Posted on 07/14/2013 3:02:43 PM PDT by NYer
Someone already mentioned Revelation 5:8.
This makes no sense to me... that's why a specific example would be helpful to me.
Elsie, Luke 9 tells us that Jesus initiated the communication. As for the terminology “pray”, the proper definition means to address a request.
No, it's a bad thing when people keep repeating untruths even when they have been corrected MULTIPLE times. Luther's German translation of the Bible left out NONE of the books Catholics insist are Scripture. Do you need that link again?
Maybe I just lack curiosity about other posters backgrounds.
But then again FR is a discussion forum. not a dating service.
Lol!
So the question is should we be praying to anyone (or anything) that is not truly holy?
(BTW-Great post) ;O)
The nonsense is relying on the Greek translation.
The context if the chapter was the provision of Deacons serving the synogogue. Deacons do not serve the entire body of believers, they served the synogogue.
Gotta love that pagan twisting and turning!
Contacting the dead is necromancy.
Well, at least we are honest about what church we belong to, making it easy to make the argument,
“Hey guyz you must support child abuse” which protestants have actually already said. Apparently we’ve never heard that old canard again.
Protestants seem to believe that it’s more honest TO NEVER REVEAL what church they actually belong to. Why, I don’t know.
So, balls in your court. :) Or are all of you in one person ‘unique flower churches’?
“Our church is the Kingdom of God”
Which somehow includes all of you but magically excludes Catholics like a forcefield that says ‘not christian’.
Some would call it theology. Some would call it prejudice.
>> “I’m curious if they would claim all of the popes are in heaven?” <<
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I am abundantly confident that NONE of them are.
I’m sure that there are individual believers from thye RC church that will finf Yehova’s rest, but it is impossible that one of the nicolaitans would.
That’s your standard, not mine.
Where’s the justification for your beliefs that X is bad?
Where’s the statements from Church fathers that X is bad?
Oh, that’s right, your fathers believe that Catholics are the whore of Babylon which automatically makes everything we do wrong. We’re supposed to magically believe that if the Bible says nothing about it that the Catholic church is automatically wrong. Odd that, eh?
“Hey guyz you must support child abuse” which protestants have actually already said. Apparently we’ve never heard that old canard again.
Protestants seem to believe that it’s more honest TO NEVER REVEAL what church they actually belong to. Why, I don’t know.
So, balls in your court. :)
What specific parish do you attend? What times, on what days, do you attend? What pew do you sit in, when you attend? When did you last make confession?
“I am abundantly confident that NONE of them are.”
Apparently St. Peter doesn’t meet your high standard.
Do you believe it’s possible for a Roman Catholic to believe in God?
I attend St. Ignatius’ parish in Austin, although by Territorial boundaries (as I recently moved) put me in Holy Cross.
I usually go to the 5pm service unless I’ve got things to do that day, when I go to the 11.30 service.
You can find me about pew 6 or 7 in the middle, or in the left-most pew 6 or 7 back.
I last confessed the 30th of June.
Ok - now you’re up!
Peter never had anything to do with the papacy, it was created centuries after he died.
‘FWIW, I don’t belong to a “church”,’
Quel surprise.
Who was the first pope then?
“God has always had a faithful witness outside of Rome”
And your church is just magically connected with whomever was ‘not Rome’ at any particular time?
That’s awfully, ‘convenient’ I must say.
15 hundred years and you claim succession from whomever was ‘not Rome’.
You know what that smells like to me? Prejudice. A mystical barrier that separates ‘Catholic’ from ‘Christian’.
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