Posted on 03/28/2008 8:25:48 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
What are you? The moderator?
What are you? The person who says "my dog would never pee on your door step" while the dog is actually peeing on the doorstep at that moment?
“What are you? The person who says “my dog would never pee on your door step” while the dog is actually peeing on the doorstep at that moment?”
No. I have a much better vocabulary. I prefer the use of standard English rather than crass slang.
As they say in the Air Force.... you know you are close to the target when you start taking flack.
Unfortunately, my experience and observations of posts on the FR religious forum causes me to have to stand by my statement.
lol. Sadly, you've missed your chance. The Lord called Pastor Bahnsen home in 1995 after Bahnsen underwent his third open heart surgery. He was a terrific writer, teacher, pastor and preacher of the Gospel and a mighty debater of God's word. Many of his debates with atheists and Roman Catholics were taped, and are online.
Here's his bio from Theopedia...
And here's a wonderful testimony by Ken Gentry to his friend and mentor...
APPOINTED FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE GOSPEL:
The Life and Ministry of Greg L. Bahnsen
And here's a short review of one of his most accessible books, "Always Ready: Directions for Defending the Faith."
Catholics believe Scripture is the inspired word of God and the Holy Spirit is Gods means of instructing men through His word.
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I gather that your point is that Prottys don’t believe that???
And what is your evidence for such an outrageous assertion/perspective?
A) I don't hate the RC edifice.
B) I certainly don't hate the authentic Mary, Mother of Jesus.
I do hate the snow job satan has achieved with the RC edifice along a number of lines involving:
1. rank, brazen, outrageous idolatry and blasphemy . . . as well as
2. raising political RELIGIOUS POWER MONGERING to an art form and calling it holy.
I'm thoroughly and utterly convinced that such things are from the pit in every group and denomination of any significant age whatsoever and all amongst the worst in the most !!!!TRADITIONAL!!!!, fossilized, calcified, rigid, narrow, spiritually ignorant of such RELIGIOUS organizations--of which the RC edifice is a prime example.
I didn't write THE STANDARD. God did. And against HIS STANDARD, the RC edifice itself indicts, accuses, demonstrates it's own guilt relentlessly, brazenly, wholesale across the planet in a myriad of ways.
It is not hatred to point out where God's standard is 180 degrees from an individual's or a group's persistently demonstrated lived walk, life, existence. On the contrary, there's likely much love in persisting in such courageous efforts.
Some of us don't hate much of anything except satan and his works.
Humans--all of us--are flawed works-in-progress.
Certainly some with some tenacious support of satan's schemes, memes, efforts, perspectives, strategies, deceptions, idolatries, blasphemies . . . can be annoying, frustrating and troublesome to deal with. But hate is not on the able--not for me, anyway.
C) Christ did not establish the RC edifice. There's no reasonable Biblical basis for it and no historical basis for such a conclusion. Rubber Bibles and Rubber histories do not count. Noise to the contrary is mere noise and myopic "IN-GROUP" blindness.
imho, the sickness is siding with satan in behalf of the very things Christ Himself most fiercely railed against.
The sickness is in making of Mary a blasphemous, idolatrous cartoon figure she herself would be furious about if God allows her to know about such travesties at all.
One day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord of Lords and King of Kings. There will be NO Hail Mary's first; No rushing to Mary's presumed bosom for a quick consultation about whether such is kosher, or not; No looking back wistfully at the statue in the local grotto or alcove or altar.
Those who can wholeheartedly sing
ALL MY PRAISE TO CHRIST ALONE
Will gather at His feet. I'm not sure what He'll do with those double-minded sorts who give 80% of their time, energy and attention to a satanic blasphemous, idolatrous farce labeled in Mary's name. But I wouldn't want to place my bets on His pleasure with them.
And Praise God for that priceless distinction.
And which perspective is most suited to being deceived and consumed by the satanic globalists? One guess.
Contrast this with the author's assertion of the Catholic view that one can have all sorts of dfferent things and you can readily see the problem. Candles, beads, water, are all corrupt means through understanding God. Signs and symbols are meant to draw people away from God, not to Him. Only His word is given to draw us to Him.
You do know what a High Horse is don't you?
FR is not the universe. In the big picture it is meaningless.
By your own standards you qualify as a "Protestant hater".
I do like your position though. Ecumenism , by your terms, is not possible.
Orthodox Judaism has had its own "physical sacraments" for over 3300 years without reducing the Torah to mythology. Hmm.
That is, if I don't mess up.
The first thousand years were a disaster for Christendom? Apart from the tragedy of the separation of East and West, whose doctrine has deviated the most from that beginning in the past 500 years?
Of course I didn't say the first thousand years were a disaster for Christendom. I will say it became increasingly so as the power and wealth of the "Church" increased.
Do you think it was always a bed of roses? What happened to the first "heretics"? Were there any "Bad" Popes? Was there increasing corruption in this "Church"?
The first thousand years were a disaster for Christendom? Apart from the tragedy of the separation of East and West, whose doctrine has deviated the most from that beginning in the past 500 years?
None of the early "Christians" would recognize the RCC of today and for that matter, most of the Protestant Churches.
If I gave you a list of pejoratives for Catholic belief that I've seen, I really don't think you could match it.
It's not the list of perjoratives which are meaningful is it? If I damn you with one thousand different adjectives is it any different from damning you with one word?
The various Popes in history have had some loving words for "heretics" haven't they, not to say a thing about the fate of these "heretics".
Ecumenism means different things to different people and I believe it means "under the auspices of the Pope" to the RCC. Unless, of course, you can imagine the Pope being subordinate to a Christian Leader chosen by the "Council of Churches" for, lets say, a five year term.
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