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To: Luircin; Songcraft
Then you’re going to have to explain what Jesus DID mean when he said those words, because you can’t reject them outright if the Lord said them.

Rather than perceiving it as an addition to the Law, with new commandments to ban honorifics for fathers, teachers, rabbis, masters (using the English Mister, Mr. would now be forbidden), but allowing Mother, Mistress, Rebbitzin, and all other feminine equivalents (since they were not banned and one is being literal ...) ... consider it is about:

Taking what belongs to God alone and attributing it to a man ...

And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so. And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces. He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan; And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.

Second Kings, Catholic chapter two, Protestant verses nine to fourteen,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James,
underline added for emphasis

Or consider the scrupulosity of banning those words and not plucking out one's eyes or cutting off one's hands ... the former promised no certain punishment while the latter warned the whole body would becast into hell.

Same Messiah, same Bible

Where is the constant spamming on FR calling for this?


Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut if off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Matthew, Catholic chapter five, Protestant verses twenty seven to thirty,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James

126 posted on 12/31/2018 4:33:28 AM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981

Now why exactly do Catholics apply the title to priests who are but man then?


130 posted on 12/31/2018 7:11:37 AM PST by Luircin
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To: af_vet_1981

You do understand the importance of context in reading the Scriptures....right?


133 posted on 12/31/2018 7:38:06 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: af_vet_1981
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time,
170 posted on 01/01/2019 3:39:20 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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