Posted on 02/23/2015 9:53:14 AM PST by Gamecock
Easy, CB. I urge you to let this one go.
I was talking about the subject, not you.
How do you know if you are short on the 'all' part of that?
Rest assured that the poster doesn't even know when hell occurs.
**Have you accepted Jesus as your Savior?**
Has he accepted you? You seem to resist his commissions, and plan for remission of sins. In other words, imo, you don’t seem to be listening to him.
Acts 2:38, it it from heaven, or of men?
Many have not been witnessed to, concerning the LORD’S detailed plan. If you don’t believe that Acts 2:38 is from the Lord, then where is it from?
I said so. Why is even this is difficult?
I thought you might be touched by this article. I have been on several retreats with Mike and have found him to be a wonderful man of faith. He is ever ready to extend a hand to help and has a long list of brothers and sisters in the Lord that he remembers in his prayers.He has several more articles you might want to check out at
I do pray from the heart. I get down on my knees in the evening by the side of my bed and read from My Daily Bread by Father Paone that my father had in Vietnam . I say a prayer of thanks to the Lord about all the great things he gave me that day. Then if I can I'll say a rosary, which I suppose you can say is "spouting memorized prayers over and over". But what it does is it focuses me to concentrate and offer each prayer in a manner that is like a discipline. To me it's like prayer pushups. Keeps my mind focused... Like This Hail Mary is for my sinfulness please forgive me as I approach death... or this Our Father is to thank you for letting me have my mother one more day.. or these Hail Mary's are offered in prayer to protect my children as they go through life..or offer them guidance to find their paths or ease their worries..
The verbiage and manner in which you write and the ability to quote scriptures to try and inflict humiliation and discomfort in me shows everybody more about yourself than about my feeble efforts to somehow please the Lord.
I have only pity for someone like yourself that is so lonely he has to troll a website to find conflict in order to justify himself. I'll pray for you and the others here that seem more intent on arguing about the number of pebbles on the beach than of the beautiful sunset on the horizon.
Take a close look at the yourself and what you wrote. Look at the spirit in which it was written. You don't have to answer to me. The Lord knows what's in your heart. He knows the intent and meaning of the words, the content and your motives. Sleep well my friend, my conscience is clear. But I can only answer to my motive, my intent, my silly prayers........, you'll have to answer for yourself.
Jesus completed the Old Covenant with the Jews and established the New covenant. Jesus ended the mosaic laws regarding eating and other matters.
Jesus gave us the miracle of the Eucharist - His Body and Blood for eternal life (still contains the accidents of bread and wine) which is much different than the Old Testament mosaic laws or even the advisory mentioned in Acts as a probable compromise so that gentiles would not be required to follow the old mosaic laws.
It is possible that CB’s strong feelings against the Catholic Church cause him to reject the words of Jesus. It seems to me that some followers prefer their own interpretations over the understanding that has been taught down by other followers of Christ over the centuries.
It is a very small school with about 272 undergraduate students and 56 graduate students. It costs $18-26,000 to attend but you can get your online degree for less, about 10K in tuition.
If that puts salve on you soul...
They posted a waiver telling us not to rely on their advice "IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER." They obviously do not want to be liable for the consequences of their answers.
It was CB’s comment. Your comment was first in brackets from CB’s response to your comment.
The Catholic Church was created by Christ on the apostles, the First bishops.
**They eat the Body and drink the Blood of Christ - as Christ taught.**
Christ taught it as symbolic, for he doesn’t reinforce your view in the commissions (Matt. 28:19; Mark 16:16; Luke 24:47; and John 20:23), or in his ordained words that Peter spoke in Acts 2:38.
In fact, the scriptures show Peter in Samaria (Acts 8), and in Cornelius house (Acts 10). Those folks obeyed the Acts 2:38 plan, but Peter doesn’t teach your ‘mass’ to them.
I believe he understood the ‘Lord’s supper’ perfectly. It’s the unspiritual folks that don’t, imo.
Everybody. Bless some olive oil in Chrirst’s name and anoint yourself with it. We are not as smart or in control of our lives as we think.
A Catholic is the original Christians that Christ founded. If this person doesn’t know they are Christian to begin with then they already had a bigger problem than converting IMO.
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