Posted on 07/18/2010 6:04:05 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Right on, dude.
Changing the goalposts is a cowardly way to debate.
I quite clearly said that all Catholic doctrine could be found explicitly and implicitly in Scripture. I have shown you Scriptural support for the belief that Mary is in heaven with her son. And Gee, surprise, surprise, you reject it and claim victory.
I also assert that regardless of what a Catholic says regarding Scriptural support of a doctrine, the protestant will reject it simply because it is not spelled out clearly enough for him to grasp it.
Didn't I see you on Animal House with Dean Wormer?
St. Stephen had to endure much; our experiences at the hands of these pagans are only metaphorical stonings, not literal ones.
Didn't I see you in Animal House with Dean Wormer?
Hardness of heart does not make one right. And believing one is right despite evidence to the contrary is arrogant. I laugh at the arrogance shown in a victory lap made before the victory had been won.
Before I had even posted my response, it seems that the decision had been made it would be insufficient under sola scriptura, though there is ample Scriptural support for it.
Embarrassed? Only that I am humbly insufficient in expressing a doctrine so beautiful and reassuring to all Christians unafraid to behold it.
Embarrassed? Only in that my limitations do not do adequate service to those who have written such deeply moving exegesis on Mary and her Son.
Well said , and very true,dear sister!
I do not feel the blows on my body, but on my heart which is saddened by the viciousness and cruel words used in the attempts here to deliver a mortal blow to the Church.
These gnats have existed from the beginning, and yet, she stands. All glory, praise and thanks be to the glory of God.
lol. You would be wrong.
I had no idea my sorority sisterss' high mass weddings merited such distain. As I said, one was for a politician's son. Another was for the step-daughter of a very connected Washingtonian. And the third was just a regular old high mass wedding with 300 guests and a reception for 400 more.
The church services were okay. Very long. Lots of kneeling and standing and kneeling, etc., which is not easy in long gowns and morning coats.
The funniest part of all your idiotic disbelief is that these weddings had nothing to do with me. I was just a happy participant. But you're ridiculing and denying three Roman Catholic weddings.
Are you three men? Maybe that explains your bizarre skepticism.
Or perhaps it's envy. One of yours on this thread already bemoaned they didn't have a high mass wedding.
That must be it.
Envy.
Hmm. Not unknown especially by sneering pagans. Well, it looks like Joseph Smith found magic mushrooms in upstate New York to pull his doctrines from his hat; who knows what the esteemed John Calvin utilized. If he were living now, I'd suspect crystal meth, given his physiology, and his published medical symptoms.
I have wondered why you haven’t posted here.
Also, narses who first pinged me to this thread.
The Dr. E. drinking game is a hit around here. Every time she warns someone about the ruled we take a shot. Some here have lost entire weekends...... We initially tried to take a shot every time she herself broke the rules, but we kept running out of booze and I got tired of waking up with Sharpie on my face......
I appreciate your explanation, but the “as usual” part, I feel, was gratuitous. I am not “anti-Catholic” and I try to be fair and gentle - as much as possible - with my posts. I admire anyone who cares enough about their faith to read for themselves what the scriptures say and not to just take someone else’s word for it.
My point in posting the scripture was to remind us that we shouldn’t be trying to “out-holy” each other. What good does it do to read the Bible if we don’t take to heart what God is trying to tell us?
For the record, I have many times tried to be a “peacemaker” when the Religion Forum gets too acrimonius. We should ALL remember that God commands that we “speak the truth in love”. But we should also remember that we are each responsible for what we post and cannot babysit other adults. I pipe up when I think someone has become too personal, repeatedly, and wish to steer the conversation back to the subject at hand. The RM isn’t omnipresent. He can only spread himself so thin and there are many posts to monitor.
What portion might that be?
The portions that he evangelized. His epistles and Acts list a number of them. There are various web pages which very adequately show his journeys.
Did you get that from the "pork roast?"
Proverb of the day. New idea.
In the case of the rabid anti Catholic: “It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
Some of these threads can have a tendency to keep us away from important prayer time ,Adoration or attending a daily Mass,family time etc... and thus be a tool of the devil.
I try not to posts on threads unless certain spiritual and family requirements are fulfilled
The fact that the term "regular old high mass" anything is an oxymoron is further evidence of duplicity.
Sounds more like mean-spirited vengeful spitefulness, to me.
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