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In Christ Alone (Happy reformation day)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExnTlIM5QgE ^ | Getty, Julian Keith; Townend, Stuart Richard;

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


TOPICS: Prayer; Theology; Worship
KEYWORDS: reformation; savedbygrace
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To: presently no screen name
Why are you speaking about God when you don’t know Him or if He exists

I mention your God because he appears in the "self-authenticating" book of yours under that name, among others.

You write as if you have seen him in person.

No, the book where he appears is not a real book.

Do you speak about Alice in Wonderland much?

Never. Obviously, you do.

It’s already established you believe in Santa.

really? I never mentioned Santa; you did.

4,421 posted on 12/02/2010 8:33:26 PM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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To: boatbums

More OT prophecy of John The Baptist and the coming of Jesus fulfilled.

Isaiah 40
A voice cries:
“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Every valley shall be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,
and the rough places a plain.

And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see it together,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”


4,422 posted on 12/02/2010 8:33:32 PM PST by presently no screen name ("Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down.." Mark 7:13)
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To: boatbums; presently no screen name

John 19:23-25

23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, 24so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.” This was to fulfill the Scripture which says,

“They divided my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.”

So the soldiers did these things, 25 but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

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Psalm 22:17I can count all my bones—they stare and gloat over me; 18 they divide my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.

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For that matter, all of Psalm 22 written centuries before Christ came and died, prophesied about Him.

There’s proof for you, although it’s just as likely to be dismissed by anyone who doesn’t WANT to believe, and that’s all it ever gets down to. For the one who doesn’t want to believe, even a material, confirmed resurrection, wouldn’t be enough.

Even if someone rises from the dead, they won’t be convinced.


4,423 posted on 12/02/2010 8:34:44 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
And here we have an excellent case study of why people who do not believe in God should not be taken seriously when expounding on the Scripture they consider part of a magic book written by a God they don’t know exists

Actually, it's a perfect example that people who claim to know the divine can't interpret correctly a simple chapter. Read the whole chapter.

4,424 posted on 12/02/2010 8:36:53 PM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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To: The Theophilus
Great post Theophilus. Thank you for this clarity that all might benefit.
4,425 posted on 12/02/2010 8:37:29 PM PST by caww
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To: metmom
Even if someone rises from the dead, they won’t be convinced.

Yep. And Scripture backs you up.

IIRC, it was about the Jesus not being in the OT. There are LOTS of OT Scripture that speaks of the coming of Jesus, etc. He fulfilled them.
4,426 posted on 12/02/2010 8:44:48 PM PST by presently no screen name ("Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down.." Mark 7:13)
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To: kosta50; presently no screen name; boatbums; Belteshazzar; The Theophilus; 1000 silverlings; ...
mm:How do we know he existed?

kosta:Archeology.

Your opinion.

You can't KNOW it's true or state it's true. You're just depending on someone else's evaluation of forensic evidence. Very subjective and unreliable. Lots of assumptions being made.

Since you admit that you don't know what truth is, you can't say for sure what they found because you don't KNOW what's true.

You'll have to provide better evidence than that if you expect us to believe you. We're certainly not going to take the word of an anonymous internet poster who is self-admittedly ignorant.

4,427 posted on 12/02/2010 8:45:45 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: kosta50; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; Belteshazzar; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; ...
Actually, it's a perfect example that people who claim to know the divine can't interpret correctly a simple chapter. Read the whole chapter.

You state that you don't even know if God exists. That renders you singularly unqualified to correctly discern and interpret any writings about or by Him.

If you want any credibility in your statements about theology, Scripture, any spiritual matter, you need to know it.

You're no different than a blind man telling a sighted man that he's wrong about what he sees.

Or are you now telling us you're an expert in magic books or something you don't know?

4,428 posted on 12/02/2010 8:52:50 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: kosta50
know the divine

Does it exists? Or did you pick it off of someone's post? What is the divine?
4,429 posted on 12/02/2010 8:54:17 PM PST by presently no screen name ("Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down.." Mark 7:13)
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To: annalex; RnMomof7; metmom
The difference is that we believe wholly and you believe selectively. We also believe directly and you believe through the filter of your pastor. But we both believe the Church. There is simply no ohter source of knowledge about the salvation Christ offered you.

Incorrect! A true Christian believes wholly what God has revealed in his word. You claim Catholics believe "directly" and "non-Catholics" believe "selectively" through a filter of our pastor. I sure would like to know how you are defining "directly" here because you have ALWAYS used the filter of your magesterium to know what you are to believe which sure sounds no different than the dreaded "pastor" you deem inferior to your priests. In fact, most Catholics were not even given a chance to read what the Bible actually said until 500 or so years ago. They were entirely dependent on their "pastors/priest" to know anything at all concerning the faith and that is exactly how they would have remained if Rome had her choice, I'm sure.

And regarding the fasting parameters prior to communion, we were taught, no it was pounded into our heads, that to disobey this mandate/commandment was a mortal sin worthy of hell that must be confessed and properly penanced. So don't tell me it was a simple, little, inconsequential church custom or personal discipline. The specific requirements of the fast have definitely changed over time. Prior to 1964, the Eucharistic fast began at midnight. Pope Paul VI, on Nov. 21, 1964, reduced the fast to a period of one hour. According to my Mom, a devout Roman Catholic, the fast is optional...ooops, I better let her know she's committing a mortal sin without even knowing it! There is even disagreement whether it is one hour before Mass starts or before you actually receive communion. Yeah...it sure sounds like that is a clear teaching all right. A lesson I remember from a nun at school was the adage, "Clean off your own doorstep before you try to clean off someone else's.". That was good advice then and still is.

4,430 posted on 12/02/2010 8:58:04 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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To: kosta50
it's a perfect example that people who claim to know the divine can't interpret correctly a simple chapter

Excuse me - who is the one who doesn't believe/know God and thus His Word and thus lacks spiritual discernment? You are NOT qualified to question a believer of THE WORD. Get to know God, get Spirit filled - until then you are nothing but a troll roaming around posting w/o any knowledge.
4,431 posted on 12/02/2010 8:58:45 PM PST by presently no screen name ("Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down.." Mark 7:13)
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To: Diamond
What is a "material concept"? 

That a symbol such as A, B, C stand for something real, material. Apples, oranges, eggs, you name it. If they don't then the whole  A=B, B=C, A=C is meaningless.

In the closed, accidental conglomeration of matter in motion, otherwise know as the universe, what is your foundation for any of these non-material "abstractions"...No one can see or touch any of these things you're referring to .

The foundation is the definition of what A stands for, rather than writing it out; it's a shorthand. Thus instead of redundant long-hand (descirptivie) exposition we use a short-hand (gformula) method to write out the relationship to a conclusion that is dem onstrably provable.

How can chemical reactions account for non-material laws?

What non-material laws? 

If logic comes from the material world then it is not timeless, universal, and unchanging. Is logic absolute or is it merely conventional?

Conventional, of course. Made to order of our physical and chemical makeup. For instanc,e ti si perfectly "logical" that chicken wire fence is atrue barrier for a man, but not for a mouse. The atoms of your house are like a football field for a neutrino top fly through. What is 'logical' to us is determined by our size, shape, that is our material makeup. Sou our logic is not trasncedental but accidental to our size and shape, and "wiring". 

If it is merely conventional, rational debate would be impossible because there could be as many standards as there are people

That just about describes the Protestant community, doesn't it? :)

4,432 posted on 12/02/2010 8:59:29 PM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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To: kosta50; presently no screen name; boatbums; The Theophilus; Belteshazzar

You’re ignoring Matthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 19And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.

20But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” 22 All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:
23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).

24When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife, 25but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.

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I’ve posted this to you before and you have not responded to it. You’ve ignored it. So I’ll ask you the question again. Matthew says that it was fulfilled prophecy.

Was Matthew lying when he wrote that?

Why should we believe you over him?


4,433 posted on 12/02/2010 9:01:19 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: boatbums; RnMomof7; presently no screen name; smvoice

Yeppers.

You got that one right.

Catholicism is the one that demands it’s adherents believe what is spoonfed to them by the magesterium.

They’re not allowed to think for themselves under the threat of eternal fire and brimstone. And then they brag how Catholic doctrine is unified and unchanging (when it really isn’t).

It’s not hard to figure out why when defying church teaching risks your eternal destiny.

Talk about beliefs being filtered through the clergy.....


4,434 posted on 12/02/2010 9:07:04 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
Why should we believe you over him?

The thought never entered my mind that Kosta wants us to believe him!

LOL!!

4,435 posted on 12/02/2010 9:12:48 PM PST by presently no screen name ("Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down.." Mark 7:13)
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To: presently no screen name; metmom
Isaiah 52:14 "Just as there were many who were appalled at Him--His appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness--"

Isaiah 52 is not a prophesy about Jesus, and neither is Isiah 53 while we are at it. Isa 52:14 says "Indeed my servant shall proper, be exalted and raised to great heights." Isaiah's servant (on numerous occasions) is identified as Israel.

How do we know that? Simple, you read the whole thing: Isaiah 41:8, "But you, Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, seed of Abraham my friend"
Isaiah 44:1 "But hear, now, O Jacob My servant, Israel whom I have chosen!"
Isaiah 44:21 "Remember these things, O Jacob for you, O Israel, are My servant"
Isaiah 49:3 "And he said to me, "You are My servant, Israel in whom I glory.""

Your own verse (14) says that he will be disfigured beyond that of any man. Wow! let's read this again disfigured beyond that of any man. You mean no othe rhuman ever was so disfigured or that one could not tell if he was human or not? Neither is what the Gospels describe.

Isa 53:3-4, speak of a man afflicted and crushed by disease. Jesus, according to the Bible, was neither. 

The Isa 53:10 says that if he made himself a guilt offering he might have offspring and have a long life! Surely that doesn't apply to Jesus, does it? Or if you say it does, then he didn't make hismelf a guilt offeirng.

I would expect better from people who pour over the Bible as much as some claim they do, and with "spiritual discernment" at that.

4,436 posted on 12/02/2010 9:18:57 PM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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To: presently no screen name; kosta50
...always looking, never finding.

This reminded me of a Lewis Grizzard story about a good friend of his at his bachelor party. The groom-to-be was heading to another room to "be alone" with one of the exotic dancers at the club hosting the party. Lewis stopped him and said, "Man, what are you doing? You're getting married tomorrow to a wonderful gal.", to which his friend replied, "Yeah, you're right, I've found what I was looking for, but I'm not done looking yet."

I often wonder if that's what is going on with people who forsake their faith and are still looking.

4,437 posted on 12/02/2010 9:21:41 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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To: presently no screen name
You have no proof Luther even existed but you had an urgent need to twist words to comment on him

There's a lot more evidence that Luther existed than the real identity of those who wrote the Gospels.

Babbling idiots - a dime a dozen who have nothing to say but need to be heard.

Then, why do you hang out with them?

4,438 posted on 12/02/2010 9:22:12 PM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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To: presently no screen name
Logic is near to me as IS GOD and knowledge and spiritual discernment

Just how near is that?

And you can't seem to handle that because you are always looking, never finding.

The "self-authenticating" book says: seek and ye shall find. You ought to try it. You may learn something. :)

4,439 posted on 12/02/2010 9:25:49 PM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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To: boatbums
These are not coincidental discoveries or prophesies, boatbums. The NT was written so that it would appear the OT is a Christian prophesy, the way the Book of Mormon was written to “prove” that it is the third authentic scripture.
4,440 posted on 12/02/2010 9:29:36 PM PST by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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