Posted on 09/15/2006 7:40:18 AM PDT by Froufrou
The Bible was written and orginally published by men under the guidance of God through the Holy Spirit.
Those individuals who translated, and wrote the original Gospels were under God's "supervision", they were Blessed and as individuals we owe them much.
But God gave clear direction in the Bible to change it not one jot or tittle.
But the Catholic clergy DO change the Bible with their own interpretations. They claim that their interpretations are Divine and that church members must adhere to their authority.
That is blasphemy (as is the idol worship which is so prevalent in the Catholic church).
A man, or group of men, who claim spiritual authority over men is practically the definition of a charismatic cult.
IIIIIII'MMM OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD, THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZZZZZZ.
OK, you are right. Now go shake a snake or something.
Muslims enraged by ___________. (fill in the blank)
That better?
Bet those suits of armor are lined with Kevlar.
So we have to change the lyrics to 'HE wore a pearl necklace'? Yuck.
The halberd was developed specifically to take out a knight in shining armor.
"We're not violent! we will slay the infidels who call us violent! we will chop the heads off those who call us bloodthirsty"
If they harm the him, we can expect that our secular leadership would do nothing. But let's pray that if such a thing happens, God will perform a miracle and give the rest of the Western world some stones so we can get to work eradicating the muslim menace once and for all.
No.
The Bible asks us to submit to authority but the Lord is still our Shepherd, Christ is and always will be, and His teachings cannot be perverted by Church leaders.
We have the freedom to disavow church leadership when it betrays the teachings of Christ, which is why we are commanded by Christ to read for ourselves the Bible and understand when the leadership goes astray.
Let read more of the Hebrews and Ephesians passages that you have referred to;
" 7 Remember those who rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their conduct. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 9 Do not be carried about[c] with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them. " -- Hebrews 13"1 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— 16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love." -- Ephesians
Each of us individually must be mature and not submit to blind obedience, for God has given us eyes to see by His Words.
Both leaders got it EXACTLY right (600 years ago, and 60 years ago), why can't today's world leaders?
Dear Islam: Put a sock in it!
We'll show we're not violent by burning this here effigy of the pope.
Muslim students burn an effigy of Pope Benedict XVI at a protest rally in Allahabad, India, Friday, Sept. 15, 2006. A growing chorus of Muslim leaders has called on the Pope to apologize for the alleged derogatory comments made by him about Islam. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
"I'll have the roast duck with mango salsa."
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