Posted on 12/31/2009 4:16:58 PM PST by freedomyes
As we judge others, so we shall be judged.
It is cruel to condemn a baby for sins she never committed, to project ancient wrongs onto her state of innocence.
Thanks for posting.
The pagan history now makes a little more sense.
You really didn't have to admit it, but it is a good step. We all knew what you were doing. Eleven more steps......
The pagan history now makes a little more sense. Later I sought to understand why. It has borne some fruit. I spent many years accepting the spin.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
It’s rather like ‘debating’ Gollum.
If nothing else, this one line establishes your standing as a fringe kook if not an outright heretic.
St. Constantine the Great was never Pontiff of the Catholic Church.
Constantine refused to be baptized until he was on his death bed.
He became a Christian circa AD 313.
The question you should be asking yourself is why the roman "church" took the title Pontiff and proudly proclaims that it's head is the Master Bridge builder to Satan ?
The Catholic Church does no such thing. Of all the ridiculous fever-dreams!
Passover and all the other of YHvH's Holy commanded Feast Days were rejected and replaced with Pagan feast days; the feast days of the Evil One.
Not in the Catholic Church.
Do you really expect the readers to believe the Evil One celebrates the Birth of Jesus Christ? Are we supposed to believe Satan celebrates Christ's death and Resurrection?
The sentence "This is the Decree from the Pontiff of the Roman church to all the world." which appears in your post does NOT appear anywhere in the original. It is YOUR statement, carefully intermixed into quotations from the originals.
The reality is that you are NOT quoting any "decree from the Pontiff of the Roman church to all the world."
That is what you are doing to Dr. North.
Heretic of what, exactly?
He has already stated he is not a Christian.
Hmmm. Let's go to the tape!
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So you're able to over look the fact that his posts on the topic are a load of manufactured, fantastical twaddle?
I believe it is our duty to protect life because life is God-given. However, I wouldn't agree that God choosing to allow an abortion to occur is being cruel. I can't say where babies souls reside before conception, but an aborted baby went from whatever that state was, to perhaps a brief blink of consciousness, and directly into a heavenly state (because although they certainly would sin had they lived long enough to make choices, they hadn't yet had the intention).
Where is the cruelty in allowing an innocent to mostly by-pass this idiot world we live in?
Your anemic research skills are laid bare.
In Latin, bridge is pont (or ponticulus for "little bridge").
Pontifex is "bridge-maker."
I'm sorry, but that simply is not true. I've lost a child. Because of it, I am more faithful, more grateful and more compassionate. Would I rather be like I was but with a 17 year old son today? Absolutely! I'd trade in a second. But that's not reality. In my son's death, I learned a great deal about myself, about others and about God. Much more often than wishing my son were here in this crappy world with me, I wish I was there with him.
Thank you for supplementing my argument.
To wit:
“The Pontifex Maximus (which literally means “Greatest Bridge-maker”)”
Although you claimed “pontifex” means bridge, it does in fact mean “bridgemaker.”
An innocent child losing their life is a cost to them which outweighs the things you wrote of.
It appears those who think it is cruel, confuse immorality with sin. Immorality might be sinful, but sin simply means missing the mark, not performing as God had planned or intended for the Creation.
It is true that sin is exceedingly sinful, and one of the primary reasons not to act independently of what He has provided is to avoid these types of consequences.
For those who don’t think the consequences are necessary, this present age is one additional testing of that same hypothesis advanced by the Adversary that he would make himself like the most high and could run the universe just fine without God. The issues of judging good and evil have not yet been completed, although the fallen angels have been judged.
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