Posted on 07/01/2015 7:13:05 AM PDT by RnMomof7
I'm a pretty old codger myself, but we had great grammar teachers in my day! Verbs have voice, tense, mood, sometimes number; nouns have case, number and/or gender -- no voice.
Did you ever learn sentence diagramming in grammar school? I had it in seventh grade and for a while couldn't read a book (even Anne of Green Gables, a favorite!) without mentally diagramming the sentences as I read!
My lost answer was better . . .:(
I would pray for your salvation ... would you let me go to communion???
You are not on my ping list
Please don't do that -- maybe you just need a break (just coming off about a 2-year break myself!)
It distresses me, perplexes me to no end, to try to account for evident divisions within the Body of Christ.
At a time when unity of the Body is what is most needed, and most wanting.
The salvific Good News of the Christian Revelation is so simple, so true, so beautiful. Basically its message can be expressed in human action by living according to the little "list" I presented in my foregoing reply to MHGinTN.
So why do the Christian denominations strive to complicate things, by making "war" on each other's "doctrines?"
I am reminded of your splendid metaphor of the universal, eternal Christian church: It is a seven-faceted diamond.
It seems to me, "doctrines" are perspectival views that cognize matters of truth and reality itself in terms of an observational perspective that depends on which "facet" their adherents align with.
But it also seems to me that no one should ever forget that the "facets" are all equally Godly (in their way) reflections and witnesses of one single Truth, which is the "diamond" which is metaphorically speaking, God.
It seems to me God loves diversity: He made so much of it in this world; so likely doesn't object to any one of the seven facets, but welcomes them all as different expressions of love from His children....
My point is that Christians really need to be standing together, not fighting each other, in this critical time: We are under full-scale attack from "the other side." We must compose the "saving remnant," to save the "saving tale" that, if we save it, will save us....
May God ever bless you, dearest sister in Christ, and all your dear ones! I hope you all will enjoy a splendid celebration of Independence Day!
Hi, RnMom. Were you once Catholic...do I remember that from someplace...or is that a faulty memory on my part?
You were including me with several other posters in addition to the single poster you were responding to each time...a de facto ping list.
It makes matters confusing when you are responding to me with a response to someone else, especially when I haven’t participated in what you are discussing with the other poster.
You are welcome to post directly to me alone or in response to me when you choose.
Amen sisters.
Oh my, sentence diagramming! That nightmare was revisited in Graduate School when I had to take Modern English Grammar as a requirement toward my Masters.
I apologize openly for pinging you. It will not happen again.
Please don't. If you do then the haters win. We must standup for the faith in spite of overwhelming odds and opposition.
The Mormons use a similar slur, calling anyone who opposes their religion a ‘hater’. Do you really want to find yourself making as baseless an accusation?
“Hater” was the most polite term I could use in this forum.
Your assertion, “who simply reject persons if beliefs do not conform precisely to theirs” is inaccurate. As one of those who oppose the Catholic religion, I post on these threads precisely for persons with whom I disagree. The Lord has instructed us to contend for the faith. That faith is different from what the Catholic Church teaches persons, so we contend for the faith while caring about the adherents enough to have childish insults hurled at us.
If the only thing you can do is to pray for them, then do that. They desperately need it.
Liberal speak.
Discuss the issues all you want but do not make it personal.
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