Posted on 08/27/2010 11:45:13 AM PDT by Hank Kerchief
RNmom7 -What I do understand is that catholics have more faith in Mystic visions than they do in the scriptures.. which is how the deception entered ...and....Satan can and does all these things.. they all add up to witchcraft
According to your analogy Saint John of Patmos must have been practicing witchcraft and the book of Revelation does not belong than
You fail to understand the difference between Christian Mystics and Gnostic mystics once again.
The Christian Mystics Saint Maximus the Confessor,Saint Macarios Saint Padre Pio, Saint Avila etc...all received these spiritual gifts from Christ and all of them gave credit to Christ for these gifts
These magnificent Saints knew the power of prayer and you are making a mistake in calling it witchcraft
From the words of Saint Maximus The Confessor...
“All the virtues co-operate with the intellect to produce this intense longing for God, pure prayer above all. For by soaring towards God through this prayer the intellect rises above the realism of created beings.”
I believe what the bible says.
Ok. I'll take that as a no to WCF and double-predestination.
you might want to read the bible, lol
The Epistle of St. Irving to the Romans? I remember when I was a new convert hearing a very nervous lector announce "A reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Filipinos". Oh that cracked me up.
Would "The Apostle Irving" have written different epistles? The same doctrine would have been communicated to us but in a different way, wouldn't it? Surely his personality would have been his own, Paul's writing style is different than John's for instance so it seems something of the writer shines through.
In the same way suppose it had been "The Blessed Virgin Hannah"... the same Christ would have been born... but would there have been ANY differences?
Acts 17 24"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. 26From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
would Christ have been different if he was an inch taller or shorter? Had black rather than brown hair? Blue eyes instead of brown? what are you getting at?
Bless you. This is kind of why my prayer is that God break my heart. My heart of stone wants to win. The heart with which I love Jesus — the same heart with which He loves me — wants reconciliation in Christ.
Where's the free will in that?
God didn’t call Irving, He called Paul. Who was Paul? What does the bible say?
if they’re not born elect, they make’em elect, lol
HMMMMMMMMMM
Jesus came to fulfill the Plan of Salvation, that was his God given purpose and all that was important. Scripture says that his earthly appearance was nothing exceptional. All Mary needed was to be in the line of David, so once again, anything she had that was noteworthy was from God in the first place
Check the Catholic birth rates in place "B" and get back to me.
Appreciate the compliment.
What is clearly see on these threads is Catholics have no clue what the scriptures say or mean . They do not understand basic rues of good Hermeneutics
You have in the last few days, in tune with the rest of the Reformed, have done an excellent job of posting a completely false and rather repellent rendition of what you guys call Christianity.
I ask again did the Father die on the cross? When you insist that all the trinity preforms the same action then that is what you get
No matter how many times you ask, you will get the same answer. When Scripture says it is explicitly One of the Trinity, then that One it is. Scripture says that Jesus died on the Cross, not the Father. You may wish to look up your Old Testament Gospels or wherever it is that you keep them.
Your Trinitarian beliefs are demonstrably heretical, and your description of the Gospels as OT are equally as false. Do these beliefs come from you or are they taught by your cult?
No, we dislike the deification of Paul. Paul was not assigned to be the primary teacher to the NT church. There is no Scripture to back that up. Paul was a great bishop and evangelizer - that much is plain. But Paul is not the god that the Reformed especially have created while eliminating a goodly portion of his actual writings.
So many "mysteries ' are answered in scripture ...
Okay.
This isn't a caucus thread, its a religion thread otherwise we could make the case for banning Paulians and non-Trinitarians.
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