Catholic priest blesses, encourages Chattanooga's faithful at their homes during coronavirus pandemic

Chattanooga Times Free Press ^ | April 8th, 2020 | Wyatt Massey

[Mrs. Don-o]

"It is God's Word that is the final authority above all practices of men. "

Well stated, aMPU, well stated. That's why we offer incense to the One True God,the Trinity, Creator of Heaven and Earth and sovereign Lord of all the Universe. Because it is so repeatedly approved and recommended in Scripture, God's Word.

And you ignored the larger question: your assumption that anything that is not explicitly commanded in the NT, is forbidden. The OT foresees and foreshadows the NT, and both foreshadow the Church: which is to say, "us," the Body of Christ, which includes you and me.

You explained nothing from the OT--- except you proved yourself adept at explaining it away.

But never mind. I am going out to dig up a bed for my celery-herb and fava beans, and I'm going to put a statue of the Holy Family in it. It's good. It's true. It's beautiful. I dearly wish you could rejoice in it.

Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη! (Khristós anésti! Alithós anésti!)

Revelation 8:3

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for the new word (for me): bisabuelos!

[Trailerpark Badass]

God bless you!

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“ Because it is so repeatedly approved and recommended in Scripture, God’s Word.

Yes, for Israel.
Yes, in heaven.
No, never for the church on earth.

Thou shalt not steal.

“ And you ignored the larger question: your assumption that anything that is not explicitly commanded in the NT, is forbidden.”

This was what I responded to as your list of category mistakes.

Ex. While Sunday School serves a Biblical purpose, it is not a Biblical church office.

Once you add to God’s Word, as Rome does, you are wrong.
Once you take away from God’s Word, which Rome does, you are wrong.
Once you change God’s Word, as Rome does, you are wrong.

“ You explained nothing from the OT”

The OT temple practices were commanded by God, to Israel - and not for His Church.

There is no explaining necessary beyond that. Thou shalt not steal.

Best.

[Texas_Guy]

So if it’s associated with Rome then it’s automatically banned and bad, huh?

Then put your Bible away. That’s ours. Our saints wrote that, not the sons of Luther.

Don’t celebrate Christmas, that’s our holiday too. It’s short for Christ’s Mass.

Can’t go to church on Sunday either. The Church through her authority to bind and loose, moved the Sabbath to Sunday.

See how that works?

Insence is indeed biblical. Read the church father’s and histories of the early Church. Go to the catacombs and see the icons and writting on the wall. You’ll see it all.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

So if it’s associated with Rome then it’s automatically banned and bad, huh?

No, they got a few things correct.

Then put your Bible away. That’s ours. Our saints wrote that, not the sons of Luther.

Sorry, this was God's doing through the Holy Spirit. He says so in Scripture.

Don’t celebrate Christmas, that’s our holiday too. It’s short for Christ’s Mass.

We don't celebrate a mass. We celebrate the birth of Christ.

Can’t go to church on Sunday either. The Church through her authority to bind and loose, moved the Sabbath to Sunday.

Sorry, friend, but that was a celebration of Christ's rising on the first day of the week. It had nothing to do with binding and loosing.

See how that works?

No, it doesn't work that way.

Best to you on Easter.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Insence is indeed biblical.

Judas hanged himself. That is biblical too.

But not everything in the Bible is about us, not for us to do.

But Read the church father’s and histories of the early Church.

Yes, I've read thousands of pages of church history in seminary.

Go to the catacombs and see the icons and writting on the wall. You’ll see it all.

Yes, but these were not during the lives of the Apostles. That stuff came much later, as error came into the church - as the Apostles warned us, and as we see in Revelation 2.