Posted on 10/05/2013 10:09:16 PM PDT by jodyel
Where do you see vitriol? I see lots of Scripture support as evidence of the truth concerning the heresies presented in Roman Catholicism. If you wish to follow that group of men, feel free. But, it is the Christian thing to present the Gospel in full accord with Scripture, not traditions of men. I already gave you that reference.
I think there may be some projection among your words! This thread can be ignored if you don't agree with the premise. But, your organization makes unsupported claims to authenticity, and spuriously says it is THE source of salvation. We get angry posts from your guys every day, but never anything to support the error?
Sorry! That whining doesn't become you!
You also can listen to a Rusty Humphries interview I did about the book. It is radical but it is the Gospel.
Anti-Catholicism not anti-catholic.
http://banneroftruth.org/us/resources/articles/2013/eight-symptoms-of-false-doctrine/
Eight Symptoms of False Doctrine
Many things combine to make the present inroad of false doctrine peculiarly dangerous.
There is an undeniable zeal in some of the teachers of error: their earnestness makes many think they must be right.
There is a great appearance of learning and theological knowledge: many fancy that such clever and intellectual men must surely be safe guides.
There is a general tendency to free thought and free inquiry in these latter days: many like to prove their independence of judgment, by believing novelties.
There is a wide-spread desire to appear charitable and liberal-minded: many seem half ashamed of saying that anybody can be in the wrong.
There is a quantity of half-truth taught by the modern false teachers: they are incessantly using Scriptural terms and phrases in an unscriptural sense.
There is a morbid craving in the public mind for a more sensuous, ceremonial, sensational, showy worship: men are impatient of inward, invisible heart-work.
There is a silly readiness in every direction to believe everybody who talks cleverly, lovingly and earnestly, and a determination to forget that Satan often masquerades himself as an angel of light (2 Cor. 11:14).
There is a wide-spread gullibility among professing Christians: every heretic who tells his story plausibly is sure to be believed, and everybody who doubts him is called a persecutor and a narrow-minded man.
All these things are peculiar symptoms of our times. I defy any observing person to deny them. They tend to make the assaults of false doctrine in our day peculiarly dangerous. They make it more than ever needful to cry aloud, Do not be carried away!
Cutting and pasting large blocks of applicable Scripture to a Roman Catholic is like is like daylight to a vampire!
Enjoy your church! I'll enjoy the life in the Spirit of God! It is surely the perfect source of all revelation.
Romans 8: 11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.
They were trying to be "religious" and religion is sinful in that it sets standards/rituals/rites that folks "need follow" to be "good" members.
I’m a little late reading this, but well said.
Thank you, Library Lady.
While I’m a passionate defender of the scripture being our prime source for truth (* see Note), I suggest a study of the book of Acts and the term, “the word of God”. It never refers to scripture, but always to the word spoken by saints that originated with the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ is the only one called, “The Word of God” (written on His thigh - Revelation).
Jesus said, “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me.”
Yes, we all should be Berean’s (Acts 17:10, 11), but the term Jesus used was “scripture”, not “the Word of God.”
*Note: Scripture without the Holy Spirit can be the “dead letter” that kills, rather than giving life. Most common in the hands of legalists or the “doctrine police”.
Have always said that scripture without the illumination the Spirit gives is subject to error.
So methinks we agree, arlis.
I am not in need of convincing, arthur, but thanks anyway.
God bless,
jodyel
Don't have to...The scriptures don't mention the Trinity but we can see by studying the scriptures that the Trinity is all over the place...Same with scripture alone...By studying the bible, we can see 'bible alone' every where we look...
The bible does however spell out that the bible alone contains EVERYTHING we need to know to learn about and receive salvation...
So aside from choir practice and pot-luck bingo, what could any religion contribute that would make any difference in anything???
I don't see where the Catholic/Orthodox religion was EVER the only game in town...No doubt they always tried to be the only game in town but it appears that God always saved a remnant somewhere to carry on...
Maybe because the Greek word used in verse 26 is different than the Greek word used in verse 27? The first Greek word used in verse 26 does mean religion but the second Greek word used in verse 26 and the Greek word used in verse 27 means worship more so than religion. If you translate those words correctly you get a little better picture of what is being said.
James 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion worship is vain.
James 1:27 Pure religion worship and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
2 Peter 3:15b. As also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given him, [16] as in all his letters, speaking concerning these matters, in which some things are hard to understand, which those who are untaught and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do also THE OTHER SCRIPTURES. [17] You then, beloved ones, being forewarned, watch lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being let away with the delusion of the lawless.
Acts 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.<<
Now please find for us where anyone was commended for checking with anything else to see whether those things were so that were/are being taught. If you can't then scripture stands as the only source for the truth of what is being taught.
1 Corinthians 1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
But already in Paul's time, the message was being threatened. It fared no better among the Gentiles, especially after the bastardization created by the Roman church.
You are entitled to your own opinion. Not so your own facts. Even to this day to announce, as a Jew, that you've put your faith in Jesus Christ (whether or not you mean it) is to get badly ostracized. Messianic congregations (Jewish Christian churches) will accept you... but no other Jews will. You'll get some flak as a gentile but far, far less. Half the Gentile world at least claims a Christian affiliation. Don't diss God's achieved plan.
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