Posted on 03/18/2015 6:21:18 AM PDT by RnMomof7
Be a good boy and find these words for me.
Ha ha HA!!
Sola Script... ring a bell?
How about all of your endless HAIL Marys???
Pro_4:2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law (Torah).
Really??
Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.[1]
Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.
Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy
Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy
Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.[2]
Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.[3]
Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony[4]
Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.
Acts 15:8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; 9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
Strange.
Philip used only the Book of Isaiah to convince the eunuch.
(I wonder what OTHER words he used as well?)
Oh well; they evidently were NOT unique enough to BE RECORDED!
Bye...
We found out how to run ONE of them off!
I don’t think he’s gonna reply.
I thought you wuz leavin’??
Thanks for that. I think it is now instructive to put the whole thing in context, Paul’s views regarding those in service of the Church:
“This is a faithful saying: If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous, one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?), not a novice, lest being puffed up with a pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. Moreover, he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil”
1 Timothy 3:1-7
There you have it: The full job description for service in the clergy of the Church. Right there from St. Paul in the New Testament. It doesn’t get any clearer than this. Clearly marriage and children are permissible for those in service of the Church. I cannot make it any more clear than this. I don’t know why others insist on obfuscating the truth.
Sure. Insults and invective work every time they’re tried. BTW, you should ping someone when talking about them.
TBEL called me back. I'm here to talk to a fellow Catholic who has questions on his faith. While I'm here, I will answer what I choose to.
As you have so clearly demonstrated, courtesy is not part of your general routine. BTW, I looked back on what I misquoted and you are correct, I did. Sorry about that. Too much typing and I mistyped your first word. It isn't my intent to mislead or misquote.
Once again, I am through dealing with this obnoxious thread that only continues to get more so. If I return, it won't be for either of you, it will be for TBEL.
Good day and may God bless you.
Wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t question my faith not at all.
I question some of the Church’s misguided policies regarding compulsory clerical celibacy. A policy enacted by the First Lateran Council in 1123-—centuries after the founding of the Church.
I just proved beyond a shadow of ANY doubt that clerical marriage is permissible-—directly from St. Paul.
Calvinism and Arminianism doesn't pertain to salvation?
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