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To: MarkBsnr; smvoice; metmom; boatbums
>>The entire book of Acts is lost upon you? Paul's Epistles are lost upon you?<<

Nope. Not at all.

Acts 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh:

Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Hmmm, not just the Apostles!

Then in Acts 4 we find that it’s the priests and other leaders of the people who try to stop the truth about Jesus being preached even as it is today in the RCC.

Acts 4:1 And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, 2 Being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.

Acts 4:15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves, 16 Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it. 17 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. 18 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.

Even today Catholics would try to stop people from speaking the truth of scripture.

It’s the hierarchy that has always tried to stop the common man from understanding truth and proclaiming it. They try to keep the power to themselves even as the RCC does today.

Acts 5:27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, 28 Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. 29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

You see, we do use and understand that Acts of the Apostles. And we will say with Peter and the other Apostles “We ought to obey God rather than men”.

524 posted on 11/26/2011 8:41:54 AM PST by CynicalBear
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To: CynicalBear; MarkBsnr

>>>>>Even today Catholics would try to stop people from speaking the truth of scripture.

False.


526 posted on 11/26/2011 8:46:12 AM PST by Judith Anne (For rhe sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us, and on the whole world.)
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To: CynicalBear
I find your works of fiction to be oddly refreshing in the morass of antiCatholicism.

We never said that the Holy Spirit did not come on men. Why would you say that we do not?

We are also the Christian Church, not the Jewish one. Why do you conflate the two?

As you post, I do not find any understanding of the Holy Spirit, or the Church of Jesus Christ. I do find prooftexting that would seem to point to the establishment of the doctrines of whatever I come up with this afternoon.

568 posted on 11/26/2011 1:07:41 PM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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