Posted on 03/23/2002 5:34:00 AM PST by father_elijah
However I respect your search for truth. Since you must have read my post as you responded to it can you answer my request for scriptural support for your position about celibacy?
I also know you are smart enough to know that you don't bring a load of furniture into a house you're trying to clean unless you don't really want it clean. I hope you don't have another agenda than just loving Jesus Christ.
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"I never mentioned anybodies name or religion. Your just spittin out venom and not even thinking !" post 117
Gee, you SURE had me fooled!
Please stop this. Your display of ignorance borders on the embarrassing.
Your generalization regarding Catholics is a lie. That tells me more about you than I ever cared to know.
Just joined up to make one post, did you? You're free to be a sniper, but don't expect honorable people to respect you or take you seriously.
There are warnings from the Good Book that warn the community of the believers on "strange interpretations" of passages, instead of reading the passage in the context of the WHOLE of Scripture's teachings.
"The apostle Peter was very concerned about this problem, and addressed it in his letters. In 2 Peter 1:20-21, he gave his first rule of Bible interpretation: 'First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the HoIy Spirit spoke from God.' By prophecy, he simply means anything that Scripture teaches (prophecy does not always mean predicting the future). For this reason, we must avoid the temptation to evaluate passages by simply asking, 'What do I think this verse means?' Christ gave the Church teachers, and he did so for a very specific reason: to assist people in how to understand Scripture and its teachings. Therefore, rather than simply looking to private interpretations, we must look to the public interpretation of Scripture, which is what the Church has. We must read Scripture in the context of what the Church has historically understood it to mean, for it was the Church that Christ established as 'the pillar and foundation of the truth' (1 Tim. 3:15)." (Taken from Starting Out as an Apologist from the Catholic Answers website.)
Was the Bible intended to be sole rule of faith? Is it the only source of Truth? NO! The ultimate source of Truth itself is God, and the Bible made NO such claim that it is the sole rule of faith (check out 1 Cor. 11:2, 2 Thess. 2:15, 2 Tim. 2:2, 2 Peter 1:20-21, 3:15-16). As I have said to others, the Word of God (the Bible) is the BEGINNING of wisdom ( and the search for Truth), not the end.
Taken as a whole, the things you've posted point to a fatal lack of research of your own. Why not look for the truth about just the remarks you made following the above statement -- and then try again.
Another suggestion I will incorporate in my letter is that the priest turn around.Looking at him is painful because I cannot but wonder if he is truly offering up our prayers to the Father or is instead blocking the organic flow of God's people to Him.This is distracting.
With respect to the priestt,it must be disconcerting to focus on the big H,Him with all those eyes focusing on the little h,him. So,as far as I'm conscerned this is a win-win situation.
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