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Intended Catholic Dictatorship
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| 8/27/10
| Reginald Firehammer
Posted on 08/27/2010 11:45:13 AM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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To: Mad Dawg
MD, the unsaved do good works for men too.. but that does not make them saved
To: 1000 silverlings
Man made religion. Man will make up traditions and rituals and ignore what God says. Bad stuff-- it leads to murder. Exactly.
They who worship idols become like them.
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:42:09 PM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
(("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: RnMomof7; Dr. Eckleburg
Case in point, ask unsaved people if they believe they have a soul. they will say yes. Ask them if they believe in God-- some say yes, some say no. Invariably they will insist that they are good people, able to "do good" without God. Well that's not what Christ says.
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:44:42 PM PDT
by
1000 silverlings
(everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
Just because I wouldnt want you to miss the truth... Ditto:
Are we to understand that when Calvin wrote "sentence of death" he meant that Servetus was to be preached to death?
I hope that sentence of death will at least be passed on him; but I desired that the severity of the punishment be mitigated. "Calvin to William Farel, August 20, 1553, Bonnet, Jules (18201892) Letters of John Calvin, Carlisle, Penn: Banner of Truth Trust, 1980, pp. 158159. ISBN 0-85151-323-9." Wikipedia entry on Michael Servetus
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:46:04 PM PDT
by
Legatus
(From the desire of being esteemed, Deliver me, Jesus.)
To: metmom
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools" - Romans 1:22
1,405
posted on
09/05/2010 12:46:13 PM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
(("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Legatus
Uh...
I hope that sentence of death will at least be passed on him; but I desired that the severity of the punishment be mitigated. "Calvin to William Farel, August 20, 1553, Bonnet, Jules (18201892) Letters of John Calvin, Carlisle, Penn: Banner of Truth Trust, 1980, pp. 158159. ISBN 0-85151-323-9." Wikipedia entry on Michael Servetus
BRING OUT... THE COMFY CHAIR!
So it was "kill him, but do it gently"? Oh, well that's alright then, that changes everything.
The question was not Calvin's attitude, which I think was harsh and cruel, but was Did Calvin Have Servetus Burned At The Stake?
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:48:22 PM PDT
by
OLD REGGIE
(I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
Well their idols are made in their own(mens) image in the first place. God gave revelation revealing Who He is— the Old Testament and the New Testament. Refusing to believe this revelation takes them off the cliff.
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:48:28 PM PDT
by
1000 silverlings
(everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
To: Legatus
Are we to understand that when Calvin wrote "sentence of death"Calvin did not issue any "sentence of death" on Servetus.
In Geneva, there was a distinct separation of church and state. Calvin was a member of the church. The city council condemned Servetus.
As the New Jersey housewives would say, "Pay attention!"
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:49:28 PM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
(("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
"The difference between Rome and Calvin, of course, is that punishment according to Calvin meant a reprimand in the Sunday sermon whereas Romes punishment entails burning the heretic at the stake."Sorry, I don't believe you.
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:49:30 PM PDT
by
Natural Law
(Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
"The difference between Rome and Calvin, of course, is that punishment according to Calvin meant a reprimand in the Sunday sermon whereas Romes punishment entails burning the heretic at the stake."Sorry, I don't believe you.
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:49:42 PM PDT
by
Natural Law
(Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
To: 1000 silverlings
1,411
posted on
09/05/2010 12:50:10 PM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
(("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
That’s right, like Judas their bowels burst asunder and their cranium contents splatter on the rocks below.
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:51:26 PM PDT
by
1000 silverlings
(everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
To: Mad Dawg
To me, both of those propositions are nonsense, so Mother Teresa is right when she says of "virtuous" adherents of other religions "then there is something else growing there."yea damnation
To: Dr. Eckleburg
You left out the operative part of the sentence I wrote: “The reason the potato blight was a problem is that was all the people could grow in the poor soil they were allowed to farm for personal use.”
Fertile lands were used for crops sold abroad by the landlords. Ireland at the time had some of the richest land in the British Isles, it was a net exporter of food during the potato blight.
Snide comments at the end of posts only point to the snideness of the poster rather than any truthiness of the content.
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:52:51 PM PDT
by
Legatus
(From the desire of being esteemed, Deliver me, Jesus.)
To: Natural Law; Dr. Eckleburg
Sorry, I don't believe you.
You show true wisdom.
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:53:31 PM PDT
by
narses
( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
To: RnMomof7
For decades I thought something like:
A corrupt tree ( not attached to the vine can not do work that is pleasing to him, even if done in HIS name)
Now it's not so much that I don't think that as I think that it betrays the fundamental "What's in it for me?" attitude of some forms of Calvinism (and of some (most?) forms of Islam).
Good deeds are not enough to save someone, and good deeds done in order to 'earn' salvation are a waste of time.
But good deeds are good, whether or not they earn salvation, and it is good to do them.
But for some, if a Christian, in love for God, gave his or her life to do good deeds, those who profess NOT to care about works would criticize the person because they didn't make proselytes of the people to whom they ministered.
I am reminded again of the Seventh Day Adventist doctor when i was in the hospital for pericarditis my first year of seminary. He wasn't my doc, he had nothing to do with my case. But he heard a seminarian was in there.
My having had two spells of quite unbelievable pain, my being drugged up on drugs that made me a bit slow of thought and a lot labile of emotion, these made no difference to him. He was, by God gonna convert me.
Or the Calvinist-ish pastor in Columbus Mississippi who really saw no need for a church response to alcoholism because, "After all, they're going to hell anyway."
So good deeds are wasted unless they are aimed at somebody's salvation. What a tit-for-tat and ungenerous view of God!
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:54:42 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawg
(Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
To: Natural Law
I don't care that you don't believe me. It's to be expected.
"...what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" -- 2 Corinthians 6:14
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:54:46 PM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
(("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: narses
ping to 1,417.
Flee idolatry.
1,418
posted on
09/05/2010 12:55:43 PM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
(("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
Flee heresy. Cultists fall for anything. Next you will embrace UFOlogy. Find Our Lord. Find Peace.
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:56:47 PM PDT
by
narses
( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
To: OLD REGGIE
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posted on
09/05/2010 12:57:53 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawg
(Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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