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To: Iscool

You may seek God’s Truth through the Catholic church and not through a man-made heretical church(s). You are allowed to believe what you want, but one’s salvation depends on one seeking the Truth. You assume facts not in evidence - just your personal opinion.

God by definition cannot sin because he is perfect goodness itself. It would be a logical contradiction for God to violate his perfectly good and perfectly rational nature.

So if it is impossible for God to sin, then it was impossible for Jesus to sin because Jesus is God.

Certainly Jesus was tempted, but he did not sin and His Mother was spared from Original sin from her parents through the grace of God. the Blessed Mother followed the will of God as an obedient servant and did not sin.

Thomas Aquinas did not start a man-made church, but interpreted the teachings of Jesus as delegated to the Catholic Church.


467 posted on 01/16/2018 9:14:45 AM PST by ADSUM
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To: ADSUM; Iscool
You may seek God’s Truth through the Catholic church and not through a man-made heretical church(s).

People may seek it through the Catholic church, but they won't find it. We don't seek God's truth through ANY church.

It's found in His word.

John 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

470 posted on 01/16/2018 10:34:14 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: ADSUM

This plea will be rejected at the great white throne of your judgment: “as delegated to the Catholic Church”. Jesus did not vest power in an institution. The word church is better translated ‘body of believers saved by His Grace for belief and reliance upon HIM, not the institutional Priesthood empowerment scheme of Catholicism.


474 posted on 01/16/2018 11:33:47 AM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: ADSUM
Thomas Aquinas did not start a man-made church, but interpreted the teachings of Jesus as delegated to the Catholic Church.

THESE??


Acts 15:22-29
 22 Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose some of their own men and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas, men who were leaders among the believers. 23 With them they sent the following letter:

   The apostles and elders, your brothers,

   To the Gentile believers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia:

   Greetings.

 24 We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by what they said. 25 So we all agreed to choose some men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul— 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 27 Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to confirm by word of mouth what we are writing. 28 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: 29 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.

   Farewell.


479 posted on 01/16/2018 12:31:01 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ADSUM
You may seek God’s Truth through the Catholic church and not through a man-made heretical church(s).
Thomas Aquinas did not start a man-made church, but interpreted the teachings of Jesus as delegated to the Catholic Church.

Jesus' words don't need to be interpreted...They only need to be believed...

We have the preserved words of God at our disposal...And since those words are readily available, I can't imagine why anyone would to go a flawed human source who doesn't believe God to find the truth of God...

How do you know Aquinas is telling you the truth...How do you test Aquinas???

1Th 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

I really hope you don't tell me you need Aquinas to decipher that verse for you...

So if it is impossible for God to sin, then it was impossible for Jesus to sin because Jesus is God.

According to God's word, Jesus fulfilled the law...If Jesus wasn't capable of sinning he accomplished nothing...

Jesus came here so he could deny sin...He did that for us...Because we are not capable of denying sin...

His Mother was spared from Original sin from her parents through the grace of God. the Blessed Mother followed the will of God as an obedient servant and did not sin.

You don't have any idea what Jesus' mother did...She may have hit the wine skin a little too often late at night when everyone else was asleep...She may have constantly cursed at Joseph because she wanted him to build her a bigger house...You don't know...No one knows...Your story is nothing more than a fable...

In the final analysis some people follow Joseph Smith, some follow Mohammed and some follow Thomas Aquinas...I will follow God who has revealed himself in the scriptures, that I have a copy of...

483 posted on 01/16/2018 1:12:51 PM PST by Iscool
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To: ADSUM; Iscool
.....and His Mother was spared from Original sin from her parents through the grace of God. the Blessed Mother followed the will of God as an obedient servant and did not sin.

Of which you have zero proof from Scripture.

Indeed, it contradicts Scripture where Paul writes, all have sinned.

But it further illustrates the Roman Catholic worship of Mary.

As Jesus was sinless so must be Mary....per Rome.

490 posted on 01/16/2018 2:27:35 PM PST by ealgeone
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