Posted on 01/24/2015 3:23:43 PM PST by NYer
I wish you understood how utterly sad that reply to Mark was. It shows a total lack of understanding of what a regenerated heart is or it’s desires. There is not a born again Christian ever that would entertain those thoughts.
“I don’t call Him Jesus anymore”
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace, Yeshua, Emmanuel, Anointed Savior, Son of the Most High, Lion of Judah, Star of Jacob, Son of David,the lamb of God.....
He has lots of names, but following the will of the Father who sent him into our world, he died for our sins that we might be reconciled to the Father. God is the WORD and Christ is that WORD made flesh which dwelt amongst us!
I heard a rumor, for each thousand posts on these threads, that someone gets a thousand years off their purgatory sentence. Do you hear that too?
I've actually heard Catholic joking about sinning and doing extra penance so they'll be OK. I'm sure you have too
Not only have I heard it, I practiced it. I was a reprobate in my younger years when I was a catholic. I enjoyed sinning at that time. Now that I have regenerated, I can not possibly enjoy sin the way I did when I was a catholic. Of course you know some of the things I can now get away with. I do not go to mass, and I get away with it. I do not confess to a priest, and I get away with it. I do not use holy water. I do not pray the rosary. I do not pray to the holy saints. I do not make the sign of the cross. I do not accept the sacraments. I believe Mary was blessed among women, then after Jesus was born, she gave birth to a bunch of kids. All these things I get away with. Can you think of anything else that I now get away with, that I couldn't get away with before? 😄😇🆒
Well, let's look at what some of your own Catholic Scholars have to say on the subject.
We cannot be positive whether this identification of the pope as being the Linus mentioned in II Timothy 4:21, goes back to an ancient and reliable source, or originated later on account of the similarity of the name (Kirsch J.P. Transcribed by Gerard Haffner. Pope St. Linus. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume IX. Copyright © 1910 by Robert Appleton Company. Online Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. Knight. Nihil Obstat, October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York).
Linus was chosen to be head of the community of Christians in Rome, after the death of the Apostle. For this reason his pontificate dates from the year of the death of the Apostles Peter and Paul, which, however, is not known for certain (Kirsch J.P. Transcribed by Gerard Haffner. Pope St. Linus. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume IX. Copyright © 1910 by Robert Appleton Company. Online Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. Knight. Nihil Obstat, October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York).
The "Liber Pontificalis" asserts that Linus's home was in Tuscany, and that his father's name was Herculanus; but we cannot discover the origin of this assertion. According to the same work on the popes, Linus is supposed to have issued a decree "in conformity with the ordinance of St. Peter", that women should have their heads covered in church. Without doubt this decree is apocryphal, and copied by the author of the "Liber Pontificalis" from the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians (11:5) and arbitrarily attributed to the first successor of the Apostle in Rome. The statement made in the same source, that Linus suffered martyrdom, cannot be proved and is improbable. For between Nero and Domitian there is no mention of any persecution of the Roman Church; and Irenaeus (1. c., III, iv, 3) from among the early Roman bishops designates only Telesphorus as a glorious martyr. Finally this book asserts that Linus after his death, was buried in the Vatican beside St. Peter. We do not know whether the author had any decisive reason for this assertion...There was nothing in the liturgical tradition of the fourth-century Roman Church to prove this, because it was only at the end of the second century that any special feast of martyrs was instituted and consequently Linus does not appear in the fourth-century lists of the feasts of the Roman saints...But from a manuscript of Torrigio's we see that on the sarcophagus in question there were other letters beside the word Linus, so that they rather belonged to some other name (such as Aquilinus, Anullinus). The place of the discovery of the tomb is a proof that it could not be the tomb of Linus (De Rossi, "Inscriptiones christianae urbis Romae", II, 23-7) (Kirsch J.P. Transcribed by Gerard Haffner. Pope St. Linus. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume IX. Copyright © 1910 by Robert Appleton Company. Online Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. Knight. Nihil Obstat, October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York).
Second Pope, and the first to be chosen in Rome, Italy. According to Irenaeus, he is the Linus mentioned by Saint Paul in 2 Timothy 4. His name is mentioned in the prayer “Communicantes” in the Canon of the Mass. Traditionally honoured as a martyr, though there is no certain documentation of this. Nothing else is known of his life, and ancient documents about his papacy have proven to be inaccurate or apocryphal. (Pope Saint Linus. saints.sqpn.com/saintl23.htm).
...the available evidence indicates that the church in Rome was led by a college of presbyters, rather than by a single bishop, for at least several decades of the second century (Sullivan F.A. From Apostles to Bishops: the development of the episcopacy in the early church. Newman Press, Mahwah (NJ), 2001, p. 80,221-222).
Linus's term of office, according to the papal lists handed down to us, lasted only twelve years. The Liberian Catalogue shows that it lasted twelve years, four months, and twelve days. The dates given in this catalogue, A.D. 56 until A.D. 67, are incorrect. Perhaps it was on account of these dates that the writers of the fourth century gave their opinion that Linus had held the position of head of the Roman community during the life of the Apostle (Kirsch J.P. Transcribed by Gerard Haffner. Pope St. Linus. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume IX. Copyright © 1910 by Robert Appleton Company. Online Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. Knight. Nihil Obstat, October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York).
The list that Irenaeus wrote about has been proven Biblically fraudulent starting even with the church in Rome being started by Paul and Peter as shown in the Catholic Encyclopedia. Speaking of Romans 15:20-22 it says.
Paul would have worded his Epistle otherwise, if the community addressed were even mediately indebted to his apostolate (Merk A. Transcribed by W.G. Kofron. Epistle to the Romans. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIII. Copyright © 1912 by Robert Appleton Company. Online Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. Knight. Nihil Obstat, February 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, D.D., Censor Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York).
Catholics who truly want the truth about the history of the Catholic Church and their voracity would do well to do a little study. They will find that the Catholic Church is based on fraudulent, spurious, apocryphal, and over all dubious documentation.
Old mosaic law?? And only the blood from meat sacrificed to itdols?? Are you kidding or do you not know what scripture says.?
Deuteronomy 12:22 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike. 23 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
That was anything they ate. And it's not just "old mosaic law" either.
Acts 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
It does NOT say blood from meat offered to idols, it says and from blood. The prohibition from eating blood remains. Christ would have been sinning by eating blood and encouraging others to do so.
That's fiction based on fraudulent and spurious documents, and historically proven falsehoods.
But if you repeat something often enough...
The white smoke is used when a new pope is selected.
Even when we have bad popes, Christ has stayed with His Church as He promised. Jesus is still with us and guiding us by the Holy Spirit.
You can either accept the teachings and the Catholic Church
based on the words of Jesus, or you can follow your own personal opinion or false teachings.
You and others may have made minor points about your position or opinion against the Catholic Church, but I haven’t seen anything of error in the teachings of the Catholic Church. Some things are mysteries, such as the Trinity and we accept this on Faith.
My hope is that eventually all will see the Truth of Jesus and follow Christ through the Catholic Church. And all that follow Jesus will join Him in Heaven.
And that the Catholic Church remains true to Jesus as One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
The whole Godhead?
Colosians 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
So your claiming the the whole Godhead died? And you propose to counter what scripture by saying He rose rather than was raised?
Acts 13:30 But God raised him from the dead:
Now, if the fullness of the Godhead died who was it that "raised Him from the dead"? Your position is rather untenable.
Kidding? No! He clearly stated that His words were spirit rather than physical. Now scripture also says those without the Spirit will not understand that.
1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Of course! The word at means the same thing as the word one! Silly dictionaries. Everyone should understand that Jesus was simply at the cross right?
It is true that in Revelation death is presented as a punishment for sin. However, the fact that the Church proclaims Mary free from original sin by a unique divine privilege does not lead to the conclusion that she also received physical immortality. The Mother is not superior to the Son who underwent death, giving it a new meaning and changing it into a means of salvation. Involved in Christ’s redemptive work and associated in his saving sacrifice, Mary was able to share in his suffering and death for the sake of humanity’s Redemption. What Severus of Antioch says about Christ also applies to her: “Without a preliminary death, how could the Resurrection have taken place?” (Antijulianistica, Beirut 1931, 194f.). To share in Christ’s Resurrection, Mary had first to share in his death. The New Testament provides no information on the circumstances of Mary’s death. This silence leads one to suppose that it happened naturally, with no detail particularly worthy of mention. If this were not the case, how could the information about it have remained hidden from her contemporaries and not have been passed down to us in some way? As to the cause of Mary’s death, the opinions that wish to exclude her from death by natural causes seem groundless. It is more important to look for the Blessed Virgin’s spiritual attitude at the moment of her departure from this world. In this regard, St Francis de Sales maintains that Mary’s death was due to a transport of love. He speaks of a dying “in love, from love and through love”, going so far as to say that the Mother of God died of love for her Son Jesus (Treatise on the Love of God, bk. 7, ch. XIII-XIV). Whatever from the physical point of view was the organic, biological cause of the end of her bodily life, it can be said that for Mary the passage from this life to the next was the full development of grace in glory, so that no death can ever be so fittingly described as a “dormition” as hers." ["General Audience - 25 June 1997, sections 3 and 4". Vatican.va. 1997-06-25.]
Every hear of the feast of Dormition?
The full Godhead right?
Colossians 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
So Mary was the mother of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit? Is that what you are saying?
You keep making the same irrelevant argument.
Christ ended the mosaic laws about eating. It is in the Bible look it up.
Can you not understand the difference in God’s gift to us with the “His Body and Blood”? Do you not distinguish between the “Body and Blood” of Jesus versus the blood of an animal that you slauhghter for eating?
Jesus told us directly to do this for our salvation. To me you are like the Pharisees that try to follow the strict laws of the Jews, but ignores the intentions of Jesus.
You keep calling Jesus a sinner for taking and giving us “His Body and Blood”.
Let try to understand your argument that it is against God’s law to eat blood. Can Jesus change that law with regard to “His Body and Blood”?
For those that believe in fiction it must be.
All based on fiction, fraudulent documents, corrupted scripture, and paganism. I'll pass.
No, He didn't say the physical flesh or the physical blood. He said that His words were spirit and that the flesh profits nothing. I suppose you also believe Jeremiah actually ate the physical scroll also?
>>Can Jesus change that law with regard to “His Body and Blood”?<<
And then the apostles change it back again after His ascension?
Acts 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Do you see any exceptions in that statement? It's preposterous to think that the apostles sent a letter to all the churches to tell them not to eat blood but then have them sit down and drink blood.
They may never have existed...Who gave out the list??? Eusebius???
Real church history tells us there was no pope for a long time after the church was started...Therefore, no successors...
I’ll pass.
That seems to be obvious from all your postings.
Do you not wish to answer the questions?
I respect that you have tried share your positions as I have tried to share the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Are you a former Catholic?
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