Posted on 12/15/2010 5:09:09 PM PST by RnMomof7
In the sermon descriptively entitled, “That Hearing and Keeping the Word of God Renders a Person More Blessed Than Any Other Privilege That Ever God Bestowed on Any of the Children of Men,” Jonathan Edwards writes: The hearing and keeping the word of God brings the happiness of a spiritual union and communion with God. ‘Tis a greater blessedness to have spiritual communion with God and to have a saving intercourse with him by the instances of his Spirit and by the exercise of true devotion than it is to converse with God externally, to see the visible representation and manifestations of his presence and glory, and to hear his voice with the bodily ears as Moses did. For in this spiritual intercourse the soul is nigh unto and hath more a particular portion than in any external intercourse. ‘Tis more blessed to be spiritually related to Jesus Christ—to be his disciples, his brethren and the members—than to stand in the nearest temporal relation, than to be his brother or his mother. Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus, ed. Nancy Guthrie, 57.
SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND by Marsha Burns — 12/16/2010:
Throw caution to the wind and launch out into the deep waters of revelation of My purposes for you. I am seeking those whose hearts are willing to risk everything to live life in the Kingdom to its fullest. Refuse to allow fear to be a restraining force, and dare to believe My Word and allow its demonstration in every circumstance. This is no time to puddle around in shallow faith. Be undaunted in the face of danger or adversity as you believe the truth that will set you free, says the Lord.
John 8:32 “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.”
But for me, since I live a little over two hours from GZ, NYC, it had given me a sense at the time of the feeling of end times.
To: diamond6; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; Belteshazzar; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; ...
If there are misinformed Catholics, it's the church's responsibility. It hasn't done an adequate job of catechizing its adherents.
Not to mention that what the local Catholic church teaches is not what FRoman Catholics claim the RCC *really* teaches.
What the Catholic church really teaches doesn't always line up with what FRoman Catholics say its official doctrine is.
**What the Catholic church really teaches doesn’t always line up with what FRoman Catholics say its official doctrine is.**
metmom,
What is the basis for this experience. Have you experienced this personally? Where? When? How? Why? Exactly what did you experience?
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To: metmom
It never lines up. No matter which way you try to make it match up, it just doesn’t. And yet it is rabidly defended. Like there is a source to go to to refresh oneself with the facts and come back stronger. There is no fact checker, no complete reference, nothing written in permanent ink. It’s been here for 2000 years, gave us all the information we would ever need to know about the Bible, holds the keys to the kingdom, has the power to retain or remit sins, can turn wafers and wine into flesh and blood. Yet no one knows exactly what the RCC believes for sure. No one knows exactly what they’ve sold their soul for.
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To: Salvation; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; Belteshazzar; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; ...
My experience, and the experience as stated by other former Catholics on this forum.
I know what the Catholics I grew up with and lived with and worked with believed. I've related it several times over the last several months and all I keep hearing is the knee jerk response of "That's not what the Catholic church *really* teaches", by which the person means is not technically correct Vatican approved doctrine. But it is, in reality, what the Catholic church does indeed teach else there wouldn't be so many Catholics with the exact same (alleged) errors about church doctrine.
If the errors were a matter of faulty individual interpretation, then they would be different errors, not all the same kind.
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To: Mad Dawg; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; Belteshazzar; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; ...
Not just Jesus, but Mary also?
Why? Why should someone devote themselves to a dead person living in heaven who has no power to answer prayers? What's she capable of doing for them or you? In service and love of that Truth, we commit our lives, our hearts, our minds, ourselves to you, oh calm, gentle, and sweet, oh Blessed mother. Sounds like worship and idolatry to me-putting Mary on the same level as Jesus and committing your life to her. God did say something about idols. And idols are not always most out of wood or stone. .
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what Proddys see emphasized 24/7/365 on FR and in a majority of the facets of the Vatican system.
You bet. When one prays TO anyone other than the persons of the Trinity (as opposed to praying FOR) then it’s idolatry.
I GREATLY AGREE.
Thank-you for your response, congrats to OK also getting into the Festa Bowl. To me, be it OK,CT, or any of the other college football teams, it is a GREAT HONOR to get a bowl or BCS bowl bid. My UConn Huskies play in my hometown, during the college football season, at Rentcheler Field, East Hartford, CT. To me, it is an added early Christmas gift to see the Huskies get into a BCS bowl. It is a sign of sucess for a college football program that ONLY fifteen years ago, was ONLY a 1AA team. What would have taken a generation, took only twelve years to go from that level to the Festa. Thank-you Coach Randy Edstall! :)=^..^=
Merry Christmas to you, OK University, and to ALL here on FR!:)=^..^=
Quite understandably it has given you such a sense about the end times.
However,
imho,
ANYONE,
LIVING ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET
WHO’S WELL READ ON BIBLICAL PROPHECY,
THE LEAST BIT AWAKE,
with an IQ above a gnat’s
WITH THE LEAST BIT OF FAIR-MINDED OBJECTIVITY
with the least bit of awareness about ISRAEL AND ABOUT GLOBALISM
with the least bit of an undersanding of Mat 24
and any even MSM news channels
. . . would soberly realize
we are well into the END TIMES.
In 449 Pope Leo the Great wrote his Tome against Eutyches, who taught that Jesus Christ had only one nature, not two. (This was the heresy of monophysitism.) In the Tome, which the Council of Chalcedon accepted as the authentic Catholic teaching on Christ, he quotes 1 Timothy 2:5 as the authentic Catholic doctrine: "Hence, as was suitable for the alleviation of our distress, one and the same mediator between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus, was both mortal and immortal under different.aspects."These quotations from official Catholic documents give unambiguous proof that the Church believes Jesus Christ and no other is the one mediator between sinful humanity and the righteous God
The fifth session of the Council of Trent (1546) laid out the belief in Jesus the one true mediator as the norm of Catholic faith: "[Original sin cannot be] taken away through the powers of human nature or through a remedy other than the merit of the one mediator, our Lord Jesus Christ, who reconciled us to God in his blood, having become our justice, and sanctification, and redemption."
The schema of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Principal Mysteries of the Faith, drafted for the First Vatican Council (1869-1870), includes the unique mediation of Jesus Christ as one of these principal mysteries: "Truly, therefore, Christ Jesus is mediator between God and man, one man dying for all; he made satisfaction to the divine justice for us, and he erased the handwriting that was against us. Despoiling principalities and powers, he brought us from our longstanding slavery into the freedom of sons."
Luk 11:27 ¶ And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed [is] the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
Luk 11:28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed [are] they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
The doctrines of men and not God
Opps, this has been a morning of being forgetful for me, but then again, this is the season to get stressful and even forgetful, I need to add an additional greeting:
Merry Christmas to the UConn Huskies, UConn, and CT itself!:)=^..^=
I’ve often reviewed such things.
It boggles my mind that someone as bright as you
could even fantasize that such earlier conjectures were in remotely the same ballpark.
Except when it doesn't.
Scriptures?
The last verse of Rev 11 leading into chapter 12 demonstrates otherwise. Also, please note that the top of the Ark was called the "mercy seat". Sounds to me like it's not God, and not a type of God, but the place where God's presence rests.
Which, ironically, is a "knowledge" Protestants never seem to apply to the man they see in the mirror. In practice, it's always "men and councils can and do err ... except for me".
I think it came from here.....(last paragraph)
Prayer of Pope Pius XII
In Honor of the Immaculate Conception
http://catholicism.about.com/od/tothevirginmary/qt/Honor_Immacula.htm
Prayer of Pope Pius XII
Enraptured by the splendor of your heavenly beauty, and impelled by the anxieties of the world, we cast ourselves into your arms, O Immaculate Mother of Jesus and our Mother, Mary, confident of finding in your most loving heart appeasement of our ardent desires, and a safe harbor from the tempests which beset us on every side.
Though degraded by our faults and overwhelmed by infinite misery, we admire and praise the peerless richness of sublime gifts with which God has filled you, above every other mere creature, from the first moment of your conception until the day on which, after your assumption into heaven, He crowned you Queen of the Universe.
O crystal fountain of faith, bathe our minds with the eternal truths! O fragrant Lily of all holiness, captivate our hearts with your heavenly perfume! O Conqueress of evil and death, inspire in us a deep horror of sin, which makes the soul detestable to God and a slave of hell!
O well-beloved of God, hear the ardent cry which rises up from every heart. Bend tenderly over our aching wounds. Convert the wicked, dry the tears of the afflicted and oppressed, comfort the poor and humble, quench hatreds, sweeten harshness, safeguard the flower of purity in youth, protect the holy Church, make all men feel the attraction of Christian goodness. In your name, resounding harmoniously in heaven, may they recognize that they are brothers, and that the nations are members of one family, upon which may there shine forth the sun of a universal and sincere peace.
Receive, O most sweet Mother, our humble supplications, and above all obtain for us that, one day, happy with you, we may repeat before your throne that hymn which today is sung on earth around your altars: You are all-beautiful, O Mary! You are the glory, you are the joy, you are the honor of our people! Amen.
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