Posted on 07/18/2010 6:04:05 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Never said they were immune to them.
No kidding, which is why I doubt that this is the deception. It is so easily dismissed.
Hiya Quix!
Thanks! Sorry I missed some of your posts... I have been very busy... and I am far behind on my pinglist... I am trying to get the time to address it...
Thankfully, the disruption of relative tranquility was not repeated this evening.
To quote Ronald Reagan; "There you go again!"
You cite another bogus lying source as your proof. A former Catholic nun? Riiiiggghhhhtttt!
You do realize that a liar citing another liar does sot generate a truth, right? Mary Ann Collins considers herself a former nun although she never took her vows. On all her publications and websites, she lists herself as, "Mary Ann Collins: Former Catholic Nun". She admits she was expelled from the convent she attended but the religious order or convent she attended remains mysterious. She refuses to say where she attended and no one has admitted that Mary Ann Collins attended a convent even as a novice.
Like any good liberal, the antiCatholics here do not depend upon the truth of the source, but only on the intent of the source. If they are antiCatholic, it could a publication straight from the City of Dis and they would cuddle up to it publish to the entire world as proof against Catholics. An old ploy of Old Scratch. Nice to see that we have many, as was termed by Lenin, useful idiots to further the real cause.
You know that he doesn't care about this little fringe cults the litter the churches section of the Yellow Pages. He goes after the Church that counts - the Catholic Church. Why? If the Catholic Church was as demonic as the useful idiots claim, then the brightest angel would have them praised up and down and no attacks upon it. If the Church was indeed the tool of satan, then he would protect it to the best of his abilities. Yet, he attacks it unmercifully. I wonder why....
Or that God allows.
There are millions of Christians . . . perhaps a huge chunk “luke warm” “Christians”
who have not thought things out well . . . and who tend to accept what comes over the TV as fact, truth . . . all the more so wrapped in the religion of scientism.
Some even believe the person at the door that says
“Hello. We’re from the government. We’re here to help.”
I think you are underestimating a lot of related things.
Certainly those walking close to God, hearing His Voice, following His Spirit should be well pretected or martyred and all such joyfully.
Those gullibly taking the mark of the beast . . . won’t have any excuse if they’ve been reading my posts.
I can only be a watchman as best I can.
That’s all God seems to ask of me.
NO SWEAT.
Higher priorities are higher priorities!
Excellent discernment. :)
"Sure, just come to Rome Brother Martin, we can work this out." Please.
Your statement was that he faced death by the Church. My statement was a refutation of your statement. Martin Luther went to his deathbed in wealth and luxury and wrapped himself in extreme antiSemitism right up to his last sermon 3 days before his death.
I stand by it, they wanted him in Rome, he didn't go, he lived. Can't say the same for others.
Stop beating around the bush, would you? :)>
Since I have no moronic postings, I will have to assume that you meant this for somebody else. Perhaps you might go and look for them. I wish you well in this endeavour. At least better than your previous postings have indicated that your success has been.
I sometimes think that a jackhammer would be more useful in breaking through all that thickness of solid bone.
I guess now it is. Before, with your scripture proofs, your point was somehow that Jesus was intending to diminish his mother. Ok. We've solved that one. No, new point.
Why is Mary special? Well, obviously she holds a unique role. Where is special honor for her found in Scripture? In Luke:
When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb,Which is what the Church does.
and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said,
"Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy.
Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled."
And Mary said:
"My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior.
For he has looked upon his handmaid's lowliness; behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed.
Perhaps scripture is saying Elizabeth filled with Holy Spirit turned out to be wrong and that Mary turned out to be wrong or lying.
We don't think so and we give her special honor. Each of us has a different mother we can honor in our separate ways, but all of us have the same Saviour whose mother we can give special honor. You can do as you wish of course, but this is the way we see it.
Yeah? They wanted him and he didn't go? Facing death? Sounds more along the lines that he refused to show up in a foreign nation to pay a parking ticket. Stand all you will and may it do you well. From the tone of your original post, one might assume that Mossad style hit squads were searching high and low for him, and all the time, he was employed by the University, preaching in his church, living in a baronial estate with land and farmers working for him and you say that Church wanted him dead. Rather toothless, this Church, wouldn't you say?
So they didn't recognize Jesus who was standing in front of them...But when Jesus pulled out some bread and wine, they saw nothing but bread and wine and recognized bread an wine as being Jesus...Apparently all these 'Christ toasts' are real to you guys...
How do you guys actually fall for this type of nonsense??? And then you tell us your religion is based on faith in your religion and reason...
They cuddle up with each other as well as long as they are anti catholic they are back slapping pals even though the differences between their faith can be further apart from each other.
I have seen Baptists,Methodists, etc... cozy up to those who deny the Trinity as long as they bash the Catholic Church.
This is not the Spirit of Christ that leads the.
As Blessed Fulton Sheen once said..
If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hates. My reason for doing this would be, that if Christ is in any one of the churches of the world today, He must still be hated as He was when He was on earth in the flesh. If you would find Christ today, then find the Church that does not get along with the world. Look for the Church that is hated by the world, as Christ was hated by the world. Look for the Church which is accused of being behind the times, as Our Lord was accused of being ignorant and never having learned. Look for the Church which men sneer at as socially inferior, as they sneered at Our Lord because He came from Nazareth. Look for the Church which is accused of having a devil, as Our Lord was accused of being possessed by Beelzebub, the Prince of Devils. Look for the Church which the world rejects because it claims it is infallible, as Pilate rejected Christ because he called Himself the Truth. Look for the Church which amid the confusion of conflicting opinions, its members love as they love Christ, and respect its voice as the very voice of its Founder, and the suspicion will grow, that if the Church is unpopular with the spirit of the world, then it is unworldly, and if it is unworldly, it is other-worldly. Since it is other-worldly, it is infinitely loved and infinitely hated as was Christ Himself. ... the Catholic Church is the only Church existing today which goes back to the time of Christ. History is so very clear on this point, it is curious how many miss its obviousness..."
The video was posted on abovetopsecret on March 8.
Saying “”Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.” is one thing.
Making statues of her, praying to her, lighting candles to her, naming churches after her, attributing to her attributes of God alone, and making up stories about her that have ZERO Scriptural basis and declaring them church doctrine is another.
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