Posted on 10/31/2010 11:59:22 AM PDT by RnMomof7
In Christ Alone lyrics
Songwriters: Getty, Julian Keith; Townend, Stuart Richard;
In Christ alone my hope is found He is my light, my strength, my song This Cornerstone, this solid ground Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace When fears are stilled, when strivings cease My Comforter, my All in All Here in the love of Christ I stand
In Christ alone, who took on flesh Fullness of God in helpless Babe This gift of love and righteousness Scorned by the ones He came to save
?Til on that cross as Jesus died The wrath of God was satisfied For every sin on Him was laid Here in the death of Christ I live, I live
There in the ground His body lay Light of the world by darkness slain Then bursting forth in glorious Day Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory Sin?s curse has lost its grip on me For I am His and He is mine Bought with the precious blood of Christ
Paul was the supreme example of the grace he was sent forth to proclaim. (1 Tim. 1:12-16).
But he was also accountable to God for everything he received and taught concerning his calling and message. This is why he vigorously defended his apostleship.
"For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles; I magnify mine office.
But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ." Rom. 11:13 and Gal. 1:11,12.
He could not have been taught by the 12 because his gospel was taught him, not by Peter or the 11, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
What? Don't Catholics believe the Bible?
**crickets**
Incredible. He will judged by The Word and he think it is an accessory. It’s going to major crying and gnashing of teeth when that time comes. Those words, all his words, will be brought before him.
Exactly, metmom. It’s even in RED LETTERS, for those who only believe the words written in red...
Why else would anyone fastidiously collect and catalog posting histories if not to use them as ammunition on future ambushes?
We believe the Bible with the Faith that has been given to us from the Apostles. We don't believe the interpretations of the Bible from the rabble and the ruins of the Reformation, and we don't believe the interpretation that you happen to present to us today, as opposed to yesterday, or tomorrow. The Church of Jesus Christ, Lord God Almighty, takes precedent over Luther's any milkmaid who pulls a novel doctrine on a daily basis from the contents of the navel or the whims of the god in the mirror.
“kosta50:As much as talking snakes and donkeys...and people walking on water or being raised form the dead...have you ever seen a talking snake or a donkey or anyone raised from the dead, or do you maybe walk on water?”
I didn’t see men land on the moon so I really can’t believe it happened, can I?
If you read through his epistles, Paul first hustled himself to the 12 in order to be accepted and constantly complained that they didn’t accept him as equals to them. If Paul was so sure, why would he complain so much?
***crickets***
I recall the discussion well. As with many actual Christians it isn't what St. Paul actually wrote that is "loony", it is the bizarre Protestant interpretations and importance that has been assigned to them that invokes the ridicule.
Animals repeating human sounds is not talking anymore than a voice recorder is talking.
Show us examples of anyone on this board who changes their doctrines and interpretations from day to day.
The Church of Jesus Christ, Lord God Almighty, takes precedent over Luther's any milkmaid who pulls a novel doctrine on a daily basis from the contents of the navel or the whims of the god in the mirror.
No, the RCC just changes it's doctrines en masse at councils where the church leadership gets together, changes it's collective mind on some issue, and declares it new doctrine and the old invalid.
The only difference between what you're complaining about and what the Catholic church does is that when the Catholic church does it, they give it their own stamp of approval to validate it to themselves and then go on to act as if nothing is really any different.
Apparently your recall is completely flawed.
That is NOT what the conversation was about.
As far as I am concerned, I am finished with this discussion. If you disagree, then let’s ask the Religion Moderator if everyone on THIS thread gets to bring up the topic at least once, or not.
Because I consider the continuing remarks to be, as the Religion Moderator said, “flame baiting.”
RM, please excuse the courtesy ping. I have continually tried to end this.
Well, kosta50, you are being a bit less than effusive with your answers to my questions, but I will take them in good faith.
Would you agree that in the first words of his gospel, John is positing that the Word, the Logos who became flesh and dwelt among us, was at the beginning, was with the Cause, and was Himself Cause? Do I understand rightly on this, in your opinion?
Note that I am not at this point speaking to the issue of John’s veracity in these things.
Paul was sent forth as another apostle, to bring another message to a world of lost sinners: "the gospel of the grace of God." That is what the book of Acts is, a transition period from law to grace, from a kingdom of believers to a body of believers, and from the nation Israel to the oneness of Jews and Gentiles in one new man, the Church the Body of Christ.
The 12 disciples were still in Jerusalem, doing exactly what they were told to do by Christ, preach the kingdom gospel to Israel first and then the rest of the nations. But they weren't getting far, Israel wasn't accepting it.
You can understand the differences between the 12 and Paul if you understand that their calling and their messages were different. One was to A NATION. And one was to THE NATIONS. One concerned prophecy. And one concerned a mystery.
Thanks for the ping!
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