Posted on 09/11/2023 9:23:22 AM PDT by ebb tide
While it’s true the thief wasn’t baptized, baptism is to be submitted to as an act of obedience, as a sign of being buried with Christ and resurrected, as having died to sin. It does not, itself, save. Only believing in faith that Jesus Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father, saves.
A distinction without a difference, in this case.
The Word of God is where false doctrine goes to die.
How to determine if a religion is a cult?
If the cult attempts to discredit the Inspired Word of God in an effort to validate a false theology!
WAIT a minute!!
Are you saying that ebb has been wrong all along??
Ever since a serpent tempted him with “Did God REALLY say not to add to His Words and follow false non-Scriptural teachings”?
'splains MUCH about the RCC, doesn't it?
From MY experience (ebb- my experience is real, so you can't deny it), all the good "Holy Roman Catholic Church" families had a HUGE, decorative Bible - right there in the front room. They didn't READ it or STUDY it - That was the "priest's" job - not for "laymen" and those without "holy orders" -- No! THAT Bible was pure decoration!
” THE WORD BECAME FLESH”
Did he eat the book?
The main question to be answered is “Why aren’t you Greek Orthodox?” They have much more claim to being the true Church than the Romans, even though I don’t believe in either of them over the Scriptures.
Pope John XII
Pope Julius II
Pope Stephen VI
Pope Urban VI
Sterling examples of the infallibility of popes (except for the syphilis, murders, simony, torture, etc.).
LOL
Quote:
“Sola scriptura” is not scriptural.
Move along now.”
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Your argument is not with me, but with God Who you oppose. I am simply the messenger.
Though I quote it, it is God Who wrote It.
Also, What God promised He will fulfill. Contrary to what your false doctrine teaches, God has not replaced the Covenant He made with Israel and instead given to the seven hills of Rome.
Every dot and every tittle WILL be fulfilled. Including opening the Books at the White Throne Judgement::
Revelation 20:11-15
11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
choose this day whom you will serve. God or Rome! You cannot serve two masters.
Matthew 6:24
King James Version
24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Choose wisely, today is the Day of Salvation. The hour of Judgement draws near!
And we haven’t addressed those wearing the idol called the scapular and hope it will save them from the hell fire.
quote:
“” THE WORD BECAME FLESH”
Did he eat the book?”
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That reminds me of another false doctrine. transubstantiation. We are not cannibals, and neither is some man with a turned around collar, able to create God every Sunday.
To take what is meant as a MEMORIAL and to pervert the Sacrifice is an abomination unto the Lord!
BTW Ebb, thank you for posting this thread. I hope you haven’t grown to regret it.
Biblically speaking there are no people in heaven yet. That happens at the return of Christ.
1Ti 6:15 His appearing will be brought about at the right time by God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
1Ti 6:16 He alone is immortal; he lives in the light that no one can approach. No one has ever seen him; no one can ever see him. To him be honor and eternal power! Amen.
Right now, as those verses tell us, only Jesus is immortal...only Jesus sits on a throne in heaven.
Speaking to Christians Paul says:
1Co 15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—
1Co 15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
This occurs at the last trumpet, which heralds the return of Christ. He desribes it just a bit differently here:
1Th 4:16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
1Th 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
The return of Christ is when Christians are resurrected to glory and enter the heavenly realm. Not before.
Paradise is empty today.
Upon death, the Spirit and the soul is raised to be in the presence of the Lord.
at the time of the Rapture our bodies are changed to receive a Glorified Body. 1 Corrinthians 15:51-57
2 Corinthians 5:8
King James Version
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
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Did Our Lord write any part of the New Testament or command His Apostles to do so? Our Lord Himself never wrote a line, nor is there any record that He ordered his Apostles to write;
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Revelation 1
17When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last, 18the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
19Therefore write down the things you have seen, and the things that are, and the things that will happen after this.
Quote from propagandist/ author
nor is there any record that He ordered his Apostles to write;
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Maybe if this minion of Satan read The Bible, they’d be able to answer their own first question.
Just like Satan and his minions to get wrong right from the start..
The current Pope seems to believe Marx more than Jesus and yet you seem to think he is a Christian. The current Pope is a disgrace.
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:”
Who is the author of this scripture?
To facilitate our discussion...what do believe the difference is between the spirit and the soul...biblically. How does the bible define each?
Excellent response to rebuke those who choose false doctrine over the Word of God.
The Word alone is and will always remain True.
Matthew 24:35
King James Version
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
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