The Neverending Story (The Christian Chronicles)

Associated Press ^ | 3/24/01

[malakhi]

The Neverending Story
An ongoing debate on Scripture, Tradition, History and Interpretation.

Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue. - John Adams

Previous Thread

[SoothingDave]

Piazza met the Pope recently. How he delighted to hear "God Bless Michael Piazza, the baseball player" from him.

SD

[malakhi]

Cretinhood is not thrust upon anybody.

Some men are born cretins, some achieve cretinhood, and some have cretinhood thrust upon them. ;o)

At the rate we are going, we'll reach #65,536 sometime in August.

Maybe I'll name the next thread "Cretinous Heresy Lovefest 2004". ;o)

[SoothingDave]

I bet you like Rush, are you a ditto head?

I don't get to listen very often, but if I'm in a car around then, yeah I'll listen. Why do you ask?

SD

[SoothingDave]

What about your daughter and you check?

I'm afraid I didn't understand the question. Yes, I'd love my daughter no matter what.

I was trying to say something outrageously wrong about Baptists, by way of comparison. I guess I failed.

If I said Baptists believed that you need to get baptised three times a day in the Chatahoche river or you'll burn in hell, would you trust me as an expert on Baptists?

SD

[SoothingDave]

As is Smallville.

Small potatoes. I see your Stars decided to play this series after all.

SD

[SoothingDave]

Some men are born cretins, some achieve cretinhood, and some have cretinhood thrust upon them. ;o)

And sometimes you take a potty break and come back to find you've been elected "cretin."

SD

[biblewonk]

As great a role as we do assign her, please note that it is her humanity that we emphasize and her subordination to her son.

Yeah except for all the times you/they say that Jesus must honor his Mother. Jesus seems to be bound by His own law to be subordinate to her in many RC documents. These types of writings fly in the face of the anti-Marian verses where He distances Himself from her in almost every conceiveable way.

[malakhi]

[JHavard]

#2, everyone here has a free will choice to believe what is said or not. Cretinhood is not thrust upon anybody.

Everyone has a free will, that is except you RC's, you have that box you all must fit into, remember? :-)

JH :-)

[SoothingDave]

Everyone has a free will, that is except you RC's, you have that box you all must fit into, remember? :-)

Ah, but we are free to fit in the box, or to go to hell.

You will ahve to try much harder to get on my list. LOL

SD

[SoothingDave]

Yeah except for all the times you/they say that Jesus must honor his Mother.

I didn't realize you guys had dropped that one from the Ten Commandments.

Jesus seems to be bound by His own law to be subordinate to her in many RC documents.

Please provide one example.

SD

[malakhi]

Piazza met the Pope recently. How he delighted to hear "God Bless Michael Piazza, the baseball player" from him.

I just had a great idea! John Paul II resigns to become commissioner of baseball. Then drstevej is elevated to the chair of Peter, and throws out the first pitch in the Cardinals-Padres series in Rome.

[newgeezer]

If Selig has a sense of humor, he'll schedule a series between the Cardinals and the Padres. ;o)

And establish BigMac(k) Land in the upper deck, just inside the left field foul pole.

[SoothingDave]

Supposedly Yogi Berra met the pope and said they had a lot in common - they both used to be Cardinals.

SD

[JHavard]

Depends if you believe that God punishes sinners while forgiving them or not I guess. When your daughter tore up your pay check you probably spanked her butt but I bet you didn't call CPS and say come get her, I don't want her any more.

Wait until you get to know him a little better CD, you might change your mind on that. :-)

JH (^g^)

[RobbyS]

It seems to me that what you call the antiMarian remarks are actually addressed to his kinsmen, and the message is that his disciples are his real family. But who was the first of those disciples? The one who was at once his mother and his creature; his teacher and his disciple.

[biblewonk]

I didn't realize you guys had dropped that one from the Ten Commandments.

"Who is my mother?"

[SoothingDave]

"Who is my mother?"

There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the Maples want more sunlight
And the Oaks ignore their pleas

SD

[Mr. Lucky]

As with many things, conservative Lutheran churches fall somewhere between the Catholic church and Protestant churches concerning the veneration of Mary.

Luke 1:39-45 seems unambiguous. Are there really verses of Scripture which some believe support a repudiation by Jesus of His mother?

[JHavard]

That Catholics do not teach that John's baptism was efficacious. Why does our exper on Catholics miss such a simple thing?

Why do you trust him to tell you the truth when on simple matters he fails?

You tell your people that NC's believe that Eternal Salvation means we don't have to do good works. should that disqualify everything else you say?

Is this being "dirty" on my part? Is my tongue nasty?

Your only doing what comes naturally Dave, donworryaboutdt. :-)

JH