absurdities gone to seed
yet again!
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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
I can only assume that Church Tradition claims that the Gospel of Luke was written by an OB-GYN.
It appears that RC fingers have . . . had a very long history of . . .
frightful & absurd fondling . . .
Sex in the context of a valid marriage is not at all dirty, it glorified God.
Mary remained a virgin in order to provide an incontrovertible evidence of the miraculous nature of the birth of Christ, and, quite simply, because her intimacy with God made sex superfluous. She did not abstain from sex on the false notion that it would have been a sin for her.
Book, chapter, and verse please.
Even if the scenario you posit was true and it may have been superfluous for her, what about Joseph? Her having sex wasn't all about her and her needs.
She would also be disobeying God's command to be fruitful and multiply.
You are kidding?
Therefore, brethren, stand fast; and hold the traditions which you have learned, whether by word, or by our epistle (2 Tess 2:14)St. Paul taught the Thessalonians Jewish law?
"παράδοσίς" simply meand knowledge or practice handed down. whether it is good or bad depends on the knowledge and practce in question. When the Apostles hand something down, it is good. It makes no difference whether they write a letter or teach face to face; if anything, St Paul preferred appearing in person. When Luther and the rest of the Protestant charlatans hand down their nonsense it is bad, and the Bible wanrs agaisnt such "traditions of men". It is not complicated.
What's Joseph in all this? Chopped liver?
Everything S,.t Paul write is inspired scripture and supports the Catholic doctrines. Whoever disparaged St. Paul doesn’t understand Catholicism. We are Pauline Christians.
I never thought that. You need to tell your Catholic compatriots that. That's THEIR reasoning.
Whenever her the reason for claiming her to be perpetually virgin comes up, the knee jerk response has to do with her (alleged) immaculate conception and being sinless her entire life.
THEY'RE the ones equating her virginity with sinlessness.
Pauls does not even say that denying marriage or abstaining from meat is bad in itself. If he did, he would be contradicting himself. That passage makes a prediction about the Gnostics and the prediction came through.
Alrighty then......
...say what...? annalex, not since your post 5 minutes ago regarding Mary's perpetual virginity have I been so surprised..now you say that Catholics are Pauline Christians?...?...Please, show me something to back that up...I feel some real IRONY forming here..
Faith Alone is false. The scripture teaches the exact opposite. But that is a weak common denominator for Protestantism because, for example, the disagreements of the TULIP are substantial and so the Protestants as a whole cannot be all lead by the Holy Ghost. I don't think any of them are.
The Orthodox and the Protestants are all Christians, but that is where the commonality ends. Apart from the matter of Church governance, the Orthodox hold theological positions that are Catholic. The Protestants, however, teach heresy. Faith Alone is heresy, and it is at the heart of Protestantism.
For the Orthodox to come to the Church all they need is to ask. The Protestants need to recant of Protestantism before they can become Catholic.
That is not a proof of the existence of the mythical biological brothers even on its face. It is a rhetorical question, which only proves that Jesus had relatives close to him in age that might appear to an outsider as brothers.
The verse says that the study of the scripture produces a perfect clergyman. But it does not say that the study of the scripture alone does that. In fact, the previous verse, verse 14 say that Timothy has to start with the knowledge he learned from St. Paul orally. "Profitable" or "useful" means that it is added on to something else, namely, the Holy Tradition of the Church.
Good grief. lol were you just waiting for someone to ask? :) One heck of a list!
For all their caterwauling about being the one true church, they still miss the entire point of JESUS.
As evidenced on these threads.
Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith—just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"?
Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed." So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them." Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith." But the law is not of faith, rather "The one who does them shall live by them." Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree"— so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
there are also many other things which Jesus did; which, if they were written every one, the world itself, I think, would not be able to contain the books that should be written. (John 21)
Matthew 13:53-5753And when Jesus had finished these parables, he went away from there, 54 and coming to his hometown he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works? 55 Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? 56And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?" 57And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household."
These were not outsiders. This event happened in His own hometown.
True. But as they say on late night t.v.,
“Wait! There’s more!”
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