Who Really Speaks For God?

The Highway ^ | May 24,2015 | John H. Armstrong

[ADSUM]

Your comment: “You do not need a man to confess to. Go to Jesus because He is the only one who matters.”

I can see that you do not fully understand or accept the words of Jesus, especially on Pentecost Sunday.

Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained.” (Jn 20:19-23)

[goodwithagun]

I never claimed to be. Did you?

[MamaB]

I have learned more about forgiveness in the last few years than I ever wanted to learn. If I had not forgiven, it would have been me bearing the pain. Jesus teaches forgiving others and that is what I did. People think I am even more nuttier than I am for doing that.

[Elsie]

If you tell yourself often enough, you begin to believe it is the truth.

Hail Mary; mother of GOD...

[Elsie]

Your comment: “As long as they agree Mary means the Fast Track to Jesus, they’ll all swear to it, and insult your mental capacity for not agreeing.”

How easily you forget the ten commandments, especially #4?

HAve you forgotten already YOUR statement that prompted mine??

As long as they agree John 3:16 means the moon is made of green cheese, they'll all swear to it, and insult your faith for not agreeing.

And you ask me if I've forgotten #4???

Amazing chutzpah!

[Elsie]

OUR CONFESSION FOR THIS REQUIREMENT IS IN THE APOSTLES CREED AND NICENE CREED Which IS CONFESSED PUBLICLY in SUNDAY CHURCH ALL OVER THE WORLD

 

 

 

 

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Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

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John 6:28-29
Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?

 Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."

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1 John 3:21-23
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.
And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.

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James 1:27

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

 

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[Elsie]

I guess plagiarism really is the sincerest form of flattery.

Style or substance?

[Elsie]

If Protestants followed Christ, they'd do what the Bible says ...

Weak Plagiarism Alert!!

If Catholics followed what the Bible says; their services would look a LOT different!

[Elsie]

What's "pathetic" is Protestant engaging in every form of vice and wickedness EXCEPT those they claim to reject. And those too if they can rationalize their way around it.

Pope Stephen VI (896–897), who had his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, tried, de-fingered, briefly reburied, and thrown in the Tiber.^[1]

Pope John XII (955–964), who gave land to a mistress, murdered several people, and was killed by a man who caught him in bed with his wife.

Pope Benedict IX (1032–1044, 1045, 1047–1048), who "sold" the Papacy

Pope Boniface VIII (1294–1303), who is lampooned in Dante's Divine Comedy

Pope Urban VI (1378–1389), who complained that he did not hear enough screaming when Cardinals who had conspired against him were tortured.^[2]

Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503), a Borgia, who was guilty of nepotism and whose unattended corpse swelled until it could barely fit in a coffin.^[3]

Pope Leo X (1513–1521), a spendthrift member of the Medici family who once spent 1/7 of his predecessors' reserves on a single ceremony^[4]

Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), also a Medici, whose power-politicking with France, Spain, and Germany got Rome sacked.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Popes

[Elsie]

You know what our Church says, and so does everyone else on earth.

"One indeed is the universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved, in which the priest himself is the sacrifice, Jesus Christ, whose body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the species of bread and wine; the bread (changed) into His body by the divine power of transubstantiation, and the wine into the blood, so that to accomplish the mystery of unity we ourselves receive from His (nature) what He Himself received from ours." — Pope Innocent III and Lateran Council IV (A.D. 1215)

Therefore, if anyone says that it is not by the institution of Christ the lord himself (that is to say, by divine law) that blessed Peter should have perpetual successors in the primacy over the whole Church; or that the Roman Pontiff is not the successor of blessed Peter in this primacy: let him be anathema. — Vatican 1, Ses. 4, Cp. 1

[Elsie]

Perhaps your your prideful assumptions will prevent your entry into heaven.

 

 

 Perhaps...

 

 

 Luke 17:9-14  Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)

 

  9 And to some who trusted in themselves as just, and despised others, he spoke also this parable:
10 Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
11 The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican.
12 I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess.
13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes towards heaven; but struck his breast, saying: O God, be merciful to me a sinner.
14 I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather than the other: because every one that exalteth himself, shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted.

[Elsie]

It will take more than pathetic insults like that to silence the gospel

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The Word of God can take care of itself, and will do so if we preach it, and cease defending it.

See you that lion. They have caged him for his preservation; shut him up behind iron bars

to secure him from his foes! See how a band of armed men have gathered together to protect the lion.

What a clatter they make with their swords and spears! These mighty men are intent upon defending a lion.

O fools, and slow of heart! Open that door! Let the lord of the forest come forth free.

Who will dare to encounter him? What does he want with your guardian care?

Let the pure gospel go forth in all its lion-like majesty, and it will soon clear its own way and ease itself of its adversaries.

 

[Elsie]

What sins has the pope RETAINED lately?

[ADSUM]

The Catholic Confessional is private and the priest or bishop or Pope is not allowed to communicate matters of a Confession.

[johngrace]

Huh? Stop playing games.

[johngrace]

Do not judge me. I answer to God not you.

[fatima]

God,I have a question.Has anyone here spoke to God and if you want to share what did God say.

[Salvation]

Amen!

[johngrace]

Amen.

[johngrace]

Good answer Elsie. Thank you.

Since you seem serious and kind here in your comment. I will try to explain. What I was pointing out is you can't make a confession of faith by having a false spirit in you.

People accuse people in the church nonsense at times.

I had encounter where Our Lord showed what 1 John4 really meant and confirmed it with me. I once met my friend's wife who was into Tarot card reading. I was helping them move from their summer house.

So she had all mixed up cultic books with real spiritual books. She had problems. The Bible anchor series with "Spelling casting and enchantment"books.

Also she would put glad bags in freezer with someone's name like a "Voodo act." She kept telling me she was a christian. So after praying the Lord put 1 John 4 verses in remembrance as I was thinking on what to do for her.

I then challenged her to say the creed. A confession of faith as a witness. She wanted to do it. She told me she could. So she tried.

She could never go past born of a virgin. Now this does not have to do with perpetual virgin exactly in the creed. It is talking about conceived with the Holy Spirit. No natural born father as we believe in the creed. So Mary had Jesus. Which really is about born of the flesh as from a woman as it reads in 1John 4. When she got to that point in the creed all she could do was stutter. She was being held back. She wanted to say "born of a woman" She could not at all say the key verses. What came out every time she tried "There are many gods" came out instead.

If you saw it your jaw would drop. It was amazing. The husband was astounded.

Now that doesn't mean people who are nominal church goers can't still say 1 John 4 or the creed. They might perfunctorily say it without fully understanding its meaning. But absolutely no Demonic possessed person can ever say it.

The fallen angels as Christ tells us in scripture are already judged. So they can never be saved. When they control a person it is impossible unless that person is delivered from it. This is the main point and why I emphase it.

1 John 4 King James Version (KJV)

4 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

May God Bless you in understanding. Amen.