In Christ Alone (Happy reformation day)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExnTlIM5QgE ^ | Getty, Julian Keith; Townend, Stuart Richard;

[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

[1000 silverlings]

In europe the Muslims are living in their churches as squatters while the priest conducts whatever it is he does, and the muzzies have covered up the statues and turned Mary to the wall.

[1000 silverlings]

I find the mindset that these *people* think they have the right to question anybody in the first place, let alone torture and then require the civil authorities to execute them. This is old Pagan Rome at it’s worst, killing christians, Jews, whomever, and killing Christ. But then that’s what every mass is, so why should we be surprised.

[RnMomof7]

+++Because the US is based on Protestantism instead of Catholicism.”
Your lack of a proper education is showing.+++

The tri-part separation of powers, checks and balance was devised because of the founders understanding of the depravity of men and the need for their to be checks on the power of any one man or branch. These PROTESTANTS had seen the excesses in Europe ...

New Hampshire

* John Langdon, CONGREGATIONALIST — Calvinist
* Nicholas Gilman, CONGREGATIONALIST — Calvinist
Massachusetts

* Elbridge Gerry, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* Rufus King, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* Caleb Strong, CONGREGATIONALIST — Calvinist
* Nathaniel Gorham, CONGREGATIONALIST — Calvinist
Connecticut

* Roger Sherman, CONGREGATIONALIST — Calvinist
* William Johnson, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* Oliver Ellsworth, CONGREGATIONALIST — Calvinist
New York

* Alexander Hamilton, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* John Lansing, DUTCH REFORMED — Calvinist
* Robert Yates, DUTCH REFORMED — Calvinist
New Jersey

* William Patterson, PRESBYTERIAN — Calvinist
* William Livingston, PRESBYTERIAN — Calvinist
* Jonathan Dayton, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* David Brearly, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* William Churchill Houston, PRESBYTERIAN — Calvinist

Pennsylvania

* Benjamin Franklin, DEIST
* Robert Morris, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* James Wilson, DEIST
* Gouverneur Morris, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* Thomas Mifflin, QUAKER
* George Clymer, QUAKER
* Thomas FitzSimmons, ROMAN CATHOLIC
* Jared Ingersoll, PRESBYTERIAN — Calvinist

Delaware

* John Dickinson, QUAKER
* George Read, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* Richard Bassett, METHODIST
* Gunning Beford, PRESBYTERIAN — Calvinist
* Jacod Broom, LUTHERAN

Maryland

* Luther Martin, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* Daniel Carroll, ROMAN CATHOLIC
* John Mercer, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* James McHenry, PRESBYTERIAN — Calvinist
* Daniel Jennifer, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
Virginia

* George Washington, EPISCOPALIAN (Non-Communicant)
* James Madison, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* George Mason, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* Edmund Randolph, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* James Blair, Jr., EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* James McClung, PRESBYTERIAN — Calvinist
* George Wythe, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
North Carolina

* William Davie, PRESBYTERIAN — Calvinist
* Hugh Williamson, DEIST
* William Blount, PRESBYTERIAN — Calvinist
* Alexander Martin, PRESBYTERIAN — Calvinist
* Richard Spaight, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
South Carolina

* John Rutledge, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* Charles Pinckney, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* Pierce Butler, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* Charles Pinckney, III, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
Georgia

* Abraham Baldwin, CONGREGATIONALIST — Calvinist
* William Leigh Pierce, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* William Houstoun, EPISCOPALIAN — Calvinist
* William Few, METHODIST

[metmom]

Your college degree is in what again?

[Sloth]

Imagine if you disobyed the laws of the land...didn’t pay tazes, etc...and used Luther’s argument...unless I can be convinced from the Constitution alone...I will not obey. Sounds nice but it is actually personal rebellion.

We need a lot more "personal rebellion" in this country, then.

[metmom]

Imagine if you disobyed the laws of the land...didn’t pay tazes, etc...and used Luther’s argument...unless I can be convinced from the Constitution alone...I will not obey. Sounds nice but it is actually personal rebellion.

IIRC, income tax is technically illegal for the government to collect.

[metmom]

IIRC, income tax is technically illegal for the government to collect.

But try telling that to the IRS.

[Quix]

Given the nature of

human nature and evil

Tyranny is always that way.

We’re seeing it now right before our eyes in the USA.

[RnMomof7]

Imagine a church teaching that IT is infallible ...so we have a circle here... it says its infallible and you have to believe it because it SAYS it is infallible.. I have this great bridge i have marked down..is there any catholic interested in buying it? LOL

[OLD REGGIE]

Today we need the inquisition in America adn West Europe to rid the Church of pederast priests, lesbian nuns and lavender mafia in seminaries. I understand, of course, why you would side with the enemies of the Church on this, but remember: we win in the end. Glory be to God.

But you already have an Office Of The Inquisition (renamed Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith), the new title most likely chosen for its' 'gentler' sounding name, headed by Cardinal Ratzinger prior to his becoming Pope.

This office was noted for it's delay and inaction concerning Priestly abuse.

Inasmuch as the office exists and is noted for it's "do nothing" record, what do you suggest?

[metmom]

Is that the best you two can do?

Make it personal and attack the messengers?

Don’t you have anything better, like facts or links or addressing the topic?

Mark, you made claims about the torture and murder that Protestantism engaged in presumably against Catholics and have as yet failed to provide any evidence to back yourself up.

That being the case, one can only reasonably conclude that that is because you can’t. The onus is on you, who made the statement. Sending others off on a wild goose chase to do your work for you is not an answer to the question.

[MarkBsnr]

It would appear that being post menopausal plays a major factor too.

Interesting. Most of the virulent antiCatholics are post menpausal. I had not considered that. The thesis might be that once they are past their child bearing capacity, then their sense of self preservation gets jettisoned. Self indulgence takes over. Fascinating. I had not thought of this before.

[metmom]

Imagine a church teaching that IT is infallible ...so we have a circle here... it says its infallible and you have to believe it because it SAYS it is infallible..

What a joke. It's enough trouble convincing many Catholics that the Bible is infallible and yet they expect others to believe the RCC is just on their say so?

I could just see the meltdown if you declared the OPC infallible.

I have this great bridge i have marked down..is there any catholic interested in buying it? LOL

I'll raise you some real nice waterfront property in FL.

[RnMomof7]

Ya must have hit a nerve.. LOL

[Quix]

INDEED.

[MarkBsnr]

You have no idea that all but two of the original colonies had their own state religions? Yours is a pathetic education. I know that it is the American public education - which is pathetic at its best. Do you realize that Singapore has, by all factors, a far better educational system, in its 30 square miles than all of the USofA? Your postings of historical and religous understanding are equally pathetic. You want me (!) to tell you of religious tyranny here in the US? You cannot figure out that the beginning of this country were in oppression and remain there? What did you did study in school? Home Ec?

[Quix]

INDEED. INDEED.

[1000 silverlings]

People who attack your education, which by the way, is most people’s, must have had just a bang-up one themselves, which would be why they are so busy with the big job they hold

[Dr. Eckleburg]

This is basic Christianity 101, Mark.

While we are still human and not God, and while we still sin because our sin nature is never completely eradicated by our sanctification, yet we are ACQUITTED OF OUR SINS BY GOD WHO ACCEPTS CHRIST AS PAYMENT FOR OUR SINS.

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." -- 2 Corinthians 5:21

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"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin." -- Hebrews 10:16-18

The Scriptures do not say we don't sin ever again. It says God does not impute the guilt of those sins to us because Christ has taken on that guilt and made restitution to God for it. And thus God remembers our sins no more, knowing that the Holy Spirit is leading us according to Christ's righteousness, and not our own.

"And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight" -- Colossians 1:21-22

"Unblameable in His sight." Not sinless. But without blame because Christ has taken on that blame and reconciled it with the perfect judgment of God by His one-time offering for the sins of His flock.

Read the Bible, Mark. It's all there.

[Quix]

For sure.