Posted on 01/27/2015 7:20:38 PM PST by millegan
God acts in mysterious ways. That truth is made particularly evident in the types of things he does with those who are especially close to him.
Here are a few saints who totally had superpowers:
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No wait....your getting confused. It’s Mary who told St. Catherine that she, St. Catherine, became the wife of Christ so then I don’t know where that leaves the “church” who is the “bride of Christ”. Either way it looks like we have a case of polygamy going on.
Come to Christ our one mediator ... Come boldly to the throne for mercy and grace !
Who argues against that???????
yeah, I hate it when educated nobel laureates describe their eyewitness accounts of events....you almost have to believe them ......or appear REALLY STUPID....we don't want that now, do we???
He can even devise a way to establish thousands of ?????denominations to act against the church that Christ established.....very sad, but true.
and indeed they did...We have Luther, Storch, Munzer, Henry VIII, Simons, Calvin, Knox, Holland, Smyth, Jones, Fox, Amman, Wesley, London, Otterbein, etc, etc, etc, etc, ad infanitum.
yeah, O.K. .....chuckle, chuckle......
oh brother...
Hey, don't forget that "other Christ" er vicar of Christ. I think scripture refers to him as anti Christ doesn't it?
And there's the fundamental problem with catholicism. Following a church instead of following Christ. There is a difference.
I've not found this in the Bible. What I found is Genesis 3:1-7:
The Fall of ManThe rest of your post is interesting, but the logic you've laid out is confusing to me and my limited understanding.1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made.
He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.'"
4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman.
5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Thanks for trying to help me out by answering the questions in my post.
So she's the daughter of God, the mother and wife of Jesus and the wife of the Holy Spirit?
I guess that, to you, Jesus was just some radical, hippie rabblerouser who died, and that was that, until some cultists started claiming he was the Son of God.
Not sure what direction your sarcasm is pointed in but it doesn’t much matter to me either way. I just choose to grain-of-salt this whole article.
There’s simply no way that anyone can figure out how you got from.....
“I thought Catholics called Mary the *Spouse of the Holy Spirit*.... So she’s the daughter of God, the mother and wife of Jesus and the wife of the Holy Spirit?”
to......
“I guess that, to you, Jesus was just some radical, hippie rabblerouser who died, and that was that, until some cultists started claiming he was the Son of God.”
>I've not found this in the Bible. What I found is Genesis 3:1-7:
My apologies, my aim was off. It was Eve who misquoted God about the touching in Genesis 3:3. Before that, the snake's misquote was in Genesis 3:1 "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?". Satan misquoted God and then Eve corrected the misquote, but misquoted God herself.
It makes me wonder with Adam and Eve, who added the touching restriction. Did Adam add the restriction when he taught Eve? Did Eve add the restriction when she was challenged by the snake?
Satan tried the same tactic with Jesus, but Jesus defended himself by correctly quoting and interpreting the scriptures.
Catechism in the true faith is important.
About the rest of my logic, I am not impressed with reports of miracles and wonders. I understand the faith and would not change my mind because of a miracle.
With my cynical nature, I would be more likely to think a miracle was demonic in order to lead me away. What need does faith have of miracles? Doubting Thomas needed to see and touch, but blessed are those who don't see and still believe.
As a non-religious person, Catholocism is the one subset of Christianity that most resembles idolatry.
However, I do understand cynicism and a doubting Thomas nature. It's hard for me to view current and past American and world politics, or human nature and behavior for that matter, without a healthy dose of both.
However, I am more like a child with regard to miracles and the supernatural have come to accept the many Biblical miracles, from the talking donkey to Jonah and the whale, as written, with no doubts or need to test God any more.
I realize that statement might be a bit naive, but I'm okay with that. God is limitless to me and I know He has never stopped sending His prophets to us nor stopped His miracles.
These last few years have changed my perspective and moved my point of view to a different place where the view is better. Now I can see things more clearly than before.
I also know this spot is nowhere near the best view, just better than my old one.
Thanks again for what you've posted.
Who knows?
The H2 channel is setting them up for it!
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