Posted on 07/18/2010 6:04:05 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
"I don’t think Christ “relentlessly” went to scripture either. Just a few instances..."
And that statement reveals a lack of understanding/reading Scripture.
All I got out of that was more “profanity.”
I’m sunburned.
Well, check out 610, and you'll find "anyone" did. Quote: "Every time..."
No, it doesn't.
Amen. And this accurate perception that all men are fallen sinners is what drove the early church to invest its loyalty into the Scriptures of the prophets and apostles, and not into a procession of fallible men.
From that we then developed this country's self-determining, republican form of government with its built-in system of checks and balances -- to keep them honest.
There's an inherent danger in every monarchy, albeit governmental or ecclesiastical.
No king but Christ.
That sounds a lot like islam.
Scripture interprets Scripture, and thus we believe Christ when He tells us the Lord's Supper is a memorial and a time of shared fellowship between like-minded believers and the God of all creation.
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That is fascinating. And disturbing. And sadly consistent. No wonder 54% of U.S. Roman Catholics voted for Obama. They like him.
SOP.
What other options; what else do they have?
that we have very different Bibles.
Mine seems to have very different content than yours does.
I'll continue to trust mine.
I haven't done a recheck and tally of every last case in the Gospels.
However, I'd trust you to be honest about it . . . Perhaps you'd be willing to document for us, those cases where Christ confronted such a mentality with something
OTHER THAN
IT IS WRITTEN
*AS A POINT OF AUTHORITY!* ???
He sent word to John the Baptist about His miracles. That was not a Pharisee He was responding to.
He pointed to His miracles another time or 3. I don't recall in response to whom. I think one of those times may have been the Pharisees. IIRC, He also mentioned in the same exchange IT IS WRITTEN or something similar.
Maybe
Uri’el-2012; &/or Alex Murphy;
can help us out on this.
REGARDLESS . . .
AS CREATOR GOD STANDING IN THEIR FACES
HE STILL REFERRED TO
IT IS WRITTEN
****AS THE POINT OF FINAL AUTHORITY!****
HIS DOING THAT *ONCE* WAS/IS SUFFICIENT
TO TRASH THE WHOLE VATICAN CONTENTION
ABOUT
!!!!TRADITION!!!!
BEING EQUAL TO
THE WORD OF GOD.
For any individual, group or organization to elevate their own notions of reality, their own constructions on reality--WHETHER BASED ON
their fantasies about !!!!TRADITION!!!! or star gazing or tea leaves or chicken entrals or liver quivers or
ANY
OTHER THING
Is STILL a horrendously blasphemous affront, insult, rebellion against the LIVING WORD--JESUS THE CHRIST--AS WELL AS AGAINST HIS WRITTEN WORD throughout the New Testament.
PAUL ALSO ENSCRIPTURATED CHRIST'S WORDS in his letters. Rebelling against that fact is rebelling against Christ AND HIS--IT IS WRITTEN.
REBELLION is NOT a FRUIT OF HOLY SPIRIT. And the harvest is different accordingly.
I don’t have time or energy to check to see whether
THAT PARTICULAR
every time
is 100% accurate, or not.
REGARDLESS
ONE TIME
IS SUFFICIENT to trash the Vatican’s
!!!!TRADITION!!!! = SCRIPTURE
in importance etc.
AND, THE NEW TESTAMENT IS FULL OF SUCH REFERENCES TO SCRIPTURE
AS THE POINT, SOURCE, VERIFICATION OF AUTHORITY.
NEVER TO
!!!!TRADITION!!!!
AS ANY HINT OF A POINT OF OR SOURCE OF AUTHORITY.
NOT ONCE. NOT A SINGLE TIME.
Y’all cannot deal with that without mangling reality, history and Scripture.
WELL PUT.
THX.
No doubt because the brigade magicsterical didn’t vet it properly according to brigade !!!!TRADITIONS!!!!
LOL.
I don’t see it that way.
However, start over, . . . what was your point that you think our reply ignored or got off base at?
THX THX.
I think you are not recalling the Gospels accurately, JA.
Please show us a single time Jesus confronted the attitude of the Pharisees extolling, harrassing Him with their !!!!TRADITIONS!!!! where
Christ did NOT respond with
“it is written” or its equivalent.
I don’t think you can. I don’t think there IS a single time.
INDEED.
That is fascinating. And disturbing. And sadly consistent. No wonder 54% of U.S. Roman Catholics voted for Obama. They like him.
INDEED.
Of course, OThuga et al flatter the flesh.
That’s evidently a pretty easy slide for folks focused on, obsessed with pseudo-flesh as a religious ritual.
Nothing surprising there.
I haave shared anecdotal experiences of of RCs seeking oral contraceptives.
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