Posted on 12/05/2010 6:14:57 PM PST by RnMomof7
If I could cause my image to appear, I think I'd work with beer foam.
May God
lead you ever closer to
HIS TRUTH,
HIS WORD,
HIS WILL,
HIMSELF.
>>How fluent are you in Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic?<<
I make no representations as to the inaccuracy of interpretations.
Those who say the RCC is “wrong” and “not truly representative of the Bible” must defend that charge by supporting the accuracy of their interpretation (of the interpretation).
Heck, linguistic scholars can’t even agree on “Nom” — how can someone with a few years’ experience whose theological schooling consists of reading cherry-picked phrases from a bad interpretation of the Bible come to the conclusion the RCC and its 1,000+ years of scholarship and billions of adherents are “just wrong?”
The onus is not on me. Your argument is forensically flawed.
And my Aramaic is admittedly rusty.
Exactly! He wasn’t PC - He called it what it was/is for correction. But thin skinned see it as condemnation.
How fluent are you in Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic?
It’s nothing more than their IMPLICITLY reading between the lines again. They do it in Scripture, in order to invent doctrine. And they do it in posts, in order to get threads locked when they become uncomfortable.
INDEED.
THX.
Perhaps the thin-skinned
and/or
the guilty
see it as condemnation.
It amuses me when someone doubts the virign birth yet believes Jesus rose from the dead by leaving the stone tomb without rolling away the stone and appeared in a room where the doors and windows were locked! Leaving Mary's womb and appearing then in our where/when was no great difficulty for the God to Whom Time is a volume. If these discussions didn't get so nasty with each other (proddies and Catholics ... I'm a proddy, BTW), they would be amusing to follow.
Jesus is THE ROCK.
I a Catholic told me that Mary’s mother was also sinless. How could she have produced a sinless mother of Jesus if not? And how far back do you want to take that? Down through all of Mary’s lineage? Her whole linage had to have been sinless then.
We Orthodox teach that Mary committed no personal sins, while rejecting the Latin innovation of the “Immaculate Conception” (which we see as a needless fix to a spurious problem created by simultaneously maintaining the true patristic understanding of Mary’s purity and accepting Blessed Augustine’s account of the effects of the Fall, unaccountably while rejecting his traductionist theory of the origin of the soul on which, in his own thinking, the theory rested).
Now there is some variance of opinion as to what is meant by this, as we recognize both voluntary and involuntary sins. Some Orthodox hold that Mary committed no sins—period. Others hold that she committed no voluntary sins—which is easier to square with “no man (anthropos) liveth and sinneth not, and Thou only art beyond sin”.
A Catholic told me that Mary’s mother was also sinless. How could she have produced a sinless mother of Jesus if not? And how far back do you want to take that? Down through all of Mary’s lineage? Her whole linage had to have been sinless then.
It’s nothing more than their IMPLICITLY reading between the lines again. They do it in Scripture, in order to invent doctrine. And they do it in posts, in order to get threads locked when they become uncomfortable.
Absolutely indeed.
It occurs to me . . . some ask about Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic scholarship, fluency etc.
It seems to me, the worst amongs the Proddys in terms of such scholarship
ARE EXCEEDINGLY LIGHT YEARS BEYOND, BETTER THAN
the most learned RC’s when it comes to
Simple Biblical understanding and discernment;
understanding basic honest logic and truthfulness
etc. etc. etc.
Sheesh what duplicitous jerks populate the other side.
Thank you. I am blessed. He has blessed me mightily.
**And such a mentality has the cluelessness **
**I’m beginning to think they have not a shred of a clue about how they look to rational humans. **
Are you trying to mind-read again?
An honest assessment of the Christianity of Latin America reveals a great deal of paganism.
Plenty of converts from Islam have reported that Jesus appeared to them, prompting their conversion. Considering the risk they take for their new faith, I believe their claims. The visitations by saints do not quite ring as true.
Thanks for making my point about flawed interpretations. Since Jesus was talking to (then-named) Simon and establishing him as Pope Peter ("Petros" and variants is the word for "rock" in almost all Latin and ME languages). There is Biblical support for the line of succession from Peter to the modern day Pope.
You can't even get it right with a simple English translation -- how in the world do you think you or anyone else can condemn the RCC as not adhering to the Bible?
Attempts to get this thread pulled or locked by abusing the moderators will fail.
Quix appears to have a very special exemption from the rules of civil conduct here. He can post pictures of asses, make nasty comments and read minds all without fear of correction. Very odd.
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