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Whatever,
Nurse R.
Posted on 12/17/2010 7:31:07 AM PST by marshmallow
Says you, millions disagree. Why is your opinion of any more value than mine and theirs?
Iscool is right - The woman's children are identified as those who have the testimony of Christ, and keep the commandments of God:
Rev 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
(e-Sword: KJV)
Rome, who believes the woman is "Mary," who claims to be her children, do not keep the commandments of God.
The road to hell is wide. the road to heaven is straight and narrow - few will find it... That "vast majority" seems to be an handicap.
...And so Pharisaic, incidentally.
Just going by the number of posts read on this thread and how they come across as seen by SOME others with a well known anti-Catholic bias.
There. Fixed it.
Maybe not. It sure looks like you might require some serious help to discern that language and custom 2000 years ago and half-way around the world in a Jewish environment might be different than what your "basic English words in a protestant Bible mean."
If you are accustomed to seeing only a bigoted anti-Catholic biased so-called mental health instructor on these threads, then you likely have no experience with true professionals. Nurses are not "employees." We are licensed by the state and before I retired, I worked on contract. Legal parameters for nursing practice are clear in regard to respecting client religion, whether it's Ba'hai, moslem, Christian, Jewish, whatever. Clients are allowed free access to the religious director of their choice, as are all patients in a hospital, unless for some reason such as dietary observance, there would be some sort of interference with treatment. That never happened in my practice.
On the other hand, this is my private, retired life. I have had a number of interactions with other professionals here on FR, mostly private. Based on your post, your knowledge base regarding what goes on in hospital treatment and how nurses interact is very limited. This is not a problem, unless you are trying to project your own bias onto me, with wild speculation liberally thrown in.
Terrycarl,
This whole discussion has nothing to do with me and any measure if self-importance; please don’t go down that road!
I’m glad that we agree that God can do anything. He IS almighty. Period. My question, based on your response is this: who are you (or any of us, but particularly the Roman Catholic Church) to decide what is insulting to Him? We certainly have Scripture to guide us. But nowhere in Scripture does it say that Mary was sinless. But, there are MANY passages that affirm that we are ALL humanity is sinful—except for Jesus.
As for old relics and bones? That’s God’s business as well; all I want to do is to, with His grace and mercy, serve and worship him—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit ALONE. Just as we have been commanded to do.
Hoss
I like him, too.
PhotoBucket has quite a collection. I should scan them again.
BTW, I’m willing to share the html coding of my links with those of like precious faith and perspective of our sounding board group. I now am getting them alphabetized in a Word file. Just let me know.
ABSOLUTELY INDEED.
I didn’t realize Alice’s rabbits were so intent on chasing their tales in cirular pretend-’reasoning.’
INDEED TO THE MAX.
LOL.
I think I catch where you are going with this. Okay, not all Catholics have prayers to Mary in their taglines. Only some Catholics have prayers to Mary in their taglines.
....”the basis for determining truth from error is not based upon even WHO it is that is teaching it, “we or an angel from heaven,” but whether it is the same gospel that they had already received – and this gospel is recorded in Scripture..................How do we determine whether a church is teaching correct doctrine or not?
.... The only infallible standard that Scripture says that we have is the Bible...... (Isaiah 8:20; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; Matthew 5:18; John 10:35; Isaiah 40:8; 1 Peter 2:25; Galatians 1:6-9).
This is a really great post Cynical Bear....it goes to the heart of all which matters....thank you for posting it.
ABSOLUTELY INDEED.
You mean the magic White Hankys didn’t take care of that?
What a surprise!
/sar
Clearly . . . sigh . . .
Lore prevent me from ever being a tare!
INDEED.
And, as usual, Jewish Mammas and RC Mammas seem to rather chronically beg to be put in their places.
Then stop praying to her and believing she’s sinless and bestowing upon her the blasphemous title of co-redeemer and handing over to her the office of mediator between God and men.
If it walks like a duck and it talks like a duck, it’s still a fallen creature like the rest of us.
ABSOLUTELY INDEED.
Rome is a carnal religion.
If the Rabid Clique RC’s hereon are any clue . . .
I think the
Vatican AIWSOTARM
has gone well beyond RELIGION into a DEMONIZED OBSESSION PILE OF HELLISH RITUALS AND FANTASIES.
What I find most amusing is that it’s their tradition that says tradition is equal to Scripture in authority.
So convenient.
...And so Pharisaic, incidentally.
INDEED.
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