Posted on 12/22/2007 7:56:40 PM PST by melt
A tiny start would be to quit appointing atheists as bishops.
That’s too bad about the Magisterium. It includes the Bible and such. What do you do without that?
Start by getting rid of the Queen Of Canterbury.
Then stop trying to be secular Unitarians.
Easy.
Free Clue: This stood for something.
The Church was translating it into other languages from the beginning. When printing got going and a Book was no longer as relatively expensive as that new courthouse downtown, then the people could afford to own them, too. The Douai Rhiems translation into English happened about the same time as the KJV. And so much for Protestant mythology.
next day BUMP!
Britain has become a 'Catholic country'
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Amen.
Christians must unite.
I don't know if I believe this. THere are 66 chapters in Isaiah alone. If one were read each day that would take up two months. But I don't believe chapters are ever read in their entirety. Nor do I believe the cycle goes all the way through Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deut.
I just want to say I appreciate it when a person replies to provocation with a wise and tempered answer. It matters to be to be prayed for, too.
I pray for you, too: that Our Lord may grant a very Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Pray for good Bishops.
I think you would find that it is in fact true, but you would have to have the entire thing in order for me to prove it. Hard to do. I don’t have the book.
"And the nearly identical structure next to it? 'That's the church I don't go to.'"
And, during this entire discussion, the point attempting to be made is that we, as a Judeo-Christian Nation should be focused on assuring that Islam and its attendant organizations and Sharia Law do not grow and flourish here. That should be "the church I don't go to." Nor should we "go to" any religious organizations that attempt to extract our compliance with a gun to the head or a knife to the throat.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
The world didnt need the catholic church to preserve the bible. How arrogant. God would have preserved His Word with or without the Popes church.
And that He did it WITH His (not the popes)Church doesn’t count for anything? Dismissing how it was ACTUALLY done isn’t arrogant?
Like or dislike anyone you want but credit where it’s due. As the Jews brought the Torah thru four and a half millienia, the Catholic church brought the new Testament thru two millenia.
We seemed to go through the same stuff every year. I don’t know if different diocese use different missals. All I know for certain is that I was amazed when I read the Bible for myself.
The fact is that by the time of Luther the Church had officially and explicitly elevated the opinions of the magisterium above scripture. It was Luther, among others, who called the church to return to the Word. Denial of that fact is both arrogance and ignorance on your part.
Give me a break!!
If you don;t want to eat pork - fine. Don’t eat it.
Check out St. Paul. He had a vision - it featured pork chops.
BINGO! This is what Christians of all denonminations must FOCUS on what UNITES US, not divide us. A Blessed Merry Christmas. :) =^..^=
I’m not Catholic pal.
And the “veneration” Catholics have for her isn;t worship. As a Proestant I respect her.
But here we go again into trivial differences. The Muzzies may “venerate” her, but to them her Son was just a prophet, not the Son of God.
I believe Ireland will be the last stronghold in Europe in the fight against islamic jihad. If it comes down to it, you may see the migration of the “Wild Geese” back to their ancestral home to defend it.
But celibacy is Church Law, not God’s Law. The Catholic Church recognizes that. And as Church law, the Catholic church can change it. I think it would be better for the Catholic Church to allow marriages for secular priests and maintain celibacy for the “regular orders” like monks.
But that is merely my personal opinion and not meant to be a criticism of the Catholic Church, an organization I as a Protestant have great admiration for.
Both Protestants and Catholics have a lot to be ashamed of from back in reformation days, but I think most people fail to realize that "heresy" or "Papism" back then was judged by the temporal authorities more as a form of treason to the State Monarch's choice in religion, whoever he or she might be, rather than from a purely doctrinal perspective. I.e. politics was every bit as important as Theology, and sometimes even more so - look at Cardinal Richelieu and the the Thirty Years War in Germany, or England supporting Catholic Portugal against Spain.
The important thing is to remember what we have in common and to fight together against Islam. As far as personal religious differences among ourselves - live and let live.
REMEMBER - one of the reasons Islams made such quick inroads in the eastern Mediterranean basin was due to “Orthodox” persecution of other Christian sects there. The muzzies tolerated them and so they thought they had it better under Islam.
Time showed they thought wrong.
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