Posted on 01/27/2008 7:56:14 PM PST by Manfred the Wonder Dawg
***You have strange views Mark..***
I believe that they are equivalent to and therefore as correctly Christian as the Apostles and Church Fathers.
***I am not religious..
Christian religions are clubs..***
If you are not Catholic, then the second is usually true. The first, well, is so vague as to be substantially meaningless.
***You seem to know nothing of the reformed.. they believe so many different things you cannot lump tham all into one basket***
Enough of the lumps are the same.
***Some mimick the Roman Catholic Cargo Cult some do not***
I’m not sure that the description of the institution that Jesus founded is worthily described as a cargo cult.
***Some are born again some are not..
There is NO term for being UNborn again..***
Jesus spent enough time letting us know what will happen if we do wrong. The Sermon on the Mount oughta tide you over.
Do you post on factnet message board by the user-name skooter942000
And when you bow to Mary and the saints, you make them gods.
***You do realize that the monarch of England is the head of their church?
And you have no problem with it?***
I have absolutely no problem with that. I am not English :>)
I believe we will know each other. We may look different, but our spirits are still intact. I expect to know my mother and father, etc. I don’t believe there will be marriage in heaven, but I do believe we will know each other there. That’s why heaven will be such a wonderful place for me. I get to see my loved ones again. Yes, I know our bodies will be different, but I believe we WILL know each other.
How can we know our loved ones and not know our spouses?
***How can we know our loved ones and not know our spouses?***
I am NOT touching that one :>)
Fascinating . . .
My Navy buddy and I just came from the reportedly best Mexican restaurant in town.
There was an altar on the wall of the restaurant . . .
Very, very, very, VERY much like the Buddhist altars in most Restaurants in Taipei.
Only the Picture behind the flowers and candle was of Mary.
And the glass the candle was in had another image of Mary painted on it.
Of course, Y’all will likely insist that no worship was involved of the least bit of an idolatrous nature.
LOL.
I have no idea what your James Joyce comment means.
I actually have not observed ANY Bibliolatry hereon. There may have rarely been some on FR over the 10 years . . . but I recall very very very very little of that . . . manybe a KJV only character here and there . . .
The Scripture use on this thread and most threads is quite fitting, in it’s place, Biblical . . . nothing close to Bibliolatry involved.
And, believe me, or not, I know Bibliolatry from very close up personally and with other loved ones.
Methinks a very lopsided bias may be operating in that accusation.
I make no sense out of the “What insurance company do they use?” question.
I like to at least pretend that anything close to dialogue is likely not in vain.
Still believing the Rubber History book, sounds like.
The Scripture does not indicate that we will not know our spouses . . .
unless one is talking about Adam KNOWING Eve in the sexual intercourse way . . .
Gads you seem to come up with the oddest Scriptural stuff that sounds exceedingly off the wall to me.
Of course we’ll know our spouses. We just won’t be married in heaven. They’ll be our brothers or sisters, not our spouses in heaven.
Jeff Foxworthy said something smilar but it wasn't heaven. :)
Okay, just for giggles, the explanation I heard of that parable (and it was not from no Cat'lick neither) was that LOTS of flocks were put into ONE fold for safety's sake, and then when the shepherds come and lead them out to graze in the AM, the sheep know their shepherd and follow him.
It's certainly true that sheep are more docile around someone they know.
My sheep tended to follow me, because they knew that most of the time if I was leading them somewhere good food and water were at the end of the walk. And they sure wouldn't follow anybody else. (My goats only followed me if they wanted to be milked or if they felt like it. WAY more cat-like than sheep are ...)
How do you suppose that will be unless our memories are erased? If our memories are erased, how will we remember who is who?
heh heh heh
How do you figure? I was brought up to give a very slight bow when I was introduced to folks.
Actually I was referring to the synthetic Roman catholics.. likle Epistoples and Anglicans.. They are prosties too right?..
No free republic is the only board I post on.. Usually to policical threads by alas get caught up in religious threads.. against my better judgement.. Some prosties and most RC's and EO's chaf at my comments mostly.. Heck ideas will hurt no one.. Im honest or good or ill..
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