Posted on 09/17/2013 8:25:21 PM PDT by jodyel
I said to pick up a bucket of WINGS on your way home!
“It is impossible for Christ to be bodily present in thousands of Catholic Churches around the world.
you have to be kidding....God can create the universe and He can”t be present in more than one place at a time.........think about what you said.”
First of all, I didn’t write that to which you responded.
Secondly, the person who did write that wrote the word “bodily.” You didn’t respond to that which you quoted, but chose to ignore the word “bodily” and replied with the doctrine of “omnipresence”, which is a view of the nature of God over which no orthodox Christian would disagree.
I imagine the same way that ALL women are virgins; until...
SORRY!
I left off the Catholic Head Exploding alert!
SURE He does...
It IS tragic that Satan, working in part through the foolishness of Catholicism, has deceived a majority of Catholics in that fashion.
It keeps THEM from roaming the street; so it ought to do the same for PROTESTants.
>> “And, as one might expect, you completely failed to understand the plain meaning of those words.” <<
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Your haughty, arrogant personal attack shows that it is your understanding that is undeveloped.
We will be ‘born again’ into our new bodies at the Last Trump at Yom Teruah, at the First Resurrection.
Yeshua made it sufficiently clear that we need our new body to enter the kingdom, thus we must be born again.
I hear ya!
Give ME FULL malice any day!
“read your bible, look at it, touch it, memorize it.......where do you think it came from...”
God can use an ass to speak to us, but that doesn’t mean the ass is saved.
Having noted so, there are many Protestants who are going to be shocked at the number of Roman Catholics they see in heaven...if those same self-righteous Protestants even get there.
IOW, the character of Christ being formed in us.
Well, even if you really don't know, history tells us.
It's called the *Inquisition*.
Luther had no choice about leaving the Catholic church. They ex-communicated him.
Thank you for sharing your insights, dear sister in Christ!
“That is what the Lords Supper, or communion, is all about. To remember that Christ died for our sins.”
Actually, most Christians do not know the symbolism behind the cup from which Christ told His disciples to drink anyway. Research the Jewish betrothal ritual. You will find the symbolic meaning behind the cup at the Last Supper in that.
The bread and wine date to before there even were Jews.
It is the blessing that the MelekZedek bestowed upon Abraham. That is what is meant when it says the “he blessed it...”
“Blessed be Yehova Elohim, King of the Universe, who brings forth bread and wine from the Earth.”
The bread and wine date to before there even were Jews.
It is the blessing that the MelekZedek bestowed upon Abraham. That is what is meant when it says the he blessed it...
Blessed be Yehova Elohim, King of the Universe, who brings forth bread and wine from the Earth.
Yes, but the significance of what Christ was asking them to do by taking the cup is reflected in the Jewish rite of betrothal, when the groom sets a cup before his bride, fills it with wine, and asks her to drink from it. If she does, they are betrothed to be joined in marriage. If she refuses the cup, they are not.
This motif is repeated throughout the New Testament in Paul’s letters as well as Revelation.
Be careful that you not cause one too loose faith who is where GOD called them to be. If the Holy Spirit lead you to be Baptist, Charismatic, Catholic, whatever then it is wise to obey. If The Holy Spirit calls one to leave one church and go elsewhere it is also wise to obey. What is not wise is to destroy even what little faith someone else may have and cause them to fall.
The Protestant vs Catholic family feud is a waste of time. It gets even more ridiculous when even same denominations try and persuade a member of their own denomination to leave the church they are at and come to theirs as it is somehow better.
Luke ch9 49John said to Jesus, Master, we saw someone using your name to cast out demons. We tried to stop him because he isnt in our group. 50But Jesus said, Dont stop him! Anyone who is not against you is for you.
Mark Ch 9 38John said to Jesus, Teacher, we saw a man using your name to cast out demons, but we told him to stop because he isnt one of our group. 39Dont stop him! Jesus said. No one who performs miracles in my name will soon be able to speak evil of me. 40Anyone who is not against us is for us. 41If anyone gives you even a cup of water because you belong to the Messiah, I assure you, that person will be rewarded.
Wow, well arent you just the smartest boy in the class?!
You should try to keep your insecurities out of theological discussions.
No believer would speak like that to a fellow believer.
Nonsense. The first two Spiritual Works of Mercy are admonishing the sinner and instructing the ignorant.
There is the Catholic arrogance
There is that insecurity again. One thing, at least, youve made clear. You dont hate the Church because of theological differences. You hate her because you feel small and ignorant when you allow yourself to contemplate her glory as the supernatural bride of Christ.
You just gave away what you truly are, dsc....a Catholic snob.
The term Catholic snob is an oxymoron. What I am is an intellectual snob, and that snobbery is in direct opposition to Catholicism, which calls us to humility.
Though I am, lamentably, still something of an intellectual snob, I do not look down upon the stupid. I look down upon the willfully ignorant, whose ignorance allows them to think themselves wise.
It takes absolutely no sophistication or great intellect at all to understand the simple message of the Gospel...even a little child can understand.
A child can understand on a childs level, but an adult can understand on an adults plane: a deeper, more sophisticated understanding. Some few, those in whom is combined intelligence, wisdom, scholarship, and holiness, can understand on levels utterly inaccessible to their inferiors. Saints Alphonsus Liguori, Thomas Aquinas, and Augustine leap to mind.
The rest of us can only read their works and follow them in understanding as far as is given to us.
Many Protestantsnot allmake a fetish of insisting that a childs understanding is the only understanding. They have to, really, because there would otherwise be no excuse for failing to seek, or at least to desire, a more mature understanding.
Seems that is the kind of thing the Pharisees might have said
Uh, yeah, you need to look more deeply into Our Lords criticisms of Pharisees.
I stand by what I said before...no true believer stays in a Catholic church once born again.
And you wag your finger at others and call them arrogant. Astounding.
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