Testimony of a Former Irish Priest

BereanBeacon.Org ^ | Richard Peter Bennett

[xone]

What was that you were saying about Christians being immune to delusions?

Never said they were immune to them.

[xone]

GREAT DECEPTION WOULD BE SO GREAT AND SLICK THAT WERE IT POSSIBLE THE VERY ELECT OF GOD WOULD BE DECEIVED. JESUS SAID IT.

No kidding, which is why I doubt that this is the deception. It is so easily dismissed.

[roamer_1]

Hiya Quix!

Thanks! Sorry I missed some of your posts... I have been very busy... and I am far behind on my pinglist... I am trying to get the time to address it...

[don-o]

A Mossberg 500 in pistol grip with magnum shells of slug alternating with 0-0-0 shot has postive effects on the speakers.

Thankfully, the disruption of relative tranquility was not repeated this evening.

[MarkBsnr]

From the following essay by a former nun here ..."

To quote Ronald Reagan; "There you go again!"

You cite another bogus lying source as your proof. A former Catholic nun? Riiiiggghhhhtttt!

You do realize that a liar citing another liar does sot generate a truth, right? Mary Ann Collins considers herself a former nun although she never took her vows. On all her publications and websites, she lists herself as, "Mary Ann Collins: Former Catholic Nun". She admits she was expelled from the convent she attended but the religious order or convent she attended remains mysterious. She refuses to say where she attended and no one has admitted that Mary Ann Collins attended a convent even as a novice.

Like any good liberal, the antiCatholics here do not depend upon the truth of the source, but only on the intent of the source. If they are antiCatholic, it could a publication straight from the City of Dis and they would cuddle up to it publish to the entire world as proof against Catholics. An old ploy of Old Scratch. Nice to see that we have many, as was termed by Lenin, useful idiots to further the real cause.

You know that he doesn't care about this little fringe cults the litter the churches section of the Yellow Pages. He goes after the Church that counts - the Catholic Church. Why? If the Catholic Church was as demonic as the useful idiots claim, then the brightest angel would have them praised up and down and no attacks upon it. If the Church was indeed the tool of satan, then he would protect it to the best of his abilities. Yet, he attacks it unmercifully. I wonder why....

[Quix]

Or that God allows.

There are millions of Christians . . . perhaps a huge chunk “luke warm” “Christians”

who have not thought things out well . . . and who tend to accept what comes over the TV as fact, truth . . . all the more so wrapped in the religion of scientism.

Some even believe the person at the door that says

“Hello. We’re from the government. We’re here to help.”

I think you are underestimating a lot of related things.

Certainly those walking close to God, hearing His Voice, following His Spirit should be well pretected or martyred and all such joyfully.

Those gullibly taking the mark of the beast . . . won’t have any excuse if they’ve been reading my posts.

I can only be a watchman as best I can.

That’s all God seems to ask of me.

[Quix]

NO SWEAT.

Higher priorities are higher priorities!

[MarkBsnr]

Homer is an imaginary character but I saw Superman on T.V.

Excellent discernment. :)

[MarkBsnr]

Facing death? What Inquisitional Tribunal did he face? What death did he face? Answer: none.

"Sure, just come to Rome Brother Martin, we can work this out." Please.

Your statement was that he faced death by the Church. My statement was a refutation of your statement. Martin Luther went to his deathbed in wealth and luxury and wrapped himself in extreme antiSemitism right up to his last sermon 3 days before his death.

[xone]

Your statement was that he faced death by the Church.

I stand by it, they wanted him in Rome, he didn't go, he lived. Can't say the same for others.

[don-o]

Tough. That is Christianity. Love it or leave it. It is not about to change to accommodate mixed up pseudoChristians who really have no more concept of God than what they see in the mirror.

Stop beating around the bush, would you? :)>

[MarkBsnr]

Your moronic postings will have to go unchecked for awhile. I’m studying for my fantasy football draft.

Since I have no moronic postings, I will have to assume that you meant this for somebody else. Perhaps you might go and look for them. I wish you well in this endeavour. At least better than your previous postings have indicated that your success has been.

[MarkBsnr]

Stop beating around the bush, would you? :)>

I sometimes think that a jackhammer would be more useful in breaking through all that thickness of solid bone.

[D-fendr]

Did Jesus Christ call others to venerate, honor, WHATEVER, Mary? No. THAT’S the point, D-.

I guess now it is. Before, with your scripture proofs, your point was somehow that Jesus was intending to diminish his mother. Ok. We've solved that one. No, new point.

Why is Mary special? Well, obviously she holds a unique role. Where is special honor for her found in Scripture? In Luke:

When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb,
and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said,
"Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy.
Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled."
And Mary said:
"My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior.
For he has looked upon his handmaid's lowliness; behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed.

Which is what the Church does.

Perhaps scripture is saying Elizabeth filled with Holy Spirit turned out to be wrong and that Mary turned out to be wrong or lying.

We don't think so and we give her special honor. Each of us has a different mother we can honor in our separate ways, but all of us have the same Saviour whose mother we can give special honor. You can do as you wish of course, but this is the way we see it.

[MarkBsnr]

I stand by it, they wanted him in Rome, he didn't go, he lived. Can't say the same for others.

Yeah? They wanted him and he didn't go? Facing death? Sounds more along the lines that he refused to show up in a foreign nation to pay a parking ticket. Stand all you will and may it do you well. From the tone of your original post, one might assume that Mossad style hit squads were searching high and low for him, and all the time, he was employed by the University, preaching in his church, living in a baronial estate with land and farmers working for him and you say that Church wanted him dead. Rather toothless, this Church, wouldn't you say?

[Iscool]

They did not recognize Jesus, until He was present in the Eucharist, though their hearts were on fire as He spoke Scripture to them. Sound like anyone we know here?

So they didn't recognize Jesus who was standing in front of them...But when Jesus pulled out some bread and wine, they saw nothing but bread and wine and recognized bread an wine as being Jesus...Apparently all these 'Christ toasts' are real to you guys...

How do you guys actually fall for this type of nonsense??? And then you tell us your religion is based on faith in your religion and reason...

[stfassisi]

Like any good liberal, the antiCatholics here do not depend upon the truth of the source, but only on the intent of the source. If they are antiCatholic, it could a publication straight from the City of Dis and they would cuddle up to it

They cuddle up with each other as well as long as they are anti catholic they are back slapping pals even though the differences between their faith can be further apart from each other.

I have seen Baptists,Methodists, etc... cozy up to those who deny the Trinity as long as they bash the Catholic Church.

This is not the Spirit of Christ that leads the.

As Blessed Fulton Sheen once said..

If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hates. My reason for doing this would be, that if Christ is in any one of the churches of the world today, He must still be hated as He was when He was on earth in the flesh. If you would find Christ today, then find the Church that does not get along with the world. Look for the Church that is hated by the world, as Christ was hated by the world. Look for the Church which is accused of being behind the times, as Our Lord was accused of being ignorant and never having learned. Look for the Church which men sneer at as socially inferior, as they sneered at Our Lord because He came from Nazareth. Look for the Church which is accused of having a devil, as Our Lord was accused of being possessed by Beelzebub, the Prince of Devils. Look for the Church which the world rejects because it claims it is infallible, as Pilate rejected Christ because he called Himself the Truth. Look for the Church which amid the confusion of conflicting opinions, its members love as they love Christ, and respect its voice as the very voice of its Founder, and the suspicion will grow, that if the Church is unpopular with the spirit of the world, then it is unworldly, and if it is unworldly, it is other-worldly. Since it is other-worldly, it is infinitely loved and infinitely hated as was Christ Himself. ... the Catholic Church is the only Church existing today which goes back to the time of Christ. History is so very clear on this point, it is curious how many miss its obviousness..."

[presently no screen name]

Our views are so different that it will be hard to find a place to make contact.

I agree.

The Fathers at Chalcedon and Ephesus did right much testing.

That's not the point. We are to do our own testing. Saying God, I took "x's" word for it won't fly. We are all accountable for our own spiritual walk and He gave us the tool for it. There could be 100,000 people agree on a thing, if it's not Scriptural we don't agree with them because of the number who agree. Majority doesn't rule like in this early realm - the ways of the Kingdom of God are way different - for we are told - through the narrow gate only a few enter. Very sobering, IMO.

I personally, do not think Jesus's teachings don't make sense. I think once my mind is renewed, they make lots of sense.

Exactly. That is what I said. We need a renewed mind and can't use our own understanding. For a new Christian or one not fill with the Holy Spirit - reading 'if one slaps you turn the other check. Or if he takes your cloak, give him another". No way, Jose, that's not going to happen!! And that's a very minor example. Renewing the mind and being Spirit filled is commanded.

You know I became a catholic when I was 46

I spent 2/3 my life as a Catholic.

I do not think we can easily be accused of conforming to a worldly understanding

I don't think that's the main issue at all. It's the RCC teachings and then claim to be God's Church when their teachings are clearly against His Word. The RCC may have their spin on it - but 'it's spin' and not Truth.

strained courtesy one reserves for the head-hunter who somehow ended up at the dinner table.

They must like you, they invited you. ;)

But the main difference is that you have a starker notion of the Fall.

That's where the problem began. Sin, sickness, poverty, plaques, killings, etc., etc - all curses, evil entered in. Before that, well, it was paradise. And that's the reason Jesus came - because of the Fall, man lost dominion over the earth and sin separated from The Father. He came to reclaim what man lost. Our problems didn't start with Barry but deception did put him in our House. Deception is rampant.

It is logic and its principles which will lead you to say you can't think

That's to the extreme - saying you can't think. If you say Mary is the Mother of God and we know God was from the beginning - you use logic and reasoning - if A + B =. It's not like that in the Kingdom of God. We are to believe what He says - in spite of what seems reasonable to us. We use logic for earthly things, if my mother gave birth to me, then she gave birth to the best person alive today. :) That works.

Could Jesus have come down from heaven as a man of 30 years ready to do His ministry and then die for us and rise again. Yes! He can do anything but HE never goes against the way HE designed things. He created woman to give birth - and that's the way HE would come - by His own design. He follows His Own Word, His own Ways - even when He was more than capable of doing it another way. And that's a lesson for us - His Ways are not just for us but HIM, also. His Word will live forever and He will never go against it. Some think - since I'm a good person and have done good works, I know God will let me into heaven. NOPE! He has ONE Way - through Jesus by grace through faith and not works.

When I accept that Jesus is God and man and am then told that I think with a carnal mind, I have to laugh.

Did you leave something out? Like Mary is the Mother of God? Isn't that what the 'carnal' is about? God always was - you can't give birth to something that always was. Even that's logic. She gave birth to the man Jesus "And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men".

[esquirette]

The video was posted on abovetopsecret on March 8.

[metmom]

Saying “”Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.” is one thing.

Making statues of her, praying to her, lighting candles to her, naming churches after her, attributing to her attributes of God alone, and making up stories about her that have ZERO Scriptural basis and declaring them church doctrine is another.