Posted on 10/23/2013 2:06:19 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
Acknowlegement and celebration? Now there’s a secularist spin on an event in sacred history.
“You want to put some bible verses in there to refute what I posted??? NO??? That’s because you can’t...”
You didn’t make a Biblical argument to begin with.
You want some verses? Here, have some:
http://www.staycatholic.com/call_no_man_father.htm
http://clearcatholic.blogspot.com/2009/04/is-calling-priests-father-unbiblical.html
When Catholics call priests "father," we are simply following the example set by Paul and the other early Christians. As long as we put nobody above God, we are following Jesus' teaching.
Your religion isn't doing any such thing...You are NOT following the example set by Paul and your are as Jesus warned, putting your clerics as equal with God...
Paul did not wear embroidered religious robes and put himself above the people...And while Paul acknowledged he was a 'spiritual' father, he in no way presented himself as a 'religious' Father to anyone...Ever...No throne...No fishhats...No crowns...
Your clergy are not fashioned after anyone in the scriptures other than the religious Pharisees and the pagans...
From your link:
Of course not. He is using an extreme example in order to rebuke the scribes and Pharisees for setting themselves up at the ultimate authority instead of God.
There it is...And not just the Pharisees but the Catholic religion as well...You have set up your priest hood and your visions of the ghosts of Jesus and Mary any your 'church' fathers, all known as Catholic Tradition as the ultimate authority above God...
Funny that your religion would try to use scripture that condemns your religion to actually defend your religion...
C'mon, read the scripture...Melchizedek certainly didn't perform a sacrifice...
There isn't a place in the Old Testament where bread and wine are used for any sacrifice...
Abram just killed a bunch of bad guys, recovered the lost valuables along with his kin and he was given food and drink afterwards...
You'll find nothing in the OT that describes otherwise...
Bread and wine were among the first fruits, and of course we offered in sacrifice. As for the celebration, “Hebrews” portrays the king of Salem as a prefigure of Christ.
No, Christ was not a creature but the incarnation of the divine in the form of a man. That he was a creature is an Arian doctrine.
No! the pity is that protestants do have the intellectual capacity to have an intelligent discussion or even realize how little they really know or understand.
1Co_2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
1Co_2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
God's not interested in your superior intellect...I'm not either...
>> “people who belong to denominations, invented by dissident Catholics...” <<
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Your shot went wide astern.
I have nothing to do with any part of the Whore or her daughters. (I did that back in my young, foolish years)
I now follow The Way completely.
Were you familiar with Yehova’s word, you’d know HOW to believe it.
>> “His body, of course....but nHe didn’t expect the Apostles to take a bite out of His arm, so He gave them His body in the FORM of consecrated bread....pretty easy for GOD to do.” <<
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Wow, consecrated bread!
It was a very ordinary loaf of Barley bread.
What he was requesting was their remembrance of the sacrifice he was about to make for the healing of their bodies through the stripes lain upon his.
>> “Christ was a creature” <<
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Sorry, no.
Yeshua the creator was not created.
so, let's see, you are neither a Catholic nor a protestant.....but you claim Christianity.
I love that...it means you can make up all your own rules, interpret scripture according to "editor-surveyor" it is so much easier that way, no rules, not having to pay attention to what scholars over the last 2,013 years have had to say, and that way you are always right....who can challenge what you say........kind of like EVERY other man that invented a "denomination"....do it my way, I am right!!! a new denomination is born maybe the Edsurs!
He was born of as woman, he was raised by human parents, he ate breakfast, lunch and supper, he dressed in clothing, he used the restroom facilities, he felt pain, he shed blood ......and we can't call him a creature.....He was all God and All man....ie: a creature....a human being...FULLY, and if not, then his mission on Earth was worthless.
>> “I love that...it means you can make up all your own rules...” <<
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I’m sure that you know that is nonsense!
I follow the rules that your pagan ‘church’ rejected, the rules set out by Yeshua in his spoken words copied down by his disciples that witnessed those words. Those same words against which you contend here daily.
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