Transubstantiation: From Stumbling Block to Cornerstone

The Catholic Thing ^ | 1/21/11 | Francis J. Beckwith

[Quix]

BTW,

Thanks for the very personal assault on my mental/emotional health/sanity.

Very thoughtful.

[Quix]

Would you consider

“from a coward”

to be mind reading

or heart reading

or spirit reading

or just a bitter snide personal assault

or what?

[Judith Anne]

Thanks for the very personal assault on my mental/emotional health/sanity.

Very thoughtful.

Gee, Quix, did you take that personally? Come on! I didn't post any "funny" pictures. This is an open thread, it's all fun and games, right? Are you pouting? Crying? Shouldn't we all just grow up? I declare, sometimes when a blind person gets a slap upside the head, it helps them CHANGE DIRECTION.

[Quix]

He wasn’t alone. God has always preserved a remnant throughout history.

[Quix]

Not at all.

I just find it instructive to sometimes

shove some folks’ prissy standards and hypocrisies back in their faces.

[Quix]

AS y’all ought to know . . .

i GET CALLED

so many ugly things by such a sizeable percentage of you, it hardly even registers any more . . . except in a philosophical, theoretical way.

And then, given that rank hypocrisy is such a favorite topic of mine, I get to have fun with such incidents.

[Quix]

BTW, I’ve long invited any and all to give me verbal slaps upside the head any time they think such might be instructive.

Just don’t bet the farm on my response.

[Quix]

Time for the shower.

[Running On Empty]

I think that the last 50 or so posts on this thread have not been a credit to any who bears the name Christian.

This thread—as happens so often-—has deteriorated into an 8th grade school yard type verbal foodfight; no one is edified by it. Nor is it, at this point, a legitimate “debate” or “discussion” or “exchange of ideas”.

It’s just a hail of spit wads.

[Judith Anne]

Just don’t bet the farm on my response.

Well, if past performance is any indication, there will probably be multiple whiny "poor little me, people are so mean to me" posts, along with some veiled insults.

Go for it!

[RobbyS]

Well, that is what the followers of Joseph Smith claim and his notion of the True Faith is quite a bit more radical than Luther’s. Actually there have been sects throughout history who have claimed that their version of the Truth is the right one. How do we determine which one? Luther’s postulating the Bible as the only rule of faith led almost immediately to wide dissent.

[Quix]

Hey, Monday’s a new school day.

Practice, practice, practice!

[Quix]

Naw.

That’s y’all’s turf.

[Quix]

The Canon was reasonably settled long before the RCC came into existence.

[count-your-change]

Don’t leave yet as I’d be happy to debate or discuss almost any subject with you that you might choose. That is unless you make agreement a condition of so doing.

[count-your-change]

Ah...Were so easy as that I would venture.

My teacher said you can attract more flies with sugar than you can with vinegar and when I inquired as to why I would want to attract flies at all the whack to the side the head was not verbal.
What this has to do with anything I don’t know.

[mitch5501]

"Oddly enough, even from the time I was a new Christian....I never once considered the sacraments as it's being depicted by Rome...never even crossed my mind to consider. And at that period of my Christian walk i was “drinking” in the scriptures as often as I could take time for. “Like a deer pants for water.” The Lord revealed many truths then ..but never that these sacraments were more than remembering the great price Jesus made on my behalf."

Same here.Exactly the same.I came to the Bible as an atheist and I am,in a way, glad that I did.

I may be castigated for my YOIPOS but after all it is my backside in a cosmic sling.

[count-your-change]

Posters seem to be like alligators, born with a full set of teeth and ready to bite.

[Quix]

Oh, I don’t know that it’s reliably easy.

And the harvest is certainly far from 100%.

It’s just that some folks are quite immune to sugar and spice and everything nice.

Nevertheless, given the bleak other options, it’s a viable risk in behalf of souls and life and growth.

Winding down here.

God’s best to you and yours.

[count-your-change]

g’nite.