Posted on 02/23/2015 1:54:30 PM PST by boatbums
Right there with you bro. Chauncey. God gave us free will and that free will includes to, everyone who voted for Obama and liberals of his ilk who support the killing of innocents, homosexuality, perversion of marriage, etc., etc., etc., etc., ad nauseam.
Evil seems to be in the majority everywhere we turn. I'm praying that we get some leaders who are committed to Jesus Christ and soon, if we don't there will be dire consequences for our country. I'm old and may be with our Lord before it happens but I want better for my children and grand children than what I see with our country right now.
Thanks. Excellent series. Just listened to the pod cast last week on the GTY App.
Seems some really need the refresher.
Have you been following this forum lately.
First came Christ and the Church. Then came the Bible.
Sadly I have. Most of the posts have been of a decidedly unedifying nature. And as noted by my earlier comment, the intellectual level of some of the posts have been... I will be polite and say unimpressive.
Some of the titles are very basic. However the pieces themselves are very good.
Not saying you but the norm around here is for folks to comment on just the title of a post.
We have a wide spectrum of articles posted here. Some basic and some more advanced. I gather you are no longer feeding on “milk” and want more “meat” here? If so lead the way. I say that constructively.
Please keep in mind that some obfuscation appears on these forums. To the point where clarity of message is important. So I thank Rnmomof7 for providing these articles/sermons.
I though this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3258163/posts
was rather meaty. But as you noted, people seem to comment on titles without actually reading the post or the linked article/book etc.
No, you laugh at the apologetics...God wrote the apologetics...And we read, believe and understand them...
Psa 119: Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
1Co 1:19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
1Co 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
1Co 1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
1Co 1:22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
1Co 1:23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
HaHa...Can you wrap your intellectual mind around that???
Yep.
I got you beat:
>>”HaHa...Can you wrap your intellectual mind around that???”
“HaHa...Can you wrap your intellectual mind around that???”
I think so...
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
Let me translate that for anyone who isn't wise to the RC tricks of the trade:
When they say "The Bible", they mean the compiled into a single volume all the books of the Old Testament (plus some extra-Biblical ones they placed with it even though they were NOT Divinely-inspired like ALL the rest) along with all the books of the New Testament and finally "infallibly" declared (by them, of course) to BE God's word, The Bible. But, seeing as the word "Bible" means "book", and ALL the actual Old Testament writings were long recognized as Divinely-inspired hundreds of years before Jesus came to earth as the incarnate God, the Roman Catholic church cannot claim "they" gave the world the Scriptures.
The writings that make up the New Testament were recognized by the first Christians AS also Divinely-inspired sacred Scripture because they received them from the Apostles of Jesus Christ. These writings didn't need some church meeting deciding whether or not they would obey God's word to them because they already had the example given to them for the Old Testament Scriptures and these new ones followed the same pattern and were authoritative BECAUSE they were from God, not man. The early Christian churches collected copies of these writings, made more copies and disseminated them throughout the local churches of the known world - this happened before the close of the first century.
Having them all placed together in a single bound volume, hardly meant the Scriptures didn't exist until that happened. Every Jewish synagogue had their scrolls of the Old Testament books. They certainly didn't have to wait for the church to give it to them. Jesus even read from such a scroll when he was twelve years old.
The Roman Catholic church likes to claim they came before Scripture - which is untrue - so they can claim authority OVER Scripture - which is preposterous AND blasphemous. If quoting the authority of Scripture was good enough for Jesus to prove His place, mission, purpose and plans, then it should be good enough for "church" people as well. Like this article points out, God defends the authority of HIS word throughout the Bible and He expects us to believe it and obey it.
This is just one of the many exaggerations and distractions RC polemicists will try here and have tried here - many times. Forewarned is forearmed.
Yes and I commented on that thread as well:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3258163/posts?page=8#8
Which the elements in which the author deems is unity is quite dividing between the West and East churches. As I noted in the link above.
Explain what you mean by the “complete” Bible, then. And how does this effect what the article describes as God’s OWN defense of Scripture? Do you disagree that He does this? Thank you.
AMEN
Could be, yes..
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