Posted on 05/08/2010 9:30:27 PM PDT by GonzoII
You ARE right, it does reference Luther:
“I am conscious that after I am gone, evil wolves will come in among you, doing damage to the flock;...”
Sorry, but your dear Nana was wrong.
How so?
I see a direct correlation to Saul calling up Samuel from the dead. Samuel was a great prophet of God, absolutely heaven bound, and Saul needed his help most desperately. He was not trying to cast a spell or some such. He was calling up Saul for “good” purposes. Yet, he did great evil.
Just as when you might want to call up St. Anthony or someone a godly man, presumably, for help over an upcoming airline trip. There is nothing wrong with praying for protection in time of travel. The grievous error is in calling up our beloved, departed dead in order to do so.
I hope that if in the past you have called on dead saints for spiritual help, you will stop. It is outside of the will of God.
Scripture is clear on this matter.
I assume what the Catholics are saying is that the Queen of England is damned,along with the Prince of Wales and everyone else in the royal household.
Shame on them being a bunch of damn Anglican.
“So they are alive. And we don’t “contact the dead” we ask for their prayers; not to get nosy news.”
I don’t think Saul was trying to get nosy news from Samuel either, but contacting him about a great matter of spiritual importance, and asking Samuel to INTERCEDE on his behalf.
I would say that if you pray to the dead and ask for them to intercede for you, you are contacting them. Or at least attempting to contact them. Both practices are sin. Hopefully if you were sinning in ignorance it will be forgiven.
“I assume what the Catholics are saying is...”
Really? Why assume? Why not ASK?
Because I believed in my heart that according to Luke that both my grandmother and myself were worthy because of our love of God and our worship of him on the first day of the week.
It is wrong to assume that non-catholics automatically go to hell after a certain age?
And you cannot admit the possibility of error on your part?
How is Mel not living in sin? He was married to his wife for 29 years and then tried to say it was never a marriage. He had a baby with another woman to whom he was not married.
But ignore his public statements if you don’t trust them.
Look at his public behavior. Anyone who behaves as such will face an accounting that no pastor or priest can absolve.
Yes.
Nope, neither can I for my grandmother. Why else would have Jesus Christ died on the cross?
You have less faith in the salvic power of God than I do. So sad.
So Our Lord died for you and everyone, yes?
It is Christ's cup, not the popes'
Indeed. It is His, certainly NOT Luther’s.
“You have less faith in the salvic power of God than I do. So sad.”
Your judgement of my faith is what is sad, shame on you.
The Word of God says that adulterers will face an accounting. That if you divorce your husband or wife without cause and sleep with another then you are committing adultery.
Perhaps your problem is with the Word of God?
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