Posted on 05/30/2008 10:21:34 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
You should take time off and come back. Don’t be driven out by the hate.
**GASP**
Quel horreur!
Well what's left to do when you accept the authority of the Bible, then deny the teaching authority it provides for?
What of the millions of American protestants who yesterday celebrated Father’s Day?
What about Acts 7:2, where Stephen refers to “our father Abraham,” or in Romans 9:10, where Paul speaks of “our father Isaac?”
Phonics instruction. It's really more effective than word recognition.
Oh yeah, and Christians who know the difference between reason and endorphins, they can usually distinguish between what they think they see and what's really there.
I'm on a roll. Ask me another question.
It’s part of the “drive them nuts” strategy: not engaging in actual discourse as much as attempting to, yes, push buttons and otherwise drive Catholics off.
"What Would Farrakan Say?"
And it all makes perfect sense.
Well done.
Very clever.
And a lot healthier than another response I observed.
Squiggly things on a screen are important, at times, somewhat.
They are still just little squggly things on a screen.
Mat 23:9-10 Call none your father ... Neither be ye called masters, &c. The meaning is, that our Father in heaven is incomparably more to be regarded, than any father upon earth: and no master is to be followed, who would lead us away from Christ. But this does not hinder but that we are by the law of God to have a due respect both for our parents and spiritual fathers, (1 Corinthians iv. 15,) and for our masters and teachers. (Challoner)
--- This name was a title of dignity: the presidents of the assembly of twenty-three judges where so called; the second judge of the sanhedrim, &c. (Bible de Vence)
--- Nothing is here forbidden but the contentious divisions, and self-assumed authority, of such as make themselves leaders and favourers of schisms and sects; as Donatus, Arius, Luther, Calvin, and innumerable other of very modern date. But by no means the title of father, attributed by the faith, piety, and confidence of good people, to their directors; for, St. Paul tells the Corinthians, that he is their only spiritual Father: If you have 10,000 instructors in Christ, yet not many Fathers. (1 Corinthians iv. 15.)
Is your home affected by the flood? I pray not.
And Papertyger will get one for Scriptural Tourette's Syndrome.
I was up until 0330 on an assignment (cue spy music) and I am totally NOT responsible today for anything.
Please do not use potty language or references to potty language on the Religion Forum.
Naw. Most of us enjoy energetic discourse. You think we’d enjoy pontificating to our mirrors or the choir?
It’s more fun to keep those deeply entrenched in deep and hyper-narrow channels of thought and fantasies about reality, around.
Somewhat akin to watching critters in a maze in a psych lab.
Trouble is, this maze is of THEIR OWN creation.
However, for those determined to try and remake FR in their own exclusisionist image . . . where their construction on reality is the only one tolerated remotely charitably and with full privileges . . . perhaps a more comfortable venue would be better for their blood pressure.
When the kitchen one has made begins to get too hot because, horror of horrors, it’s used for C O O K I N G . . . maybe it is time to take to the pool, instead.
Besides, if a thin-skin really is a part of the Vatican prescribed uniform of the day—as so often seems to be the case . . . wouldn’t Prottys be heretical to try and prevent RC’s from running screaming from the kitchen?
Always opus out
I have a “no-gibberish” rule. Sorry.
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