize the events described in Genesis 1-11 are in Scripture, right? Also, by denying the possibility of the events of Genesis 1-11, you are denying G-d's absolute power over all Creation.
Flaming hypocrite.
How does this contradict anything I have said? Theory of Evolution fits perfectly within the events. So does the Big Bang Theory, which was developed by a Catholic Priest. A literal reading of Joshua 10:12-13 is contradicted by modern science; however, a non-literal reading is not.
Stick to the topic, you make wrong statements — I prove you wrong and you jump topic. why?
I don’t respond to emails of those who pretend that they are sometimes Catholic, sometimes Baptist, sometimes Gnostic and then appear sporadically during Ramzan. I’ve got a nice list of this at the bottom of my profile page. Keep up the taqqiyah Iscool
So . . . you accept the facticity of all the "miracles" of the "new testament" . . . but insist that the words of Genesis are merely a primitive description of a purely natural phenomenon? No supernaturalism involved at all? You have a very poor sense of proportion.
A literal reading of Joshua 10:12-13 is contradicted by modern science; however, a non-literal reading is not.
Okay . . . the miracle of Joshua didn't happen because it was "scientifically impossible" . . . but I'll bet you believe Mary made the sun dance in Portugal. Right?
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