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| Richard Peter Bennett
Posted on 07/18/2010 6:04:05 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
To # 3088: Statues are fine. Kneeling to statues. Bowing to statues. Praying to statues. Those are the things God abhors.
Well, let's see -- no Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican or Lutheran prays to statues. Those are just items of wood or stone. Secondly, no kneeling or bowing to statues? Have you been to a Traditional Anglican church lately?
to #2988 Ive fully answered everyone one of your questions
So, just clarifying since there were no answers to find, can one presume: 1. Since you had said you doesn't like the kneeling, the icons, the Crucifix, the incense and the Eucharist (True Presence of Christ) that is there in Catholic and Orthodox churchs and would go to any non-Church group. Yet, both Lutherans and Traditional Anglicans DO have these,
DO you not consider Lutheran and Traditional Anglican churches to be worthy for you to worship in, correct? Since they have the kneeling, the icons, the Crucifix, the incense and the Eucharist (True Presence of Christ) right?
2. Specifically would you support Kenneth Copeland's teachings (the guy who says that we are "mini gods") note that of course Kenneth is non-Catholic, so perhaps any teaching would be fine for an OPCer as long as it is non-Catholic? Is that correct? So, then question: WOULD you agree to Kenneth Copeland's teachings and would attend his sessions since they are non-Catholic?
3,781
posted on
07/30/2010 12:42:33 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. "Allah": Satan's current status)
To: Dr. Eckleburg; Natural Law; MarkBsnr
Calling the Catholic Church's veneration of Mary “blasphemy” is a vicious lie. Period.
3,782
posted on
07/30/2010 12:43:00 AM PDT
by
Deo volente
(God willing, America will survive this Obamination.)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
3,783
posted on
07/30/2010 12:43:14 AM PDT
by
Lera
To: Natural Law
fake stories of Nazi Popeslol. Rome only wishes they were fake.
3,784
posted on
07/30/2010 12:46:06 AM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Natural Law
The Catholic similarities with Islam stop with both being children of Abraham. The Calvinist similarities with Islam are far deeper. They transcend the mere similarities in written doctrine and bleed over into the daily actions and open hostility toward “dhimmies”.
Some Arabs are children of Abraham
All muslims are children of Cain.
3,785
posted on
07/30/2010 12:48:09 AM PDT
by
Lera
To: Natural Law
doctored photos of fake Catholic imagesNothing doctored here, but I'm always grateful for the opportunity to post it again to illustrate Rome's idolatry...
3,786
posted on
07/30/2010 12:49:23 AM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Lera
Amen. And thanks for the videos.
3,787
posted on
07/30/2010 12:52:23 AM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Deo volente
No, it’s not.
It is blasphemy to say Mary is a “co-redeemer,” when God’s word tells us “there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man, Christ Jesus.”
Anything that denies that fact and substitutes anything, let alone a fallible sinner for the one and only mediator, is a lie that requires correction.
3,788
posted on
07/30/2010 1:04:01 AM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Cronos
When you start copying whole posts from hours and days ago, it’s time for you to step away from the keyboard.
3,789
posted on
07/30/2010 1:05:23 AM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Dr. Eckleburg; Natural Law; MarkBsnr; wagglebee; NYer; trisham
She’s not a sinner. She was conceived free from original sin, and never committed a sin in her life.
There’s nothing more to discuss here. This has been covered on countless threads, and you have posted countless times over countless weeks, months, and years your rejection of the Catholic teaching on Mary, and your belief that it is blasphemy. There’s nothing new to add. I’m not going to spend the rest of my life arguing back and forth with you about what Catholics, and the Church, really believe about Mary. You might want to spend all day long at this forum saying the same thing over and over again, but I have a job, a family, and a life to see to.
Good night.
3,790
posted on
07/30/2010 1:20:26 AM PDT
by
Deo volente
(God willing, America will survive this Obamination.)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
“There is only one God, Muslims imperfectly describe and worship Him”
That would make a good sermon for the Catholic churches in Saudi Arabia.
3,791
posted on
07/30/2010 1:31:55 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: Mad Dawg
So it's a problem, and I think it may have the germs of showing that Sola Scriptura is untenable. By that I don't mean just that some people might find it untenable. I mean that there may be an absurdity, in the technical sense, in it. Well stated. At the very least it ought to provoke serious reflection out there.
3,792
posted on
07/30/2010 3:28:33 AM PDT
by
don-o
(Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.)
To: Natural Law
What complete crock of lunacy. Catholics freely accept the teachings of our Church or leave like some of the more ignorant anti-Catholics on FR. The difference is that we have the benefit of the greatest spiritual and theological minds in history working under the guidance of the Holy Spirit for nearly 2,000 years.Here's a newsflash...And 8 year old kid could put your great spiritual and theological minds to shame, if the Holy Spirit led him to do so...
And if your guys were working under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, it wouldn't have taken 400 years for your great minds to find the Trinity...
3,793
posted on
07/30/2010 5:15:39 AM PDT
by
Iscool
(I don't understand all that I know...)
To: Dr. Eckleburg; NYer; Salvation; Pyro7480; Coleus; narses; annalex; Campion; OpusatFR; ...
lol. So you've found one Presbyterian church that didn't include a reading from the Gospels in one Sunday morning service. As opposed to your "proof" from five years ago.
The usual rule, according to the Presbyterian Order of Worship, is to preach from the Gospels as well as the Epistles and the Old Testament.
So, it's not really a rule but more of a guideline? Obviously there is no requirement to read from the Gospels.
The length RC apologists go to in order to defame Christian worship is hilarious.
I'm not defaming anyone. People have free will, if they decide that they don't need the Gospel, that is their prerogative.
3,794
posted on
07/30/2010 5:21:07 AM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: Dr. Eckleburg; Natural Law; NYer; Salvation; Pyro7480; Coleus; narses; annalex; Campion; ...
As I've said, I've attended many RC Sunday services. My in-laws are RC. Many of my friends in college were RC. I've got a question for you, what do you think the result would be if you were to print all of your FR posts from any given month over the past couple of years and give them to your Catholic friends and relatives and tell them that they describe what you think of Catholics and the Catholic Church?
There is only superstition and adoration of fallible human beings and the duplicity of "another Christ,"
Was Saint Paul lying?:
And to whom you have pardoned any thing, I also. For, what I have pardoned, if I have pardoned any thing, for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ. (2 Corinthians 2:10)
3,795
posted on
07/30/2010 5:29:13 AM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
3,796
posted on
07/30/2010 5:33:51 AM PDT
by
Running On Empty
((The three sorriest words: "It's too late"))
To: MarkBsnr
John 1: 1 1 2 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 3 All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be 4 through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; 5 4 the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.Here's another light...Or is it the same light???
Psa 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
You guys read the bible like it's an encyclopedia but there's a little more to the book than you think...
Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Well imagine that...The BOOK says that the BOOK discerns the thoughts and intents of your heart...
Yessireee...That ain't no ordinary book...There's none other like it on the face of the earth...
Do we worship that book??? Of course not...Are we in awe of that book??? Indubitabaly so...
One of the fascinating things about the Sola Scriptura crowd is that they apparently cannot tell the difference between the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, God Almighty, and words in a book.
Such a narrow, shallow outlook...We not only realize the difference, we also realize the similarities...
Do you think that the words of men equal or surpass the quotations of Jesus Christ Almighty? Paulicians do.
Actually it's Christians that do...It was Paul who told us where folks were first called Christians...And it was under Paul's teaching...
You guys quote Paul's epistles in places as if they were facts of life...But where the epistles condemn you religion, you complain that they are not red letters...
Ah well, we've got your tactics down pat...
3,797
posted on
07/30/2010 5:36:22 AM PDT
by
Iscool
(I don't understand all that I know...)
To: Running On Empty
I’ve got a great many Protestant friends and some Protestant relatives. It wouldn’t bother me at all for any of them to read EVERY WORD I’ve written on FR. I truly wonder if some on here could say the same.
If I have learned anything on FR’s religion forum it is that anti-Catholic bigotry truly exists and FR gives these bigots a venue from where they can anonymously spew their venom, but I suspect that most of them would cringe at the thought of people in their everyday lives finding out.
3,798
posted on
07/30/2010 5:41:18 AM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
I also have thought that many times and I agree.
Yes, the bigotry does truly exist; in fact, I do believe it often is actually hatred.
3,799
posted on
07/30/2010 5:45:25 AM PDT
by
Running On Empty
((The three sorriest words: "It's too late"))
To: Iscool; MarkBsnr; Natural Law; NYer; Salvation; Pyro7480; Coleus; narses; annalex; Campion; ...
It was Paul who told us where folks were first called Christians. Really? Saint Paul was the author of the Acts of the Apostles?
3,800
posted on
07/30/2010 5:47:00 AM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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