Posted on 03/24/2008 3:36:37 PM PDT by annalex
Luke 2:29, “Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word”. “According to thy word” was a prophecy to him and it fulfilled the Isaiah prophecies to Israel.
I thank you for calling my attention to this. I had never heard of "the Lineage Guru board." Ferine, like QUIX, has been using my server space without authorization.
However, since you DO know about this board, perhaps YOU are Ferine.
Enjoy the salve, you need it.
Ahhhhh that old perceptual problem again . . .
LOL.
Indicated . . . to . . . whom! ?? LOL.
To the reader.
I had similar thoughts but . . . far better for you to articulate such . . .
You have such a masterful way with things. Am frequently in awe of your skills at such.
Humbled and honored. Thanks.
I suppose we could prepare a Dick and Jane kindergarten version for the nutty cult of the RC edifice at large but I’m sure we have better things to do.
Besides, they are used to groping along in confusion.
If I may help you out with a "concept." It is considered poor taste around these parts to talk about someone without pinging them to the post.
Hey Quix, in a spirit of Christian love I hung the images in question on my Photobucket site for your exclusive use. Enjoy
Talk about pulling something completely out of context this is it. Augustine wrote this to confront the Mani heresy.
This is not the place to attempt any account or criticism of the strange eclecticism of Mani.[9] An adequate idea of the system may be gathered from the accompanying treatises. It may, however, be desirable to give some account of the original sources of information regarding it.
We study the systems of heresiarchs at a disadvantage when our only means of ascertaining their opinions is from the fragmentary quotations and hostile criticism which occur in the writings of their adversaries. Such, however, is our only source of information regarding the teaching of Mani. Originally, indeed, this heresy was specially active in a literary direction, assailing the Christian Scriptures with an ingenuity of unbelief worthy of a later age, and apparently ambitious of promulgating a rival canon. Certainly the writings of its early supporters were numerous;[10] and from the care and elegance with which they were transcribed, the sumptuous character of the manuscripts, and the mysterious emblems with which they were adorned, we should fancy it was intended to inspire the people with respect for an authoritative though as yet undefined code. It is, indeed, nowhere said or implied that the sacred books of the Manichæans were reserved for the eye only of the initiated or elect; and their reception of the New Testament Scriptures (subject to their own revision and emendation) would make it difficult for them to establish any secret code apart from these writings. They were certainly, however, doctrines of an esoteric kind, which were not divulged to the catechumens or hearers; and many of their books, being written in Persian, Syriac, or Greek, were practically unavailable for the instruction of the Latin speaking population. It was not always easy, therefore, to obtain an accurate knowledge of their opinions. Commentaries on the whole of the Old and New Testaments were written by Hierax;[11] a Theosophy by Aristocritus; a book of memoirs, or rather Memorabilia, of Mani, and other works, by Heraclides, Aphthonius, Adas, and Agapius. Unfortunately all of these books have perished, whether in the flames to which the Christian authorities commanded that all Manichæan books should be consigned, or by the slower if not more critical and impartial processes of time.
Mani himself was the author of several works: a Gospel, the Treasury of Life (and probably an abridgment of the same), the Mysteries, the Foundation Fpistle, a book of Articles or heads of doctrine, one or two works on astronomy or astrology, and a collection of letters so dangerous, that Manichæans who sought restoration to the Church were required to anathematize them. Mani Heresy
Quix is already here.
The trouble is that the Holy Spirit Himself is an extra-Biblical authority as much as a Pope or Council. The third Person of the Trinity is clearly not identical with the truths He has expressed, through human authors, in the Bible. It follows that even if Calvin’s Proposition D is true, it contradicts Proposition B, for "if all revealed truth is to be found in the 66 books," then that leaves no room for the Holy Spirit to reveal directly and non-verbally one truth which cannot be found in any passage of those books, namely, the fact that each one of them is inspired.
Two problems with this diatribe...
The first is that your church ignores the very scripture that warns us to stay away from people who try to understand the scripture with an intellectual, philosophical view...
Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
The second is that the bible is a Spiritual book...It's a Holy Spirit book...It is out of reach for intellectual philosophers...
When people say the Holy Spirit leads them to understand the scripture, you just don't get it...Spiritual and logical just don't jive...
Luk 24:45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures,
Rom 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Because I wasn’t aware of what the pic was of.
If one is aware of what the pic is of . . .
THEN
It’s BRAZENLY OBVIOUS.
BTW, a number of folks clued me in.
So the evil deed was well known by many from the beginning. I was the slow one because I didn’t know what the pic was of.
It did, however, feel a bit dirty in my spirit when I first viewed it.
But I should be thankful.
It was a screaming declaration of the values of the nutty cult of the RC edifice.
But in a spirit of Christian love I thank you for helping QUIX understand the distinction between the image and the server space.
Now I’m even MORE humbled and honored.
Thanks tons.
I know, it’s a trick to get me to love Calvinists MORE.
LOL.
Doesn’t matter.
For all you know he may have posted his last on this thread.
Right, so where is that prophesy in the only Scripture existent at the time he referred to it: that is the Old Testament?
Actually, to help your reality testing improve a bit . . .
I was aware of that distinction before I was aware of Petronski or even FR.
I’ve had a terminal or computer in my home since 1976.
How about you?
No, I happen to be a Christian. Calvin was just more right in his understanding than most.
So then it's just your communications issues that are at fault. Got it.
And the apostasy of Korah warned about by Peter was rebelling against authority by claiming all were equal.
Uh, nope.
Given the number of folks who understand my communications quite easily, clearly, accurately right off my fingers . . .
and as a communciations specialist in a number of ways and respects . . .
I’d have to disagree.
Seems to be a perceptual problem. Though I suppose flawed cognitions COULD play a part.
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