Posted on 10/27/2009 1:07:10 PM PDT by NYer
They only bash us out of love.
Ping for later
It’s a Christian thing. You wouldn’t understand.
Ever read Galations?
Paul was full of joy when that church followed a false Gospel.
Why? According to your own theology, if we're damned, we're damned because God made us that way. Likewise, if we're saved, we're saved because God made us that way.
And either way, nothing we (or you) do can "change" that decree in any way, it can only provide evidence of that decree to the world.
Why are you "concerned" about the eternal, ineffable, immutable decree of a sovereign God, pronounced before the foundation of the universe? Clay, meet potter.
Or are you really a closet Arminian? Is your theology so dreadful and impossible that even you don't really believe it?
***Why? According to your own theology, if we’re damned, we’re damned because God made us that way. Likewise, if we’re saved, we’re saved because God made us that way.***
Simples.
Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God.
God tells us to preach the truth so that some may be saved.
Do you rely on Christ’s 100% perfect sacrifice, or do you keep some portion of the work for yourself, even if that work is a period spent in purgatory?
lol. Yep. There is something in fallen man that loves the rituals, the adornments, the hoops they jump through in order to (vainly) prove their own good works can save them - completely missing the point of the New Testament.
But now the righteousness of GOD without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of GOD which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." -- Romans 3:20-26 "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Therein is salvation, as Paul teaches us, though some deny it and claim for themselves the glory of God alone.
If Episcopalians head to Rome, then they were most likely never on the path of Christ to begin with.
"They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us." -- 1 John 2:19
It does seem ironic that some Episcopalians are crossing the Tiber because they think they're getting away from homosexuality.
ROTFLOL. I guess you have your answer.
"As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever." -- Isaiah 59:21
And some, not so much.
Yes, when you see drowning people floundering in a river, toss them an anchor, that’s the ticket
Dr. Eckleburg's been throwing anchors at folks safely standing on the shore for years. Drowning's got nothing to do with it.
You're trashing Italian tourism now?
No, but it doesn’t surprise me you’d think so, seeing as how Rome and its magisterium and its papacy are viewed as “infallible,” according to...the magisterium and the papacy.
I told you, I’ve never been to Rome. I’ve never been further east than Roissy Charles de Gaulle.
That is "mind-reading," according to the rules of FR religion forum. You are telling me what I think.
Learn the rules. They make our conversations on FR a lot clearer.
lol. And then tell the drowning man he can pull himself from the riptide by his own effort.
Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies... I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving." -- Psalm 69:15-16,30"Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Coincidentally, just this morning I was reading Hebrews 6. The only "anchor" we require is the promise of God's grace through faith in Christ, "which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast."
There is a difference between restating what someone has said, and putting words into someone else's mouth. If you'd prefer, I could have written...
"it doesn’t surprise me you'd think write, state and believe so (that I was 'trasing Italian tourism') seeing as how Rome and its magisterium and its papacy are viewed as “infallible,” according to...the magisterium and the papacy.
They can always take the route I did and become Baptists.
It may not be a "high" service, but there will be a lot Scripture.
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