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101 | looking for specific scriptures that tel | NT general Archive 1 | flinkywood | 117193 | ||
Aniset, JW "beliefs" are anti-Christian. Your "job" is anti-Christian, along with the "words" you "preach". For a JW to actively recruit young Christians in a Christian forum is disgusting. Colin |
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102 | looking for specific scriptures that tel | NT general Archive 1 | flinkywood | 117201 | ||
Hi, Sir Pent. Thanks for your comment. The post I was referring to is ID# 115810. I'd like you take on that particular exchange. Colin |
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103 | looking for specific scriptures that tel | NT general Archive 1 | flinkywood | 117297 | ||
Sir Pent, For starters, let's imagine a scene: Exterior, Church, Sunday Morning. A GIRL, 17, approaches a Church Door. A MAN meets her at the door. They are alone. MAN: "Good morning, welcome to our little church... Oh, you're a new Christian, wonderful! I bet you have lots of questions... Good! 'In order to get the full understanding of what Jesus has done for us it takes time, an open mind and the willingness to learn (ID# 115810)...' I can help you find answers about Jesus. Here's my number. Let's study together." The man is a Muslim. The girl is your daughter, Sir Pent. 1) How would you feel? 2) What would you do? Colin |
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104 | looking for specific scriptures that tel | NT general Archive 1 | flinkywood | 117343 | ||
Sir Pent, Based on current forum guidelines, which is more permissable, a JW claiming that Jesus is Satan's spirit brother, or a JW inviting a newly minted Christian to study the "real" truth about Jesus? Colin |
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105 | looking for specific scriptures that tel | NT general Archive 1 | flinkywood | 117347 | ||
Sir Pent, what is an "orthodox version" of Christianity? Colin |
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106 | looking for specific scriptures that tel | NT general Archive 1 | flinkywood | 117733 | ||
Sir Pent, like Jesus is the uncreated, eternal Son of God, etc... The essentials. Are you an orthodox Christian? Colin |
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107 | looking for specific scriptures that tel | NT general Archive 1 | flinkywood | 117734 | ||
Sir Pent, Then forum rules need to be amended. Aniset's action is way beyond the pale. Colin |
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108 | looking for specific scriptures that tel | NT general Archive 1 | flinkywood | 117761 | ||
Sir Pent, I think JW's, because they are anti-Christian, need to be vetted and warned. This is a Christian forum, after all. If they or anyone promulgate something other than the essentials of Christ's divinity, they must be barred. I've learned a lot from this forum and I want to defend it. Colin |
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109 | looking for specific scriptures that tel | NT general Archive 1 | flinkywood | 117785 | ||
Aniset, Bottom-line, what binds you to an anti-Christian doctrine is a moral, not a semantic, problem. Colin |
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110 | looking for specific scriptures that tel | NT general Archive 1 | flinkywood | 117794 | ||
Aniset, Is the Archangel Michael a spiritual relative of Satan? Colin |
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111 | looking for specific scriptures that tel | NT general Archive 1 | flinkywood | 117795 | ||
Sir Pent, I second that. Colin |
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112 | what passages bind and rebuke satan | NT general Archive 1 | flinkywood | 118742 | ||
Walking..., I've found in myself a tendency to want the gift more than the Giver, the blessing more than the Blesser. I find Paul's antidote to my carnal disposition in 1Corinthians 2:2; 13:1-13 and 2Corinthians 12:9. Colin |
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113 | Why does God love the world (us)? | Genesis | flinkywood | 59353 | ||
Dear Reformer Joe, I like your post: "...This implys that the will of God is not powerful enough to overcome the rebellious will of man." He is powerful enough, but won't break His own laws or covenants to do so: He won't violate our free will. Great string. Colin. |
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114 | Who is God Talking to in verse 26? | Genesis | flinkywood | 140905 | ||
Tess, the Entire NT is a procalmation of the eternal, uncreated deity of Jesus Christ. That they had known God in the flesh, that He had died and risen again, is what transformed ordinary cowards into extraordinary heroes. The gospels' sole purpose, their reason for being, is to proclaim these incredible facts. The founder of JW, Taze Russell, who never finished high school, who promoted "miracle wheat", the "millenial bean" and a cancer "cure", has been dead since 1916. Christ, on the other hand, is alive. Colin |
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115 | Is an Un-subdued Earth Good? | Gen 1:28 | flinkywood | 99389 | ||
Steve, I still say put the "Kye-Bosh" on something. I think it's a very New York expression, still widely in use. Check this out, from the Web Detective dictionary: "Youse been kiboshed. Dear Word Detective: Recently a friend of mine used the word "kabosh" meaning things were going well and then suddenly the "kabosh" was on and things weren't going so well. What can you tell me about the origins of this word? -- Jan Paul Novak, via the internet. Well, part of the mystery here lies in the fact that your friend is slightly mispronouncing the word, which would make it difficult to look up. What he or she means is "kibosh," usually pronounced "KYE-bosh." "Kibosh" is rarely used these days, so when I hear the word I immediately think back to the old "Bowery Boys" comedies of the 1940's, in which Leo Gorcey would often complain of someone "puttin' the kibosh" on the group's plans. He meant, of course, that their plans were stymied or frustrated, "kibosh" being a synonym for "roadblock." "Kibosh" is slang, and very old slang indeed -- Charles Dickens used it in his description of the squalid sections of London in 1836, although he spelled it "kye-bosk." Several authorities trace "kibosh" to the Yiddish words "kye" (meaning "eighteen") and "bosh" ("pence"), making a "kibosh" a coin worth a shilling and sixpence, a negligible sum. Thus, if you were "kiboshed," you were reduced to nearly nothing. Incidentally, the word "bosh," meaning nonsense, is not related and comes from the Turkish word "bosh," meaning "empty or worthless." Another, more likely, theory is about as far from eighteen pence as you can get. Some authorities believe that "kibosh" was based on the Gaelic phrase "cie bais" (pronounced "ky-bosh"), meaning "cap of death." Evidently, in trials in ancient Ireland, the cie bas, a black skullcap, was donned by the judge before he sentenced a prisoner to death, and apparently the phrase "cie bais" is an established metaphor in modern Irish. An added bit of evidence for this theory is that the Irish term is most often used in the phrase "put the cie bais on," meaning in Dublin just what "kibosh" meant to the Bowery Boys -- "end of story." Colin |
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116 | scripture, key words for tree of life | Gen 2:1 | flinkywood | 218632 | ||
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117 | and you will be like God | Gen 3:5 | flinkywood | 216565 | ||
St John, I found this in answer to your piece on pride. "Cutting off What Keeps Us from God" I was led back to the opening pages of the Book of Genesis, to the event known as "original sin." Saint Augustine, with extraordinary perceptiveness, described the nature of this sin as follows:.amor sui usque ad contemptum Dei-.self-love to the point of contempt for God. It was amor sui (self love) which drove our first parents toward that initial rebellion and then gave rise to the spread of sin throughout human history. The Book of Genesis speaks of this: "You will be like God, knowing good and evil" (Gn 3:5), in other words, you yourselves will decide what is good and what is evil. The only way to overcome this dimension of original sin is through a corresponding amor Dei usque ad contemptum sui- love for God to the point of contempt of self. This brings us face to face with the mystery of man's redemption, and here the Holy Spirit is our guide. It is he who allows us to penetrate deeply into the mysterium Crucis and at the same time to plumb the depths of the evil perpetrated by man and suffered by man from the very beginning of his history. That is what the expression "convince the world about sin" means, and the purpose of this "convincing" is not to condemn the world. If the Church, through the power of the Holy Spirit, can call evil by its name, it does so only in order to demonstrate that evil can be overcome if we open ourselves to amor Dei usque ad contemptum sui. This is the fruit of Divine Mercy. In Jesus Christ, God bends down over man to hold out a hand to him, to raise him up, and to help him continue his journey with renewed strength. Man cannot get back onto his feet unaided: he needs the help of the Holy Spirit. Pope John Paul II |
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118 | and you will be like God | Gen 3:5 | flinkywood | 216566 | ||
St John, here also is a commentary by Iraneus on this verse: “Why also did it not prefer to make its attack upon the man instead of the woman? And if you say that it attacked her as being the weaker of the two,--I reply that--, on the contrary, she was the stronger, since she appears to have been the helper of the man in the transgression of the commandment. For she did by herself alone resist the serpent, and it was after holding out for a while and making opposition that she ate of the tree, being circumvented by craft; whereas Adam, making no fight whatever, nor refusal, partook of the fruit handed to him by the woman, which is an indication of the utmost imbecility and effeminacy of mind. And the woman indeed, having been vanquished in the contest by a demon, is deserving of pardon; but Adam shall deserve none, for he was worsted by a woman—he who, in his own person, had received the command from God.” Was Adam a coward for failing to defend his wife; for failing, perhaps, to sacrifice his life for her against the serpent? |
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119 | and you will be like God | Gen 3:5 | flinkywood | 216576 | ||
Doc, I thought JPII's paragraph pretty well done. As for the RCC anathematizing the Gospel, that is a pretty sweeping statement. Anyway, that one will stay corked. | ||||||
120 | and you will be like God | Gen 3:5 | flinkywood | 216625 | ||
Doc Thanks for posting these Trentian "anathemas". I was struck by how much sense they make against Calvin's theology, which I find harsh (dungpiles and filthy rags) and at variance with our Father's character as revealed in both testaments. (Did Calvin ever read 2Ki 20:1-6)? I say Father because a Judge--though He is also a Judge--loves His prodigal son far more than any judge can. And like the prodigal, when we turn back we come to our Father's house, to our Holy Family, not simply to a courtroom. To have "anathematized the gospels", if I understand your formulation, means that the RCC essentially disagreed with Calvin's--and your--NT perspective. Whoa. Now I don't know whether the RCC condemned Calvin or any other Reformer to hell for having instructed others in the "lost doctrines"(?) of the universal church, but I do think the RCC were within their rights to condemn his theology as they saw fit and to fling whatever arrows they had in his direction. The Reformers had equal right to shoot back. And shoot back they did. |
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