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.
Faulty interpretation of CATHOLIC CHURCH DOCTRINE BY PRACTICING CATHOLICS.
It has nothing to do with Scripture because there’s hardly a Catholic I knew that cracked a Bible. The church taught us all that we could not understand it and it was for them to interpret and tell us what it meant, which apparently hasn’t changed much.
There are only two vying for a person's soul, Judith Anne. And only one will claim it in the end. One has done everything necessary for your salvation. Freely done and freely given. The other seeks to do everything and anything necessary to keep you from realizing that. Lots of beautiful sights, and smells and tastes, and things to hear and touch. All intended to keep a person mesmerized. And lost.
Listen to you. How do you KNOW this?
Truth hurts, eh?
Oh, theoretically I know what selling one’s soul is about. How have Catholics done that?
The truth of Christ Jesus never hurts, but always saves, heals and leads to peace. What “truth” are you trying to purvey?
Well, I have cracked many a Bible and I suggest you are letting your personal experience blind you to the fact that the Church has made a huge turnabout during the last sixty years. On the other hand, my Protestant grandmother probably spent far more time reading the Bible privately than most Protestants do today.
... because that was the prophecy to be fulfilled.
If the church was doing such a spectacular job catechizing its adherents, why do so many Catholics vote liberal? Why is there so much erroneous teaching out there?
And why do Catholics on FR call for an Inquisition to clear the church out of heresy?
Many of the Catholics on FR alone recognize the problems with poorly catechized Catholics and admit it to the point of wishing for an inquisition. Yet when someone who is considered a non-Catholic says that the church does a poor job of catechizing its adherents, all of a sudden, its *baloney*?
The general reaction seems to be based more on who says it that what is said. It a Catholic points out flaws or error in the RCC and calls for an inquisition to clean it out, it’s accepted.
If a non-Catholic only points out flaws or error in the RCC, he’s shredded and told that he’s wrong about what the Catholic church *really* teaches.
It’s just like the whole quoting Luther thing. He’s right when he supports the Catholic church and when he doesn’t he’s a heretic burning in hell.
You guys need to make up your collective minds about this stuff before shooting off your mouths and constantly contradicting each other.
The only question is this: is your salvation a work in progress?
Really? Show us where. Provide the links to those statements.
Buncha rhetorical questions, if you ask me.
Why bother, they’ve been asked and answered hundreds of times since you started posting. When someone is convinced of an idea, no truth or facts can penetrate that bigotry.
Oh, please. My salvation is in the hands of Christ Jesus my Lord, Risen Son of the Living Almighty God. Whatever He wills is fine with me.
** hardly a Catholic I knew that cracked a Bible. **
Sorry you don’t know us better LMAO!
Unfortunately, the church is full of sinners and some poorly cathecized priests. Many priests come from liberal seminaries and its a dying shame. For example, some priests teach that artificial contraception is okay. That is against the teachings of the church. I will agree with you. The church has done a poor job in catechizing. That is why laymen are standing up in record numbers taking the slack.
Like I said before, catholic radio stations are popping up everywhere, for the main purpose of teaching what the church REALLY teaches. Its very refreshing... I listen to my local catholic radio all day and learn something new about my faith everyday.
To fulfill the prophecy. Jesus needed to be born of a virgin.
No doubt, there were many girls in Israel in those days who would have qualified in that respect.
There was also the blood lines that had to be right. At different times in the OT, God made statements to some people that the messiah would either come or not come through certain blood lines.
Joseph didn’t have the correct blood line. Mary did.
A google search of genealogy of will take you to many links explaining why the one line through Mary works and the one through Joseph doesn’t.
Then you’ve answered your own question.
I am less than sixty years old. Things may have changed more in the last 20 or 30 but judging by the numbers and percentages of Catholics who are democrats and vote pro-abortion liberal in elections, I doubt many of them have ever cracked a Bible.
They have not been answered plenty of times. For that matter, I don’t recall anyone asking before “If the church was doing such a spectacular job catechizing its adherents, why do so many Catholics vote liberal? Why is there so much erroneous teaching out there?
And why do Catholics on FR call for an Inquisition to clear the church out of heresy?”
Nor has anyone explained why when someone who is considered a non-Catholic says that the church does a poor job of catechizing its adherents, all of a sudden, its *baloney*? And yet Catholics admit that it happens is OK?
Why is that?
The question remains then of why it’s OK for Catholics to point that out but if non-Catholics point it out, the Catholics pitch a fit, present company excluded.
Protestant churches in general don’t necessarily do a great job of correct teaching either, especially the liberal ones who’ve rejected the authority of Scripture.
Evangelical ones do much better.
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