Posted on 10/15/2001 6:54:40 AM PDT by malakhi
| Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue. - John Adams |
Yep, read the definition of each.
Now, the only word in the passage having anything to do with the dead is "necromancer".
Ahem - no. You recognized necromancy, you haven't researched the other arts or you'd realize immediatly that your statement is in error.
Webster's dictionary defined "necromancy" as "the art of, or a device for, revealing the future by pretended communication with the spirits of the dead; hence magic in general; conjuration." "Necromancer" is defined only as a derived form.
Research Necromancy - Webster's is a highly simplified view of what it is. Necromancy involves communing with the dead rather regularly for more than revealing the future. The bible also forbids the likes of psychics - who even today claim to communicate with the dead for their clients. You really need to study better, bud.
Thus, following standard protestant exegetical methods, we find that saying "St. David of Wales, patron of my soul, pray to Christ God that he grant mercy to my soul." Is not forbidden by the commandment of God which you cite.
You err in so doing. You need to talk to Angelo and study better!
By the way, are you so scrupulous about these things that you wouldn't buy a linen-wool blend jacket? (Just wondering--that's forbidden to the Jews in the Old Covenant too.)
Is any law less than another or more easy to break than another and get by with? If it is ok to break the least of the laws, is it not then ok to worship the devil? Sin is sin. Disobedience is disobedience. One sin is neither greater nor lesser than another. If you be disobedient in one thing, you are disobedient in all - for all are sin. And all sin is equal. Why do you tempt God with your words?
I agree completely and that includes the magic sternum.
So then it is your belief that "Proddies" go to hell?
This comes awfully close to blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Isn't that sin unforgivable? I'll pray for you, for what it's worth.
Note, in all these cases, God commanded these things be done. Are you God that ye may command anything? Do you usurp authority that God holds to himself as an excuse to break His laws?! Who are you that you should Judge God and His actions?! Who is your clergy that they may teach you to do so by default! You tempt the Lord with your words and have no realization of what you speak. God does as His purpose leads Him to do. You're Clergy does the same. The word shall judge. And the Lord will have his day!
Is this historically accurate?
This is the RC version of the liberal's line that the Constitution is a "living, breathing document". Thus allowing them to make up, out of thin air, anything that they so desire, as long as the magisterium, er... high court agrees to it. A very edifying post SD.
I thought you were going to post something about the magic sternum. Where is it?
Not until we stop our evildoing. 1.5 million baby murders per year. We have plenty of our own evildoers.
Changing the subject from spiritualism to demonic possession. Nice try Gomer.
There aren't any loopholes there. Some of us understand the spiritual. Jesus said exactly what we claim he said. You can't defend against that. Instead you ignore everything he said on the subject except what you want to hear that would support your views if it were the only things he said. Fortuneately for us, he said more than you are willing to deal with. And because he did; we know the truth from the mouth of the Lord. Major difference here is, as usual, we accept the whole Bible as Christians. As Catholic you take what your clergy tells you and ignore the rest. Afterall, they know better what Jesus said than you. You can't read and understand anything. You're just a lowly ignorant moron that can't comprehend as they can. They are men with titles they have to know more than you. The Devil is more brilliant than you'll ever be - he's wrong too. But your clergy uses a lot of his tricks...
He's had a banner day of throwing scripture verses out there whether they pertain or not.
Your numbers are a bit off. A little more than 50% support abortion. Our nation has 280 million people. 180 million righteous is a bit much. By the way Psalms says it rains on the righteous as well as the wicked.
Did 6,000,000 of his chosen deserve it?
Sure. Lots of them.
And lots of Catholics too.
There is a huge difference between being IN the covenant and being OF the covenant. There are LOTS of people in even the most Spirit-filled churches that can hear the Gospel over and over and over and never have it never touch their heart. This is why so many Catholics "get saved" by leaving the church and why so many Protestants "come home" never having heard the Gospel where they grew up.
I'm not claiming it wasn't preached properly... they just weren't open to it at the time. The church we often attend here (my wife grew up Baptist) is a "non-denominational" Bible church where the pastor never lets a service end without giving a simple Gospel message (kind of like an altar call but without calling them to the altar), yet just last quarter we had a baptism service where a 25ish guy went on about never having "heard" the Gospel until he got to the last year of college - but he had atended this church about every Sunday since he was a kid! (The pastor did a good job of not being too depressed - you know, the whole plant, water, sow thing).
Huh, what numbers? I didn't give any numbers.
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