Ah...
Apparently narses' mantel has fallen to you!
You'll need the image if you are going to do it right!!
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Posted on 04/20/2015 1:46:59 PM PDT by NYer
And yet the Scriptures tell us to be like Jesus...
Your plea is too late!
I rarely remember my train of thought 5 minutes after I've posted something!
Ah...
Apparently narses' mantel has fallen to you!
You'll need the image if you are going to do it right!!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8SJPjCbt-YM/S8plUadXevI/AAAAAAAAAaM/cfKFl-I6InQ/s1600/yopios.jpg
I don’t feel like posting all of those names. Like yours.
Intro of your post 177:
uhhh...the catholic forgets, or rather, wants to forget the false rcc teachings on Mary...
Do you confess, or deny, that Yeshua/Jesus is Immanuel/Emmanuel (which is scripturually interpreted below as "God with us"), and that Miriam/Mary is his mother ? Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying, Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord. And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Isaiah, Catholic chapter seven, Protestant verses ten to fourteen ,
Matthew Catholic chapter one, Protestant verses twenty two to twenty three,
Matthew Catholic chapter ten, Protestant verses thirty two to thirty three,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James
Besides you ignored the beginning of the verse in Corinthians. Paul was both “Confident” and willing to be absent the body and present with Christ.
When Paul is confident of something, you probably shouldn’t dismiss it as wishful thinking.
Agreed, which is why if you look back through my posts on this thread you will see that I consider the RCC position on praying to saints to be either unscriptural or potentially problematic. That said, Stephen's martyrdom calls us to stand firm for the gospel in the face of torture and death. Paul's tenacity and fearlessness in spreading the gospel is something I wish I had. These are examples of what the believer can do in Christ, supported by the power of the Holy Spirit, and within the will of God. Conforming one's life to the image of Christ does not mean ignoring the examples of faithful believers before us.
And then you got the thief on the cross. Unless sleeping is equivalent with Paradise, the thief didn’t sleep either.
ROTFL!
“He still looks like a lamb. He still looks as though He had been slain.”
You are reading a prophetic vision, which is given in symbols, as if it were the actual state of Christ. It’s not. We have seen clear descriptions of Christ’s glorified form elsewhere, not in prophetic visions, and he doesn’t look like a lamb, slain or otherwise.
Also, the New Testament is quite clear that Christ died once, and for all time:
“9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.”
Romans 6:9-10
++I pray to Jesus only.++
Do you not pray the Our Father prayer that Jesus gave us? Do you not ever call upon the Holy Spirit?
++Why pray to a Saint
when one has a straight connection to G.D++
Didn’t God create us all to be ONE with Him? We are to be united with God and with one another. His love works through all of us in this way.
Words have meanings. Apparently the entire legal profession misdefines the word “prayer”. Someone should let them know.
++Asking someone to pray FOR you is not the same as praying TO someone.++
That looks like a communication error to me. If someone has ASKED for the intercession of a Saint, that person might say, “I prayed to St. Paul for help.” What is meant by that is that St. Paul has been asked for intercessory help..i.e. praying to God for the person who asked.
We don’t pray “to” saints. This is a mistaken way of saying we ask the saints to pray for us.
Do you pray “to” your sister? Or do you ask your sister to pray for you?
7 posted on 3/27/2015, 11:54:39 AM by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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A post denying Catholics pray to Mary here.
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Yes.
But that has little to do with praying to saints.
The one that recognizes that the Triune God has called us to be united with Him...to be united as Jesus and the Father are united.
The Bible has quite a lot to say about this topic.
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