Posted on 08/27/2010 11:45:13 AM PDT by Hank Kerchief
And right there is what is so wrong with the papacy and where Roman Catholics err in their understanding of whom Christians are called to obey.
We do not serve the church. The church serves us.
No wonder Rome is mired in endless scandals committed by "another Christ."
"If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour." -- John 12:26
Why should anyone "take" someone breaking the rules?
AMEN, Dr. THe Church the body of Christ is made up of saved believers, who join together in fellowship and refreshing of God’s Word with each other. Refreshed and renewed, we can go into the world and preach the unadulterated Gospel of the Grace of GOd to unbelievers.
HUA! (Heard, Understood, Acknowledged)
INDEED.
There’s a LOT in the attitudes in that post which I can certainly agree with on principle . . . though not, per se, to the structure you involve.
HMMMMMMMMM
I was going to post something witty . . . that I haven’t yet come up with.
Instead, I’ll avoid being tweaky and just scroll on by.
LOL.
TRUE. TRUE.
Do not carry a dispute from thread to thread.
YET AGAIN, THE AGENDA OF THE PAPIST CONQUISTADORS SURFACES.
WHEN THEY CANNOT
SUCCESSFULLY
!!!!DEMAND!!!!
THAT FR BECOME AN OFFICIAL ARM OF THE VATICAN DIRECTED TOTALLY AND DIRECTLY BY THE SEE OF ROME . . . STRICTLY COMPATIBLE AND NURTURING OF ALL THE THIN-SKINNED SENSIBILITIES OF THE VATICAN 2 YEAR OLDS TEETHING ON THEIR OBVIOUSLY INADEQUATE PACIFIERS,
THEN
THEY DEMAND THAT EVERYONE BE THROWN OUT OF THE POOL; THREADS BE LOCKED IF NOT PULLED AND ALL THE PRODDYS POSSIBLE BANNED OR GIVEN TIMES OUT.
Ain't that sweet. I'm sure Mary will dump an extra load of white hankys into the laps of such eager petulant tyrants in her name.
Assist me, that I may continually labor to overcome nature, to correspond with Thy grace, to keep Thy commandments and to work out my salvation. Discover to me, O my God, the nothingness of this world, the greatness of Heaven, the shortness of time and the length of eternity. Grant that I may prepare for death, that I may fear Thy judgments, that I may escape Hell, and in the end, obtain Heaven, through the merits of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
So when the Lord Jesus Christ asked this Pope why he should be allowed into heaven, what do you think the popes reply was or better yet what should any good Catholics reply be?
Q.E.D.
This thread has jumped the shark. Rational discourse has died.
Mad Dawg wrote:
“In 1971 somebody turned me on to to Meister Eckhart.”
Yes, well, you’d better watch out. Sometime before 1517 someone turned Martin Luther on to Meister Eckhart. (and, no, I am not kidding) Look where that ended up.
Dr. Eckleburg wrote:
“We do not serve the church. The church serves us.”
I know what you mean, but pardon me for a little sharpening up of language. We are the church. We do not serve ourselves, except insofar as we each do good to our neighbor. The ministry of the church serves us. That is what the term “minister” means, after all. It is Christ’s ministry. He serves us (John 13) with the Gospel in word and sacrament through the ministry He instituted. And that is what has been knocked so off balance under the Roman system.
Ministers of Christ serve the royal priesthood, i.e., those who are Christ’s by faith. It is that simple.
NOPE
A NUMBER OF US CARRY ON--MOST OF THE PRODDYS AND A FEW OF THE RC'S.
IN SPITE OF THE THREAD MURDERING EFFORTS OF THE RABID CLIQUE TYPES WHO ARE ROUTINELY AND CHRONICALLY DETERMINED TO THROW EVERYONE OUT OF THE SAND BOX IF
THEY
CAN'T HAVE THEIR THIN-SKINNED TYRANNICAL WAYS.
HOW "CHRISTIAN" OF THEM!
HOW MAGNANIMOUS!
How magnificently the thin skinned follow Mary's example!
Soooooooooooo IMPRESSIVELY!
Perhaps someone needs to translate INTO LATIN, the rule that
ON OPEN THREADS, IT IS THE THIN SKINNED WHO ARE THE DISRUPTORS!
What comes after slow learners?
DEAD IN THE WATER pretend learners?
Certainly Christ insisted that he who would be greatest of all must be servant of all.
hmmmmmmm . . . as the worm turns?
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