Posted on 09/03/2013 5:38:10 PM PDT by Gamecock
I suppose there is no more to be said on the issue then. You have your mind made up no matter what the original text says.
You didnt believe the Holy Spirit through Mark. I doubt you would believe anyone else. This is the last I will communicate with you on this.
You didnt believe the Holy Spirit through Mark. I doubt you would believe anyone else.
All you have to do is show where Christ or the apostles instituted those celebrations. It should be easy for you right?No, really I do not. I am not that fringe that claims that Sunday Worship is wrong, that calls Easter celebrations pagan or wants a world that does not celebrate the Birth of Our Savior. You and that tiny fringe group that agrees with you on these silly issues (but disagrees with you and everyone else on almost everything) can enjoy your odd beliefs - but do not expect me to defend two aens of mainstream Christianity against such idiocies - as there is no argument that will convince those who have rejected the Christian Church, only when they open their hearts to the Truth will they abandon their apostacy. Until then, vale`
This is the last I will communicate with you on this.ROTFLMAO!@!!!!!@!!@@
Yeah, didnt think you could.
There ya go! Now youre back in your element! Back to the kindergarten picture posts.
It’s take me a long time to realize just how fringe some here really are. Follow the path their arguments lead and you quickly find yourself in alien territory.
I am no longer able to engage them without rancor so I am merely lurking for the most part now.
It has been my direct experience that the (vast?) majority of protestants lack the intellectual depth to engage in any kind of legitimate theological discussion. I have reached the point where I will state the truth to them once or twice at the very most and then be done with it.
When people pretend changing the subject and substituting their personal opinion or obvious fantasy for historical fact they're not interested in theological discussion. They have no intention of giving up worship of their own Most High and Holy Self< /b> for obedience to Jesus Christ and bearing a cross to follow Him.
That's why they even play, "I'm Ok, You're Ok", with others who are openly anti-Christ and anti-Christian just as long as the openly anti-Christ folks help spread lies and slanders about The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church Jesus Christ Himself founded.
For most such folks claiming to be Christian is no different than claiming to be a patriotic American, something they do just as long as it doesn't cost them anything and does help them go along to get along.
If you've decided to believe she is ever virgin, immaculately conceived, dispensitrix of all graces, able to hear prayers, intercessor to Jesus, Queen of the saints...yadda yadda yadda, you've already rejected the bible.
24 Then Joseph, being aroused from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took to him his wife, 25 and did not know her till she had brought forth her firstborn Son.[d] And he called His name Jesus.
The Catholic church turns this into Joseph being a grandfatherly old man with one foot in the grave who took her in to protect her ever virginness.
If you’ve decided to believe she is ever virgin, immaculately conceived, dispensitrix of all graces, able to hear prayers, intercessor to Jesus, Queen of the saints...yadda yadda yadda,
The Catholic church turns this into Joseph being a grandfatherly old man with one foot in the grave who took her in to protect her ever virginness.
You noticed that, too, eh?
He was engaged to Mary, that tells me the generation he was in, but the RCC bumps him up one generation.
He was engaged to Mary, that tells me the generation he was in, but the RCC bumps him up one generation.
if some one wants to prove the Catholic,s wrong there is enough scripture to do that in plain words.
We do not have to add to and twist scripture and ignore other scripture to prove them wrong.
Exodus 20:8
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
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But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Matthew 6:7
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Tithing?
Not even mentioned during the setting up of the early church or after.
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Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.
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But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
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so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
I do not see how any one could read rev 17 even with out the help of any one else and not see the roman church as the great harlot, if that is true that makes all of the other denominations the daughters of the great harlot.
So being it is absurd for people to be arguing over trifles that can no way be proven, maybe just satans way of keeping our minds off of the real issues.
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