Posted on 02/20/2015 3:22:59 PM PST by NKP_Vet
And they don’t believe in Jesus Christ as a religion or as a whole, so your comparison couldn’t be better!
And they don’t believe in Jesus Christ as a religion or as a whole, so your comparison couldn’t be better!
Don't answer me. I have had it with all the Protestants and Catholics who think it is their God-given right to insult people on this forum.
The same Jewish Synagogue worship that denies Jesus as the Christ, great example.
Read the book of Revelation.
There are many truths not mentioned in the Scriptures for the simple reason that nobody disputed them until much later.
Jews had been praying for the dead for centuries before Christ. Nobody questioned the validity of praying for the dead until the 15th or 16th centuries.
A practice that was common, if not universal, among the Jews would not have been questioned by the Jews who became Christians, or the gentiles after them, and therefore it is no surprise that there’s no discussion of the matter in the earliest Christian writings.
In order to sustain their condemnation of asking the dead for their prayers, many do not hesitate to argue, blasphemously, that the dead are TOTALLY DEAD—in soul as well as body. Just one more example of how Protestants, in their zeal to defame Mary, will deny the divinity of Christ, or, in their zeal to denigrate the saints in heaven, will deny that there is a heaven.
The notion that ALL revelation, and, indeed ALL RELIGIOUS THOUGHT, was committed to writing in the New Testament is an invention of the 15th- and 16th-Century schismatics.
Sola scriptura is an irrational, self-contradictory idea, for the simple reason that it is taught nowhere in Scripture. Sola scriptura is the “man-made doctrine” par excellence.
Much more interesting than asking where I went to seminary would be ANSWERING MY QUESTION.
Have you ever given any thought to what Heaven IS?
Do you really think that God must DECEIVE people in Heaven in order to make them happy? Because that’s what you just said.
Well I'm in good company then...Paul didn't put up with the nonsense of the Catholic religion either...
2Co_11:6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.
We are living in a NEW Covenant. Some of the laws are different—namely, the ritual laws.
Jesus abolished divorce, for instance, even though Moses allowed it.
Even granting that Jesus did not want us to LITERALLY drink his blood—because it would be a sin—you then need to explain why Jesus would command us to SIMULATE the commission of that sin, by repeatedly telling us to drink his blood SYMBOLICALLY by drinking wine that Jesus SAID was his blood.
Show me where Jesus said that we should SIMULATE committing adultery, or SIMULATE committing blasphemy. Yet, even if you reject the Catholic belief about the Eucharist, you have to admit that it is a SIMULATION of the “sin” of drinking blood.
Show me somewhere, anywhere, where Jesus told us to SIMULATE the commission of sins.
Very well stated! Thank you.
Where'd you go to seminary??
They do not teach the bible in Catholic seminaries...They teach how to be priests; the rituals, finances, Catholic history, church fathers, etc...
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
There are no laws for the New Testament church...
Even granting that Jesus did not want us to LITERALLY drink his blood—because it would be a sin—you then need to explain why Jesus would command us to SIMULATE the commission of that sin, by repeatedly telling us to drink his blood SYMBOLICALLY by drinking wine that Jesus SAID was his blood.
It IS explained in the bible...It is a metaphor to the believers...We are to do it as a memorial of the Crucifixion...
Jesus told us to break the bread...Why??? So we could constantly break his body into pieces??? Of course not...So that we could remember that his body was broken for us...
Did Jesus tell us to nail the wafer to a cross??? Nope...Did Jesus tells us to bury the wafer??? Nope...Has God told people to eat other things that were not edible??? Tons of times...Did those people eat those things??? Of course not...
But looking at the other side of the coin; what motivation could the Catholic religion have for making the claim to eat the flesh is literal instead of a metaphor???
Because it is the Catholic religion only that makes the claim that Catholic priests only can turn the cracker into the flesh of Jesus...And you can't get Jesus unless you are a Catholic attending a Catholic Church...The bible calls that bondage... It is not a simulation as such...When God told Jeremiah to eat his book, Jeremiah knew he was not simulating eating a book...
If THAT is true, then there's no law against drinking blood. In which case, your oft-repeated argument for why Jesus COULD NOT want us to drink his blood explodes.
Did Jesus tell us to nail the wafer to a cross??? Nope...Did Jesus tells us to bury the wafer??? Nope...Has God told people to eat other things that were not edible??? Tons of times...Did those people eat those things??? Of course not...
Discussing CATHOLIC beliefs about the Eucharist might be interesting. Discussing your psychotic hallucinations is not.
So discuss them (instead of posting a link to a thousand page book you call your catechism)...
Nope...No law against drinking blood...A Christian will not go to hell for drinking blood...
God says do not drink blood...He certainly does not condone it under any circumstances...But is there a church law against it??? No...
I think even most Catholics expect it. Not only Catholics but most every major religion are going the route of the "can't we all just get along" one world religion.
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