Posted on 07/18/2010 6:04:05 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
In my fantasy world I have invented a speaker death ray that follows the sound to the speaker and blows them to smithereens. I also see the look on the jerk's face.
There are some firearms that are very clear on which end you should be on and which end you should not be on. A Mossberg 500 with a full heat shield, pistol grips fore and aft, multiple shells affixed to the grips and along the magazine, and a laser sight merely adds to the effect.
While you are playing lawyer you ought to check your state's legal code for Hearsay Exceptions-Declarant Unavailable.
Does this mean that I have what it takes to be Calvinist?
FYI the world's fastest growing Christian body's are Protestant Evangelical and Pentacostal.
Yeah, yeah, we've been through this before, have we not? In terms of strictly numbers, the fastest growing churches are Catholicism and Islam.
Discretion is often the better part of valour.
He may well have considered the consequences of the "safe conduct" promised to Jan Hus.
Possibly.
That promise would have surely resulted in one big bonfire with Martin Luther as the meat to be barbecued.
Well, he was not exactly lean; modern day airlines would not have looked kindly upon his girth.
I don't know what you are shooting for but you're missing the target by a mile...Your fellow Catholic posted some scripture and I acknowledged it...Then you mock me for agreeing the scripture says what it did...And then you posted from John to prove your point...
You issue isn't with me, it's with Luke and John...
I can't help it if two different events written by two different authors doesn't match to your liking...
I was responding to Luke 24...I can't even imagine why you brought up some verses in John...
ABSOLUTELY INDEED.
God seems to want a LOT more of us! LOL.
Are you guys sure that it's God? The lord of this world has use for minions, you know...
If I did, I'd be older than you are. His writings live on in infamy; the Church's treatment of him was awful and should never have occured.
Lies? Point out a single lie that I have told about Martin Luther. Either point out my lies or recant them in as public a fashion as you have stated yourself.
The attendance at a certain church? I could believe it, given the posting history...
As I was going to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Each wife had seven sacks
Each sack had seven cats
Each cat had seven kits
Kits, cats, sacks, wives
How many were going to St Ives?
Sounds like the Reformed heading off to the Reformed Heaven along with their pets.
AMEN! AMEN!
THX.
Are you saying that the basis of Universal Unitarianism is hearsay?
Luke 11:27As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you." 28 He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."
Since Jesus had no blood sibling, I will pay attention to Mary's role and the context of Scripture.
Luke 11: has Jesus winding up into full preaching; the calling out was an irrelevancy in the context of his speech and he dismissed it in the context of his teachings. Read Luke 11: from beginning to end and see.
Luke 8: same thing.
Answer me this: if Jesus had no special relationship with his mother, then why would this exchange occur:
John 2: 1 1 On the third day there was a wedding 2 in Cana 3 in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine." 4 4 (And) Jesus said to her, "Woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come." 5 His mother said to the servers, "Do whatever he tells you." 6 5 Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. 7 Jesus told them, "Fill the jars with water." So they filled them to the brim. 8 Then he told them, "Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter." 6 So they took it. 9 And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from (although the servers who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, "Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now." 11 Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs 7 in Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him.
If this passage is to be taken face value, then Mary goes to Jesus and says: Hey - do something!!!! We're here at this wedding and you're contributing nothing and they're outta wine. Get moving. Jesus says: No way. I'm not ready yet. Mary says to the wait staff: Get moving and do what He tells you to (and behind the scenes - get moving you). So Jesus gives them the best wine.
So on the face of it, Jesus disses his mother in public, but when it comes down to crunch time, He does what she asks. Yeah, that's putting her into place. And very Jewish, by the way...
Well, I am sure that my column is well filled. It is going to be a real miracle for me to get to heaven...
"Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the scriptures."
Very good, as long as you realize that this is the words of a man describing the Gospel of Jesus, rather than as many believe that Paul is the Word of God, with the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John as optional extras. Read the Westminster Confession of Faith for an example of the latter.
Ma certo! But of course!
Just as soon as age and experience take the edge off our passions so that we can see clearly, age and senility cloud our intellects. We're just as dumb as we ever were.
Only God is wise.
God. I think that you are very correct. By about 180 degrees.
You issue isn't with me, it's with Luke and John...
Luke and John are great saints. I have no issue with them...
I can't help it if two different events written by two different authors doesn't match to your liking...
Your post implied that they were a single incident and that you posted the Lucan incident as proof over the Johannine incident.
I was responding to Luke 24...I can't even imagine why you brought up some verses in John...
No doubt.
As it will be for any of us.
My love for our Lady and for Dominic is really love for the amazing thing God did in them.
Perfectly stated ,dear Dawg.
It's amazing how many people miss this,thus, miss out on a fuller life that God shared with others that enhances the Christian faith by the example of Mary and the Saints-All of which points us to Christ -who created these Holy people
But look. Nearly everyone in these on-going floating donnybrooks REALLY CARES about Jesus and the Gospel!
If we raise our eyes from the dusty and bloody bar-room floor and look out of the room to the street and the world outside, we see how amazing it is that here are people who really think Jesus and what He did is the MOST important thing.
For a vacation from here, I go on FaceBook, where my friends and people who went to my college and so forth think I am totally out of my gourd to think so much of Our Lord.
These people, most of them, may be "separated" but they are "brethren" nonetheless.
That Quix and I, people of such very different styles and predilections, should have found, by the Grace of God, a way to love one another is a miracle of God. I am utterly persuaded of this.
I daresay we hurt each other. Quix irritates the bejaysus out of me, and it seems that he is horrified or disappointed by much of what I say.
But by the grace of God we see in each other the Love of God (in both the objective and subjective sense of the genitive).
This is a miracle greater than the love between a Montague and a Capulet. and we should be grateful for it, honor it, and take the adventure God sends through it.
Yeah I'm pious. It's the wine.
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