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Posted on 10/26/2009 4:16:56 PM PDT by Patrick Madrid
A few years ago, I slipped into the back of a large Methodist church in the area to hear a sermon delivered by the pastor which had been advertised for several days on the marquee on the lawn in front of the handsome Neo-Gothic stone edifice. I really wanted to hear what he had to say on that particular Sunday.
The occasion of this sermon was what Protestants celebrate as "Reformation Sunday," in remembrance of the sad, tragic rebellion against the Catholic Church. Of course, that's my take on what Reformation Sunday symbolizes. The pastor whose sermon I heard that day had a much different view. . . .
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They are as much my brethren in Christ as are the believers I worship with at my home Parish, the believers I meet only once one Sunday when traveling, the believers on the other side of the world whom I will never meet in this life.
Do you think such triviality as time or space or even "death" disrupts the Body of Christ? I certainly do not.
Dinner? Identifiably two way conversation? Birthday presents? What a bunch of worldly hogwash!
Now: My fellow Catholics will get this; I wonder if you will. I have dinner with the entire Church, all the Choirs of Angels, and most of all the Blessed Trinity every Sunday and sometimes on weekdays.
Jesus called Peter the Rock. That’s what Peter’s name means. Don’t pretend it means small stone in 1st century koine Greek.
Well, I never said that, but in any event, since I don't peddle junk, on-point or off-point is irrelevant.
Dominion - Wycliffe believed in a form of Donatism. He believed no man, in the Church or secular society, could morally hold a position of authority or perform a sacrament if he was in mortal sin. This would effectively mean utter chaos because no one could be in charge of much of anything for very long.
I also don't read Dan Brown. So what?
I prefer non-fiction, thank you very much.
The quote you attributed to me was actually markomalley, not me.
I really don’t care how many Protestant denominations there are. As best I can tell there is a Lutheran branch, and Calvinist branch, an Anglican branch (which includes Methodism), a Baptist branch and then “everything else” (most of which started in America and has only recently spread elsewhere).
Thanks. That makes sense.
Featuring ham, mashed potatoes and green beans; and, apple pie for dessert (ole bollen if you are Dutch)?
If not, you are a bunch of heathens.
I am curious, do you similarly chastise your fellow non-Catholics when they do things like attribute non-existent quotes to the Catholic Church or claim that the personal website of a Jewish psychic is actually a “Roman Catholic” website?
I'm aware this is not your quote, but I place it here to make the point that it really does not matter how many there are. The point is that they are at least free from the oppression of being forced to believe the lies promulgated from Rome. Yes, many of groups outside of Rome are in error, somewhere. Some significant, some insignificant. Some are in harmony with each other, others are not.
But, at least it is recognized by the serious students of the Bible that churches must grapple with the Scriptures and come to conclusions based upon what the Apostles left behind. We are not enslaved to the doctrines of demons in Rome, the Vatican or the Catholic Church (whatever it calls itself now) that are clearly in conflict with the obvious teaching of the Scriptures. And, of course, God knows whom He has chosen.
Only 169 posts and the thread has been up for almost 2 days? Dang. I thought it would have been over 1,000 posts already.
Somebody is slipping, big time.
Yeah, because whoever disagrees with your own personal interpretation of Scripture is a demon or enslaved by a demon.
Jesus said in Matthew 10:34ff: “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household....and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.”
Where did we get the idea that living according to His Word would be easy?
ROTFL!
You now sign your posts, “Hubris”?
It gets weirder every day...
It sounds like you are nothing more than a slave to Calvin's lottery. A person is either saved or damned and NOTHING will change that.
It makes me wonder why the lottery crowd bothers with Scripture at all since it's not going to make a bit of difference one was or the other. Could it be that you're still not quite comfortable with Calvin's lottery and want to hedge your bets?
Good point. And the answer is we likely haven't paid enough attention to reminders like this. It is going to be difficult, but just not hopeless as those who have no hope. We want to be found in Him, not having a righteousness of our own, but clothed in His. We will leave the self-righteousness to those in a "religion".
Must be a personal signature.
Quick, call me a name! Then I'll reply with another name, and someone can hit abuse on the posts! The mods will pull one of them, and that poster can question the pulling, and another can accuse the mods of bias!
We can still pull this off! 1000 posts, here we come!
No.
I was merely providing you some food for personal growth.
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