Posted on 09/10/2007 11:40:04 AM PDT by NYer
Reminds me of Luther. Luther was obessed with his inability to achieve perfection. Because the Catholic way did not work for him, he devised a new faith, one that relieved him of any responsibility for the guilt he felt. This is the way that heresy begins: with the felt needs of the heretric. This poor soul craves validation.
And, I feel compelled to fly like a bird despite not having wings.
I suggest they go for the gusto and name one of themselves Pope. Then their church will be complete.
Like so many loony libs, she’s all about FEEEEEELLINNGGGS, and not about truth.
Truthiness?
Sort of in the same zip code as Truth, but not too near. . . .
He, apparently, was in good company:
Romans 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Oh my word. No one is safe anymore from these nutty subversive feminists!
Tell them to join a convent!
Well, one can accept Luther’s self-identification with Paul or not. I choose not, because Luther never met Paul. Luther even abandoned Augustine’s Interpretation of Paul. I’m almost with the psychologists where Luther is concerned: a single son and a demanding father, whose sole rebellion was to become a monk, and though he became a star, he could never been good enough to satisfy the Father. Then he cut the Gordian knot. Why worry: just let Jesus carry the load.
We have been dealing with the lesbian liberation theologist feminist Marxist nuns since Vatican II.
Our German Shepherd (BXVI) is taking out the garbage. If there is no other indication that there is a God, I would still believe it due to his election.
Our servant of the servants of God is the man of our times.
Feel free, they seem to have stuff figured out?:
1 Tim 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
I've never met Jesus (in the flesh...in the common vernacular) , but I still identify with Him via Gal 2:20:
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Paul identified with Jesus....or not?
I've never read that book. Is it good? Is it worth reading?
Sorry, but unless one accepts Luther’s premises, this is mere rhetoric. And Luther’s whole argument is essentially negative, a rejection of the efficiacy of the Augustinian rule, or at least its efficiacy. Luther obviously thought he had received a divine revelation. His interpretation of Paul ws based on an insight that he thought inspired. Sort of like Descartes’ “Cogito ergo sum.”
Luther was an Austin friar, and his order aimed to go back to the master, largely abandoned the scholasticism of the day. Augustine’s theory of grace was appropriated by Luther and Calvin.
I have MS. I like to play golf, and I’m pretty darn good at it. I want to play on the PGA tour and they jolly well better let me ride a cart.
(p.s. the above as made up.)
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I think they've spent too much time discerning their own will of late.
Incorrect. A latae sententiae excommunication is indeed official.
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