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

[boatbums]

I've never known anyone who can hold a grudge like an aggrieved Catholic.

Well, Italians are known for that, too, but I repeat myself. ;o)

[Dr. Eckleburg]

As of yet you have not provided it.

RC apologists are great at asking the same questions over and over and over.

It's the answers that give them trouble.

[metmom]

Of course Rome wants to encourage sectarianism. They invented it during the counter Reformation. Rome figures the more denominations there are among Protestants, the weaker that Protestant opposition will be.

That's cause Rome thinks everyone thinks like they do. They do not understand the unity of believers across denominational lines and national boundaries.

Our unity is in Christ, not a religious organization.

[RnMomof7]

Izzat so? Dr. E. says that people are acquitted of their sins before they die and independent of any repentance.

Where did she ever say that repentance was not necessary???

Acquitted is a legal term well applied here .... we stand before God found innocent based on the merits of Christ.. Today I stand justified in Christ.. the only difference between now and at the time of my death is MY location.

Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

ARE complete.. not will be complete..

1Cr 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

present tense

The book of Life contains all men; it is men who cause God to erase them from it; Revelation 3 says that very convincingly.

Rev 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Rev 17:8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

Rev 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

Note the Scripture does not say erased from the book of life ..it clearly states names written in the book of life

[RnMomof7]

This engraving depicts the execution of David van der Leyen and Levina Ghyselins, described variously as Dutch Anabaptists or Mennonites, by Catholic authorities in Ghent in 1554.

Strangled and burned, van der Leyen was finally dispatched with an iron fork. Bracht's Martyr's Mirror is considered by modern Mennonites as second only in importance to the Bible in perpetuating their faith.

Murder of David van der Leyen and Levina Ghyselins, Ghent, 1554 Engraving by J. Luyken, from T. J. V. Bracht (or Thieleman van Braght), Het Bloedig Tooneel De Martelaers Spiegel. . . . Amsterdam: J. van der Deyster, et al., 1685 Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (1)

[MarkBsnr]

Where did she ever say that repentance was not necessary???

Where she said that salvation only required belief in Jesus. She left off repentence and the damnable Reformed belief in the predestination of salvation. Did she mention those?

Note the Scripture does not say erased from the book of life ..it clearly states names written in the book of life

Go to Revelation 3 for some intelligence on that. By the way, my wife is enquiring if the hair puff is good and how the jean skirts and Keds fit...

[MarkBsnr]

This engraving depicts the execution of David van der Leyen and Levina Ghyselins, described variously as Dutch Anabaptists or Mennonites, by Catholic authorities in Ghent in 1554.

So? In the winter I can engrave my name in the snow. Do you have any other intelligence?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Acquitted is a legal term well applied here .... we stand before God found innocent based on the merits of Christ.. Today I stand justified in Christ.. the only difference between now and at the time of my death is MY location.

AMEN! Roman Catholics have no clue as to what justification means. This ignorance by Rome was the very reason for the Reformation.

Men are saved by Christ's righteousness freely and mercifully imputed to them by God, and not through their own righteousness.

What a terrible deceit.

[RnMomof7]

Yeah, yeah. The argument is not that American religious figures were pure, it's just that they were more pure than the hated Catholics. I will ask my friend Mr. Rogers if he has a pertinent web site which pertains to Baptist persecution in the America of the Reformation.

Mark YOU leveled the accusation that the protestants ..specifically Calvinists tortured and murdered baptists and Quakers in the American colonies

The burden of proof is on you ... We never claimed any purity of our own .. we are the ones that believe in Total depravity remember?

[RnMomof7]

The torture and killings didn't stop until well into the 20th century. The klan killed nearly as many Catholics as Blacks for the crime of being a "Papist" or a "Romanist" or an "RC" (do those terms sound familiar?). The good Protestant citizen of many states killed many Irish immigrants. Care to discuss the Mormon persecutions and lynchings?

Drowning of Protestants

Shown here is a depiction of the murder by Irish Catholics of approximately one hundred Protestants from Loughgall Parish, County Armagh, at the bridge over the River Bann near Portadown, Ulster. This atrocity occurred at the beginning of the Irish Rebellion of 1641. Having held the Protestants as prisoners and tortured them, the Catholics drove them "like hogs" to the bridge, where they were stripped naked and forced into the water below at swordspoint. Survivors of the plunge were shot.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01.html

What was that you were saying ?

[metmom]

Yeah, yeah. The argument is not that American religious figures were pure, it's just that they were more pure than the hated Catholics.

So you made a statement about Protestants killing and torturing others until the federal government stepped in and put a stop to it that you couldn't even back up yourself?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

That's cause Rome thinks everyone thinks like they do. They do not understand the unity of believers across denominational lines and national boundaries.

Our unity is in Christ, not a religious organization.

Amen!

In all these years on the RF, the two things that have become most apparent are...

1) Rome preaches "another Gospel" told by "another Christ" and

2) Regardless of predestination and free will and election, Protestants believe men are saved by God's grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone for God's glory alone, all made known to us by the Holy Spirit in the Scriptures.

If we boast, we boast in the Lord.

[metmom]

Yeah, I’ll bet your public school was real speshul....

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Thank God for the evidence of the written word. Your posts are empty of Scripture, Mark. And when confronted by God's word, you do not appear to understand it. The verses I provided clearly tell us God gives us the ability to repent. All good things come from God, Mark. Anyone who claims otherwise is boasting of himself, and that never ends well.

Our advice is to return to the Bible and keep reading while praying for the Holy Spirit's guidance.

[MarkBsnr]

So you made a statement about Protestants killing and torturing others until the federal government stepped in and put a stop to it that you couldn't even back up yourself?

The Smithsonian site not good enough for you? No doubt that they are not Reformed enough.

[MarkBsnr]

Yeah, I’ll bet your public school was real speshul....

It didn't admit idiots.

[MarkBsnr]

Shown here is a depiction of the murder by Irish Catholics of approximately one hundred Protestants from Loughgall Parish, County Armagh, at the bridge over the River Bann near Portadown, Ulster. This atrocity occurred at the beginning of the Irish Rebellion of 1641. Having held the Protestants as prisoners and tortured them, the Catholics drove them "like hogs" to the bridge, where they were stripped naked and forced into the water below at swordspoint. Survivors of the plunge were shot. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01.html

No doubt you are not aware of the fact that Ulster is in Ireland and not in the Excited States of America. The question is in the actions of the Protestants in America, not elsewhere around the world. Come on now, where are the Catholic atrocities in the USofA? Aside from JFK, that is...

[Quix]

REPLACEMENTARIANISM DRESSED IN WHITE HANKYS.

[Quix]

REPLACEMENTARIANISM DRESSED IN WHITE HANKYS.

. . .

WITH A HUGE ORDER OF RC HAUGHTINESS THROWN IN.

[MarkBsnr]

AMEN! Roman Catholics have no clue as to what justification means. This ignorance by Rome was the very reason for the Reformation.

And a very good legacy the Reformation has, don't you think? I will appeal to the ghost of Joseph Smith to adjudicate.