Posted on 06/21/2015 9:08:12 PM PDT by Dallas59
Pope Francis, who's been espousing pro-life positions in all senses of the term, took a moment on Sunday to inform those involved in weapons manufacturing that they're not really Christians. "If you trust only men you have lost," he told thousands of young people during a rally in the Italian city of Turin. "It makes me think of ... people, managers, businessmen who call themselves Christian and they manufacture weapons. That leads to a bit a distrust, doesn't it?" The crowd applauded and he went on to criticize those who invest in weapons industries, saying, "duplicity is the currency of today ... they say one thing and do another."
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many of the world’s weapons are for hunting and for self-defense.
He is delusional if he believes these are not important.
Au contraire!
Read your Bible. God has not given up on His chosen people.... the seed of Abraham, nor will He ever. Yes, this IS the time of the Gentile, we Christians who have been "born again" have now inherited the "seed of Abraham" and thus are now part of God's covenant. And the eyes of the non-repentant Jews are temporarily shut to the truth. They are still awaiting fulfillment of their prophesies of the coming Messiah. And we are told by our Lord to pray for them.
Revelation 7:2-4 .........
"And I saw another angel ascend from the sun-rising, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a great voice to the four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, not the trees, till we shall have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads. And I heard the number of them that were sealed, a hundred and forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel."reminds us that there will be Jews, even in the last days, who believe and are saved by His Grace.
You spoke of the "Jewish religion". That Jewish religion has always been foretelling of, always been a picture of, Jesus Christ. The Old Testiment is so much more than just a history of the Jews. It is a beautiful and accurate "picture" of Christ.
I didn’t say that God’s election of the Jews came to an end. But the RELIGION—the system of obligations and ritual designed by God to foretell Christ and form a people capable of recognizing him—did come to an end. The tearing of the veil of the temple immediately after Jesus’ death represents this fact.
So we know that chrstianity superseded Judaism because chrstianity teaches that it superseded Judaism. Do we know mormonism is true because mormonism teaches that it is true?
And what makes you say that the purpose of Judaism was to "foretell chr*st?" Do you also "prove" that by invoking the teaching of chrstianity?
Let me know if you ever find in the Torah where Judaism was created to "fortell chr*st!"
An interesting thread. I thought that today’s readings were relevant.
Alleluia Heb 4:12 R. Alleluia, alleluia. The word of God is living and effective, able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart. R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel Mt 7:1-5
Jesus said to his disciples: “Stop judging, that you may not be judged. For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you. Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove that splinter from your eye,’ while the wooden beam is in your eye? You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.”
You crack me up that’s true Liberal double-speak like freedom is slavery equal and more equal etc Anyway who is the Pope to judge us!!
Restricting our beliefs to what is told in the original Bible with the original text (only twenty-four books, no “New Testament”) and Oral Law, we think differently—no loose analogies with metaphors or allegories. It’s a concrete and certain way of thought that is absolutely monotheistic. There are no contradictions or doubts. There are no types or shadows. On the existence and regrowth of Judaism, the truth of that matter is told by many of the Prophets, Isaiah through Malachi.
ZC, I’ll also take this opportunity to be a bit of a troublemaker again. Where the English translations say “Son of Man” in reference to a prophet, the Hebrew says what would be more directly translated as “Son of Adam.”
As almost always, the Pope opens mouth, inserts foot, and reveals himself as shallow, thoughtless, incoherent, and ignorant.
There’s an essay, written by a man from Buenos Aires, about Bergoglio as Archbishop, predicting how he will behave as Pope: He will say anything to any audience to get applause. He will deliver a pious, traddy ferverino to the Latin-Mass crowd in the morning, and a rip-roaring feminist speech to a bunch of pro-abortion lesbians in the afternoon. If they applaud, he considers himself a success. He is not interested in the thoughts of those who disagree, and he exiles them, if he has the authority, so he never has to listen.
OK. Either you don’t want to answer my questions or you don’t get the point. I will leave it to you to respond or not. I am not hopeful in view of this, your initial response that there is any point in continuing.
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