Posted on 09/02/2011 9:07:47 AM PDT by marshmallow
Minneapolis, Minnesota (CNN) –Prior to 2006, few people even knew that then-Minnesota state legislator Keith Ellison was a Muslim. Because of his English name, he said, no one thought to ask.
But five years ago, when he ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives - a race he would go on to win - word of his religious affiliation began to spread.
“When I started running for Congress it actually took me by surprise that so many people were fascinated with me being the first Muslim in Congress,” said Ellison, a Democrat now serving his third term in the House.
“But someone said to me, ‘Look Keith, think of a person of Japanese origin running for Congress six years after Pearl Harbor–this might be a news story.’”
Though Ellison's status as the first Muslim elected to Congress is widely known, fewer are aware that he was born into a Catholic family in Detroit and was brought up attending Catholic schools.
But he said he was never comfortable with that faith.
“I just felt it was ritual and dogma,” Ellison said. “Of course, that’s not the reality of Catholicism, but it’s the reality I lived. So I just kind of lost interest and stopped going to Mass unless I was required to.”
It wasn’t until he was a student at Wayne State University in Detroit when Ellison began, “looking for other things.”
(Excerpt) Read more at religion.blogs.cnn.com ...
I am beginning to think the same thing.
“I probably am not that smart, Natural Law. I’m so dumb that I refuse to defend the indefensible. I’m so stoopid that I believe God’s word to be the final authority. I’m so ignorant that I will take no man’s word over God’s Scripture. I’m so without brain matter that I search the Scriptures, not the Catechism to see if these things are so. It’s a real shame I’m not smart like you, depending on a building for my salvation and praying to Michael the Archangel to destroy my enemies. To have your braincells, what I wouldn’t give. And I do mean that. I wouldn’t give.”
For God so loved the world He sent a book.
Play by your own rules, prove it.
First let's look at Christ's promise to the twelve in Matt. 19:28. He promised them they would occupy twelve thrones with Him in the kingdom, and what Peter saw and heard in the holy mount concerned the GLORY which he himself was to share at the reign of Christ.
What Paul saw and heard, however, concerned the Lord's SUFFERING-and his own. Christ said to Ananias concerning Saul "I will show him how great things he must SUFFER for My name's sake" (Acts 9:16). The Risen Christ was, in grace, to remain in exile, rejected by Israel and the world, but Paul, the CHIEF sinner saved by that grace, was to bear the suffering and the rejection on earth.
"I now rejoice in my SUFFERINGS for you, and FILL UP THAT WHICH IS BEHIND OF THE AFFLICTIONS OF CHRIST in my flesh, for His body's sake, which is the church." Col. 1:24.
The question is, in what sense did Paul fill up that which remained fo the afflictions of Christ? He could add nothing to the finished work of redemption. So what was it? Christ's vicarious suffering for sin was over, but He was STILL REJECTED, IN EXILE, and in grace He chose to remain so for a time (This time of the dispensation of the grace of God) rather than let the Wrath of God fall and immediately judge His enemies.
Putting aside the day of His wrath, He saves Saul, His chief ENEMY, and sends him forth to proclaim GRACE and PEACE to His enemies everywhere. Wow, suddenly the great persecutor now becomes the persecuted one, bearing the afflictions of Christ's continued rejection. And as long as Christ's grace is extended to a rejecting world, we, the members of the Body of Christ follow the sufferings and afflictions, just as Paul.
Paul was called to preach Christ in a Christ-rejecting world and to suffer for it. He was chosen to fill up that which still remained of the sufferings of the rejected Christ-and so are we. Christ is still rejected and still remains away and we bear, or should bear, in our flesh the sufferings of His rejection.
We are in a world at enmity with God and will suffer for the gospel. "For unto you it is given in the BEHALF OF CHRIST, not ONLY to believe on Him, But also to SUFFER for His sake. Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear in me." (Phil. 1:29,30). To stand for Christ is to suffer at the hands of an unbelieving world. We share in His sufferings this way.
I know I've probably repeated myself a couple of times, but trying to get the core truth is sometimes difficult. :)
Actually that was Calvin who said; "Build a man a fire and you warm him for a day, but light a man on fire an you warm him for the rest of his life."
LOL - Did he use his iPhone since since Alexander Graham Bell would not be born for another 1500 years.
"Nicaea is a suburb of Constantinople."
Geez, you have sad some stupid things before but this one takes the cake. It is 120 miles from Istanbul (Constantinople) to Iznik (Nicea). Even today that is hardly a "suburb". We can only conclude that everything you post has equal credibility.
Yep, I can’t understand why anyone would hold that scum bag up as someone to follow. I suppose he learned that during his days as a Catholic.
Its right there between Sola Scriptura and the Trinity.
My Google Earth says less than 50 miles
Post 2147: A really great example of suffering for Christ.
Post 2151 is for you, too! Primarily for you...:)
Show me by your example how to live that scripture, Reggie. Because I have a feeling you aren’t much farther along than I am, and therefore, you have no right to tell me I have a lot of work to do.
And calling me “Sweet Judith” is making mockery personal. Against the rules.
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Negatory. I've been there. It's about just under 200 km and about 3 1/2 hours from Istanbul by car.
Even so, how many days journey do you think 50 miles or 120 miles was in the 4th century?
"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto good works." 2 Timothy 3:16-17
Did you notice the words “perfect” and “thoroughly”?
Then we have the example of the those in Berea that Luke wrote about in Acts. Even after Paul and Silas had spoken to them they still “searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so”. An example that all teaching needs to be compared to scripture. That’s what Sola Scriptura means. Surely you weren’t talking about Solo Scriptura are you?
Acts 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Then there is this.
I Corinthians 4:6 “Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us you might learn not to go beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.”
And the Trinity?
We covered that rather extensively earlier in this thread. You need to keep up.
Now, how about the scriptural authority for the bodily assumption of Mary? Surely by challenging me you have something prepared to show scripture proof for that right?
***NO*** PRODDY on FR
is comparing the authentic Mary to anything else.
We do talk about the caricature’d personage the
Vatican headquartered Ishtar-Mary-Goddess cult has concocted out of Mary’s name and personage . . . reportedly greatly to the authentic Mary’s anguished dismay.
CLAIMING OTHERWISE IS COMMITTING THE SAME ‘EVIL’ THAT RC’S ACCUSE PRODDYS OF When we say RC’s do XYZ and RC’s insist otherwise.
YOU CAN’T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS, FOLKS.
ABSOLUTELY INDEED.
And what is all the noise about “Quix’s group!”
There’s no Quix’s group that Quix is aware of. I can’t think of anyone on my small or larger ping lists that agrees with me right down the line on very much. Many share some central themes in a looser or not as loose way. That’s quite a bit different!
Sheesh what idiocy . . . or deliberately obtuse skullduggery.
INDEED.
GIVEN that I'm the ONLY one who does that, thanks for calling me a cretin. It only adds to my Heavenly rewards.
1. God’s name. (Rom. 2:24, Isa. 52:5)
2. God, Himself. (Isa. 65:7; Ezek. 20:27; Rev. 16:9-11,21; Mt. 12:31,32)
3. The doctrine of God. (I Tim. 6:1).
4. The word of God. (Titus 2:5).
Unless Mary has been made part of the Godhead, comparing her to anything is not blaspheming God.
ABSOLUTELY INDEED.
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