Testimony of a Former Irish Priest

BereanBeacon.Org ^ | Richard Peter Bennett

[Cronos]

To # 3088: Statues are fine. Kneeling to statues. Bowing to statues. Praying to statues. Those are the things God abhors.

Well, let's see -- no Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican or Lutheran prays to statues. Those are just items of wood or stone. Secondly, no kneeling or bowing to statues? Have you been to a Traditional Anglican church lately?

to #2988 I’ve fully answered everyone one of your questions

So, just clarifying since there were no answers to find, can one presume: 1. Since you had said you doesn't like the kneeling, the icons, the Crucifix, the incense and the Eucharist (True Presence of Christ) that is there in Catholic and Orthodox churchs and would go to any non-Church group. Yet, both Lutherans and Traditional Anglicans DO have these,
DO you not consider Lutheran and Traditional Anglican churches to be worthy for you to worship in, correct? Since they have the kneeling, the icons, the Crucifix, the incense and the Eucharist (True Presence of Christ) right?

2. Specifically would you support Kenneth Copeland's teachings (the guy who says that we are "mini gods") note that of course Kenneth is non-Catholic, so perhaps any teaching would be fine for an OPCer as long as it is non-Catholic? Is that correct? So, then question: WOULD you agree to Kenneth Copeland's teachings and would attend his sessions since they are non-Catholic?

[Deo volente]

Calling the Catholic Church's veneration of Mary “blasphemy” is a vicious lie. Period.

[Lera]

Amen

[Dr. Eckleburg]

fake stories of Nazi Popes

lol. Rome only wishes they were fake.

[Lera]

The Catholic similarities with Islam stop with both being children of Abraham. The Calvinist similarities with Islam are far deeper. They transcend the mere similarities in written doctrine and bleed over into the daily actions and open hostility toward “dhimmies”.

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Some Arabs are children of Abraham
All muslims are children of Cain.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

doctored photos of fake Catholic images

Nothing doctored here, but I'm always grateful for the opportunity to post it again to illustrate Rome's idolatry...

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Amen. And thanks for the videos.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

No, it’s not.

It is blasphemy to say Mary is a “co-redeemer,” when God’s word tells us “there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man, Christ Jesus.”

Anything that denies that fact and substitutes anything, let alone a fallible sinner for the one and only mediator, is a lie that requires correction.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

When you start copying whole posts from hours and days ago, it’s time for you to step away from the keyboard.

[Deo volente]

She’s not a sinner. She was conceived free from original sin, and never committed a sin in her life.

There’s nothing more to discuss here. This has been covered on countless threads, and you have posted countless times over countless weeks, months, and years your rejection of the Catholic teaching on Mary, and your belief that it is blasphemy. There’s nothing new to add. I’m not going to spend the rest of my life arguing back and forth with you about what Catholics, and the Church, really believe about Mary. You might want to spend all day long at this forum saying the same thing over and over again, but I have a job, a family, and a life to see to.

Good night.

[count-your-change]

“There is only one God, Muslims imperfectly describe and worship Him”

That would make a good sermon for the Catholic churches in Saudi Arabia.

[don-o]

So it's a problem, and I think it may have the germs of showing that Sola Scriptura is untenable. By that I don't mean just that some people might find it untenable. I mean that there may be an absurdity, in the technical sense, in it.

Well stated. At the very least it ought to provoke serious reflection out there.

[Iscool]

What complete crock of lunacy. Catholics freely accept the teachings of our Church or leave like some of the more ignorant anti-Catholics on FR. The difference is that we have the benefit of the greatest spiritual and theological minds in history working under the guidance of the Holy Spirit for nearly 2,000 years.

Here's a newsflash...And 8 year old kid could put your great spiritual and theological minds to shame, if the Holy Spirit led him to do so...

And if your guys were working under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, it wouldn't have taken 400 years for your great minds to find the Trinity...

[wagglebee]

lol. So you've found one Presbyterian church that didn't include a reading from the Gospels in one Sunday morning service.

As opposed to your "proof" from five years ago.

The usual rule, according to the Presbyterian Order of Worship, is to preach from the Gospels as well as the Epistles and the Old Testament.

So, it's not really a rule but more of a guideline? Obviously there is no requirement to read from the Gospels.

The length RC apologists go to in order to defame Christian worship is hilarious.

I'm not defaming anyone. People have free will, if they decide that they don't need the Gospel, that is their prerogative.

[wagglebee]

As I've said, I've attended many RC Sunday services. My in-laws are RC. Many of my friends in college were RC.

I've got a question for you, what do you think the result would be if you were to print all of your FR posts from any given month over the past couple of years and give them to your Catholic friends and relatives and tell them that they describe what you think of Catholics and the Catholic Church?

There is only superstition and adoration of fallible human beings and the duplicity of "another Christ,"

Was Saint Paul lying?:

And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ. (2 Corinthians 2:10)

[Running On Empty]

Thank you, wagglebee.

[Iscool]

John 1: 1 1 2 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 3 All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be 4 through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; 5 4 the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Here's another light...Or is it the same light???

Psa 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

You guys read the bible like it's an encyclopedia but there's a little more to the book than you think...

Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Well imagine that...The BOOK says that the BOOK discerns the thoughts and intents of your heart...

Yessireee...That ain't no ordinary book...There's none other like it on the face of the earth...

Do we worship that book??? Of course not...Are we in awe of that book??? Indubitabaly so...

One of the fascinating things about the Sola Scriptura crowd is that they apparently cannot tell the difference between the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, God Almighty, and words in a book.

Such a narrow, shallow outlook...We not only realize the difference, we also realize the similarities...

Do you think that the words of men equal or surpass the quotations of Jesus Christ Almighty? Paulicians do.

Actually it's Christians that do...It was Paul who told us where folks were first called Christians...And it was under Paul's teaching...

You guys quote Paul's epistles in places as if they were facts of life...But where the epistles condemn you religion, you complain that they are not red letters...

Ah well, we've got your tactics down pat...

[wagglebee]

I’ve got a great many Protestant friends and some Protestant relatives. It wouldn’t bother me at all for any of them to read EVERY WORD I’ve written on FR. I truly wonder if some on here could say the same.

If I have learned anything on FR’s religion forum it is that anti-Catholic bigotry truly exists and FR gives these bigots a venue from where they can anonymously spew their venom, but I suspect that most of them would cringe at the thought of people in their everyday lives finding out.

[Running On Empty]

I also have thought that many times and I agree.

Yes, the bigotry does truly exist; in fact, I do believe it often is actually hatred.

[wagglebee]

It was Paul who told us where folks were first called Christians.

Really? Saint Paul was the author of the Acts of the Apostles?