Posted on 10/11/2001 9:39:48 AM PDT by malakhi
Oh 215 and 244 are apostolic times now? I think not........Since you're taken over for RobbyS, again, chapter and verse please. Preferably from the Bible. You know that book you guys sometimes refer to when it helps ya.
I have much more faith now that I'm not in bondage to the catholic magic sternum.
Oh, ya mean the history you call "apostolic times" even though the last apostle was dead about 115 years by then? I can't even believe you tried to slam that one through.
It would seem to me that it doesn’t really matter if the canon scripture supports your doctrine or not, if you want something in your doctrine bad enough, you can within your beliefs, make it doctrine regardless.
You can take some word or scripture that has no connection to the issue, proclaim it a mystery or a paradox, and then use Mt 16:19 to support your right to do as you please with it.
Now, I'm not going to make a judgment on this practice, but I do wonder why you then go on the defensive defending what you did, and trying to give us biblical backing for your decision, when all you had to do was say, "Peter was given the authority to change or create any doctrine he wished, and God promised to back him up, and since we are the successor of Peter, we have the same authority that he did.
I would accept this reasoning a lot easier then the way you go about defending the indefensible now, and I would have to admit what you did then was your business, and it was between you and God, and it wasn't any of our business what you did in your own Church. :-)
Funniest dam thing I've read all day. ROTFLMAO. :)
BigMack
162:2
..."can I get a witness from the congregation ?" If you mean "Amen" , certainly . AMEN!!
38 Posted on 10/11/2001 14:23:18 PDT by dadwags
Suck UP! :)
BigMack
Nice catch there, Esteban. And they wonder why we don't trust their view of "history". Truly unbiased it is. (/sarcasm)
Yes, that's the main reason I hold that view. God bless.
Now do you believe the bible is the word of God because God says it. or because man says it? Do your children believe you are ther father becasue you told them or because the neighbor told them?
Sorry for the delay in answering but I have been out of town today visiting my father.
Becky
Who first came up with the whole "magic sternum" thing anyway?
No problem!
I beleive the bible is inspired because :Heb.6:18 it is impossible for God to lie.
You believe it is impossible for God to lie because a passage in the Bible says so? I find that odd. I believe it is impossible for God to lie because He is God.
Now do you believe the bible is the word of God because God says it. or because man says it?
I don't believe in the inspiration of scripture on its own say-so. I believe the Tanakh is inspired because GOD said it is inspired. Now, he didn't tell me directly. He told my ancestors, who passed this belief down to me. The Book of Mormon and the Koran both claim to be inspired by God. Despite their self-referencing claims, I don't believe that they are. I do believe the testimony of my ancestors, who witnessed the revelation on Sinai, and who received the Law from God Himself.
Yeah, and the bible tells us alot about how much integrity they had. I'd believe them over what God says anyday.
Becky
Becky, even when there were many bad Israelites (there were always some, sometimes many), there were always good ones, too, a remnant who remained faithful to the Covenant.
Frankly, you have no choice but to believe them. They handed the scriptures down to us. You only know "what God says" in scripture because of generation after generation of Jews who painstakingly hand-copied the scrolls of the Tanakh. To say that those who passed the scriptures down to us are unreliable is to question the reliability of the scriptures they transmitted.
What about the Koran. It claims to be inspired by God, too. How do you know that it is not?
I have to agree with you on this one, even the New Testament Scripture supports that.
Romans 3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
V-2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
What wouldn't the RCC's give to have biblical support like that(question mark) Lol
I never played around with the Bible. And, all of the altar boys at my parish, meny of whom are 4th graders, take their duty seriously.
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