Posted on 10/31/2010 11:59:22 AM PDT by RnMomof7
In Christ Alone lyrics
Songwriters: Getty, Julian Keith; Townend, Stuart Richard;
In Christ alone my hope is found He is my light, my strength, my song This Cornerstone, this solid ground Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace When fears are stilled, when strivings cease My Comforter, my All in All Here in the love of Christ I stand
In Christ alone, who took on flesh Fullness of God in helpless Babe This gift of love and righteousness Scorned by the ones He came to save
?Til on that cross as Jesus died The wrath of God was satisfied For every sin on Him was laid Here in the death of Christ I live, I live
There in the ground His body lay Light of the world by darkness slain Then bursting forth in glorious Day Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory Sin?s curse has lost its grip on me For I am His and He is mine Bought with the precious blood of Christ
Jesus gave All PRAISE, HONOR and GLORY to His FATHER.
The Vatican Empire: bow down, kiss the ring, wave to the subjects, etc.
Yep, so much for them following Jesus.
and AMEN!
Many Catholics are Socialists.
Double standard for you guys. Martin Luther lived in greater luxury than the Pope does. He actually doesn't own anything. It's okay for a penniless monk to magically become a wealthy landowner (why not go back and research the times and see just how high up the rungs of society he ascended), isn't it? Now when I point out that double standard you guys get all upset.
Some day, you guys will realize that the Reformation was primarily secular - and it was about power and wealth, not about theology. Theology was the means to power and wealth for the Reformation. It was secondary, and only a tool to use.
Oh, we know very well where Luther got his money, don't we?
Truth? If the truth were actually admitted by the children of the Reformation, they would shun it in horror. Martin Luther was seduced by wealth and luxury and that was his overriding impetus to continue what he had started. Only at the end of his life did he eventually realize - and admit - the evils that he let loose...
Would you give me a short version of what is it you are trying to say, without quixifications, please?
Declarative sentences with scriptural references, in regular font work best. Thx thx.
God is Good, He always provides for His own.
Somebody else pimping the Prosperity Gospel?
Luther live another 24 years outside its protections before he died
He finished his race and as he found out - absent from the body, present with THE LORD!
Luther actually found out that being lord of a manor with servants and field hands taking care of him was really really nice and he liked it a lot.
So? Many non Catholics are Socialists. Most Catholics are not Socialists. Anything else from your corner?
The Apocalyptic visions are not covenants, and Catholic Christianity does conquer the world as prmised to Abraham. When Christ returns, Catholic Christianity will rule the Holy Land, as promised to Moses.
To take a false premise and build a perfectly logical house of cards upon it takes a specific German genuis, I think. The same talents were put to a better use in modern philosophy and natural sciences later.
There were minor sects everywhere and at all times, but none would have amounted to a hill of beans were it not for German appetite for sophistry and Henry VIII’s oversize libido.
To rid Spain of them was the strategic necessity, but the target was Jewish converts to Catholicism, who, it was suspected, sympathized with the Muslims.
That is the understanding that I have as well, thanks.
Our belief is that the Holy Scripture is inerrant. That means that a single verse, taken in context is sufficient to form the basis of a dogma. Mt. 18:17-18 is a quote in context; the concept of the unique rule making role of the Church is supported by quite a few other verses, and no similar role is given the Scripture. If you have any scriptural argument to make, make it.
[25]... Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it: [26] That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life: [27] That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any; such thing; but that it should be holy, and without blemish (Eph 5)Take heed to yourselves, and to the whole flock, wherein the Holy Ghost hath placed you bishops, to rule the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood (Acts 20:28)
Scripture, schmipture, who cares?
I am Catholic so I care.
Name one. You can correctly point to beliefs that are not directly taught by the scripture. But there is nothing that the Church teaches that contradicts the scripture. This stands tin stark contrast to the Protestant nonsense that is directly contradicted by plain scripture in its foundations.
Here is an interesting one that I recall off the bat.
1 Tim 4:1 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 3 They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth.
Some day, you guys will realize that the Reformation was primarily secular - and it was about power and wealth, not about theology. Theology was the means to power and wealth for the Reformation. It was secondary, and only a tool to use.
So, the revolt against Tetzel building St. Peter's Basilica off the backs of peaseants by selling them licenses to sin was just a pretext? Yes, I see it now.
Obviously then Luther standing alone before Rome's demand to recant, (Diet of Worms) just planning his life of wealth.
"Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen"
That’s NOT even close to the coming reality.
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