[drstevej]

Sorry OP, it was an easy shot and I couldn't resist blowing that clay pidgeon out of the air.

[St.Chuck]

Thanks. The Douay and NAB says "kick against the goad."

[St.Chuck]

same with Knox

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Where does one go to find that little addendum? 771 posted on 02/26/2003 9:34 PM PST by St.Chuck

Acts 26:14 14And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. The King James Version ~~ 772 posted on 02/26/2003 9:38 PM PST by drstevej

Sorry OP, it was an easy shot and I couldn't resist blowing that clay pidgeon out of the air. 773 posted on 02/26/2003 9:40 PM PST by drstevej

SORRY?!?! For what are you sorry? I was busy on another Thread. It was "your turn" to return the Serve.

Don't apologize, Steve. It's not a problem.

As I have said before -- as a Five-Point Calvinist, I have no greivous Theological Objection to playing "Doubles Tennis" with a Classical Amyrauldian. (It's just darn hard to find a "classical amyrauldian", True Amyrauldians are as rare as a needle in a haystack)

Our Dispute, FRiend Steve, concerns whether Jesus Christ died to provide an Absolute Atonement for Paul, and then applied it (Dordtian Calvinist) -- or whether Jesus Christ died to provide an Absolute Atonement, and then applied it to Paul. (Amyrauldian Calvinist)

By contrast, the Roman Catholics say that the Bible is the "Magisterial Center" of their Church Tradition.

Well, it would be hard enough for Protestants if Roman Catholics even knew their own Magisterium, and their own Tradition.... but they don't.

But what is worse, Roman Catholics don't even know the "Magisterial Center" of their own Church Tradition... the God-Breathed Bible.

There is NO excuse whatsoever for a Roman Catholic saying that "Bollocks" represents "coarse language", considering that the Lord Christ Himself used such language to condemn the Persecutions of Saul the Pharisee:

And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

"Saul, Saul... I am your Lord and your God... why are you behaving like you want to kick me in the balls???"

Gosh, I'll bet that the average Roman Catholic DOESN'T EVEN REALIZE that Jesus was specifically employing this allegedly "coarse language" for the specific purpose of accusing the Pharisee Saul, a great LEGALIST as he once was, of a violation of Levitical Law against his own God (Leviticus 21:20, Deuteronomy 23:1).

Roman Catholics like to talk about their "Magisterial Tradition" in regards to the Christian Bible.

The fact of the matter is...

• They don't even KNOW the Christian Magisterium.
• They don't even KNOW the Christian Tradition.
• They don't even KNOW the Christian Bible.

They glory in their Traditions, but I say... My Kingdom! My Kingdom for a Roman Catholic who actually knows the freakin' Patristics!!

And as for a Roman Catholic who knows The Bible... now even for the great Gerry Matatics, I fear that is entirely too much to ask.

Your turn to Serve the ball, my Amyrauldian compatriot.