Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

In Christ Alone (Happy reformation day)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExnTlIM5QgE ^ | Getty, Julian Keith; Townend, Stuart Richard;

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


TOPICS: Prayer; Theology; Worship
KEYWORDS: reformation; savedbygrace
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 2,081-2,1002,101-2,1202,121-2,140 ... 7,341-7,356 next last
To: metmom

metmom wrote:
“It all depends on how accurate you think the Bible is.”

I think it is accurate beyond our imagination, beyond our ability to grasp fully.

I will, respectfully, disagree with your interjected “Balderdash” and what follows it. What is necessary for our salvation is just what you say, “plain, simple, obvious.” It is accessible and understandable to a child, as the Bible makes clear in more than one place. But there are other things of which God’s Word speaks that we still struggle with, as did those who went before us. This, that you would like to make so simple, is one of them. But, rejoice, neither your nor my salvation depends on knowing the answer. That is the nature of adiaphora.

As a wise man once said to me, “God’s Word is shallow enough for a child to wade in safely, and yet deep enough to drown the wisest of men.”


2,101 posted on 11/15/2010 2:51:49 PM PST by Belteshazzar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2092 | View Replies]

To: mas cerveza por favor

Lots of AUTHENTIC CHRISTIANS have disagreed throughout history.

Scripture disagrees.


2,102 posted on 11/15/2010 2:56:51 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2069 | View Replies]

Comment #2,103 Removed by Moderator

To: RnMomof7

INDEED.


2,104 posted on 11/15/2010 3:00:56 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2073 | View Replies]

To: Mad Dawg

Thanks for your considered and thoughtful exhortation.

Will prayerfully ponder it some more.

I don’t believe I’ve been pinging you much to much of anything.


2,105 posted on 11/15/2010 3:03:15 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2085 | View Replies]

To: Quix

Looks like donkeys in prison clothes.


2,106 posted on 11/15/2010 3:04:55 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2103 | View Replies]

To: metmom

Maybe the Vatican vulcanized ‘Bible’ is written in selective disappearing ink where those verses are concerned . . . and a lot of others.


2,107 posted on 11/15/2010 3:06:33 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2092 | View Replies]

To: Quix
Lots of AUTHENTIC CHRISTIANS have disagreed throughout history. Scripture disagrees.

I wrote: "For 1500 years, the Catholic Church authenticated its teaching by reference to its scripture in the context of history. No Christian ever thought to question this basic understanding of reality."

Prior to the Sixteenth Century, what Christian ever questioned teaching according to history?

2,108 posted on 11/15/2010 3:08:17 PM PST by mas cerveza por favor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2102 | View Replies]

To: OLD REGGIE

1. Stop telling jokes which prompt his horse laugh.
2. Newbies don’t make the rules.
3. The thin skinned don’t belong on an open forum.


Now now.

Asking for the voice of logic and sanity to reign in rabid clique RC posting is asking for a bit much ain’t it?

Goodness. They’d lose their distinctiveness.


2,109 posted on 11/15/2010 3:09:06 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2095 | View Replies]

To: Belteshazzar

AGREED:


If God chose not to make this clear either way, then that is our confession. It is unclear, therefore believe as you will so long as you believe rightly all that the Scriptures do teach about the Christ. This, as you are manifestly sensitive to, is one of Rome’s big problems. They insist on taking things that may or may not be true - and even build wholly ungrounded and doubtful (if not harmful!) doctrine on top of such things - and insist on pain of damnation, that one must believe them to be true. I will go you one better, this is not merely irresponsible and deceptive, it is the spirit of antichrist.

Sound scriptural, Christian doctrine glorifies Christ and the truth that has been revealed in and through Him.


2,110 posted on 11/15/2010 3:10:27 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2096 | View Replies]

To: Belteshazzar

“God’s Word is shallow enough for a child to wade in safely, and yet deep enough to drown the wisest of men.”


GREAT LINE.


2,111 posted on 11/15/2010 3:11:24 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2101 | View Replies]

To: count-your-change

That would fit . . . a prison of willful blindness seems to have taken deep root in the Vatican long ago.


2,112 posted on 11/15/2010 3:12:20 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2106 | View Replies]

To: mas cerveza por favor; Amityschild; Brad's Gramma; Captain Beyond; Cvengr; DvdMom; firebrand; ...

I’ll leave that to my betters to answer. I don’t enjoy dredging through all that ancient muck amidst my other priorities.

There’s certainly more than one—within and without the Vatican umbrella! LOL.


2,113 posted on 11/15/2010 3:14:34 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2108 | View Replies]

To: Quix

lol! Love that one! Another one you need is a monkey, picking nits..I don’t know why, it just seems like a good one for so many posts! :)


2,114 posted on 11/15/2010 3:14:58 PM PST by smvoice (Defending the Indefensible: The Pride of a Pawn.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2103 | View Replies]

To: OLD REGGIE

..suddenly I’m feeling much stronger, OR! :)


2,115 posted on 11/15/2010 3:16:17 PM PST by smvoice (Defending the Indefensible: The Pride of a Pawn.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2097 | View Replies]

To: smvoice

True. May try and find one.


2,116 posted on 11/15/2010 3:17:21 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2114 | View Replies]

To: Belteshazzar

“”All of it glorifies Him. All of it points to Him””

...and so does the typology of Mary point to Him and you see the fullness of the Holy family,dear friend.In fact, everything about Our Blessed Mother glorifies her Son.

Ignorance of Mary is ignorance of Christ ,if you really think deeply enough you cannot separate them.

As GK Chesterton once said...

“When I was a boy a more Puritan generation objected to a statue upon my parish church representing the Virgin and Child. After much controversy, they compromised by taking away the Child. One would think that this was even more corrupted with Mariolatry, unless the mother was counted less dangerous when deprived of a sort of weapon. But the practical difficulty is also a parable. You cannot chip away the statue of a mother from all round that of a newborn child. You cannot suspend the new-born child in mid-air; indeed you cannot really have a statue of a newborn child at all. Similarly, you cannot suspend the idea of a newborn child in the void or think of him without thinking of his mother. You cannot visit the child without visiting the mother, you cannot in common human life approach the child except through the mother. If we are to think of Christ in this aspect at all, the other idea follows I as it is followed in history. We must either leave Christ out of Christmas, or Christmas out of Christ, or we must admit, if only as we admit it in an old picture, that those holy heads are too near together for the haloes not to mingle and cross. -GK Chesterton

I wish you a Blessed evening!


2,117 posted on 11/15/2010 3:22:51 PM PST by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2082 | View Replies]

To: mas cerveza por favor; Quix
I wrote: "For 1500 years, the Catholic Church authenticated its teaching by reference to its scripture in the context of history. No Christian ever thought to question this basic understanding of reality."

Prior to the Sixteenth Century, what Christian ever questioned teaching according to history?

Prior to the council of Nicea there is no
corporation called the Roman catholic church.

It was created out of whole cloth at Nicea
by the Roman Pontiff Constantine.

Who by the way was a pagan.

He was a vehement anti-semite who ordered
the rejection of YHvH's Passover and Sabbat worship
as commanded by Holy Scripture.

He as a pagan ordered the creation of the
pagan feast of Easter and pagan Sunday worship.

Prior to 1600 and after 325CE all who questioned
the Roman "church" were murdered by the Roman "church"

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
2,118 posted on 11/15/2010 3:32:01 PM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2108 | View Replies]

To: stfassisi; Belteshazzar
Why don’t you try understanding the importance of typology through historical Christianity on the Blessed Mother and various other teachings and the Bible will make more sense

From University Of Dayton
The Life of Mary: Sacred Scripture:
Old Testament Typologies
http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/resources/documents/docs6-1.html

And the University Of Dayton is..............impartial?

"This page, maintained by The Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute, Dayton, Ohio 45469-1390 and created by Sister M. Jean Frisk, was last modified Thursday, 09/09/2010 10:49:53 EDT by Ramya Jairam. Please send any comments to Johann.Roten@udayton.edu ."

2,119 posted on 11/15/2010 3:48:46 PM PST by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2066 | View Replies]

To: stfassisi; Belteshazzar
Ignorance of Mary is ignorance of Christ ,if you really think deeply enough you cannot separate them.

Raising 'man/woman' to a God status is evil. Mary was a faithful servant who HEARD and OBEYED his Word. Yet, Catholics do the very opposite of what Mary did and what she told others to do. Catholics use Mary as their whip to come against Jesus Christ Himself who is The Word.

Have a blessed evening.
2,120 posted on 11/15/2010 4:13:05 PM PST by presently no screen name ("Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down.." Mark 7:13)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2117 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 2,081-2,1002,101-2,1202,121-2,140 ... 7,341-7,356 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson