Posted on 09/17/2013 8:25:21 PM PDT by jodyel
And preterists believe that Satan is now bound also. Oh, and Nero was the anti-Christ even though he died two years before the destruction of Jerusalem. The Preterists are so off base with scripture and history its dificult to believe anyone with any sense at all would believe what they teach. We used to have a bunch of them here but don’t see many of them any more. I suppose scripture started to embaress them to much.
Well, I guess we know what you use for your beliefs rather than scripture. Ive got news for you. Josephus was not inspired by the Holy Spirit and his views of the Jews and their beliefs is rather like listening to the MSM about the beliefs of Christians. He was a traitor to the Jews and the only survivor of a pact to commit suicide at Jotapata. To take his word for Jewish belief is risky at best.
We need not shrink from admitting that candles, like incense and lustral water, were commonly employed in pagan worship and the rites paid to the dead. But the Church from a very early period took them into her service, just as she adopted many other things indifferent in themselves, which seemed proper to enhance the splendor of religious ceremonial. We must not forget that most of these adjuncts to worship, like music, lights, perfumes, ablutions, floral decorations, canopies, fans, screens, bells, vestments etc. were not identified with any idolatrous cult in particular; but they were common to almost all cults (Catholic Encyclopedia, III, 246.)
When we give or receive Christmas gifts; or hang green wreaths in our homes and churches, how many of us know that we are probably observing pagan customs...the god, Woden, in Norse Mythology, descends upon the earth yearly between December 25th and January 6th to bless mankind...But pagan though they be, they are beautiful customs. They help inspire us with the spirit of 'good will to men', even as the sublime service of our Church reminds us of the peace on earth which the babe of Bethlehem came to bestow (Externals of the Catholic Church, 140).
Catholics cant deny that the RCC has incorporated pagan practices into its practices. The RCC itself admits that it does.
You've changed your story:
The faithful city was Jerusalem. The harlot of Revelation 17
Sorry; but my lyin' eyes trump this.
Whole lotta stuff in this claim.
Cute!
Can you enlighten me as to what happened?
Mary is still dead.
Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm. A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
Daniel 12:2
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
I dont know either. Maybe someone who knows can enlighten us.
Yep!!! Thats Israel. Mary is still dead.
The “more’ is not much more.
He was reading the NT, sitting in a rear pew of the church, is all he told anyone that he was doing.
“No. Israels people were, and this is whom the prophecy is directed against: the priesthood (harlot) and the people.
You’ve changed your story:
The faithful city was Jerusalem. The harlot of Revelation 17”
Nice attempt to twist my words and take them out of context. How dishonest of you.
“Sorry; but my lyin’ eyes trump this.”
It’s OK. The Jews of Jesus’ day were looking for something in a Messiah their lyin’ eyes could understand, too.
They didn’t get it. Nor, apparently, do you.
>> “You know nothing about me or what I belong to...” <<
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I know what you have posted to be your beliefs, and to the minutest detail they are the beliefs of the false cult of Replacement Theology.
This cult will guide millions through the broad gate to destruction.
It is revealing that you consider analysis of your posts as attacks.
So are you a Seventh Day Adventist?
“Well, I guess we know what you use for your beliefs rather than scripture.”
Josephus confirms the truth of Jesus’s words. You deny them.
“Ive got news for you. Josephus was not inspired by the Holy Spirit...”
The money-grubbing cabal of so-called Bible teachers and fiction writers that push the junk theology of Dispensationalism and Futurism are not either, yet you appear to believe them.
Go figure.
“We used to have a bunch of them here but dont see many of them any more.”
I suspect it’s owing more to the Brown-shirt tactics of people, like you, who engage in relentless personal attacks rather than rational discussion.
You know you’re over the target when the flak gets heavy, and the flak is always heaviest whenever preterists threaten the comfortable, albeit wrong, teachings and interpretations of the dispensationalists and futurists.
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