Posted on 04/30/2005 8:41:28 PM PDT by Quix
Ahhh, Peters 264th successor. God bless and guide him!
Fair enough.
My own functional answer is along these lines:
1) I hold things loosely unless and until confirmed in reasonably reliable ways by a Biblical 3-4 witnesses or some other dramatic, emphatic type of confirmation.
2) Things I hold loosely I TRY to avoid pontificating about emphatically.
3) Things I hold loosely, depending on Holy Spirit's confirmation with my spirit within me, I may apply earnestly and persistently.
4) After 300 years of discernment and a unanimous meeting of hopefully the leading truly spiritual giants, perhaps one could begin to think of such added comments as reliable facets or insights on doctrine.
5) I think we have no real need for any additions to doctrine.
6) In most respects: LOVING GOD WHOLLY; OTHERS AS SELF AND DOING UNTO OTHERS AS ONE WOULD WISH DONE TO ONE'S SELF--covers most everything. It can, by Holy Spirit's Grace, even lead one to all the basic doctrines of the Virgin Birth, Substitutionary death, Resurrection etc.
7) All of us can get far too prissy, haughty, snooty about those who don't believe 100% as we do. I try to mention such as a nudge toward more of a humble, vulnerable and less convinced position that the writer has it 100% all figured out theologically.
THX.
I'll battle you here everyday if you want to continue heaping your excrement on the Church.
"You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church...and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
I think/hope you know that I'm no admirer of idolatry whether it be of TV, FR, WORK, MOVIES, STARS, WRITERS, SCRIPTURE TRANSLATIONS, DENOMINATIONS OR MARY.
Idolatry is rampant in every denomination and far too many of every congregation.
God's best to you, anyway.
BTW, I rebuke any and all allegations that I'm anything less than an earnest, loving, devoted servant of Jesus The Christ; King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
And, I'm confident that HE IS ABLE [AND WILLING] TO KEEP THAT WHICH I'VE COMMITTED TO HIM AGAINST THAT DAY.
"You are Peter and upon this rock I will build My Church...and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
I understand your perspective, though it is not mine.
I do think God has a very long ways to go to clean up the current prophetic troops. I do believe He is in the process of doing that.
Are you saying that you have had 0.000000% of your own impressions along such lines as you have prayerfully pondered Biblical prophecies in these end times?
I think that is very shallow reasoning.
Please see my post above a post number or 3.
Though I could easily pick some priority candidates, I'm not in favor of bannings.
By God's Grace,
He is able and willing to keep that [me] which I have committed unto Him against that day.
By His Blood and Spirit and the word of my testimony, I'm an OVERCOMER, IN HIM.
I choose, by and in Him to be seated with Him in heavenly places regardless of circumstances.
BriarBey - flex your muscles and tell me about the Inquisition. Who were the targets? Why? Where? Who were the targets of the Crusades? Why did the crusades take place
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Which one?
The Fourth Crusade?
The Bull Crusade?
or just The Crusades?
Would you like the catholic encyclopedia definition of crusade?
Wars undertaken to deliver the Holy Places from the hand of the infidels.
Would you like the catholic encyclopedia defintion of infidel?
One who, having been baptized and professing Christianity (only the RCC form of Christianity of course) perinaciously rejects or doubts ANY article of faith determined by the AUTHORITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Inquistion:
An ecclesiastical TRIBUNAL for the discovery, punishment and prevention of heresy.
Salvation...according to RCC encyclopedia.
The ordinary road to salvation is through visible membership of the Church.
Outside the Church, no Salvation. This dogma refers to those who are outside the Church by their own fault. There is a command to enter the Church, which is the prescribed way to Heaven.
There you go...I am a heretic, an infidel and will remain one because I will not join what is coming.
Your religion has placed itself in Christ's position as the one true way to the Father...standing between man and God....anti-christ, undoing everything that Christ did. Well not for me, cause I won't fall for your lies and deception and doctrines of devils. Judgement will come.
The tone is eerily diabolical. I've done battle with your kind before.
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LOL...shouldn't sound diabolical to you...those who believe as you do will be given authority to make war against the saints and conqueor them.
This will call for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the saints.
Rev. 13:5-10
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said , I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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AMEN Edmund...and praise God for such a gift.
BTW, I rebuke any and all allegations that I'm anything less than an earnest, loving, devoted servant of Jesus The Christ; King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
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I know Quix...and you are a sweetie...but you're going to have to get focused. Tolerance will be what pulls all the religions together...we were told to be separate, not to join the world. Tolerance is already being taught, heavily.
I will NOT tolerate false doctrine, for the sake of getting along. What do you think is going to happen when your bring truth against lies....conflict. Its unavoidable.
LOOK at this country...look at the fruit of what we are...there is a church building on every street corner and a new one going up everyday. We become more morally bankrupt by the day, more oppressed, more controlled, all that religion brings but not what faith and the TRUTH that sets men FREE, brings.
When this country was young..we fought the RCC. President Lincoln spoke against it. Kennedy was our first catholic president. Now we join her and look at us...corrupt. What is the fruit of our beliefs? What are we seeing?
If I wanted to have a conversation with you, I'm going to speak to you in a language you understand, not Swahili.
so is the bible in swahili?
i THINK you know I'm pretty fiesty against error and in behalf of TRUTH, too.
Probably no longer feel as called as you do to your level of . . . pointedness in all contexts.
But I am learning to pick my fights better--hopefully more in tune with Holy Spirit's leading.
We still wrestle not against flesh and blood but against . . .
http://www.unesco.org/tolerance/declaeng.htm
None of us is in it, lol
"You are Peter and upon this rock I will build My Church...and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
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Again you twist to divert worship to your system and a man...My Church is a people...living stones, not a system of power, his people built on the belief of what Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
WE were given the keys...we built from what Peter said, with Christ as our cornerstone. And you are right...the gates of hell will not prevail against us.
THINK you know I'm pretty fiesty against error and in behalf of TRUTH, too.
Probably no longer feel as called as you do to your level of . . . pointedness in all contexts.
But I am learning to pick my fights better--hopefully more in tune with Holy Spirit's leading.
We still wrestle not against flesh and blood but against . .
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AWWW yes...but he also said His word would not return void.
For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
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