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To: Gamecock

Wow! The Hoy Spirit just dropped those books from the skies and they arranged themselves in the exact order in which we find them. What I think you are trying to say is that the Holy Spirit guided the early Church fathers and has been with the Church ever since. This of course proves why outside the Catholic Church, all the rest is preachery froth.


331 posted on 11/16/2014 10:42:50 AM PST by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Steelfish

If that is the magical way you want to look at it, go right ahead.

But agents of God’s will should not receive a mystical high five for doing what the Holy Spirit guided them to do.


332 posted on 11/16/2014 12:32:23 PM PST by Gamecock (USA, Ret. 27 years.)
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To: Steelfish; Gamecock
Matthew 6:1-6 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

“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. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. The Lord's Prayer

“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

If the RCC is taking all that kind of credit for doing God's work, they need to be careful of blowing their trumpet before men.

They have their reward already.

No one owes ANYTHING to the Catholic church for merely being the instruments by which God did something in this world.

They need to remember that God used an ass to talk to Balaam. Being used by God is no measure of spirituality and bragging on it will not end well.

Herod in Acts 12:21-23 On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and delivered an oration to them. And the people were shouting, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!” Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.

333 posted on 11/16/2014 3:08:43 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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