Posted on 01/15/2020 11:31:27 AM PST by Antoninus
Nah, the usage of God’s Holy word to do perverts truth is found in all the new belief systems that have been created since the 1500s - including the ones you state.
Actually you do read of praying to the saints in the book of Maccabees.
And to the point of paganism - that’s more in line with the non-Christian beliefs that one finds outside orthodoxy.
Say, your group is outside orthodoxy, right?
So now you say that we Christians have Christianity stolen from the Jews???
Perhaps you need to read the Bible especially the book of Revelation which talks of the Church as the New Jerusalem.
Come to the Church of the Pentecost - the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church — and leave your non-Christian beliefs behind including that perversion of scripture that is outside orthodoxy
No, I said Catholics have tried to steal from Jews, that which God gave to them, and pull it into the church age where it does not belong.
You also read the following which is a grave error, proving the book is not Scripture...
2 Maccabbees 12:43, "And making a gathering, he sent twelve thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the dead, thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection."
Say, your group is outside orthodoxy, right?
My gathering is Biblical, without the accretion of errors seen in Catholicism and the Orthodox.
This was in response and refutation to the claim :
“Nothing in Scripture ever teaches that any departed believer can even hear us, let alone do anything about it...”
Christ - True God and True Man spoke to Lazarus and Lazarus heard
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Not quite sure what you mean by an unqualified
“We are omnipotent.”
God IS, ‘WE’ are not. If you meant that to be God talking, you need to be clearer in your statement
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elbook,
I pointed out correctly that Christ performed miracles all the time, since He is God.
Speaking with Lazarus was either a miracle or a parable.
We, on the other hand, are not God. We do not communicate with Lazarus.
No where in Scripture are Christians taught, commanded, nor shown examples of praying to anyone but God Himself.
Pagans are shown praying to other gods entities.
Best.
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