Posted on 10/16/2013 2:33:05 PM PDT by NYer
I don't know if you know how true your statement is. My wife became a Christian, my Father in Law became a Christian before he died, my Sister in Law became a Christian, and I keep talking with my Brother in Law. The other relatives don't say to much to us anymore.
It's not really all good. The lost soul is just that - lost. They can confess to some priest all they want the act is misdirected. Unlike what their current Pope says there is only one way to the Father and that is through the Son, not Mary, not a priest, not an institution. Faith Alone in Christ Alone is the only way to be saved.
Hypocrisy...At its finest...
Dang, girl, you always take the words right outta my mouth!
Have you ever noticed how what you say just goes right over most C-heads here?
No need to apologize. Misunderstandings occur.
I would submit that anyone with the attitude of *I’m good so I can sin with impunity, God has to forgive me* (Or even God will forgive me), is not really saved. That person is just looking for fire insurance and that not what a relationship with Christ is all about. God will not be used and God will not be mocked.
OTOH, there is a great deal of comfort in the thought of my security, that my own human weakness and frailty, which leads to sin so often, will not condemn me. I’m secure, not because of who I am or what I do, but because of who HE is and what HE’S done.
It allows me the freedom to fail without fear. Perfect love casts out fear.
My confidence in my security in Him is NOT something I take for granted.
That was said tongue in cheek.
Where is this letter?
But supporting the murder of millions is OK. So I assume that if an abortionist in the U.S. died the the SSPX would jump at the chance to provide them a funeral?
We run into girls and women who say, "Yeah, definitely abortion is a sin, but Jesus is so merciful. He understands what's happening in my life right now and He loves me, so I know I can do what I need to do and He will forgive me. I'm, like, at peace about this, really I am."
We've even heard this: "I know a baby is a gift from God. But I'm, so not ready, so it's like I'm sending the baby on back to God so he can re-gift it to somebody who's ready. I know my baby forgives me."
"I've been saved since I was 12."
(As she walks across the parking lot to the abortion clinic door.)
It's --- I can't even describe how flabbergasting and soul-sorrowing this is to me, to all of us who pray out there on the street.
Meanwhile, one of our guys, a Presbyterian deacon, sent a letter out to every pastor in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia --- there are literally well over a thousand of them, this is a heavily Christian part of the country --- asking for prayer support, and got not one response.
And my friend Joe D. and his buddy went visiting pastors, and got the same story over and over:
"God bless you for what you're doing, but we can't get involved. Sure, abortion's terrible, but abortion is not a problem we run into in my church."
Where do they think these girls are all coming from? Manhattan?
Pray for us, metmom.
Making it illegal to deny the holocaust is such a weird law. Holocaust deniers come off as totally bonkers, might as well let them speak.
In case you didn’t figure it out, the Germans and their allies were not dislodged from Rome until May of 1944.
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They didn’t. Italy was occupied as Mussolini faltered, Rome was under German control until June, 1944.
I knew that Rome was declared an open city on June 5, 1944, but Mussolini was taken out almost a year earlier and the people at once took to the streets, celebrating, among other things cutting the Fascist eagle down from Mussolini's balcony. And as I said, Mussolini had been ousted, imprisoned, and rescued and the new Italian government had joined the allies by this date seventy years ago. I had forgotten about the Germans, though, and how far north Rome is. It's just that the idea of a new Allied Italian government caused me to assume Rome was its capital. As I said, I had forgotten about the Germans and how much longer it took to liberate Rome. I regret the error, and thank you for correcting me.
I am especially ashamed of my error because my late father was at Salerno. He never forgot it and mentioned it on Sept. 9 every year.
Thank you. I regret the error.
My father was in the Italian campaign, so I am especially ashamed of myself.
The famous photo of Mussolini hanging upside down was taken in April 1945 in Milan, not Rome.
The Italian Fascist Party was in Rome when it removed Mussolini, but Nazis took over there very quickly.
The anti-Nazi Italian government was centered far south of Rome under Allied protection.
It is summarized in the fifth paragraph of this article on FR.
Thank you again. I am truly ashamed of myself for not knowing or remembering this.
If you were to read the document in context, you would discover that Muslims are "first" AFTER considering:
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