Posted on 03/24/2008 3:36:37 PM PDT by annalex
Good question. What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem? -- was the famous formulation of it.
The answer is, we can because universal Wisdom, -- the wisdom of Socrates and Aristotle, -- is of Christ also. "The spirit of the Lord hath filled the whole world (Wis. 1:7).
It is not coincidental that the New Testament was written in Greek, and the foundational version of the Old Testament, the Septuagint, is in Greek also. We are the new guests at the wedding.
You got it, bro.
2nd Peter, from which my text is taken, IS about apostasy. Peter is saying our guide is the word handed down by the prophets, our Lord, and the apostles. There is nothing to avoid.
Difference.
Hmmmmmm.
:oD
There is a Catholic Church that I pass by ocassionally, that features a large banner posted on the building outside. It's message reads:
If that isn't "confusing the law and the Gospel", I don't know what is.
Thanks, Harley. In fact, I have a simple principle for these Catohlic conversion series: originally I pinged Alex, NYer and Salvation because they have large ping lists. Some of the three pinged their lists, and some didn’t, and since then I simply ping everyone who posted anything. So you are in, ipso facto of your posting.
Hmmmmm....I’d sure like to read that last one. ;O)
Much appreciate the points added to my Heavenly account.
Thanks.
Harley: This is one of the most appalling displays of ignorance I have seen in writing
I'd say the author's remark is self-evident. Did the Holy Spirit produce a biblical ID (whatever it might be) when it allegedly advised Rev. Calvin, who disagreed with Luther, who disagreed with the 1500 years of the Church?
If the Holy Spirit authenticates any scriptural interpretation, then it is by this very fact is an extra-scriptural authority.
What the Jews did to their canon should not be of consequence to us; yet Luther was the one who switched to their canon.
There is no linearity here. The Jews had the revelation of God available to them prior to the Incarnation of Christ. But Luther had the revelation of Christ and denied it.
Yes. By whom was it established though? Luther?
^^^Obey the Ten Commandments for Everlasting Life^^^
OH! Is that all I have to do? < /sarc>
The Pelagianism of Rome must be why so many cross the Tiber. The crossers just want to get in touch with their inner-heretic.
Will you please act like a grown up? If you want a cartoon thread, start one.
***Yes. By whom was it established though? Luther?***
The Holy Spirit
How, do you think, the verses you posted relate to what the author wrote?
I have never maintained or used a "large ping list", especially not in regards to Catholicism or even theology at large. The only lists I have ever maintained or used pertain to satire, Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer and (one abandoned many years ago) a Meteorology club. The first two lists are shown on my profile page. Any investigation into my posting history (which can be accessed from my profile page) would have shown you that I use no other lists, certainly not "large" ones.
Please cease pinging me to your threads and posts, or even from talking about me in posts to others, under any circumstances real or imagined, ever again.
But you said Luther truncated it, which is not true. Luther kept all the books, he just put the ones in question in an appendix.
This is a very convoluted interpretation, which also presents a Christ Who would not give a straight answer to a heartfelt and vitally important question, "what do I need to do to be saved?". There is nothing in the context that suggests it; in fact, one of the gospels that relate the episode also mentions that Christ said all that to the young man "loving him", yet He allowed him to walk away.
Further, it is by far not an isolated passage exhorting men to good works, -- in fact, the gospels are filled with such.
Ugh. He sets off to worship a particular human “church” organization rather than God, parses words and is fast and loose with propositions, and calls himself a logician.
Not understanding (possibly deliberately) basic principles of the Protestant Reformation does not make it false. Of course, starting from the assumption of a perfect human “church” organization existing in the first place is just asking for trouble.
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