Posted on 04/27/2016 8:41:02 AM PDT by Salvation
Do you think Peter believed Scripture needed a magic decoder ring to understand like it was all written in undecipherable code? Scripture was written so that we may be complete, fully equipped and able to know the truth through the SAME Holy Spirit that inspired the writers and who now indwells believers.
Did you need someone to interpret your users manual for the car you drive or was in pretty straightforward and easy to follow? Scripture was written so that we might believe and by believing have eternal life. God WANTS everyone to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. Some, because of their own pride, will not be.
Sure seems like catholiciism is right in line with 'replacement theology'. But God is not finished with The Jews. The seventieth week of Daniel still waits fulfillment. The Ekklesia will not be here to get in the way of Jewish Revival.
Praise God for the Navigators. Great people. They taught me a lot about the rapture. I guess you don't plan to be there. Oh well, that's on you, but I am still wondering if you plan on trying to bluff your way into Heaven.
Now, I am going to go read the Bible, and interpret it for myself. Later bro.
Speak for yourself bro. Anyone who is saved gets there by the foot of the cross. Glad we don't need the sacrments to be saved. The thief on the cross didn't need them. I don't either.
They are.
We only got 3 things here:
Text, pictures, links.
Once we learn the simple things about them, we can learn the slightly more complex.
We’ve IMPORTANT! things to say; and, by Golly!, we do NOT want them to get lost among the NON-important things that another guy is saying.
So we improvise and emphasize.
Of course I'm being silly here; for each is saying what IS important: to him/her.
All of our arguments are over the relative importance each of us assign to the OTHER fella's stuff.
We learned; as kids - hopefully; how to share.
Our toys; our space, our time.
We are still in the process (never ending it seems) in learning to share our ideas: our importance.
We know.
You guys get enough of that at church.
Catholics are 'taught' that Prots are 'untaught and unstable'; correct?
At least it seems that way in the majority of things posted by them on FR.
But; in reality; don't we Prots 'learn' the same about them?
"If they'd 'only' do this or that; then the IMPORTANCE I feel about the subject would just HAVE to become apparent to them."
I'd bet; verga; that you are about as tired of trying to change my mind over certain things, as I am about trying to change yours.
I'm going to try a little harder to QUIT being the toad that says that YOU are ugly.
For after cleaning MY mirror, I see that those bumps on me are NOT beauty marks; but warts.
Elsie; take the following to heart:
Romans 14:4 Douay-Rheims Bible
Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? To his own lord he standeth or falleth. And he shall stand: for God is able to make him stand.
Is that Latin for... TADA! ?
;^)
I hope that I have the correct outfit to wear!
Matthew 22:12
Rome's book says:
John 14:26 NIVBut the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.
Isn't it the Catholic position that the HS works ONLY through the church?
But each of us BELONG on a cross.
Our choices place us either on the left or on the right of Jesus.
See how easy it is to agree on something?
;^)
The list of Catholic fellas that I'm inclined to post for time to time; did THEY have the Whole Truth?
If so; they must have made a willful decision not to follow it; or else they did NOT have the Whole Truth (it seems to me).
I agree with you.
It is found in the book that Rome assembled; so long ago.
12 And we will not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope.
13 For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again; even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him.
14 For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them who have slept.
15 For the Lord himself shall come down from heaven with commandment, and with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead who are in Christ, shall rise first.
16 Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air, and so shall we be always with the Lord.
17 Wherefore, comfort ye one another with these words.
I Thessalonicenses 4:13 Biblia Sacra Vulgata (VULGATE)
nolumus autem vos ignorare fratres de dormientibus ut non contristemini sicut et ceteri qui spem non habent
Connect 1Thess 4:12-17 with the teaching Jesus gave in John 14, about going to prepare a place then coming to get them to go THERE in the Father’s House ... how is it that so many choose to not see it? There is wrath coming, the wrath OF GOD, not men or the devil, GOD. And Paul assumed we are already delivered from such wrath: 1 Thess 1:10.
Catholic Unity on display:
“Even if the Pope were Satan incarnate, we ought not to raise up our heads against him” (Cath Cauc)
He did indeed sir. Do you suppose the Apostle Paul was as guilty as me, of committing the sin of presumption, by enjoying assurance of salvation? 😀😃😇
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