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Posted on 04/21/2014 8:51:13 PM PDT by Salvation
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To: Campion
Please show us where that grave is, and where her bones are. Should be a simple assignment. As soon as YOU produce Mose's!
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posted on
04/22/2014 10:11:25 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Campion
You really have to ignore big chunks of the Bible to believe this, beginning with Acts chapter 2. If it's not too superstious to do so; you might want to read 13 chapters later...
Acts 15
The Council at Jerusalem
1 Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers:
Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved. 2 This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question.
3 The church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted. This news made all the believers very glad.
4 When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and elders, to whom they reported everything God had done through them.
5 Then some of the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees stood up and said, The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to keep the law of Moses.
6 The apostles and elders met to consider this question. 7 After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. 8 God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. 9 He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith. 10 Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear? 11 No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.
12 The whole assembly became silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul telling about the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them. 13 When they finished, James spoke up. Brothers, he said, listen to me. 14 Simon has described to us how God first intervened to choose a people for his name from the Gentiles. 15 The words of the prophets are in agreement with this, as it is written:
16 After this I will return
and rebuild Davids fallen tent.
Its ruins I will rebuild,
and I will restore it,
17 that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord,
even all the Gentiles who bear my name,
says the Lord, who does these things
18 things known from long ago.
19 It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. 20 Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. 21 For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.
The Councils Letter to Gentile Believers
22 Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to choose some of their own men and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas (called Barsabbas) and Silas, men who were leaders among the believers.
23 With them they sent the following letter:
The apostles and elders, your brothers,
To the Gentile believers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia:
Greetings.
24 We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by what they said. 25 So we all agreed to choose some men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 27 Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to confirm by word of mouth what we are writing. 28 It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: 29 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.
Farewell.
30 So the men were sent off and went down to Antioch, where they gathered the church together and delivered the letter. 31 The people read it and were glad for its encouraging message. 32 Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, said much to encourage and strengthen the believers. 33 After spending some time there, they were sent off by the believers with the blessing of peace to return to those who had sent them. [34] 35 But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch, where they and many others taught and preached the word of the Lord.
Disagreement Between Paul and Barnabas
36 Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, Let us go back and visit the believers in all the towns where we preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing.
37 Barnabas wanted to take John, also called Mark, with them,
38 but Paul did not think it wise to take him, because he had deserted them in Pamphylia and had not continued with them in the work.
39 They had such a sharp disagreement that they parted company. Barnabas took Mark and sailed for Cyprus,
40 but Paul chose Silas and left, commended by the believers to the grace of the Lord.
41 He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.
102
posted on
04/22/2014 10:12:59 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
103
posted on
04/22/2014 10:15:38 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
(“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
To: Elsie
Yes, we are FORGIVEN by Christ.
104
posted on
04/22/2014 10:16:22 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
(“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
To: Campion
Luke 1:1-41 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,
2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,
4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.
Acts 1:1
The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
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posted on
04/22/2014 10:17:58 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
The grave of Moose is talked about in the Bible. A pile of rocks, if I remember correctly, outside the promised land.
106
posted on
04/22/2014 10:18:35 AM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: freedumb2003
We dont have Catholics on this board trolling Protestant threads, spoiling for a fight, name-calling, and lying about them.Nice qualifier...
107
posted on
04/22/2014 10:19:07 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: freedumb2003
I was born and raised a Catholic and practiced until my 20s. I never heard a single disparaging word about Protestants (in fact, they never came up at all).Know anything at ALL about LUTHER?
108
posted on
04/22/2014 10:19:43 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: freedumb2003
I let myself be lured by verbal chicanery...Pickm most any PROTESTant church.
They can cure this affliction.
109
posted on
04/22/2014 10:20:47 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
But it is true. The Catholics pretty much left the Protestant threads alone.
110
posted on
04/22/2014 10:21:00 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
(“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
To: Elsie
>>Then the Gospel writers did ol’ Pete a disservice by even mentioning his LIES; didn’t they...<<
3 suggestions:
1) Troll Jewish or Lutheran threads
2) Actually READ the Bible
3) Pray to whatever God you follow for forgiveness and guidance
111
posted on
04/22/2014 10:21:26 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
To: EBH
**Last year I came home to my Catholic faith, again.**
God bless you!
112
posted on
04/22/2014 10:21:53 AM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: EBH
The Bible is a lamp unto my feet and the traditions of the faith fill in the blanks once one understands where they are derived from.The human mind HATES blanks. This is one thing that cults rely on.
113
posted on
04/22/2014 10:22:51 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
114
posted on
04/22/2014 10:25:00 AM PDT
by
EBH
(And the head wound was healed, and Gog became man.)
To: Salvation
Bullwinkle: “Well, if you can’t believe what you read in a comic book, what can you believe?”
115
posted on
04/22/2014 10:26:53 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Salvation
The grave of Moose is talked about in the Bible. A pile of rocks, if I remember correctly, outside the promised land. Deuteronomy 34:6
He buried him in Moab, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, but to this day no one knows where his grave is.
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posted on
04/22/2014 10:28:37 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: freedumb2003
Actually READ the BibleBut that would leave me SORELY lacking in what is NEEDED to enter GOD's kingdom; wouldn't it?
117
posted on
04/22/2014 10:30:01 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: freedumb2003
Troll Jewish or Lutheran threads
Quit pesterin' me, Boy!
118
posted on
04/22/2014 10:31:52 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: EBH
119
posted on
04/22/2014 10:32:53 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Salvation
Oops. The grave of Moose Moses is talked about in the Bible. A pile of rocks, if I remember correctly, outside the promised land.
120
posted on
04/22/2014 10:40:18 AM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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