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
Most scholars agree that they are, and that they were written by two different authors. The style of writing, the Septuagint references (remember Peter was supposed to be the apostle to the Jews, so why the Greek Septuagint and why is a Jewish fisherman writing in urbane, sophisticated Greek?); the historical events described did not correspond to events during Peter's life time; writing his name differently in 1 Peter as opposed to 2 Peter, etc.
I can’t believe you fell that nonsense promoted by skeptics, atheists and other assorted pseudo-scholars! The objections to Peter’s authorship are downright laughable.
Coming from someone who says Paul spent three years in heaven with the Lord before going to Jerusalem cannot be taken seriously.
“I don’t think you have a very good grasp of “Protestant” beliefs at all though your disdain IS NOT hard to miss.”
I may very well not have a good grasp of Protestant beliefs and I don’t doubt for a moment that my disdain for what I believe is Protestant is obvious. I meant it to be.
“Do not the Jews believe that God wrote the Ten Commandments on the stone tablets and gave them to Moses on the mountain? Do they not also believe that God dictated the first five books of the Old Testament (the Torah) to Moses? Do they not also believe that God dictated the first five books of the Old Testament (the Torah) to Moses?”
I suppose some do, even today. I have spent hours discussing the OT with my law partner’s father-in-law who was the chief rabbi of Budapest after WWII until the Communists took over. He doesn’t believe that literally at all, but that doesn’t shake his faith or belief that the 10 Commandments are an expression of what our lives are supposed to be.
“God himself has seen fit to also preserve these scriptures through the ages so that their truths are still available to us today.”
But bb, as my brother Kosta pointed out, the Vedas are just as preserved and are much, much older. Why did God preserve those? By your reasoning, you should run to the nearest Orthodox Church because we have the oldest continuous form of Christian worship. Its not that simple and I am confident you know that.
“I have read many parts of it and I am not impressed at all. I see it for the sham it is.”
I agree with you. My people, unlike Westerners, spent centuries with Mohammedan Turk overlords trying to jam it down our ethnic throat and destroy Christianity. But it didn’t work. Of course its a sham, but 1 billion Mohammedans disagree with us.
“I am sorry you have such little faith in the Scriptures from the only, true God.”
I have all sorts of faith in the Scriptures, bb. I believe they are useful for spiritual edification and the discernment of true dogma. I do not believe, as you apparently do and as the Church of Roman unfortunately dogmatized, that they are infallible and the inerrant precise words of our Triune God.
“Without it, all else is shifting sands.”
There we disagree, I fear. Among Christians, which groups would you say have done the most “shifting”, the Orthodox, the Roman Catholics or the various Protestant ecclesial groups?
That's a common fallacy...The truth is; the more you know scripture, the more you will be able to grow in discernment...
If we really believe that bats are birds, how easy will it be for the Evil One to fool us into believing what will bring about our spiritual downfall?
The scripture doesn't says bat are birds...It says bats are fowls...And so I believe bats are fowls...
Yes he did because it says that he loved Rachel more.
“I ask that you also consider that there is a universal, spiritual body of Christ that IS the “church”.”
bb, you may be absolutely right. I simply don’t know and the Orthodox Church does not know. This is a matter for God, not men.
“I wish you a blessed Thanksgiving and hope your family and friends are brought closer to each other and the Lord.”
The very same to you and yours, bb!
So, you reject that God was speaking about flying creatures that were "clean" or "unclean" as far as eating? It should take a lot more than that to shake someone from trusting God's revelation.
Let’s start with the most obvious:
“Coming from someone who says Paul spent three years in heaven with the Lord before going to Jerusalem cannot be taken seriously.”
When or where did I ever say anything like that or agree with it in any way, shape, whatever? Please...show me or shut up.
I agree as well that only God knows those that are his and it is not my business to judge anybody’s heart. I try to avoid doing that. If I have offended you in any way I ask your forgiveness.
Thank you for the holiday wishes. I am brining a turkey for the first time, so I am also praying it turns out okay. ;o)
Do you believe that there is an evil being in the world named Satan
No, I don't. The world is both good and evil.
Could this being also strive to continue to confuse and supersede the true God?
Do you believe you can escape a police chase? Obviously some are naive enough to believe they can get away, but they never do. If there were Satan and he were trying to supersede God then he is the dumbest villain ever invented.
“So, you reject that God was speaking about flying creatures that were “clean” or “unclean” as far as eating?”
I haven’t given it much thought to be truthful. I suspect that if I did give it much thought, I’d probably decide that it wasn’t God talking but rather a group of priests, and that is not to say that they might not have had good reason for declaring some foods “unclean”. That, however, has never stopped me from eating lobster or other shellfish or the very occasional Ostrich steak. I also drink milk when eating meat; in fact, I love to eat clam chowder which is about as un-kosher as you can get, short of perhaps boiling the pork chops in milk prior to frying them.
Do you keep kosher or do you live dangerously? :)
“If I have offended you in any way I ask your forgiveness.”
You haven’t offended me in the least, dear lady!
“I am bringing a turkey for the first time, so I am also praying it turns out okay. ;o)”
You’ll do just fine, I’m sure of it!
Fish the packet of giblets for gravy out of the cavity before you roast it. Classic turkey noob mistake, lol, my own mom did it her first time. You'll know if you've done it, smells like paper burning.
Do you believe the earth is supported by four columns too? LOL.
My apologies, got you mixed up with another poster. Truly, I am sorry.
Ooops, I don't know. With me it had a different effect... :)
“Do you believe the earth is supported by four columns too? LOL.”
Is that in the white man’s scripture too? I thought it was just in our African scriptures!
“With me it had a different effect... :)”
Oh, I don’t know about that at all, Kosta mou! I’d say one could argue that the effect was just about right, at least insofar as discernment goes. :)
No, I am not a kosher Jew. I love lobster, crab, shrimp, etc., but I stop short at buzzards too “gamey” I’m told. ;o)
I am “brining” a turkey. That means a two-day soak in salt/sugar/seasoning water and then a good rinse, pat-dry and traditional roasting. It supposedly keeps the meat very juicy and yummy. I’ll let you know how it turns out if you’re interested.
Biblical literalists also believe that the sun revolves around the earth and that dinosaurs coexisted with man. Like adherence to much of Protestant dogma it requires that one create their own reality for things to mesh.
I don't know that it's not...Do you???
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