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Televangelist Paul Crouch dies
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trinity-network-televangelist-paul-crouch-dies-21058680 ^ | AP

Posted on 12/01/2013 9:06:36 PM PST by Morgana

COSTA MESA, Calif. — Paul Crouch, the televangelist who built what's been called the world's largest Christian broadcasting network, has died. He was 79.

Crouch died at his home in California on Saturday after a decade-long fight with degenerative heart disease, his grandson, Brandon Crouch, told The Associated Press.

"He was an incredible businessman, entrepreneur, visionary; he built something that impacted the world," he said.

Trinity Broadcast Network had reported that Crouch fell ill and was taken to a hospital in October while visiting the network's facility in Colleyville, Texas. He later returned to California for continued treatment of "heart and related health issues."

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To: Elsie
The Apostle Paul stated anyone preaching another Gospel than the one Paul preached was to be accursed (Gal.1:17)

TBN does not preach the Gospel of the grace of God, it preaches an ecumenical gospel, that all roads lead to heaven.

This is an issue about the Gospel, not sinless perfection.

61 posted on 12/02/2013 12:59:56 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Exactly!


62 posted on 12/02/2013 1:00:48 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Morgana

His ministry certainly had nothing to do with Christianity.


63 posted on 12/02/2013 1:01:27 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Alex Murphy; a fool in paradise

Thank Beelzebub we’ll still have Madame Pompadour to send our hard earned coins to!


64 posted on 12/02/2013 1:03:51 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Mrs. Don-o; Salvation; metmom
>>But (sincere question) how do you interpret this Scripture?<<

I typically go to the Greek and also see where else that word is used in scripture.

2 Peter 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers (koinónos) of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

koinónos - Definition: a sharer, partner, companion.

2844 koinōnós (a masculine noun/substantival adjective) – properly, a participant who mutually belongs and shares fellowship; a "joint-participant."

And then other places that word is foung.

2 Corinthians 8:23 Whether any do inquire of Titus, he is my partner (koinónos) and fellowhelper concerning you: or our brethren be inquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.

Philemon 1:17 If thou count me therefore a partner (koinónos), receive him as myself.

When we are a partner of someone we don’t become that person or even take that persons identity or likeness.

>>Trust me, Catholics go with St Peter on this.<<

Not by the looks of it. What Peter said was not what Catholics believe it seems to me. If Catholics believed what Peter actually said they wouldn’t say that they become gods.

65 posted on 12/02/2013 1:04:09 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: Revolting cat!

O well, there’s always the Reverend’s Telethon. I sent my kid’s college money to that.

They’re sending Bibles to El Salvador.


66 posted on 12/02/2013 1:07:11 PM PST by freedomlover
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To: Revolting cat!
Thank Beelzebub we’ll still have Madame Pompadour to send our hard earned coins to!

Who's "we"?

67 posted on 12/02/2013 1:08:25 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: fortheDeclaration

I never saw it.


68 posted on 12/02/2013 1:36:50 PM PST by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: CynicalBear
Thank you for your thoughtful answer: the koinonos concept is indeed the key to undersanding here.

I think it might be helpful to bring to mind the difference between "person" and "nature." Jesus Christ is a divine Person who has two natures: divine and human.

A human person (like you or me) could never be, and will never be, a divine Person. IN that sense, we are never "divinized," we never become "gods" either in the Mormon sense of plural gods (polytheism) or in the Brahmin sense of being merged into God so that one's own human personhood simply dissolves.

Those two senses (polytheism or personal annihilation) are errors --- I think we'd both agree on that. Those senses are not St. Peter's meaning, and are not the Catholic meaning.

Bu when you look at what Peter said, precisely, he said we are "partakers (koinónos) of the divine nature" not of the divine Personhood.

"Person" answers the question "WHO is that?"

"Nature" answers the question "WHAT is that?" Or, functionally, "What can it do? hat is it capable of?"

It seems to me --- and metaphysics isn't my bag, so I'm kind of feeling my way here --- that if we are partakers in His divine nature, we become sharers or partners in what He does, and we have a relationship (not an identity, a relationship) with His incomparably high and infinitely majestic Person.

Any doctrine of sharing the divine nature, I think, would have to observe these distinctions. If any of the great Catholic teachers like Saint Irenaeus or Clement of Alexandria speak of being "in the end, gods" they must be understood in this sense: that we are called to be partakers in the Divine nature, not as Divine Persons, of who there are only Three: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

69 posted on 12/02/2013 1:38:04 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("We are God's children now.. what we shall be has not yet been revealed." - 1 John 3:2)
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To: Salvation; metmom
Oops, I also wanted to keep you pinged in:

#69

70 posted on 12/02/2013 1:39:52 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("We are God's children now.. what we shall be has not yet been revealed." - 1 John 3:2)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Well, let’s look at it again.

CCC 460 The Word became flesh to make us "partakers of the divine nature": "For this is why the Word became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving divine sonship, might become a son of God." "For the Son of God became man so that we might become God." "The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods."

Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God, of his boundless love, became what we are that he might make us what he himself is.” (Against Heresies 5, preface)

Clement of Alexandria
- “Yea, I say, the Word of God became a man so that you might learn from a man how to become a god.” Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Greeks,

“He became man that we might be made divine.” Athanasius, On the Incarnation,

That we might be made divine? We become a god? We are made ”what he himself is? I don’t think you can spin those any other way than to understand that the Catholic Church teaches people will become gods.

71 posted on 12/02/2013 1:57:59 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: CynicalBear
It seems, CynicalBear, that when you're dealing with something in my religious faith which seems paradoxical or unclear to you, you don't say, "Hey, but how do you explain this? It seems paradoxical and unclear." --- but instead you tell me that I don't believe what I say I believe, or the Church does not define things as she says she defines them.

This leaves me with no basis for further discussion, since you have --- it seems to me --- assumed that I am arguing fraudulently, or adhering to a church which (like an imbecile) defines its terms by denying its own definitions.

If you'll try not to do that, then let me repeat:

Therefore --- since both the Bible and the Catechism speak of being "partakers in he divine nature," --- I propose this is what the "divinization" (theosis) language is all about: partaking in the divine nature.

It is not good for accurate mutual understanding if you read your own definitions into other people's statements, and then argue that they're wrong on the basis of those definitions which came from you, not from them.

Let's stipulate, then, that Catholics are not Mormons and not Brahmins. If that's the case, think: in what Judeo-Christian, Biblical sense could we understand this divination doctrine?

The answer to that, will be the true touchstone of the doctrine.

Do you see what I'm saying?

72 posted on 12/02/2013 3:12:16 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("In Him we live, and move, and have our being.. for we are also His children." Acts 17:28)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Please show me where I said anything about what YOU believe. I simply posted the statements and comments of what the RCC and her “church fathers” state and how they compare to what the Greek words mean. I really don’t care how YOU interpret it or how YOU explain it. Nor did I give you how I explain or interpret it. Whether you agree with what the RCC teaches is immaterial to me. When views are stated and they differ with what scripture says I speak up.
73 posted on 12/02/2013 3:41:05 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: CynicalBear
But they don't differ from scripture. Scripture says we have been given "exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers (koinónos) of the divine nature."

That is what the Church means by (to use the Greek term) theosis.

Any interpretation in a contrary sense, is in error.

We're in agreement: you, me, and the Catholic Church. OK?

74 posted on 12/02/2013 3:46:52 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("In Him we live, and move, and have our being.. for we are also His children." Acts 17:28)
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To: CynicalBear
The Catholic Church and Mormons also teach that “we are god” or will become gods. They leave the impression that we are to become like God. In the Old Testament there is a word that is used where judges were called gods but it’s not the same.

As a former Catholic, I never knew Catholicism to teach that. But they teach plenty of other unbiblical things.
75 posted on 12/02/2013 3:51:10 PM PST by Old Yeller (Obama: A dark spot in this country's history.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
>> Therefore --- since both the Bible and the Catechism speak of being "partakers in he divine<<

I showed you what the Greek literal and intent of the word meant. In no way can it be construed to mean that men become gods. The literal meaning and the intent of the word means to partner.

76 posted on 12/02/2013 3:52:03 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: Old Yeller; CynicalBear
The Catholic Church and Mormons also teach that “we are god” or will become gods.

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The Catholic Church does not teach that. I don't know about the Mormons.

77 posted on 12/02/2013 3:54:32 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: CynicalBear
"I showed you what the Greek literal and intent of the word meant. In no way can it be construed to mean that men become gods. The literal meaning and the intent of the word means to partner."

And I'm agreeing with you. It cannot mean to become gods in the sense of polytheism (which would be idolatry) or in the sense of being merging and being dissolved into God (which would be blasphemy.)

Therefore, the only orthodox way "becoming gods" can be interpreted in this context, is to partner by a participation in the *nature* of God.

Do you care to comment on this very important distinction between "person" and "nature"?

78 posted on 12/02/2013 3:59:33 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("In Him we live, and move, and have our being.. for we are also His children." Acts 17:28)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
>> We're in agreement: you, me, and the Catholic Church. OK?<<

No, I do not believe what the Catholic Church teaches in this regard.

79 posted on 12/02/2013 4:00:25 PM PST by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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To: CynicalBear

And what is it you think the Catholic Church teaches in this regard. Is it polytheism? Is it annihilationism? Or is there a third or fourth option?


80 posted on 12/02/2013 4:08:06 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("In Him we live, and move, and have our being.. for we are also His children." Acts 17:28)
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