Posted on 04/27/2008 3:36:18 AM PDT by markomalley
“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”
Amen. It’s Truth that is impossible for the blind to see, but nourishment to the soul which has been redeemed.
Rote prayer is what Buddhist(and others) do..
Rote mechanical prayer to a mechanical God in a mechanistic way promises a Robot like God.. Buddhists use prayer wheels to display prayers to the Robot God.. others use beads of various sorts.. for the same purpose..
Those open to obvious and others to occluded idolatry seem to have no problems with a Robot God.. and with rote(liturgical) and/or robotic prayer..
Fascinating ...
Amen, Dr. E.
You’re so right! Angel-Gal is humility personified; something a lot of folks hereon could emulate, both RCC’s and prottys.
We are the Bride of Christ through HIM and HIM alone, because we have put our faith and trust in HIM. The ONE true church, IS the Body of Christ, His BRIDE.
Please don’t. I think you are the one out of kilter and I hope it doesn’t end up with your missing eternal life with Him because of it. I am concerned for all those who don’t put their faith in Christ and Christ alone. The HS speaks through ALL BELIEVERS. The Body of Christ IS the ONE TRUE CHURCH, not an edifice or a denomination. I hope you will one day come to that realization. God bless you.
If you believe that your salvation depends on the eucharist, you are in error. Otherwise, no harm in what you practice. We all have our beliefs and opinions.
The BIBLE, not just the Catholic Bible, gives us all the truth we need to live by. M
Wonderful answer, Dr. E. SOLA SCRIPTURE!!!
Anyone who can take the name of Jesus and commit worldwide spiritual mischief as their lifegoal is indeed a piece of work.
The Bible IS the Catholic Bible.
This gets more interesting all the time ...
No, it isn’t. I know you keep insisting it is, but the Bible was around before Catholics began to claim it.
These days, if someone told me the Jesuits were sabotaging a church, I’d ask “which parish?”
The NT was written by Catholics. The canon was defined by Catholics. History is history.
ROFL!!!!!
Incomprehensible?... The wafer becoming Jesus Flesh, to be consumed by the Flesh, for F...[etc etc.}
I don't think that was his question. He was asking (I think) what thinking was behind "needing" an ordained minister to preside at the Lord's Supper. For a kind of classix comix sketch of our view, the promise of the Sacrament is only certainly fulfilled when an ordained priest is there, (don't quibble, please, this is just to set up the contrast) but we have this carnal idea of a miracle taking place. To the questioner, no miracle was taking place (Is that a correct view of Presbyterian thought?) and certainly the actual bread was not treated with notable respect, and the teaching SEEMED to be that the "change" (if any) was in the believer, not the bread AND that the believer brought about the change by the exercise of gifts given grace through faith.
SO what is ordination about in that system of thought? I think it's an interesting question: not just what you think about "ordination" (though that's interesting too) but also what some Presbyterians might think about it.
True. But even those who may have what seems to be a harsh delivery (I prefer to call it boldness) are still loving you.
Well, you DO have to have discernment (LOL).
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