Posted on 11/23/2011 11:11:08 AM PST by marshmallow
A notoriously 'gay-friendly' parish in San Francisco has invited an openly homosexual Episcopalian cleric to lead an Advent Vespers service.
Most Holy Redeemer parish asked Bishop Otis Charles, a retired Episcopalian prelate, to lead the November 30 service. After serving as the Bishop of Utah from 1971 to 1993, he publicly announced that he is homosexual. Divorced from the mother of his 5 children, he solemnized a same-sex union in 2004.
satan has been quite at home in the Vatican for a very long time.
>>And evidently in your four walls as well. Maybe you get your venom against the Catholic Church from your nightly reading of the following book. http://www.amazon.com/Satanic-Bible-Anton-Szandor-Lavey/dp/0380015390/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322971080&sr=8-1 :)
Paul VI said it himself that the Smoke of Satan had entered the wall of the Church, so you will have to try harder.
It’s slightly fascinating . . .
as it is pathetically saddening . . . only more so the latter . . .
Folks who are addicted to worshiping objects and
AN INSTITUTION
seem to have 0.00000000% insight about such rebellions against God and His Word.
And nothing seems to jar them loose from their misplaced affections and allegiances. That’s DREADFULLY sad.
Christ was STARKLY FIERCE AND VIVID IN HIS CONDEMNATION OF SUCH BEHAVIORS AND CHOICES.
REPEATEDLY.
Yet, HIS LESSONS on such matters go 100% thoroughly ignored by this bunch of characters.
Mary herself will likely condemn them most sternly on judgment day.
Resorting to such is a poor apologetic, but i took him on more substantively, http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/Camping.html, and Camping as with Rome effectively claims unique supremacy for his org and as an interpreter, and Rome has her own false prophets (past history not showing) http://www.catholicplanet.com/future/index.htm
What I find incredibly ironic and obviously not well thought out at all, is the Catholic claim that Jesus came to found a religion.
For one thing, if the OT Law could not save, which Scripture is VERY clear about its inability to do so, then what else would there be to set up for people to follow that could save? And if what Jesus came to set up something that could save that the Law couldn't, why not just give the *new* Law in the first place?
Not to mention that Jesus didn't change any of the Law. On the contrary, He clearly stated that He did not come to abolish the Law and Prophets but to fulfill them. So the old Law is still the best God had to offer as a system of laws for salvation.
Now, in regards to Jesus teaching in the beatitudes, He did not set up new teaching for people to follow to earn salvation.
He took the current Law that was at that time in effect, which already couldn't save as it was, and SET THE BAR EVEN HIGHER.
He said that it wasn't just a matter of obeying the Law on the outside, but it was the heart that counted. IOW, lust = adultery, and hate = murder.
So if the old Law couldn't save, what makes any reasoning human being think that following what Jesus clarified in regard to the Law would be any more capable of saving?
And if the Law that Jesus gave to Moses on Mt. Sinai couldn't save, what makes anyone think that anything they concoct to add to it is going to be any more capable of saving? They can add all the sacraments and rituals they want, but if it's not God ordained, it's simply the filthy rags Isaiah talks about.
Mary herself will likely condemn them most sternly on judgment day.
>>Quix, I know you will be among them.:)
Don't forget, they hated Him first. Don't be surprised if they hate us.
Luke 6:22 "Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!
John 15:18-19 18 "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Sometimes it’s interesting watching y’all dance with forbidden fruit.
John 8:48-53 48The Jews answered him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?" 49Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. 50Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge. 51Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death." 52The Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.' 53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?"
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