Posted on 12/04/2006 7:52:47 PM PST by Pyro7480
I have an image for you (No, not THAT kind of image ...): In VA the summers are dry. And on my farm I had several humongous lengths of hose to water all the sheep in all the different paddocks. And sometimes there's a leak in one of the hoses, or where two hoses are linked. How you know the location of the leak is that that's where the grass is greenest. You can't see the hose, you can't see the leak. You can see the growing grass.
Now THERE's a vocation!
When I was a Pepsicola priest I had a "high" theology of preaching: If I beg God to give me good utterance, and you beg God to give you good hearing, then we have a reasonable hope that this sermon will have a discernible relation to what God wants spoken and heard.
So when I began,"In the name of the Father ..." somebody might have thought I was claiming some authority. Not at ALL! It was just Church talk for "This is dedicated to the one I love," and I encouraged "my" people to listen in the same vein. I guess one difference is that when I thought I was truly ordained (as I do NOT now think) I thought that God would use my mouth, if I offered it to Him.
I would like to see quix froathaly refute each
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Sometimes, some things are not worth the bother.
Besides, Mary herself or The Lord will refute such in His timing.
God knows the Truth. Indeed a thing is true because He says it.
And concerning your two presumptions, God knows the truth of the matter on both points. Ask Him if I belong to a schismatic sect and whether you know His will.
display whatever emotion you like the fact that you're wrong is true regardless of your reaction to it.
Mary has rightly been called the mother of God by all real Christians.
If you're not in communion with the true church but somehow suggest that you're a Christian then you're a member of a schismatic sect plain and simple.
What a strange thing to say. Is there a reason for it?
aw an i was so looking forward to another of your rants...
folks who reject the teaching of Christ and the Apostles and the church which Christ established which has been guided by the Holy Spirit indeed protest against God's will...
Neither AlamoGirl or Quix reject the teaching of Christ or the apostles or the church. You should apologize or go home
sure they do. they propel separatist ideas that fracture the church Christ established, they refuse to heed simply commandments with regard to women in church, they do everything they can to rationalize their own invented ideas and project them onto scripture which utterly denounces them.
all real Christians.
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh more offensive language . . .
Oh, dear.
Oh, me. Oh, my. Oh, dither. Oh, fret, Oh, bother. Oh outrage. Oh hail Monica full of grapes. Whatever will I do.
Let me polish my shoulder chips. Let me get my ranting clothes on. Let me flail about and rend my clothes.
Oh, dear, kawaii considered me not a real Christian. Oh, my. How can I survive. How can I be at peace. Oh fret. Oh fluster.
I'd better rush out and get umpteen volumes from the magesterical to refute such an outrageous, horrendous idea.
naw.
God knows.
He's the one that counts.
So "worshipping Mary" is also just me being me ... doing what I think/feel is the most righteous thing to do. So what.
So complaining about needlessly confrontative and gratuitously offensive languages is also just me being me ... doing what I think/feel is the most righteous thing to do. So what.
I think considering the effects of one's words on others is part of using them well.
not in communion with the true church
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More offensive language.
Oh, dear.
How can A-G survive such horrific assaults. Whatever will she do. Oh, me, Oh, my.
You been around them there sheep too much. Don't they often come down with foot and mouth disease?
The Spirit is the Living Water that flows from the belly of every Christian. It is the water that makes the grass grow, not the hose - not the person handling the hose - not our errant doctrines and traditions:
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. - Jer 2:13
Looking forward to one of my rants? Are you being truthful?
Oh, me.
Welllll, stay tuned . . . one should be along any day now.
ok quick poll who here goes to a church where women cover their heads while praying?
oh?
but it says plainly in scripture...
*waits for the slew of drivel defending mankinds right to ignore God's commandments*
:)
folks who reject the teaching of Christ and the Apostles and the church which Christ established which has been guided by the Holy Spirit indeed protest against God's will...
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, and we can build a much more solid
HISTORICAL AND BIBLICAL CASE
that the RC edifice does that and has repeatedly done that far more horribly and far more routinely than virtually any of the better Protestant denominations and for far longer.
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