Posted on 09/02/2016 8:44:44 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Pope Francis is imploring Catholics to confess their sins against the environment, calling the degradation of the climate a “sin against God.”
In his message marking the World day of Prayer for the Care of Creation on Thursday, the pontiff said climate change is caused in part by human activity, leads to extreme weather and disproportionately affects the least advantaged around the world.
He added that “to commit a crime against the natural world is a sin against ourselves and a sin against God.
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This dude is not on God’s payroll.
Or else he is, but we have workplace misconduct going on.
Or the politically incorrect Pro Life message isn’t rewarding enough.
He seems to be talking a mixed message about it, depending on who you ask about the messages.
The Greeks and Romans internalized that the path to wisdom was clarity and succinctness, attributes they stressed in their learning and speaking.
They understood that in order to convince another in an argument one must first get, then hold, their attention. But this is a bridge to far for you.
Your #143 post droned on for more than 25 redundant paragraphs, most well exceeding 100 words; a 3000 word run-on-sentence! Now you’re back at it again!!!
It’s obvious your catalyst is relentless Bible Thumping and has absolutely nothing to do w/either seeking or sharing knowledge.
As such, I have nothing else to say; now or in the future.
Suggest you try a soap box.
We got it from Canada.
The last ice sheet pushed all them ground up stones down from up north...
We have radioactive water; too!
http://radiation-in-water.com/IndianapolisIndiana
Anything like the CCC you take your marching orders from?
Upon the “petra” (large span of rock — Christ) — not the “petros” (individual rock — Peter) — the church was to be build, so says the text. With living “petros”-es. Peter was #1 of the “petros”-es.
So goes a literal reading.
And so if Christians seem to the world to have rocks in their heads this is why :-)
Central Community College? Christ Community Church? Civilian Conservation Center? Copyright Clearance Center?
No, the Truth (not an argument) is that there were TWO canons of the Old Testament in common usage among Jews and Christians in the early centuries of Christianity.
I am not sure how you are disagreeing with my post, and thanks for your civil response, but see on the Septuagint here by the grace of God.
Note also that the Lord seems to refer to the tripartite divisions of the proposed Palestinian canon in Lk. 24:44, while none of the OT books quoted or referenced by the Lord were a manifest issue of dispute with those who sat in the seat of Moses.
A remaining question: Did Luther choose the Masoretic Canon over the Septuagint because his religious beliefs disagreed with SOME aspects of SOME of the Apocrypha.
This should be of help, and here for more on "Luther quoted, by Gods grace.
I have learned that without substantial substantiation, RCs tend to simply engage in more argument by mere assertion, or vain attempts at some sort of documentation. But in your case with me it is that of making provocative assertions that call for challenges, and then resorting to a lofty intellectual sneer in response.
Your #143 post droned on for more than 25 redundant paragraphs, most well exceeding 100 words; a 3000 word run-on-sentence!
Let alone these intolerable lengths in post 143 were the product of his own brethren, aside from attributions. But which excuses having to deal with the refutation of a mere 3 paragraphs.
Bookmark. Thanks for posting this. I’ve been told by numerous Catholic FReepers that I was wrong when I said that I was taught this as a child. They told me that I was lying/making this up, etc. Too bad that they don’t understand that outside of Jesus there is no salvation. This is one of the numerous reasons that I left the Catholic religion. I now have a very personal RELATIONSHIP with Jesus - no middleman needed.
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God is a serious answer. I don’t see why it is difficult to believe that, if God inspired men to write his holy scripture, He could also vouchsafe it for us. It’s God work, so I give the credit to him.
“So you need do nothing to be saved?”
Whatever I need, God will provide.
“Everything is the work of the Father?”
Amen.
“The Father planted belief in your brain, but not others?”
God is sovereign, He does what He wills. If God is not fit to judge who He will save and who He won’t, then who should judge?
“You make no sense whatsoever.”
Then don’t listen to me, listen to Jesus:
“All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out” John 6:37
Jesus may save you, but it is the Father who sends you to Jesus so that you may be saved.
So why does Paul say: “ Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling” Phil 2:12
So if God provides your salvation, what do you need to work out? Why is there fear and trembling?
Please be very specific in your response. How does one ‘work out your salvation?’ The clear language of Scripture shows you have to do something – work out- to obtain salvation.
Perhaps if you read the following verse instead of plucking one verse out of context, Paul would have answered your questions already:
“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” Phil 2:13
Seems Paul agrees with me that it is God doing the “work” referred to in verse 12.
I will ask you again, what does Paul mean when he says, ‘work out your salvation?’
Please be very specific in your response. How does one ‘work out your salvation?’ if everything is predestined by God? The clear language of Scripture shows you have to do something – work out- to obtain salvation.
If that were true, Paul would have said 'let God work out your salvation.' but Paul did not say that. He told YOU to work out YOUR salvation.
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