Posted on 04/30/2010 8:03:48 AM PDT by Quix
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7 “When you pray, don’t babble on and on as people of other religions do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again. 8 Don’t be like them, for your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him! 9 Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, --New Living Translation 7And when you pray, do not heap up phrases (multiply words, repeating the same ones over and over) as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard for their much speaking. [I Kings 18:25-29.] 8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. 9Pray, therefore, like this: 15But if you do not forgive others their trespasses [their [j]reckless and willful sins, [k]leaving them, letting them go, and [l]giving up resentment], neither will your Father forgive you your trespasses. --Amplified Pray with Simplicity 5"And when you come before God, don't turn that into a theatrical production either. All these people making a regular show out of their prayers, hoping for stardom! Do you think God sits in a box seat? 6"Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won't be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace. 7-13"The world is full of so-called prayer warriors who are prayer-ignorant. They're full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling techniques for getting what you want from God. Don't fall for that nonsense. This is your Father you are dealing with, and he knows better than you what you need. With a God like this loving you, you can pray very simply. Like this: 16-18"When you practice some appetite-denying discipline to better concentrate on God, don't make a production out of it. It might turn you into a small-time celebrity but it won't make you a saint. If you 'go into training' inwardly, act normal outwardly. Shampoo and comb your hair, brush your teeth, wash your face. God doesn't require attention-getting devices. He won't overlook what you are doing; he'll reward you well. |
Mark Kirby: O Mother of Good Counsel, I am all thine, Most Holy Mary, There is no part of my life that is not open to thee, I want to be completely transparent with thee, Praying in this way, I can be at rest, |
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That is a shame that has been stopped.
When is the Catholic Church going to start putting its foot down about the abortion issue and stop refusing to serve communion to those who support it?
That is a very good question. God willing, immediately if not sooner.
“If the Roman Catholic Church claims to have written the Bible, then why did it neglect to put those primary teachings of Jesus in it? Why’d it waste its time with the less important stuff?”
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LOL!
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. No, I’m accusing you of repeating an ancient lie that you’ve had pounded into your mind by the adversary’s minnions.
Explain.
Jesus was, is, and will alwasy be God. Do not trivialize Him with your Judaizing stuff.
“the Judaizers were rejected 2000 years ago as one of the first two major heresies.”
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The “judaizers” were the entire church for the first 200 years or so. Then the corruptors took hold and ended Christianity in increments over the next 200 years. That was the birth of the “Catholic” church.
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There is only ONE Elohim : YHvHshalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiachWhen He came to tabernacle with us
He was known as YHvH is my salvation (Yah'shua)He came in the form of a Jew and He
will rule and reign for a thousand
years as a Jewish King on the
throne of David in Jerusalem.Many believe in two or three gods
and others worship the "Queen of Heaven"
So, the Catholic Church recognized the weakness of its position because of lack of Scriptural support, the very Scripture it claims to have written, so instead of adjusting it’s teachings to line up with Scripture, it adjusts Scripture to line up with its teachings, and declares oral tradition to be more reliable than written documents.
You can hardly get any account of anything passed word of mouth accurately for any length of time and you expect us to believe that the Roman Catholic Church managed to do so through a series of corrupt churches in its darkest period of Church history for hundreds of years?
I find a lot of Roman Catholic Church justification for its teachings very much wanting, since it appears that its mostly made up, and based on *because we said so*.
*We’re the true church because we say that God told us we are* doesn’t cut it with people who can read and think for themselves.
This thread gets better every day!
What a testament to the extended influence of Satan the ‘Catholic’ church is.
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If the RCC did indeed write the Bible, why, I wonder, did it add so many things to it that cause it such grief now, like comments about Mary not always being a virgin, or Jesus having brothers and sisters and naming the brothers, or Peter being married......
“corrupt churches “ should be “corrupt popes”
EXCELLENT POINTS.
THX.
Yeah, I can sympathize. She can get stuck on something and never think of checking it out - but when she does, she's something else! And I'm the target...:-(
Taking things for granted usually backfires, and then it seems that one always has to get the hose out!
There is also a blindness to the pure gospel of salvation by grace through faith. If anyone depends upon their own good works or merit to either gain eternal life or keep it, they are not living by faith in Christ and do not really know God nor what it means to be redeemed. All else is distraction and sidetracking - anything else that keeps a person from accepting the gift of eternal life.
FAR TOOOOO TRUE.
THX.
As a Catholic I listened to what we called "the last Gospel" often----"In the beginning was the Word------------" and a little later---- "and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us".
So to me,the "Word" was Jesus;what He said,what He did,who He said it to,who was listening to Him and who was standing around,or not standing around.
Later on,when I was about ten or eleven some of my neighborhood friends and I were talking about church,they were all nonCatholic and were talking about the Bible,gospels,scriptures and their lessons and Bible studies and it was during these discussions that I finally realized that my friends thought that the Word literally meant the Bible.
I found that very interesting but limiting and think it might be the cause of many of our apparent difficulties in communicating our differences.
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.
And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. – Matthew 22:35-40
God's Name is I AM.
I believe this fact is very important as people try to use scripture to support their positions on what to me often seems to be political matters.
And Greeks is from Hellens so should you meet a Greek man be sure to say “Hello Hellen!”.
How does one reconcile Paul with Jesus on this?
Thanks.
Isn’t all this kind of WHY it’s called “straight and narrow”?
From the earliest days, from the Judaizers in Acts and the various factions in, say, Corinth, there are those who slip off the Way to one side or the other.
And, as I am fond of saying, Bunyan says in “Pilgrim’s Progress” (which I read in, get this, 1962!) “Then I saw that there was a way to Hell, even from the Gates of Heaven, ...”
So, yes, eyes on the prize. I wish I could convey how the Rosary is, to me, ALL about eyes on the prize.
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