Well played.
Posted on 07/27/2022 9:49:29 PM PDT by fidelis
We get it. It's hard to read the divinely inspired word of the creator of the universe. He's so judgy! But, since your salvation might depend on it, you better get some great excuses ready to share on Judgment Day.
Here are some of the best excuses for not reading your Bible:
1. You just went to church last month and don't want to overdo it: You don't want to be an extremist!
2. It's not as encouraging as Your Best Life Now: Joel Osteen's prose is to die for.
3. If you take your eye off the Hot Pocket you're microwaving for one second it might burn: And then you'd be hungry! God wouldn't want that.
4. You already watched The Chosen: It's so hard to get into a good book if you already know how it ends.
5. Those 900 Korok seeds in Zelda: Breath of the Wild aren't going to collect themselves: Finding Korok seeds is a metaphor for finding Christ probably.
6. You're Donald Trump and don't need forgiveness: He has never done anything wrong, ever.
7. You're still recovering from the story of Ehud: Enough to give anyone PTSD.
8. You misplaced your copy and new ones are so hard to find: You have to walk all the way to the back of Barnes & Noble.
9. The Jordan Peterson lecture on Genesis you watched has you covered: Up yours woke moralists! We'll see who cancels who from paradise!
20. It's not like the Bible is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work, or anything like that: 'Cause if it were, you'd definitely meditate on it day and night.
Come now, Elsie!
Please be polite.
A very archangel deferred respectfully to Mary, addressing her formally as “Full of Grace”.
I’m not just whistling Dixie here.
When you begin to write under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit like St Paul, you can be as snarky as you wish. Until then, unless you are going to carry on a polite conversation like an adult and a Christian, please don’t address me. I’m too old to be baited and too experienced in dealing with belligerent people to allow my time and good will to be wasted. Please see my tagline. Repeat as necessary.
Well played.
Of course. But if you do, don’t bother spamming a page of material or proof-texting verses like some people on this (and other threads) or multiple posts and expect me to address it all. If there is a question or questions you have, let’s discuss them one at a time like fellow rational Christians of good will. Otherwise, I promise you I will ignore them. I don’t want you to waste your time (or mine) typing out a bunch of stuff (or copying and pasting) just have me ignore it. I’m always happy to charitably discuss the Faith but have no patience for such polemic tactics.
There’s no scriptural evidence or proof for the claim that Mary was sinless, is there?
We’ll find out when the person I’m chatting with this about gets back to me. I’m not stupid enough to engage four people at once. Been around too long for that.
Regarding, "...I do not ascribe..."
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)
((Honestly, I don't care what you ascribe to or don't ascribe to. I pity your students.))
1 Pet 1:19 Jesus is called “a lamb without blemish or defect.”
1 Pet 2:22 Peter uses Isaiah’s words to rightly describe Jesus: “He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.”
John 3:5 about Jesus, that “in him is no sin.”
Cor 5:21 Paul writes (under inspiration) that “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us.”
Heb 4:15 the writer says that in Jesus “we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.”
One of the solid, inviolable theological foundations for God's gracious forgiveness relies on the sinlessness of his Son, Jesus Christ. Our redemption rests upon Christ's sinless life and substitutionary death.
When Catholics claim that Mary was also sinless, they open the possibility that Jesus was not the only one suited to pay the price that we could not pay.
This makes the teaching that Mary was sinless antithetical to orthodoxy. To teach it is error.
Anyone who teaches this is working in opposition to God’s plan of salvation.
Regarding traditions, I don’t care if you have a tradition of playing BINGO on Thursday or Friday, I don't care if you kneel on hardwood or a well-padded kneeler - it makes no difference. But regarding who can serve as the sinless Lamb of God and and pay that no other human can, THAT is a matter of importance.
Snarky?
yes.
You already didn't answer, so I don't care if you don't answer again. But you WILL answer some day.
James 3:1
See my tagline. Repeat as necessary.
Ah ah ah.
The Apostle Paul states, “Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.”
Snark is our moral and Christian duty, in spite of the finger-wagging claims otherwise!
“Let your speech always be gracious and seasoned with wisdom, so that you will know how to respond properly to all.” (Colossians 4:6)
“There’s no scriptural evidence or proof for the claim that Mary was sinless, is there?”
No. There isn’t.
It’s hearsay.
Well, when you make comments that can easily be disproved or refuted with Catholic sources and comments and yet refuse to read them, it is a very good indicator that you are actually interested in the truth about the matter.
The other option is to make unfounded assertions that are then dismissed as anecdotal and therefore meaningless.
It is then a lose/lose situation in attempting to prove my point to a Catholic.
The other option is to make unfounded assertions that are then dismissed as anecdotal and therefore meaningless.
It is then a lose/lose situation in attempting to prove my point to a Catholic.
I've done none of these things, nor would I. All I did was request to discuss things like adult Christians and not engage in verse slinging or spamming which are common tactics of people engaging in crude polemics. Is that really so hard? Do you have so little faith in what you believe you feel constrained if you can't engage in a normal conversation? That would be very sad.
I'm still willing to chat with you about these things, but if you are unwilling or unable to discuss things civilly or charitably, that is up to you, but that means, unfortunately, our conversation is at it's end. Have a blessed evening.
I am under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious accusations.
It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’
Well, you're just engaging in verse slinging - a common tactic, with you, isn't it?
It is Taught, ‘Man cannot live by bread alone, but ALSO by every word that comes from the Chair of Peter and some utterings by unnamed apparitions; too.’
(And be sure not to neglect or forget any beating heart Hosts!)
Faith comes through hearing.
Roman chapter 10.
The church has teaching authority. Bible alone is a Protestant tradition.
Remember that we compiled the canon of the Bible from all of the books floating around claiming to be scripture. There is no list of books in the Bible itself. You already rely on the teachings of the Catholic Church by referring back to our book.
LOL @ “..:books floating around..:”
You people!
… just like the nuns.
Therefore, bible alone is not enough.
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