Posted on 09/17/2023 11:09:29 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Something incredibly diabolical is happening in front of our eyes, and practically everybody is acting as if they were deaf and dumb. However this time, God has given us his word that nothing will come of these nefarious plans against the Jews! It is all a prelude to the Final Redemption and the revelation of the Messiah!
Biden is the anti-Christ.
“Well, Brandon grew up in the synagogues. He said so. No joke. He also grew up in the Puerto Rican barrios and let Black kids stroke his hairy legs when he was lifeguarding at the pool. Jon Lovetz, as Tommy Flanagen The Pathological Liar got nothing on this child sniffing POS.”
And Biden has said in speeches that when he was a kid, he would get up extra special early before school every day to go to the other side of town to attend a Black church every morning, and then, he’d go back to his own neighborhood and attend a Catholic church service every day there. Then and only then would he go to school. This is such an insane, removed from reality talltale that one has to realize that Biden is certifiably insane, in addition to haven been a poor student, a bigot, and a member of Congress who voted wrong his whole career.
The "progressives" share much more allegiance and affinity between themselves (even of many seeming faiths) than they do with their own supposed "brothers."
He’s just one of many from the death to America crowd. He’s just the third term of the greatest ghazi ever who single handedly destroyed America.
Mark my words, Islamic scholars will accredit him as greatest ghazi, a man who brought down the great satan with just a pen. No swords, no guns just one big con.
Tommy Flanegan was more sincere.
4th term
It's better than allowing homosexual clergy still serve where they can molest children, as Catholicism does.
What good is *unity* when it enables sin in the camp?
If by ghazi you mean obama, it didnt start with him, but long before. Obama has no power. God is all power and He allowed satan (aka lucifer) some on this earth.
All people are either powered by God (if they arent evil minded) or the limited power God allowed satan (if they are selfishly or otherwise evilly minded)
Those influenced by satan dont see it, or dont think its a such a bad thing.
Obama has no real power, those of you continuing to say so are falling into the trap of helping evil advance.
This isnt a war of peoples but a spiritual War, and has been for thousands of years.
So when does God send his message to Biden?
We are seduced into group think. I much prefer looking at the individual or a small group when operating together. Catholicism does not molest, some few Catholics do. This holds true for Protestants but the the aggregate Protestant denominations per se though the schisms we are seeing in real time demonstrate why such schisms are happening.
The word, "unity," is interesting, as in a theological sense it so often refers to God, not groups of men. "Unity" when wielded by men usually means "do as I say" while trying to camouflage that with echoes of the vocabulary usually used for God.
I rather like your use of the word "camp." It denotes the smaller "congregation" -- as in, people congregating for some purpose -- and within a camp, assuredly "sin" should be contested and driven out.
This aligns with my notion that group names cannot fully describe "two or three gathered together." I remain skeptical of group names, especially when someone purporting to speak and act for a group goes on about "unity." As do politicians.
Biden is NOT the anti-Christ. He is an enabler of the coming of the anti-Christ. A herald, just as John the Baptist was for Jesus. He’s warning us the time is near.
The Catholic hierarchy is complicit in the molestation in that it knew about it and instead of dealing with it appropriately, including removing the offenders from their clergy and turning them over to secular authorities for proper justice to be done, they moved them around and protected them by hushing the whole thing up.
So while Catholics like to criticize Prots for splintering over issues like homosexuality in the clergy, Catholics have no option but to continue to submit to them as spiritual authority in their lives. They have no out because their church doctrine does not allow it. They must stay or risk their eternal destiny.
Splintering is not always a bad thing. When the hierarchy refuses to deal with sin, it is the only reasonable option and people should be commended for not tolerating sin in their midst.
Nor is it like Catholicism is any stranger to schism. Rome and the EO split about 1,000 years ago and are still in schism today. So Catholics are in no position to finger point and condemn there, either.
As far as the use of the word *camp*, it does not by default exclude very large groups. The Israelites were referred to as a camp and were several million strong.
And sin should be contested and driven out no matter what the size of the assembly.
And what "camp" are you going to have that doesn't have sinners in it, even in positions of great authority?
What do you think Luke 12:35-48 is trying to say? Why do you think it's in the Bible at all?
Unity is not an optional extra according to John 17:20-23.
Sin in the assembly of believers is to be addressed WHATEVER it is. Any church that does not do that is being outright disobedient to the clear concise commands of God. The very Scripture that Catholics claim Catholicism gave us give clear, explicit instructions on what to do about sin in the camp. Why is your religion ignoring it?
As daniel1212 pointed out in an other place, *official doctrine* is one thing, but when it is ignored or brushed off, it goes to show what your religion really believes. As in James 2:18 But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
Just in case it never occurred to you, Romanism is showing exactly what it believes by it's actions, or rather inactions.
And you are too, by excusing their behavior.
*IF* it's true that those molesting priests are just sinners like the rest of y'all as you Catholics like to remind us, you need to find better company to hang out with, one that doesn't include child molesting, homosexual, cocaine using clergy.
And the big problem is that the hierarchy of the Roman religion enabled it and protected the sin instead of dealing with it appropriately.
I'm sure that if someone molested your kids or younger brothers or sisters, that you'd just excuse it away with that *Well, who hasn't sinned? No big deal?*
Right?
Actually the division under the giant tent called Protestantism is overall in the past, which resulted in the rise of fundamentalism and evangelicalism. Meanwhile it is the RCC that has become more fractured under pope Francis, who was elected by leadership RCs are sppsd to follow, and who manifestly treats even proabortion, prohomosexual public figures as members in life and in death (showing the Vatican's understanding of canon law), reflective of most of their flock.
While evangelicalism is seeing some decline, esp among the young, yet those who most strongly esteem Scripture as the accurate and wholly inspired word of God, with its basic literal hermeneutic, had long testified to being far more conservative and unified in polled core beliefs and values than overall those whom Rome counts as members in life and in death.
Some data, if somewhat dated:
A study which broke down Mainline Protestants, Evangelical Protestants, and non-Hispanic Catholics into the three subgroups of traditionalists, centrists, and modernists, found that 5.3 percent of the population qualified as traditionalist Catholic, 5.4 percent as centrist Catholics, and 4.9 percent of were modernist Catholics. The Henry Institute, A Pre-Election Analysis http://www.calvin.edu/henry/civic/CivicRespGrant/rel&08election.doc
Latinos Catholics constituted 6.8 percent of the survey respondents. ^
About 68 percent of traditionalist Catholics opposed gays and lesbian marriage, versus 50% of centrist Catholics and 65 percent of modernist Catholics. ^
Traditionalist Catholics disagreed that “abortion should be legal and solely up to the woman to decide” 71 to 21 percent, centrist Catholics agreed 54 to 40 percent, and modernist Catholics agreed 80-16 percent. ^
99% of Protestant pastors who hold to very conservative theology strongly disagree that homosexual marriage should be legal, with 98% also describing themselves as pro-life, and of such 98 percent strongly agree with the statement "Our church considers Scripture to be the authority for our church and our lives." Among pastors who do not strongly disagree that gay marriage should be legal, 71 percent said they agreed with the above affirmation, as well as 65% of pro-choice pastors (three-fourths of all Protestant pastors surveyed said they are pro-life). LifeWay Research; http://www.lifeway.com/ArticleView?storeId=10054&catalogId=10001&langId=-1&article=LifeWay-Research-protestant-pastors-share-views-on-gay-marriage-abortion
Evangelical Protestants are the most politically conservative Christian tradition. Within each tradition, those with literal views of the Bible are more politically conservative than is their tradition overall. Catholics that are Biblical literalists (11.8%) hold more conservative political views than the Catholic population in general does. The Biblical literalist Catholic is as politically conservative as the Biblical literalist who is Evangelical (47.8%) or Mainline Protestant. (11.2%) American Piety in the 21st Century, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion http://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.php/33304.pdf
72% of Catholics said that the will of the American people should have more influence than the Bible on US law, as compared to 63% of the general public. Pew Research Center, "Pragmatic Americans Liberal and Conservative on Social Issues," August 3, 2006, http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/283.pdf (accessed June 24, 2008).
In 2011, 70% of [white?] evangelicals considered themselves Republican or leaned toward that party, versus 24% Democrat. http://www.pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/Trends-in-Party-Identification-of-Religious-Groups.aspx
48% of Catholics considered themselves Democrats or leaned toward that party, 43% Republican or leaned thereto. ^
47% of white Catholics identified with or leaned toward the Democratic Party, while 46% supported the GOP in the mid-September [2012] poll [up from 41% in 2008], while 72% of white evangelicals identified with the GOP. http://www.pewforum.org/Race/Latinos-Religion-and-Campaign-2012.aspx#president
37% of Catholics were registered as Democrats [2007], 27% Republican, and 31% as Independents. Aggregated Pew Research Surveys, 2007. http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=295#ideology
34% of weekly Mass attending Catholics are Democrats, and an additional 19% are not affiliated with a party but lean toward the Democrats (53% identifying or leaning as Democrats). 28% of weekly attenders are Republicans and an additional 17% lean toward being a Republican (43 percent identifying or leaning as Republicans). Thus Democrats have a 10% point edge among weekly attendees, Catholics who attend Mass less than weekly are even more likely to be a Democrat rather than a Republican. http://cara.georgetown.edu/NewsandPress/PressReleases/pr061808.pdf
91% of faculty and administrators from America’s top 23 Catholic universities who contributed to presidential campaigns in 2012 gave to President Obama. 89.6% of all 928 donors contributed to Obama, versus 10.3% who gave to Romney. Employees of the Catholic schools contributed $449,229 to President Obama while giving just $70,304 to Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Of the 826 individuals who donated over $200 to the two major candidates, 748 gave to President Obama’s campaign while 78 contributed to Romney. Based on official Federal Election Commission data made available by OpenSecrets.org; http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4529
Biden?
HE's already sent one to the USA:
Proverbs 14:34 KJV
Righteousness exalteth a nation:
but sin is a reproach to any people.
Sort of a tangent but how much money are reform Jews and Catholic charities sending to “refugees(aka illegals) in to America?
And it is thought that John was writing in opposition of what came to be known as Docetism, as regards the belief that "Christ's body was not human but either a phantasm or of real but celestial substance, and that therefore his sufferings were only apparent," (Oxford Languages) and "Broadly it is taken as the belief that Jesus only seemed to be human, and that his human form was an illusion." (Wikipedia).
Related to this, you have a religion which does profess that the Divine Christ came in the flesh, being literally incarnated, and thus not only appeared as human but whose flesh and blood would scientifically appear to be just what it was, human. Thus the emphasis upon the physicality of Christ in John and elsewhere. Luke 24:39; John 1:14; John 20:20,25,27; 1 Jn. 1:1; 1 John 5:6). But which religion also asserts, that at the utterance of words of consecration by their priest, then this Christ becomes locally really present, flesh, blood soul and divinity, under the mere appearance bread and wine (either of, and wholly present in any fragment of either and both), and at which moment the bread and wine no longer not exist, their substance being changed into the same body of Christ as was crucified.
And which is to be believe despite appearance to the contrary, and even though what is visible would scientifically appear to be just what it appears to be, bread and wine, for unlike the incarnated Christ, "The presence of Christ's true body and blood in this sacrament cannot be detected by sense, nor understanding, but by faith alone..." (Summa Theologica; 75:1) Thus "If you took the consecrated host to a laboratory it would be chemically shown to be bread, not human flesh." (Dwight Longenecker, "Explaining Transubstantiation")
But which "Real Presence" only locally lasts/exists until the non-existent bread and or wine begins to manifest (appearance being critical) decay/corruption, at which point Christ is no longer locally present.
And which relates to another problem, that of microscopic particles of the consecrated bread and wine, since these can end up in a vacuum cleaner. Thus it appears that this is a matter of dispute. For while it is stated by the American bishops, "Christ is wholly present in any fragment of the consecrated Host or in any drop of the Precious Blood", (Question #12: https://www.usccb.org/resources/The%20Real%20Presence%20of%20Jesus%20Christ%20in%20the%20Sacrament%20of%20the%20Eucharist.pdf) it is also held that "those particles which are so small as to be invisible to the human eye, or to be indistinguishable from a particle of dust – these cannot any longer be the Eucharist," "those microscopic particles which fall from the Host are not the Eucharist, since they clearly do not retain the appearance of bread." (http://newtheologicalmovement.blogspot.com/2012/07/fragments-of-eucharistic-species.html)
In any case, the Son of God never appeared as an intimate object which can be handled by man, and after His incarnation then He always appeared in bodily form, and on earth at least then it was one of manifest physicality. Thus the Catholic Eucharist is akin to a Docetist type Christ, whose appearance does not correspond to what He bodily was, and would scientifically test to be, and instead it is also one who feels no physical pain by being chewed and digested.
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