Posted on 08/28/2016 2:41:41 PM PDT by Salvation
Protestantism taught me I do NOT need a priest or pastor as an intermediary for my relationship with God.
I eventually found more spirituality in the Rooms of Bill Wilson’s followers.
And there it remains.
So, we agree that there is a change in the ceremonial law. And Paul admonishes us not to dispute matter such a Sabbath days.
So, the Christian church observes a one-in-seven day of rest. You have not shown a compelling reason why it must be Saturday, since we have shown that ceremony can be altered without violating God’s Law.
The ceremonial laws were abolished at the cross.(Col 2:14). I hope that clears things up. I'm going to bed now.
The one-in-seven, sure. The ceremonial observance was historically changed to honor Christ’s resurrection from the grave, and the establishment of the Christian church.
I should have followed Paul’s admonishment not to dispute the Sabbath days. I will not do it any more, and leave you to the last words.
SDG,
K51
Thank you and I do like it
Informal relationships with the many and different Disciples has pleased me over the years and I do not feel unfulfilled, I have been asked to join and I understand what that unity means to those that ask and how they want to share that unity with me.
I never can explain why I won’t choose one... best I can say is I see every Denomination as good, I am not a judge, I enjoy them all and belonging to just one Church and excluding others would not feel right. It may go back to the years of Military Services I attended with my friends of many Denominations, we were just Christians.
“For as the body is one, and has many members; and all the members of the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body, so also is Christ”
Again Thank you ...
Not biblical:
Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) Heb 10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
The CHURCH (*Ekklesia) Jesus is building is not a 'visible' church, it is a spiritual church, a Body of those who believe in Jesus as The One God sent for our salvation. Here is what JESUS said about spirit:
6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Don’t be astonished that I told you, ‘All of you must be born from above.’ 8 The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. That’s the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”John 3
And here is what JESUS said of spiritual birth (not an institutional thing like catholiciism):
3 Jesus replied to him, “Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
4 Nicodemus asked him, “How can a person be born when he is old? He can’t go back into his mother’s womb a second time and be born, can he?”
5 Jesus answered, “Truly, I tell you emphatically, unless a person is born of water and Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Don’t be astonished that I told you, ‘All of you must be born from above.’
As to WHO is protecting from error, catholiciism is racked with blasphemous rituals, yet we have the Word of God in the Bible, so we may rightly concluded that it is GOD Who protects from error ... and yet the Catholic Bible, the Douey-Reims Bible, has changes made to the Word of GOD in their institutional attempt to give foundation to their heresies -- like the change in Genesis which has been brought to your attention on more than one occasion.
Sounds like this ‘survey’ has something for everyone in it!
Best Church ever. God is good!
Book, chapter, verse??
Where I’ve attended since ‘81, I got to less services.
We used to have midweek services as well as Sunday evening ones.
Both are gone.
As our youth grew up and moved away from the area, they go either elsewhere or not at all, and the demographics of the neighborhood has shifted..
However, our church has MORE services than ever before!
“How does THIS work?”, you ask?
Well; we have THREE congregations using the same physical buildings: a mostly black congregation has worship and praise times 1/2 hour after the original, mostly white congregation has finished on Sunday morning.
There is also a smaller, mostly Hispanic group that meets in the fellowship hall as well.
It’s been an interesting 5 years now!
The Word is being preached and is getting out!
Since the Bible, the revealed word of God, is Truth, it contains no error and because it does not change, it doesn't need to be promised to be protected from error. Cause it's TRUTH.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
The claim that Jesus promised to protect the Catholic church from error in doctrine or the pope from error when speaking about faith and morals, is a vain bid to try to force people to accept whatever it says, even if it contradicts Scripture or itself from previous pronouncements.
They knew that everything didn't always fit and to claim that their sacred tradition was on par with the God breathed, Holy Spirit inspired Scripture, they had to come up with something to snow the masses. Stuff like the concept *doctrinal development*, for example, aside from the previous claims. (Which was a great move on Newman's part as it gave lots of Catholics an easy out for something that could not be rationalized away)
God NEVER promised one church in all of Scripture that it was free from error. On the contrary, a casual reading of Scripture, just the book of Acts even, shows that error was creeping in from almost the very beginning.
By the 15th chapter of Acts, they were already having the Council at Jerusalem to deal with error creeping into the church.
If more churches stuck to the word itself, there wouldn't be a problem with error. It's the ones which have stopped believing that the Bible is the word of God and is enough which have fallen into error the fastest.
Once a church started teaching that any part of it is fairy tales or didn't really happen, it was just allegory, the descent has begun.
Psalm 14:1 New International Version
For the director of music. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.
Don’t forget the psychologists.
Well...
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Are you still killing your unborn? -- GOD |
You are letting your DOUBT rule you.
Well; what's it to be?
Destroyed or Reinforced?
No kidding? It would take Darth Vader 6 minutes to convert me to the dark side.
Glad he’s not around!!
In the end it’s all about faith.
How about the words?
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