Posted on 01/05/2010 9:46:47 PM PST by the_conscience
I just witnessed a couple of Orthodox posters get kicked off a "Catholic Caucus" thread. I thought, despite their differences, they had a mutual understanding that each sect was considered "Catholic". Are not the Orthodox considered Catholic? Why do the Romanists get to monopolize the term "Catholic"?
I consider myself to be Catholic being a part of the universal church of Christ. Why should one sect be able to use a universal concept to identify themselves in a caucus thread while other Christian denominations need to use specific qualifiers to identify themselves in a caucus thread?
Since she already had a bum leg I can't imagine she would risk a career ending injury for nothing at all. I'm just guessing, but I'll bet she needed the second vault in case someone else got a 10, and the other vault would break the tie. I don't remember if she went last which would make this moot, however.
Part of the reason she is so cool is because she understood it was far more than ‘nothing at all.’ And her knee had healed up pretty well by then too.
As we give ourselves to IHS He seems to accentuate our individuality. Holy Paul says "Star differs from star in glory." I am no star, but I get what he means.
Good quote. The logic inherent there in does not contradict that God is Sovereign, but rather affirms it.
And why drag Calvin into everything?
“It is often said that the doctrines we believe have a tendency to lead us to sin. I have heard it asserted most positively, that those high doctrines which we love, and which we find in the Scriptures, are licentious ones. I do not know who will have the hardihood to make that assertion, when they consider that the holiest of men have been believers in them. I ask the man who dares to say that Calvinism is a licentious religion, what he thinks of the character of Augustine, or Calvin, or Whitefield, who in successive ages were the great exponents of the system of grace; or what will he say of the Puritans, whose works are full of them? Had a man been an Arminian in those days, he would have been accounted the vilest heretic breathing, but now we are looked upon as the heretics, and they as the orthodox. We have gone back to the old school; we can trace our descent from the apostles.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
Yep.
This is so powerful!
We see it on these threads every day.
“They are not wrong to look and attempt to understand; they are wrong to prefer Scripture over God.”
False division. Scripture is God-breathed. The breath of God reveals who God is and gives us life. God’s revelation isn’t limited to scripture...my horses and dogs regularly are used by God to teach me things - but scripture is trustworthy and authoritative.
I’ve been convicted of sin many times in my life, but I’ve never been convicted of reading God’s word too much! Quite the opposite...
“Faith is the important operant here, not the Scriptures. Salvation is through faith, not through Scriptures.”
You miss the point. No one claims I can toss a bible at someone and make them a Christian...unless he is elect, but that is another argument. ;>)
But the scriptures reveal Christ, unless one hardens one’s heart to God.
“Don’t recall Jesus predicting a Baptist Church.”
That’s OK - he never predicted Peter would be Pope. In fact, he never predicted there would BE a pope! The Vicar of Christ is the Holy Spirit.
“I have had conversation with many here who believe that seal means a ziplock baggie in which the individual is placed on their limo ride.”
I haven’t thought much about it. A seal authenticates the document as coming from someone, so I assume it means the Holy Spirit is our proof that it is God working in us. You can have intellectual assent to the Gospel, but if there is no fruit of the Spirit, then it is just intellectual - no salvation from that.
I could speculate more, but if I don’t know my own mind, why bother you with a dribble of incoherent thought? And of course, I’ve NEVER done that to you before.... ;>)
As Born Again Christians we are commanded by our Savior to preach The Gospel. Hasn't everyone had at least one experience where no matter how hard you tried the friend you talked with just refused to believe The Gospel?
Hyper-Calvinism is Calvinism carried to its logical conclusion. It is called hypercalvinism because it embarrasses those who follow Calvin.
Thanks for your kind words.
I have just finished the TEN SERIES OF MEDITATIONS ON THE MYSTERIES OF THE ROSARY.
There was much good spiritual food therein.
There were many shocking things, as well.
God be with you this Thursday
False division. Scripture is God-breathed. The breath of God reveals who God is and gives us life. God’s revelation isn’t limited to scripture...my horses and dogs regularly are used by God to teach me things - but scripture is trustworthy and authoritative.
Just "for the sake of completeness:"
Of course Scripture is God-breathed. (And of course we papists would add that the Church is God-guided, blah blah.)
However I would agree with Tillich (I'm sure he's the favorite theologian of EVERYONE here -- not!) that the FIRST and most persistent assault is idolatry, and the chiefest (a little archaism there) member of that genus is pride.
We can make an idol even of God when we try to subject Him to our will. Certainly some who worship among us Catholics make idols of Mary or other saints. We innerleckshuals can make idols of our thoughts. and so forth.
So, not meaning to criticize anyone, but as I say, for the sake of completeness, one can certainly be a bibliolater.
Lewis somewhere has an excellent fragment of a prayer addressed to "God, not as I think Thou art, but as Thou knowest Thyself to be, ..."
Thank you marron.
Having the gift of discernment, I can see right away that you are not quite spiritual enough for this stuff. However, For this moment and this moment only, if you will step out in faith and just sew a faith seed of about $100.00 (cash or debit card) we will send you an anointed hanky to be worn around you neck and a vial of dirt from the final resting place of one of the most spiritual of prosperity preachers to be carried at all times next to the loose change in your right hand pocket (it only works in the right hand pocket)to insure success when you make the sacred sales pitch.
It helps if you wear a silk suit, preferably steel gray although some have been successful in white, when making the presentation.
It is not a have, it is a want. God changes our will when we are born again. . Born again people disobey God and sin, but that stings us as it never did before we were saved,
Sometimes something will come up, say a ministry, that we do not like or want to do.. we will say no.. in that no will come a spiritual lesson, which is why God presented us with something He knew we would not do..
God is always pruning us.
He had placed a burden in someones heart for that ministry and that person will want to do it with all his heart.. He was always Gods man for that ministry, but He had it offered to me to show me something or teach me something that I needed to know or experience for my own spiritual growth
I do not know if that makes sense???
Your post on the language used is interesting Cronos. Having not indulged much in languages is there a website or article which elaborates on what you stated here?
There is the concept of “Allnasech and Almansuch” where certain verses in the Quaran especially the later ones, cancel the meaning of other earlier verses on a similar subject. Thus they end up with the violent verses which cancel out the meaning of the peaceful verses, as the violent verses were proclaimed by Mohammed at a later time.
Therefore it isn’t surprising to find the outcome of Islam is almost always violent.
Man, you didn’t mention the blow-dry hair!
For it doesn't matter whether a person is carving a "god" out of wood so that he can physically touch him - or whether he is insisting that God shall not be greater than his own ability to comprehend Him or manipulate Him - it is idolatry rooted in pride.
Because we can only "see" through our own eyes, we tend to think we are important or worse, the center of the universe.
But truly, it is estimated there have been 100 billion humans on this planet. That would make any one person equivalent to a single drop of water in an Olympic sized swimming pool.
God deliberating must necessarily involve His omniscience.
So, while the "actions" of "God's creatures" do not "determine" His decisions, that does not mean those actions are not "involved" in the deliberation that precedes His decisions.
Foreknowledge prior to creation, and then creating anyway, IS IS IS, predestining.
This is a very common error of logic, this conflation of foreknowledge with predestination.
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