Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: HiTech RedNeck
I believe that the Catholic position is essentially: "God said it! We believe it! That settles it!" I don't know that we invented that formulation but we certainly agree with it.

I try not to pick unnecessary fights among Christians.

God bless you and yours!

116 posted on 07/03/2014 6:36:48 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline, Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Society: Rack 'em Danno!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 105 | View Replies ]


To: BlackElk

The trouble point is the claim (and evangelical churches sometimes do this as well, with equally self-hobbling results): “God said our institution comes up with all the right answers.” The more a particular Christian has had unmistakably supernatural experience of the actual Lord, a Spirit who lives up to His biblical credentials and who conquers lesser spirits, the less he or she will be to fall into this difficulty. If honest, we find ourselves at times to be uncomfortably God-phobic. We’ve got more sin than we would like to believe we do. And the actual grace of God amazes more and more.


119 posted on 07/03/2014 7:16:09 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 116 | View Replies ]

To: BlackElk

And ultimately “sexual perversions” are seen as wrong not because a church said so, but because the exquisite merit of the plan that the Lord ordained shows those distortions up for the phoniness that they are.

To be blunt, sinful humanity, when dealing with this kind of love, is so often like bulls in a china shop.


120 posted on 07/03/2014 7:21:03 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 116 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson