I am J.G.Machen and
I say the Pope is the antichrist.
Who?
Posted on 05/02/2008 2:09:51 PM PDT by Augustinian monk
Throughout the history of Israel the gospel ebbed and flowed. Elijah lamentated that he alone was left and they wanted to kill him. At one time the word of God was all but gone until they found it hidden in a sealed room of the temple during the rein of Josiah. Even in the history of the church, the gospel at times has decreased as well as flourished.
I wouldn't say the Reformation is fading. On the contrary Calvinism is on the rise. But whatever your take, numbers is not a true representation of the correct understanding of the gospel nor of the power of God. How many people God feel is necessary to save His elect is up to Him. But all will be saved. We don't believe in "recruitment". We believe in the power of God to change the hearts of men towards Himself, to the praise of His glory.
Therefore, you believe Benedict XVI is the/an antichrist.
LOL. Then stop saying I've said I disagree with the WCF when you've been shown (and now admit) that I haven't.
For the seventh time, Ratzinger does nothing to dispel the condemnation of the WCF since he maintains he is "another Christ" and that he is "infallible," which only further displays his foul errors.
***I wouldn’t say the Reformation is fading.***
Based upon numbers I’d say it is.
***On the contrary Calvinism is on the rise. ***
A higher percentage of a deflating pie.
***But all will be saved. ***
Only those who are Judged to be saved.
***We believe in the power of God to change the hearts of men towards Himself, to the praise of His glory.***
God does not need our praise or worship. He wants us to love Him. He is the God of Love and Mercy.
Where have I not answered your question?
I never said you disagree or agree with the WCF. I was seeking information.
Do you believe that Pope Benedict XVI is the antiChrist?
Just a point of clarification. God wrote the 10 commandments but these were destroyed by Moses. Moses wrote the second set of the 10 commandments under God's command. Do you believe what Moses wrote was any different that what God wrote? Now if Anselm said there was an 11 commandment and the Church agree, would you agree that Anselm's 11 commandment was at the same level as what Moses' wrote?
But I thought the Roman Catholic church "wrote" the Bible.
Now they've just "assembled" it?
Down-grading our expectations, eh?
Exodus 34:
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Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with them I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
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So Moses stayed there with the LORD for forty days and forty nights, without eating any food or drinking any water, and he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
We have no Scriptural or other evidence that the NT was written in this fashion. I believe that Moses wrote as was dictated based upon these verses.
The hypothetical Anselmic 11th commandment? I put my trust in the Church of Jesus Christ to keep the doctrine pure; I don’t believe that there would be that 11th commandment.
Wow. Is that you, Hillary?
Or just another casual racist remark?
Wrote and assembled.
Do you believe that Pope Benedict XVI is the antiChrist?
As God illustrated to Gideon, numbers means nothing. If you think that numbers make "right" then you may wish to become a Muslim.
Only those who are Judged to be saved.
And what is the basis of that judgment? Works that you do in the name of the Catholic Church?
God does not need our praise or worship. He wants us to love Him.
Nonsense. God doesn't want us to love Him. God wants us to glorify Him.
Mat 5:16 Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in Heaven.
LOL. Amen! By the grace of God for His glory.
"But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear" -- 1 Peter 3:15
***they are recruiting from the savages in Africa
Wow. Is that you, Hillary?
Or just another casual racist remark?***
Some more brilliant editing. Why not bring out the full post? Something to do with a lack of honesty on your part, I suspect.
Do you believe that Pope Benedict XVI is the antiChrist?
Besides, he said it was "sarcasm." lol.
Ah. At last, sanity. So it is not "Bibliolatry" to believe the "Holy Spirit wrote the Bible."
May I quote you tomorrow when you change your mind?
***As God illustrated to Gideon, numbers means nothing. If you think that numbers make “right” then you may wish to become a Muslim.***
If numbers mean nothing, then perhaps the Reformers are doing well.
***And what is the basis of that judgment? ***
Jesus Christ sitting upon the Throne.
***Nonsense. God doesn’t want us to love Him.***
Ah. The negation of the Gospels by the Reformers.
Matt 22:
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“Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?”
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He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
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This is the greatest and the first commandment.
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The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
I think that a rereading of the Gospels might be in order.
You keep bringing up this question so let me answer if I may. According to Wikipedia the AntiChrist is defined as:
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