Posted on 07/11/2007 7:32:55 AM PDT by kellynla
*shaking head in disbelief*
How did you ever equate throwing books into a fire with throwing living human beings into a fire?
It’s hard to follow along with your hopscotch-like jumps in logic.
Are you referring to 2 Peter 1:19? It may do you some good to continue reading that passage into 2 Peter 1:20...
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Context is everything, friend.
“Hail Mary, mother of God.....”
Since it's a virtue to adore Jesus Christ, thanks for the compliment for our Pope!
You can call your cat a dog if you please as well, but it doesn’t make it so.
“So intently focused on meaningless ceremony and empty ritual that you miss God and become pharisees. As for the pope, I’ll call him chief idolater if I please.”
Well it’s good to get that out of the way. Similar to people who refuse to address the President as well, President.
But if you deem such good manners as irrelevant, who’s to disagree.
It's actually, "Hail Mary, full of grace" and later on, "Holy Mary, Mother of God." However, what is your contention? Are you denying what is said in the first chapter of Luke? If you choose to mock Luke 1:48, are there other sections of Scripture you choose to mock (of course there's still John, chapter 6)?
I'm also curious, if Martin Luther, John Calvin and most of the other major Protestant Reformation leaders were wrong about the Blessed Virgin Mary, what else were they wrong about?
Well let’s not quibble over a few words. Let’s instead discuss the lack of good medicine for mental illness during the Reformation.
Now that was a graceless period.
I can’t help but thinking that men like Luther and Calvin would feel far more comfortable today in the Catholic or Orthodox Churches than they would in any of the “reformed” denominations. Both of them held beliefs about the Blessed Mother that can ONLY be described as typically Catholic/Orthodox.
Why are you obsessed with throwing people in fires?
First you bring up Sola Scriptura from out of nowhere. Then you start talking about buring mormons in a bonfire, again out of nowhere.
First remove the plank from your own eye.
As they say, never argue with a crazy person.
Bye
I think most of their minds have been made up but there is always hope one might see the light. What I find odd is that most protestants get tweeked when their beliefs are offended by the Church, but I (and the majority of Catholics) do not care what they preach against the Catholic Church. Any mistake or percieved mistakes they can point out are used to justify their oun beliefs. They have trouble even acknowledging that the Bible is a Catholic book. But they’ll try to twist this simple fact like everything else that doesn’t square with what they believe.
There’s little doubt that religious folks in the past wouldn’t feel at home in most any of the Reformed Churches.
Then again, JFK wouldn’t even be in the Democratic Party today. And he’d be slapping his brother Ted every day, but I digress.
Believing that Jesus Christ is God is idolatry?
Should I even mention that purported your quote is inaccurate?
I wonder what the effect would be. Probably about equal to all the Catholic Biblical justifications that we have posted.
There are actually, as you know, quite a few very sophisticatedly argued Scriptural cases against Church doctrine from the Reformed perspective.
Ultimately they fail, of course.
However, we have seen almost none of them here - it's almost entirely non-sequiturs, straw men, insults and laughably mistaken "history" from people who can't get their facts straight.
A shame, really.
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