Posted on 12/28/2006 8:37:27 AM PST by Alex Murphy
Son 5:10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.
Son 5:11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
indeed. Whatever.
Be Chistian all you like. I'll trust God if there's any salvation to be had and not your presumptious psuedo mithraic proclamations.
Oh please the Cult of Mithrus ripped off Christianity not the other way around.
Let me rephrase then:
Be Christian all you like. I'll trust God for any salvation to be had and not some blowhard who's been on FR since July of 06 and thinks he has to add his two cents worth on every religious thread imaginable. Take a few breaths. Familiarity breeds contempts. I'm sure you've heard that one.
oops #83 meant for you.
Oops 82 is still my response.
(isn't calling someone a blowhard making it personal?)
Educated believers are demanding more variety, having more doubts and reworking religion to fit their own mores, lifestyles and cultures. Religion without penance -- no hair shirts, no self-flagellation? No wonder the Pope is worried.
What condescension! But she is right on one point. "Educated" believers want God made in their own image, and are deluded about the nature of reality and the powers of science. People live in their comfortable bubbles and refuse to think about the future. Europe enjoys the moment and refuses to provide for the future. Yet the apocalytic message of global warming terrifies them, I guess because this is something that might impact them in the near term. Didn't Louis XV say "Apres moi, L'deluge?"
Yes, I believe it is.
I make exceptions for those with your kind of hatred.
Knock off the personal attacks.
That's exactly what it says...Any other group has to become Catholic...Muzlims with their relationship to Allah and their belief in Abraham and obviously Mary, are already saved...That's what it says...
You ought to be re-evaluating what your church believes and teaches instead of criticizing folks who have to point it out to you...
However, without the salvific work of the Holy Spirit, there is no salvation, and there is no regeneration of the spirit by the Holy Spirit without the believer exercising the mind of Christ.
Although any number of fishing techniques might be employed, no man brings an unbeliever to God. That is the ministry of God the Holy Spirit after God the Father makes the call. We are able to testify and manifest our witness of His work through faith in Him, demonstrating His Spirit and His power.
It's been said that it only takes a little more faith than absolutely no faith whatsoever for a saving faith.
Satan acknowledges the Creator. Hmmm, ..maybe the present CCC has lost some salt.
But these truths cribbed from actual Scriptures don't give the Koran any inherent value.
Perhaps they just added some 'Sacred Tradition' that would seem to legitimize their religion...
Facts about Islam?
As long as a person of Jewish race denies the sacrifice provided by God Himself, they also deny the God of Abraham.
There were believers and unbelievers amongst the Hebrews of the Tanach. Their race didn't determine their belief. Their status in Abraham's Bosom was still based upon their faith until the resurrection.
"Protestants"? Most protestants know that Islam is just a Christian heresey as Catholic thinkers have long claimed
That said a lot of protestants will do just about anything to try to discredit Catholics (like saying the CCC says Muslims are Catholics...)
That is a minority of Protestants. They are matched by the same sort of thinking about Protestants by a minority of Catholics. I say a plague on the houses of both of these types.
Well I wonder how the "educated believers" will adapt to the islamic cult in the not too distant future?
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