Posted on 01/14/2015 9:39:46 PM PST by OrthodoxIndianCatholic
Yeah; I’m funny that way.
So true!!
Being SINLESS and all; one does NOT need a new one!!
1 CORINTHIANS 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood can't inherit the Kingdom of God;
Do virgins PRODUCE milk?
No, Tom, it does not.
ROME tells you Catholics that is what the bible says.
Yup!
The dragonic church of ROME swallowed up Jesus all right!
Sorry, Joe. I don't care HOW horny you are; you ain't gettin' none tonight; either!!!
2 Corinthians 1:13
For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand.
Poppycock. It says no such thing.
If it does, provide us with the book, chapter, and verse.
Elsie, that doesn't make any sense. In order for Mary to be conceived without sin, her parents, grand parents, all the way back to Adam and Eve would have to have been conceived without sin, and we know Adam and Eve were sinners, which is the reason Jesus came to earth in the first place. Mary was a sinner, just like the rest of us. Do you suppose this was originally the worship of Artemis or Diana, and were these two one and the same? What about Tammuz, was he supposed to be the offering of one of these mythical goddesses?
What other spirit could it be?
“The Bible tells us that Mary is the Queen of Heaven.
“This malfeasance in the handling of the Word of The God
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+1
“malfeasance” is the correct word.
It's helpful, though some of the responses here and on other threads give me worry for the posters who write them.
Our confusion appears to be as deadly as the pride and anger(?) that all combine so as to keep us divided.
We humans sure do love to fight about Love! What's up with that?
Oh my! dynamic, eh? I guessed it right the first stab!
NIV 1:12-14
12 Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, with integrity[b] and godly sincerity. We have done so, relying not on worldly wisdom but on God’s grace.
13 For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand. And I hope that,
14 as you have understood us in part, you will come to understand fully that you can boast of us just as we will boast of you in the day of the Lord Jesus.
(b = many manuscripts holiness)
< Let me guess that means "most" >
2 Cor 1:13 DRB
"For we write no other things to you than what you have read and known. And I hope that you shall know unto the end."
("understand" means "to know from intimate experience", I guess)
Strong's G1921
ἐπιγινώσκω
epiginōskō
Thayer Definition:
1) to become thoroughly acquainted with, to know thoroughly
..1a) to know accurately, know well
2) to know
..2a) to recognise
....2a1) by sight, hearing, of certain signs, to perceive who a person is
..2b) to know, i.e. to perceive
..2c) to know, i.e. to find out, ascertain
..2d) to know, i.e. to understand
Part of Speech: verb
2 Cor. 1:13-14 APT (A Precise Translation, being readied for publication)
"For we are writing no other things to you, excluding either what things you are reading or even recognizing, but hope that you shall recognize for yourselves even until end according as you partially recognized us, because we are your basis-for-jubilating just as yourselves also |are| ours in the Day of the Lord Jesus."
(In these passages, "you" is plural; means "y'all")
(All the believing Christian Corinthians are going to be able to figure out for themselves and understand thoroughly what these letters are saying that Paul and Timothy and Sosthenes are writing to them, without having a need for a committee of truth-twisters to convince them--under threat of loss of membership--that these apostles meant something different between the lines than what the apostles wrote. From this we surmise that those of us who have at least a fifth-grade (?) level of literacy and a dictionary will be able to understand Paul's doctrine likewise, having at hand a reasonable literal-equivalency translation of an uncorrupted Byzantine/Majority traditional textform. Though sometimes, but not always, a dynamic-equivalency translation from the synthetic Nestle-Aland "critical" text can get the sense correctly.)
In the above, bolded text is my emphasis placed to bring out specially notable words.
A most valid question. Don't know how this poster got beyond the edit warning to provide a url. Jim and the Mods have the url there for a reason...to protect them and the site from litigation.
2Co 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
2Co 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
2Co 11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Of COURSE it doesn't!!
But does that cause the followers of Rome to stop and THINK?
I visited 1st Baptist Church, downtown Houston, whenever visiting from Del Rio. We went to Houston, to see football or baseball games at the Astrodome, but the pastor, a former catholic, like me, put it well. He said the less light there is in a religion, the more lights it must have, such as the ritual and pomp you describe, in order to keep even a semblance of credibility. Of course, the RCC has no credibility with me, but I think he hit it out of the park.
Not many I think. As you know, I am a former papist, and I stopped to THINK, but I think I, along with few others, are the exception and not the rule. Only a remnant will be saved, but you know, I am almost embarrassed to say I was a catholic, but then again, I was embarrassed at the time that I WAS a catholic too. Maybe God was preparing me for true faith and salvation from a long time before I got saved. Here is another thing. I kind of imagined the world revolved around me, and that if I came out of the RC, that millions of others would come out too. It didn't quite happen that way, but fight the good fight.
-— If merely 1% of them ‘ask’ Mary for help just once each day; -—
The Bible is largely silent regarding the knowledge and powers that God can infuse into our glorified intellects.
Do you know something that no one else does?
St Paul tells us that “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” — the things God has prepared for those who love him—”
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