Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: Dr. Eckleburg
You just foolishly argued in your goofy post 1646 that the RCC does not believe "Jews and Gentiles who believe in Jesus Christ are God's chosen people."

Goofy? I think that that joke will go over big next convention that the OPC has in a local phone booth - if there are any left. The Jews are God's chosen people. The Gentiles who believe are grafted in. I'm sorry if the Calvinist mind sifter has done its job a little too well.

1,929 posted on 06/25/2010 4:49:24 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1869 | View Replies ]


To: MarkBsnr; Alex Murphy; Gamecock; RnMomof7; 1000 silverlings
Mark, not only do you appear to be rewriting Christianity, you're rewriting your own church's teaching.

Rome has not strayed so far from sanity that it now ceases to teach the truth that Paul was Trinitarian and that all believing Jews and Gentiles are now God's chosen people.

From the RCC catechism...

751 - The word "Church" (Latin ecclesia, from the Greek ek-ka-lein, to "call out of") means a convocation or an assembly. It designates the assemblies of the people, usually for a religious purpose.139 Ekklesia is used frequently in the Greek Old Testament for the assembly of the Chosen People before God, above all for their assembly on Mount Sinai where Israel received the Law and was established by God as his holy people.140 By calling itself "Church," the first community of Christian believers recognized itself as heir to that assembly. In the Church, God is "calling together" his people from all the ends of the earth. The equivalent Greek term Kyriake, from which the English word Church and the German Kirche are derived, means "what belongs to the Lord."

No red-herring of "replacementarianism." Just the people of God maturing into the full and revealed faith of Jesus Christ.

1,990 posted on 06/25/2010 7:25:04 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Ros<P>)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1929 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson