Posted on 05/19/2012 7:15:24 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
MIAMI, FLORIDA – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney scheduled a $50,000-a-plate fundraiser at the home of Phil Frost, the executive of the company that makes the Morning After Pill, on Wednesday night. Plan B One-Step is produced by Teva Pharmaceuticals, Frost’s company.
“It also shows a misunderstanding of forgiveness and grace. SALVATION is not an on again/off again proposition based on works. It is a gift, freely given. Sin disrupts the lines of communication between us and God and has consequences, as God will not allow any child of His to continue in sin without dealing with him about it. But it does not cost us our salvation every time we sin.”
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Catholic prophecy states..IS explicit and Protestant prophecy points to one thing. You will understand and “see”, I pray accept the faith at the Great Warning (Rev 6:12-17).
The Remnant is Roman Catholic.
Dear friend, you confused SALVATION with grace. Grace is the free gift. Jesus redeemed mankind -alleluia!-, He opened Heaven.
Salvation is
not a free gift.
Salvation -justification- is a past present and future act...like Scripture says, persevering until the end.
With the help of God’s grace and our free will choices to
follow God, both, that’s how you are saved.
Btw, there's been POTUS elections where the late-election polls were right.
Going into the Dole-Clinton election, we knew Dole wouldn't win. (He lost by 8 1/2 %; Perot got slightly less than 8 1/2%)
It simply "didn't matter" that GoP voters chose Dole over Clinton (or Perot). That "required choice" of yours didn't matter. Dole + Perot = 49.1%; Clinton got 49.2%
It just didn't matter whether people chose third-party (Perot) or the second party (Dole).
BOTH Perot AND Dole were just "also-rans." And "also-rans" only counts in horse-racing.
So, by extension, your Q applies to ALL those GoP voters who -- late in the election campaign -- campaigned for Dole or advocated for him in any way. They knew he was going to lose. Why bother posting signs? Why bother commenting on the Internet then in favor of either Perot or Dole ? Why bother with phone calls into homes or ads?
Silly wabbit!
Only Evolutionists do that!
Ooooh!
THAT's the sin that I want to do!
What is it???
Your code looked good to me, and the address DID produce a picture for me when I posted it in the address box by itself.
http://www.listal.com/viewimage/781435
(Baffling problem)
1 Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash away all my iniquity
and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is always before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight;
so you are right in your verdict
and justified when you judge.
5 Surely I was sinful at birth,
sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
6 Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;
you taught me wisdom in that secret place.
7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins
and blot out all my iniquity.
10 Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me from your presence
or take your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation
and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
so that sinners will turn back to you.
14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,
you who are God my Savior,
and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
15 Open my lips, Lord,
and my mouth will declare your praise.
16 You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;
you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
17 My sacrifice, O God, is[b] a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart
you, God, will not despise.
18 May it please you to prosper Zion,
to build up the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then you will delight in the sacrifices of the righteous,
in burnt offerings offered whole;
then bulls will be offered on your altar.
Verse 12 mentions the loss of the JOY of his salvation - not the loss of salvation itself.
There is also a chance that a Romney Presidency will result in Scalia or Kennedy retiring and Romney appointing a more liberal justice to replaced one or the other.
There is also chance Romney could move the court to left if his victory prompts Antonin Scalia or Anthony Kennedy to retire, something neither will do if Obama is reelected.
It's insane to put the fate of Roe in the hands of Mitt Romney.
Thank you. Doctor Kopp. May God bless you and yours!
“Your code looked good to me, and the address DID produce a picture for me when I posted it in the address box by itself.”
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I will save your instruction and try it on another computer
here at home.
Thank you for your help, seeing Jack, made me smile.
Psalm 51:5-12
5 Surely I was sinful at birth,
SINFUL from the time my mother CONCEIVED me.
6 Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;
you taught me wisdom in that secret place.
7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins
and blot out all my iniquity.
10 Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me from your presence
or take your Holy Spirit from me.
12 RESTORE to me the joy of your salvation
and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
“Verse 12 mentions the loss of the JOY of his salvation - not the loss of salvation itself.”
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I know I sound like all I do is disagree but truly, I understand justification in a different way.
To me, the Psalm sounds like a prayer of contrition and that
word RESTORE means, David had sinned -lost his salvation- and he wants to be forgiven. When you do this, you regain God’s presence back in your soul. If you die this way, you are saved...justified.
I like you sharing Psalm 51 (50 in the Douay-Rheims Bible). Verse 5 can be used to show doubters, atheists, it is at conception, God creates the body and soul.
take care,
Those would be the words of the Epistle of St. James the Greater, an Apostle, one of the original Catholics, called by Jesus Christ Himself, a priest, a bishop, martyred at Jerusalem, and whose quite Scriptural Epistle was derided by that old Sola Scriptura Reformer as "an epistle of straw not fit for..." After all, the Great Reformer noticed that the Apostle James apparently disagreed with the nonexistent teaching magisterium or some other hallucinations of...., who else, the Great Reformer. My Church claims not that it wrote the Epistle of James but that James the Greater wrote it and, more accurately, that God wrote it using James as his scrivener.
I take it that you have some authority for your eccentric interpretation of James 2: 10-11??? I didn't think so. No one died and left you my theologian and a good thing too.
Next, hold onto your seat. I accept Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior. You may now applaud. This blazing insight did not require an altar call or anyone without apparent authority to say "come on down." It required only the common sense available to any Christian. If Jesus Christ is not my personal Lord and Savior, I cannot imagine who would be. That is an alternative too silly to contemplate.
Regardless of anything you may imagine, I still and to my dying breath will continue to understand that salvation is a matter of using Woody Hayes' Ohio State football strategy: three yards and a cloud of dust until it is time to go home at the end of my life. Like most (indeed all) Catholics with any reasonable degree of catechesis, I do not believe that salvation is achieved through works and I challenge you to show one example of any time when I have said otherwise here. I emphatically do NOT believe that the work of repeating the ritual words of "accepting Jesus Christ" etc. are an eternal get out of hell free card. Nor do I believe that someone who does that ritual but later turns out to be a rape-murderer or abortionist or a "gay" husband of a "gay" husband after the fact of "acceptance," just MUST not have been sincere in that work of acceptance. etc.
If you feel personally offended by any part of this post, I would remind you that, as a pro-life attorney, I represented plenty of evangelicals before criminal courts when they were kidnapped by police for the alleged "crime" of going right into the abortion mills, occupying the killing rooms, de-sterilizing the instruments, pouring raw eggs into the suction machines rendering them even greater public health threats than just to the babies they were designed to dismember and kill. Not only did I represent them and Catholics and some folks of no faith at all, but I took the trouble to interview each one (there were 1,100) at length so that I could represent each individual to the court, according to his or her beliefs rather than my own.
I have no resentment of most forms of Christianity, particularly that of Evangelicals, Evangelical Free Church, Missouri Synod Lutherans, Wisconsin Evangelical Synod Lutherans (even though they apparently believe the pope to be ex officio the AntiChrist). Southern Baptists and many others. What I DO resent is being nanny-nagged by people not Catholic as though they have some sort of "teaching authority" over us poor benighted ignorant Catholics. If I felt a need for your theological opinions, I 2would be sure to ask. A practical tip: Don't hold your breath waiting.
I won't speak for other Catholics, but I will say that, as for me, I have no reason and no intention to go running around on my knees before the reformed, pleading forgiveness for breathing. If I were that sort, I would have no business being here.
Also note that I have no problem supporting Tom Hoefling, my reformed brother in Christ for POTUS rather than the major party heathens. For the sensitive, that means neither Romney's Mormonism nor Obozo's apparent Congregationalism. They are heathens, regardless of denomination, for killing babies, persecuting my Church and thereby threatening yours too whatever it may be, supporting "gay" everything, being gun grabbers, etc., NO LESS!!!
In light of the foregoing, the rest of your post is incomprehensible gibberish. If that makes me somehow intolerant, have at it but that is what I believe and I ain't changing. This is a no Kumbaya zone.
Your textured Catholic friend who really gets worn out with nanny nags.
That is a very fine post. I thought I should say so. May God bless you and yours.
You ARE, after all, arguing that it is somehow moral to vote for Romney, though he would murder babies, destroy the institution of marriage in our society, cheerlead rump-ranging posing as "marriage," persecute the Catholic Church and probably yours too, in his worship of socialized medicine, undoubtedly cut off medical care to the elderly because death panels say its a good idea, etc. Your heathen imbecile is no better than Obozo. We Catholics call voting for either of them material cooperation with mortal sin. In case you have not guessed, that makes voting for either NOT morally permissible.
Now, go distract yourself.
Buh-bye!!!
Unless your real name is Muffy and you are worried about your trust fund, there really is NO difference. Romney = Obama = Moloch = Obama = Romney, etc. Don't expect any change where actual conservatives put out their own eyes, puncture their own eardrums and come to love and admire the Massachusetts trashbag any more than they love and admire Obozo. Not Caligula, not Nero, not Diocletian, not Hitler, not Stalin, not Mao, not Ho, not Putin, not Obozo and not Romney. Puhleeze, we are civilized people here.
Anyone vaguely tempted to donate to Romney or his ilk (which would include his soulmate Obozo), be sensible and donate to Free Republic instead.
That is the same argument that we hear every four years. It is always that the Demonrat is the Antichrist but the GOP candidate, while a thoroughly worthless SOB, is OUR SOB!!! 44 years of responding by voting squishpublican (except 1980 and 1984) is over. They can dump Romney or lose my vote and those of many others. Stick it to the GOP-E bastards once and for all. Whenever, they sit around in the future saying of conservatives “Where else can they go?”, let them remember what happened to Romney as the answer to their despicable tactics. If Romney is somehow elected, RESIST from day 1, demoralize the useless SOB and guarantee that his presidency is his misery. No matter which is elected: No honeymoon! No compromise! No quarter! Rule or ruin. Make them wish their parents had never been born.
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