Posted on 05/17/2014 3:53:49 AM PDT by NYer
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
James 1:27
‘Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.’
THANK YOU... so many people see Christianity as a Denomination, but it’s not...Jesus was ‘The Way’...
I understand the Holy Father to be telling people to think on what they’re praying and strive to internalize it in their heads and hearts. For example, if you think about it, if you stop to think about the Lord’s Prayer, you realize you’re asking God for some pretty profound stuff.
I'll put up my Rosary against any guns you've got. And you'll loose, big time.
I thought I had sent that one, then saw it still open in a browser tab, had second thoughts as to having sent it, then without checking the thread (which is where the real mistake lay) hit "post" a second time.
My mistake. I can't blame it on using an i-pad or something...though small tablets can get a bit hung up as it were, helping to cause more than a few people around here to have double or triple appearing posts.
I can't use that excuse --- for I see it was all my own error.
Setting that aside;
do you now understand I was using an online dictionary of sorts?
There are perhaps better sources for Greek lexicon definitions.
If there is better for the word "ekklesia" -- then bring it and provide a link.
Do you not consider this, “Are you so truly so ignorant?” to be making it personal?
Two wrongs do not make a right.
But only one hand gets slapped. Understood.
Why did you not cc the other person with your warning?
You have usually done so in the past.
I was speaking figuratively.
As to a "Rosary" which you say will make me "loose" (loose? like taking ex-lax or something? lol) you must have meant "lose", how will that be "big time"?
How could it?
I am being threatened with a Rosary.
How will that work? Will it be shaken at me? Will vain (but rapid!) repetitions of "hail Mary" be gone through forcing the Lord into action -- like He'll come after me for myself having dared voice opposition to "popery" and Marionism?
Polly want a cracker?
Look, if praying the rosary was an effective weapon which would make "protestants" lose (or keel over dead or something from loose bowels) like some magic charm incantation -- there would have been no Reformation in the first place, and in the land now known as the United States there likely would have been warring under "Catholic" kings for centuries.
But God didn't see it that way, now did He? He appoints the times and forms the boundaries of the nations (Acts 17:27)
I saw yours and having already posted a similar warning to you and someone else on a different thread, posted again without looking any further.
If so, then hey great.
Yet I'll not go digging any further than I have already, seeing the link you provided went to display.listing of two FR threads concerning Greek language.
Posting links with no explanation -- only works sometimes, while leaving it for the target recipient to go play fetch, wading through who knows what-all to see if there is something of present topical interest, or that which could have bearing upon ongoing conversation.
Thanks anyway...but no thanks all the same for the time being...
ecclesia was in one of those threads.
got any threes?
You were not called ignorant...You were asked if you were ignorant...Big difference...
AMEN! God Bless Pope Francis!
What the Pope was saying was simply teaching about Jesus warning not to be like those who bable on and on and on, which is based on from Mathew’s Gospel.
What is all comes down to is that we all MUST have a personal spiritual relationship with Jesus.
Time to stop feeding the troll(s).
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