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To: Tokra

"I'm glad that you know exactly what God meant when he inspired the bible. Too bad that billions of others are wrong and only you are right.

"Judge not lest ye be judged.""

God didn't cause his word to be written and preserved for us if He hadn't thought we could interpret it. The Spirit who wrote it interprets it to believers in Jesus Christ.

You're on the right track with the statement: "billions of others are wrong ". "Broad is the way that leads to destruction (Jesus said) and many there be that go that way"

Jesus also said, "Judge a righteous judgement". You make hundreds of judgements every day and they'd better be good ones in some cases, such as waiting to drive onto a highway if there's a double-botton gravel truck coming. Judgement: "How far away? What is its closing speed?.

Judging is part of our lives.


71 posted on 03/09/2006 8:17:07 AM PST by RoadTest ("- - a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people." - Richard Henry Lee, 1786)
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To: RoadTest
Jesus also said, "Judge a righteous judgement". You make hundreds of judgements every day and they'd better be good ones in some cases, such as waiting to drive onto a highway if there's a double-botton gravel truck coming. Judgement: "How far away? What is its closing speed?. Judging is part of our lives.

Of course it is - but not judging whether someone goes to heaven or hell. God reserves the right to do that. That's not what we are here for. You have no right to claim that Mother Theresa is in hell, just because you are obviously anti-Catholic.

BTW, you seem to have evaded my original question:

Do you honestly believe that someone can be as evil and cruel as possible for 75 years and then be "saved" in the last ten seconds of their life and still be treated the same as someone who led a life of self-sacrifice and doing for others? I still find that very hard to believe. If what you say is true, then what is the incentive to be good?

77 posted on 03/09/2006 8:30:26 AM PST by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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To: RoadTest
"God didn't cause his word to be written and preserved for us if He hadn't thought we could interpret it. The Spirit who wrote it interprets it to believers in Jesus Christ."

You're right. The Holy Spirit does allow for interpretation. That is the whole point of the Magisterium. It's why Jesus entrusted the Word to Peter and his successors. I cannot see how Jesus wanted there to be 31,000 different Protestant denominations, all believing different things. It only stands to reason that He did as He said and established one church headed by Peter and his successors. YOU may disagree personally with what the successors have said, but it doesn't make YOU right. I'll trust Jesus' words and trust in the successive popes over my own interpretation any day.

108 posted on 03/09/2006 11:23:54 AM PST by Romish_Papist (St. Jude, pray for my lost cause. St. Rita, pray for my impossible situation.)
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To: RoadTest
God didn't cause his word to be written and preserved for us if He hadn't thought we could interpret it. The Spirit who wrote it interprets it to believers in Jesus Christ.

Where in Scripture does God give you the authority to interpret Scripture?
110 posted on 03/09/2006 11:27:19 AM PST by mike182d ("Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?")
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