Posted on 12/08/2012 2:24:39 PM PST by NYer
“Therein lies the problem as I see it.”
Exactly, as you see it. Most of Christendom for 2,100 years have understood this, you do not. Sorry. But then again you have stated you believe ALL Catholics are idolaters, the celebration of Easter is PAGAN and have many other odd, out of the mainstream, even cultic beliefs.
The reality of the Apostles and their God Given Authority trumps cultic beliefs and practice.
My soul magnifies the Lord,
And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.
For He has regarded the low estate of His handmaiden,
For behold, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
For He who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name. And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with His arm:
He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
and exalted those of low degree.
He has filled the hungry with good things;
and the rich He has sent empty away.
He has helped His servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy;
As He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to His posterity forever.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen
Magníficat ánima mea Dóminum,
et exsultávit spíritus meus
in Deo salvatóre meo,
quia respéxit humilitátem
ancíllæ suæ.
Ecce enim ex hoc beátam
me dicent omnes generatiónes,
quia fecit mihi magna,
qui potens est,
et sanctum nomen eius,
et misericórdia eius in progénies
et progénies timéntibus eum.
Fecit poténtiam in bráchio suo,
dispérsit supérbos mente cordis sui;
depósuit poténtes de sede
et exaltávit húmiles.
Esuriéntes implévit bonis
et dívites dimísit inánes.
Suscépit Ísrael púerum suum,
recordátus misericórdiæ,
sicut locútus est ad patres nostros,
Ábraham et sémini eius in sæcula.
Glória Patri et Fílio
et Spirítui Sancto.
Sicut erat in princípio,
et nunc et semper,
et in sæcula sæculórum.
Amen.
She became the Mother of God, in which work so many and such great good things are bestowed on her as pass man’s understanding. For on this there follows all honor, all blessedness, and her unique place in the whole of mankind, among which she has no equal, namely, that she had a child by the Father in heaven, and such a Child . . . Hence men have crowded all her glory into a single word, calling her the Mother of God . . . None can say of her nor announce to her greater things, even though he had as many tongues as the earth possesses flowers and blades of grass: the sky, stars; and the sea, grains of sand. It needs to be pondered in the heart what it means to be the Mother of God.
(Commentary on the Magnificat, 1521; in Luther’s Works, Pelikan et al, vol. 21, 326)
Thank you. I indexed in my profile a few posts on mine on this thread, and included this one as well.
It can't be as this body is corrupted by sin and is perishable. It cannot be in the presence of a holy God.
The verses you posted actually prove you wrong.
1 Corinthians 15:42-54 42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 55 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
God isn't just reforming old bodies, He's replacing them with new bodies which do not sin, can not sin, are not corrupted with and by sin, bodies which can handle being in the presence of a holy God.
Who in their right mind would want to be stuck with their old body for eternity anyway? Count me out of that one. I can't wait for the new model.
OK.
πρεσβυτερος = priest
επισκοπος = bishop
function of the elder in a Protestant church is not the same as the priest
Indeed. His function is to lie about the gospel real fast, and for hours at a time.
LOL Nice try. Not by anyone other than the Catholic Church and that only to bolster their justification of erroneous hierarchy in their own organization. Priest in scripture is not use for church leadership in the New Testament.
Untill Catholic stop using the RCC as their only source they will never see truth.
LOL Nice try. Not by anyone other than the Catholic Church and that only to bolster their justification of erroneous hierarchy in their own organization. Priest in scripture is not use for church leadership in the New Testament.
To honor and glorify God.
What happens if we don’t?
God is not honored and glorified and we lose any reward that we could have had when we get to heaven.
Also, God disciplines those who disobey.
Hebrew 12:3-11 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. 4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5 And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?
“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. 6 For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
7 It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
10 For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness. 11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Well, you can say both are correct but what is evident by what has been said by both is that both cannot be correct and that is the point you haven’t addressed.
You haven’t addressed the question of Paul’s contrasting the physical body with the spiritual body. They are not the same.
You haven’t addressed the question of how a destroyed body of flesh would be taken into heaven.
You haven’t explained how Paul’s words at 1 Cor. 15:50 should be understood if these Councils are correct.
It’s impossible to reconcile the statements of these councils with the Scriptures but since they’re “infallible” make the Scriptures fit the councils?
Let Paul speak as he was inspired by God to do: “Flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s kingdom”.
What is it that I do not understand?
That’s meaningless.
It’s just something someone made up.
It proves nothing.
I remember being in high school before I heard of the concept of going directly to Jesus, and it was a totally foreign concept to me. I just could not imagine that one could go directly to Him without going through the church or priests or whatever.
Neither did I believe that He was interested in the little details of my life and would answer prayer about them. There was no concept of a personal relationship with Him.
It’s obvious the struggle we have here is that the Catholics put the RCC over scripture. That’s evidenced by them using RCC “interpretations” and “explanations” ad nausea without consideration for what scripture really says. They post sources from the RCC as if that is scripture. It’s obvious to me that they indeed believe the RCC trumps scripture.
It seems that you are not familiar with these debates that have going on for so long, usually in response to the incessant promotion of Rome or information about her, and in which narses often has posted her YOIS picture (besides other cut and paste assertions) in lieu of an actual argument that interacts with material. Only in the last few days have i seen the RIOS image which came from it in response to our fatigue.
And as this thread and yourself have illustrated, RCs also engage in their own personal interpretations of both Scripture nd Rome.
Muslim: “I thought there would be only Muslims here, and that the Christians would be in Hell. But now that I see what the Christians said is true, why am I not in Hell?”
Well, other RCs have their interpretations, , but that is one way to interpret
"that no one, whatever almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name of Christ, can be saved, unless he has remained in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church." (Pope Eugene IV, Cantate Domino, Bull promulgated on February 4, 1441 (Florentine style), proclaimed "ex cathedra" (infallible). http://www.catholicism.org/pages/florence.htm
Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam: “We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff."
Which is true and addressed in the book of Hebrews.
Hebrews 9:24-28 24 For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. 25 Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, 26 for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, 28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
Hebrews 10:1-18 For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? 3 But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5 Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; 6 in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. 7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”
8 When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), 9 then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. 10 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13 waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
15 And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying, 16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,” 17 then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.” 18 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
So what kind of sacrifice does God want from us?
Psalm 51:16-17 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Romans 12:1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Hebrews 13:15-16 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
There is no need for priests for those kinds of sacrifices, which are really the kind God wants from us.
“It’s obvious the struggle we have here is that the Catholics put the RCC over scripture”
Cultic practices often lead to confusion so it is understandable that you say such false things.
It’s becoming clearer as time goes on that the reliance on scripture alone as the ultimate authority is paramount. Even Rome is having difficulty agreeing with itself it seems.
Well duh! Of course Catholic practices lead to confusion. And if you think what I said was false show from scripture were the assumption of Mary is taught so that we can all see that the RCC got that from scripture and didn’t propose to claim superiority over scripture.
” Of course Catholic practices lead to confusion. “
Only to the Spiritually blind.
As for what you say being false, it is so on the face - or have you forgotten all of the very odd beliefs that you have posted here?
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