Posted on 07/05/2002 10:14:23 AM PDT by Polycarp
I meant to say, which I agree with. (The justification dispute having been finally ironed out.)
That was beautiful!
(nice posts both of you!)
LOL! You are are so witty! Did you get that book yet? Oh it is so good. And sort of funny in a few places too. You are going to like it.
I say Theresa, you say Teresa! You say oh sola. I say oh NO-la!
Okay that wasn't funny. I will leave the wit to Colleen. I saw a GOOD movie today. The Road to Perdition. If you all don't go see it you will be missing one of the top 10 movies of the last two years.
I am Teresa the mystic....she was close to being killed when it wasn't healthy to be a heretic :>)) (she was suspect I guess) I hated my name as a kid... I admire the lady who's name I have....
I did hear that was supposed to be good (pre release) - hard to imagine Tom Hanks in a gangster type movie after all the sympathetic type characters he's played in the past. I have to wait until it is out on video --- kids! No more movies at the theatre unless I can take them.
Uhhh... are we off topic?
LOL! Well conspiracy makes for great fiction because there is always a little truth to it. Sometimes more than a little. Some questions are answered. Others come up. It's like trying to unravel a giant cable knit sweater, that someone keeps knitting, and knitting, and knitting." (Okay I stole that line from the movie Pee Wee's Big Adventure.)
"It's that kind of book... Then I have to read a "fluffy book" probably "Back when we were grownups" by Anne Tyler and I have a couple of up and comers after that."
I don't read novels like I used to. I know Anne Tyler is popular though. I like historical novels. I never read contemporary things. Is she contemporary?
"But "The History of Christianity" is under my skin, so all pre-thoughtout plans might be moot..."
It is as good as any novel. The only problem I am having is keeping a timeline in my head. It goes back and forth within say a framework of 300 years.
Yep. I just got a call from the Topic Police. I hate those guys!
Teresa of Avila. I read one of her books. Well most of it.
Her trouble came of not understanding that the use of the imagination could be dispensed with and that her soul could give itself directly to contemplation. During this stage, which lasted 18 years, she had transitory mystical experiences. She was held back by a strong desire to be appreciated by others, but this finally left her in an experience of conversion in the presence of an image of "the sorely wounded Christ" (V 9.2). This conversion dislodged the egoism that had hindered her spiritual development. Thus, at the age of 39, she began to enjoy a vivid experience of God's presence within her. However, the contrast between these favors and her conduct, which was more relaxed than was thought proper according to the ascetical standards of the time, caused some misunderstanding. Some of her friends, such as Francisco de Salcedo and Gaspar Daza, thought her favors were the work of the devil (V 23.14). Diego de Cetina, SJ, brought her comfort by encouraging her to continue in mental prayer and to think upon the humanity of Christ.
Psa 46:10 Be still, and know that I [am] God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
I think we are too busy talking to God to hear or experience Him fully!
Spoken as a true follower of the L-rd Jesus the Christ </sarcasm>
Matthew 22:36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
Matthew 22:37 Jesus replied: “`Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ [Deut. 6:5].63
Matthew 22:38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
Matthew 22:39 And the second is like it: `Love your neighbour as yourself.’
[Lev. 19:18]
chuck <truth@Y'shuaHaMashiach>
Matthew 22:36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
Matthew 22:37 Jesus replied: “`Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ [Deut. 6:5].63
Matthew 22:38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
Matthew 22:39 And the second is like it: `Love your neighbour as yourself.’
[Lev. 19:18]4
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yada yada yada
195 posted on 8/5/02 3:05 PM Mountain by Polycarp
You don't seem to be a follower of the Christ.
Perhaps you have a secret knowledge that is not available to others outside your cult.
chuck <truth@Y'shuaHaMashiach>
I'm very much a followed of Jesus Christ. I just get tired of the same old Catholic bashing here, and those doing the bashing thinking they are simply and piously "only posting scripture, what can be wrong with that?" or simply pointing doctrines of demons" the condemned Catholics on the forum are following. I'm tired of being criticized when I cut to the quick and call a spade a spade. And I'm not going to stop being blunt regardless of your pietistic posting of these platitudes.
Perhaps you have a secret knowledge that is not available to others outside your cult.
yada yada yada
Case in point.
May God Bless you abundantly, illuminate your darkened anti-Catholic intellect, and have Mercy on your soul.
I pray,
Abba, Father
creator of the universe send the Ru'akh haKodesh
to warm the heart of Polycarp to hear the True Word of G-d.
Please remove the scales from his eyes so he may see and read Your Word
and come to understand that which was provided for him at
Your Son's Death, atonement for all sin and His Resurrection.
I pray this in the Name of Your
Holy Son
Y'shua HaMashiach
chuck <truth@Y'shuaHaMashiach>
Are you speaking in tongues ?
1Co. 12:30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? [Or
other languages] Do all interpret?
chuck <truth@Y'shuaHaMashiach>
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