Okay, how's this? :)
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
The only time anything in Scripture has any validity for some is as a bludgeon against the very thing they reject.
Now you are using my words? This is all you can offer? LOL. That's pathetic. Good bye, loser.
In many shapes and forms.
We agree. Your words are pathetic.
Glad you see your arguments for what they are.
Not an icon of the Father alone, Kosta. The HS is there too, the dove.
If my words are pathetic then why is he using them? What does that say about him?
Glad you see your arguments for what they are
I do, obviously worthy of repeating, even by adversaries who have run out of anything substantial to say. Good bye, loser 2.
Thank you for the response. I am in agreement with you about this and worship the same God. I AM serious about what I believe and I know why I do as well.
Jeremiah 29:11-12
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
Just to be fair to all, the Serbs have been painting “Ancient of Days” “icons” since the mid 13th century. :)
As for we Greeks, well, I was looking at one on our iconostasion just this morning during the liturgy and there is one in the Pantanassa monastery at Mystras, the now abandoned (save for 5 or 6 nuns)seat of the Byzantine Despot of Morea, not far from my maternal village. The monastery was built in 1428 (the last building constructed under the Despotate) and the body of the first wife of Constantine Paleologos, the last emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, is buried there.
Peel the onion back enough and rotted core is evident for all to see. Oh well......
Okay, how's this? :)
They’ve resorted to the usual Catholic tactic of mockery and ridicule to try to turn the tables on the non-Catholics to get the attention off the fact that they’re taking a beating.
There’s simply no way they can justify or reconcile with Catholic church doctrine, their wholesale rejection of the inerrancy and veracity of Scripture.
Viva la Reformation.
AMEN!
Post tenebras lux.
Check out the deceit tucked into the following link, all still operative...
24. The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect. 77. In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship. 15. Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.
The RCC positions itself counter to the liberty of conscience outlined in Scripture and the freedom of worship promised in the U.S. Constitution.
The Hollywood PR machine has long foisted on the American public the insipid pretense that the papacy is nothing more than Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
"Whoever denies or places in doubt any truth that must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or repudiates the Christian faith as a whole, and does not come to his senses after having been legitimately warned, is to be punished as a heretic...whoever obstinately rejects a teaching that the Roman Pontiff or the College of Bishops, exercising the authentic Magisterium, have set forth to be held definitively, or who affirms what they have condemned as erroneous, and does not retract after having been legitimately warned, is to be punished with an appropriate penalty." -- Pope John Paul II, in his apostolic letter Ad Tuendam Fidem (May 18, 1998.)
Meant to ping you, too.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
unserious reply returned.
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Oh, absolutely! But not just the Serbs. They merely copied what they learned from the Greeks. :)
"Ancient of Days" show Christ as the (old and gray) Father (LOL, talk about heresy!), that is before he "became" the Son...oy! And all this in churches proclaiming orthodoxy!
If you think about it, we accept that God is not bound by time - it is an island in the sea of his eternity - and by that knowledge we accept that he foreknew who would believe and who would reject him before they even existed. Therefore, we must also accept that knowing this God STILL allowed those people to exist. Now I do not claim to understand this at all, but I do know that God is all good and that everything he does is good. Scripture says,
"That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." (Eph. 2:7)
I cannot understand the aversion some people have to the character of God that they presume to be negative. It's like they want to ignore the Scriptures that clearly state it or allegorize it or rationalize it. Instead, I believe we should accept by faith what God has revealed about his nature and trust that he is good and righteous and holy in all that he does.
For them: The sound of dust being shaken from my shoes. God’s word is a gift and those that have contempt for it will never enjoy it. So be it, their lose.
It is fascinating to watch and utterly predictable.
I don't doubt that for one minute.
"... and I know why I do as well.
I feel like I have only just scratched the most obvious areas of the surface of what, within the economy of salvation, our created purpose is and how we "get there". I do know that it isn't something we "see" with our eyes or comprehend fully with our minds.
"βλέπομεν γὰρ ἄρτι δι’ ἐσόπτρου ἐν αἰνίγματι, τότε δὲ πρόσωπον πρὸς πρόσωπον· ἄρτι γινώσκω ἐκ μέρους,...", as +Paul says.
Somewhere within the experience of the "uncreated light", as on Mount Tabor, the nous , the "eye of the soul", becomes clearer and we understand and experience more of the uncreated energies of God.
"He is called light, Who transcends all light, because He illumines us; and life, Who is beyond all life, because He vivifies us. Shining around us all, and encircling and cherishing us with the glory of His divinity, He is called raiment, and so we saw that we clothe ourselves with Him Who is intangible in every way and Who cannot be grasped. Uniting Himself without mingling with our soul, and making it all as light, He is said to indwell us and, uncircumscribed, become circumscribed." +Symeon the New Theologian
So I study and pray and worship the Trinity, bb. I suspect I will do that for the rest of my earthly life.
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