Posted on 12/04/2006 7:52:47 PM PST by Pyro7480
And because he was perfect man, he had a perfect sexual and human nature so we cannot measure him with our own limitations.
Let's say I write a novel. In that novel I have a number of characters who do things as I determine they will do, what color hair or eyes they will have, what gender, where will they be from, how they behave, live, when they die, etc.
I write and they do as I wrote. There is no chance that any character in my novel will 'rebel' and do something that's not in the script, that I didn't put there.
My book will begin, develop and end as I envision it exactly as I wrote it. Nothing will change the outcome once the book is published.
Now, in my book I have a character who is envious of his neighbor. And, one day, in a fit of jealous rage, my character kills his neighbor. What should be my reaction to this act? How should I "feel" as the creator of the character and eveyrhting he does, including the murder, if it is entirely the product of my authorship?
Can I justifiably be 'angry' and 'disappointed' with him? Can I 'repent' for having created him in my book without blaming myself?
"The author of that spendid article forgot that Greek-speaking Jews"
No, he didn't forget. See, the Jews had their own magesteriam, called the Sanhedren, and they decide what is in their canon, not scriveners in Egypt. As Josephesus reported, the Apocrypha didn't make it and no self respecting religious Jew would add it to the canon. Kind of like when the Council of Trent decided after 1400 years to override the doubts of all that went before and add it.
Rationalizations, FK. Gifts are things we give for Christmas, birthdays, Valentine's Day, etc. Freedom is freedom. If someone is freed, he is either pardoned, or released, or "made free." Mercy is just what the word means — mercy; being spared.
Reformers believe that only those predestined to receive mercy will receive mercy, so it is no gift but an 'executive' (no pun intended!) decision before all ages before those receiving mercy were even created (and 'enslaved').
Saint Augustine is a Saint in the Orthodox Church. Saints in the Eastern Orthodox Church can be referred to as "blessed."
I see your point, and maybe "the younger son's 'humility' is false humility" is true. I'm assuming it isn't true, not based on the verses of the parable itself, but on Jesus's lead-in about repentence.
If we assume the younger brother truly repented then that affects the calculation.
Also as far as the "conditioning" to bad behaviour, another consideration: the younger son's experience PRIOR to coming home was not one of positive conditioning. We know that sin is also its own punishment. Sinning boldly results in bold suffering.
CUTE. As long as it's not THIS Mary (lol). Mxxx
And why we protestants are beware of Catholic teachings...
The KJV calls angels in Job 2:1 "sons of God" as well.
We don't exactly ignore the catholic saints. We just believe that God doesn't play favorites and He considers all of us as His saints. Many christians lead remarkable lives too. You don't hear much about them because the media won't print anything good about what christians are doing (and suffering) all over the world.
The church is any body of believers who gather to worship. It's not the Catholic church, annalex. It's not even the building.
Nope. I won't answer him anymore.
I guess the Apostles were not self-respecting Jews then.
How would you know what the Jewish "magistrerium" was considering that the priests who were in charge of the Temple were Sadducees who died out? We only have morphed Pharisees who re-set the canon in Jamnia.
One of the Jamnia-invented requirements for acceptance of any text was that it be written in Hebrew. For three hundred years many Jews used the Septuagint and not one complaint was heard about it.
Their 'beef' was with Christianity being a 'law-breaking' sect which is actually correct. One of the descriptions of +James by Josephus, the 'brother of the so-called Messiah" is said to have been executed as a 'lawbreaker.'
AMEN, b-d.
I dunno, I think we have the whole of the Westminster Confession posted in pieces on this thread.
Must have some weight for some groups of Christians.
I agree, but the way the parable is worded, it looks like he was on his last straw, so to say, before 'repenting.'
We know that sin is also its own punishment.
In the long run, yes, but we are drawn to it because it "feels good and is comfy." It's something we do 'naturally.'
Sinning boldly results in bold suffering
Touché. :)
. why would I want to? It is the revelation of Jesus Christ, the end of prophecy
Rev 22:7
Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book
22:18
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
This has got to be the longest thread in the history of FR! LOL.
But thye are not bound by their creeds.
OH? Sex isn't sin? Not within the bounds of marriage, no. Fornicators will NOT see the Kingdom of heaven. Fornication is SIN, Mercat. Homosexuality is SIN, Mercat. Looking at a woman/man with lust is SIN, Mercat.
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