Posted on 03/05/2011 5:29:44 AM PST by WPaCon
Lately, there seems to be a lot of conflict on the religion forum. Much of this has been between Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox. To show that we are all united as Christians and to reduce animosity, I hope we can all agree to one of 4 following statements:
1) I am Catholic. I love Orthodox and Protestant Christians. I consider Orthodox Christians and Protestants to definitely be Christian. All Christians need to work together to defeat our common enemies-- specifically Islam, liberal postmodernism, and totalitarian communism.
2) I am Protestant. I love Orthodox and Catholic Christians. I consider Orthodox Christians and Catholics to definitely be Christian. All Christians need to work together to defeat our common enemies-- specifically Islam, liberal postmodernism, and totalitarian communism.
3) I am an Orthodox Christian. I love Catholic and Protestant Christians. I consider Catholics and Protestants to definitely be Christian. All Christians need to work together to defeat our common enemies-- specifically Islam, liberal postmodernism, and totalitarian communism.
4) I am a non-believer. I love Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Christians. I consider Orthodox Christians, Catholics, and Protestants to definitely be Christian. All Christians need to work together to defeat our common enemies-- specifically Islam, liberal postmodernism, and totalitarian communism.
I feel confident that most freepers agree to at least one of these statements, even if they do not say so.
If you agree with any of these statements, please feel free to say so.
Thanks!
They are our older brothers after all. :)
I am rather new as well, but I love FR as raucous as it can be sometimes.
5) I am a Hindu. I love Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant Christians. I consider Orthodox Christians, Catholics, and Protestants to definitely be Christian. All Christians need to work together to defeat our common enemies— specifically Islam, liberal postmodernism, and totalitarian communism.
And all those who believe in God should work together to defeat our common enemies, as described. And stop fighting with other believers, if we don’t stop fighting other believers, we can fight with each other in the re-education camps or on the way to the killing fields after the enemies have won.
Yes.
There can be no unity with false doctrine simple as that ...again if anyone does not like to defend his doctrine then they are free to stay off the religion forum or to restrict their participation to caucus threads ...
2Cr 6:14 — Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Good.
I have lurked for a while and almost always agree with what you say.
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Ah. Catholics. Then I agree with an altered version of statement #1, I think.
1) I am Catholic and I love my fellow Catholics, the Orthodox. I love Protestants and other Christians. I love the Jews. All Jews and Christians need to work together to defeat our common enemies-- specifically Islam, liberal postmodernism, and totalitarian communism.
I love Italians, and those of Italian ancestry. A friend keeps trying to persuade me to visit Italy. He’s been visiting twice a year since he was a very young child. I think he’s 65 now. His mother is 95 or 96.
Welcome.
1) I am Catholic and I love my fellow Catholics, the Orthodox. I love Protestants and other Christians. I love the Jews. I love little jeremiah. All Jews and Christians need to work together to defeat our common enemies— specifically Islam, liberal postmodernism, and totalitarian communism.
I figure we’ll have time to debate theological differences at these two times:
In chains waiting for death or forced “re-education”.
Or
After the enemies of God have been defeated or least weakened so they have to hide in the shadows, not rule the world without rival.
I love you too, trisham!
Thank you, sweetheart! :)
SOP.
As we've learned on Free Republic, Roman Catholics and their pope Ratzinger, believe all non-papist churches to be "defective." So Rome wants it both ways. Rome wants other faiths to think kindly of them and not give them a hard time, but Rome does not display that same acceptance of Protestant churches.
We preach the Gospel and all we hear from Roman Catholics is that the church and its magisterium are superior to the word of God.
Christ answered such false beliefs...
"And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city." -- Mark 6:11
As Greg Bahnsen wrote:
"Rome has not essentially changed. Rome declared that what it said at the time of the Reformation was infallible and could not change. Declared it to be irreformible truth. Rome has not changed and precious truths of God's word are still worth upholding even at the cost of unity even at the cost of being considered "troublemakers" in the religious world. We need to guard the antithesis against the destructive error of Rome." -- Dr. Greg L. Bahnsen, From a tape, THE REFORMATION, October 28, 1990."The Reformation is dying daily in our day when the Ecumenical Movement, and other forces like unto it, wish to soften the antithesis with Rome, today. I want to assure you that it's not my pugnacious debating nature that makes me say we must exalt that antithesis and guard it. It's my love for the Lord Jesus Christ and the purity of His word.
"...guard the antithesis against the destructive error of Rome."
AMEN!
Yeah, a bunch of us have noticed that.
>>You say that you don’t have a problem with fellow Christians, and then use “dripping sarcasm” to call me a hypocrite? <<
LOL! Sure did!
And when I see Anti-Catholic taglines on posts about “Loving thy Neighbor”, it makes me laugh uncontrollably. The Irony is delicious!!!
>>I’m feeling a good deal of negativity from those who are calling for unity.<<
Hey, Christ said to turn the other cheek, not step right up to get smacked. There is a difference.
The duplicities of the Papists of the Vatican Cult have become sooooooooooooo extreme . . .
I’m losing respect even for some I had some grains of respect for. Very few RC’s on FR warrant any significant amount of my respect whatsoever.
There are still a small handful depending on how one slices the criteria . . . but some that I thought were at least rational, civil and dealt somewhat in reality have been working overtime the last 90 days trashing all such considerations.
>>As we’ve learned on Free Republic, Roman Catholics and their pope Ratzinger, believe all non-papist churches to be “defective.” <<
Look at the way you Usual Suspects ACT.
I’d say, defective about sums it up. The Holy Father is right again!
It’s Lent!
I resolved to leave at Sundown on Saturday. The Sun is setting over Utica, MI so I wish all of my Holy Christian Brothers and Sisters Days of living in the understanding of what He did for us.
My prayers for all who wish me ill for my faith, Lord Love the Lot of ya, especially you Dr. E. I’m praying for your enlightenment the most.
Hugs!
Have a blessed Lent, friend. :)
I can affirm the following statement:
2) I am Protestant. I love Orthodox and [Roman] Catholic Christians. I consider [SOME] Orthodox Christians and [Roman] Catholics [AS I CONSIDER MANY PRODDYS] to definitely be Christian. All Christians need to work together to defeat our common enemies— specifically Islam, liberal postmodernism, and totalitarian communism.
I don’t know, for certain, who such individual Christians are per se though I am confident of the identity of SOME of those RC Christians because of their relationship with me and what God has confirmed in my heart/spirit about their relationship with Him.
I can’t say for certain who is NOT a Christian—though some seem to be working hard to act the opposite of how I think a Christian would act in various contexts. Life is complex. I trust that God’s perspective is at least somewhat different than mine and hopefully He will see a way to insure they have a Salvific walk with Him regardless of what it appears from my perspective.
However, whether RC, Orthodox or Proddy, God hates idolatry, blasphemy and gross heresy. Folks wallowing in such ought to realize that their eternal life is at risk because of such attitudes and behaviors.
My soul magnifies the Lord,
And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
For He has regarded the low estate of His handmaiden,
For behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
For He who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name. And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with His arm:
He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and exalted those of low degree.
He has filled the hungry with good things;
and the rich He has sent empty away.
He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy;
As He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to His posterity forever.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen
Magníficat ánima mea Dóminum,
et exsultávit spíritus meus
in Deo salvatóre meo,
quia respéxit humilitátem
ancíllæ suæ.
Ecce enim ex hoc beátam
me dicent omnes generatiónes,
quia fecit mihi magna,
qui potens est,
et sanctum nomen eius,
et misericórdia eius in progénies
et progénies timéntibus eum.
Fecit poténtiam in bráchio suo,
dispérsit supérbos mente cordis sui;
depósuit poténtes de sede
et exaltávit húmiles.
Esuriéntes implévit bonis
et dívites dimísit inánes.
Suscépit Ísrael púerum suum,
recordátus misericórdiæ,
sicut locútus est ad patres nostros,
Ábraham et sémini eius in sæcula.
Glória Patri et Fílio
et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio,
et nunc et semper,
et in sæcula sæculórum.
Amen.
She became the Mother of God, in which work so many and such great good things are bestowed on her as pass man’s understanding. For on this there follows all honor, all blessedness, and her unique place in the whole of mankind, among which she has no equal, namely, that she had a child by the Father in heaven, and such a Child . . . Hence men have crowded all her glory into a single word, calling her the Mother of God . . . None can say of her nor announce to her greater things, even though he had as many tongues as the earth possesses flowers and blades of grass: the sky, stars; and the sea, grains of sand. It needs to be pondered in the heart what it means to be the Mother of God.
(Commentary on the Magnificat, 1521; in Luther’s Works, Pelikan et al, vol. 21, 326)
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