Posted on 04/05/2005 10:01:52 PM PDT by Coleus
For the last quarter of a century, this non-Catholic has had a pope. Now that John Paul II is gone, I am even more of an orphan than the Christians in the Roman church. For they will surely have another pope, but that one may not be mine, since I haven't converted.
I am sure I am reflecting the views of many Protestants. Who else but John Paul II gave voice to my faith and my values in 130 countries? Who else posited personal holiness and theological clarity against postmodern self-deception and egotism? Who else preached the gospel as tirelessly as this man?
What other clergyman played any comparable role in bringing down communism, a godless system? What other world leaderspiritual or secularunderstood so profoundly how hollow and bankrupt the Soviet empire was, so much so that this tireless writer never bothered to pen an encyclical against Marxism-Leninism because he knew it was moribund?
Has there been a more powerful defender of the sanctity of life than this Pole, in whose pontificate nearly 40 million unborn babies wound up in trashcans and furnaces in the United States alone? What more fitting insight than John Paul II's definition of our culture as a culture of deathan insight that is now clearly sinking in, to wit the declining abortion rates in the United States?
In Europe some time ago, a debate occurred in Protestant churches: Should John Paul II be considered the world's spokesman for all of Christianity? This was an absurd question. Of course he spoke for all believers. Who else had such global appeal and credibility, even to non-Christians and non-believers?
Of course, there was the inveterate Billy Graham. There were many faithful Orthodox and Protestant bishops, pastors and evangelists.
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Apparently.
SD
It doesn't, of course. Sola Scriptura is the cornerstone of protestantism; take it away (for it is false), and the whole edifice collapses.
actually it does.
Ok, thank you for being so forthright.
Jesus is the Word. Jesus is the Torah. Jesus is God. what part dont you understand?
The part where you think the written Bible is the Living God. You are truly admitting bibliolotry. you are the first to do so, and it certainly helps things along.
Most deny it.
Perhaps you dont realize with what reverence our Jewish friends regard their Holy Torah?
I don't think they confuse the written word with YHWH Himself.
SD
No, this is our cornerstone, taught to us, surprise! in the ... Bible
Mathew 21:42, Mark 12:10, Luke 20:17, Acts 4:11, Ephesians 2:20, 1 Peter 2:6, and 7
yes, I made an altar to it, festooned it with baked cakes and say prayers to it.
CompSciGuy; what's up; D Edmund Joaquin
Stick to your bibles. Stop foaming at the mouth about Catholicism, Remember:
Matthew 7:1 - "Judge not, that ye be not judged"
Consider this a polite request to stop bashing my faith.
Cheers,
CSG
247 posted on 04/06/2005 1:56:37 PM MDT by CompSciGuy
Please do not take Yshua out of context.
Finish the paragraph and the thought.
Better yet read John 7:24
NAsbU John 7: 24 "Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment."
We are commanded to judge by Yshua !
BShem Yshua
chuck
Wasn't it the Catholics who gave us the bible?
Like it or not, SS is the doctrine which makes protestantism protestant, and not Catholic or Orthodox.
The crowning irony is, of course, that sola scriptura is unscriptural. It's a tradition of men.
The whole situation would be funny, if it weren't tragic.
Feel free to back track on anything you said. If you think the Bible is God, then you have made a book an object of your worship.
SD
No, the Torah was with God before creation
No todd1, don't you know, it fell from the sky one day in a beautiful leather-bound volume, in English too no less. The book is the Word. Humans had absolutely nothing to do with it.
(/sarcasm)
I'll take all I can get!
Jesus is the Living Word. Jesus and the Bible are not consubstantial. The Bible is not the only way we have of knowing God.
SD
In the Luminous Mysteries, Mary gets another 1/2--the Miracle at Cana.
51 I am the living bread that came down out of heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever; this bread is my flesh, offered so the world may live."
Ain't nothing about books or words in there at all. Did you mis-cite?
SD
where did I say that the KJV was the torah?
I'm late to this joust; forgive me if you've answered this before:
Do you believe that Mary was 'concieved without sin' due to her selection as the earthly Mother of Christ?
what about it?
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