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I am not a Protestant. They do things too that are against the scriptures.

Yes the old tried refrain of "I'm not Protestant" yet you and all others protest.

I can prove to you easily that the Catholics do things against the scriptures in the name of tradition.

As I can prove easily you Protestant do not go by Scripture either and try to explain things away that are hard for you.

Here are some things...

Jesus says call no man 'father', and that they are 'brothers' in Christ.

The Catholics call their brothers in Christ 'father'.

Then you sin if you call your Dad Father at anytime since he is just your brother.

Jesus says do not take the seat of most importance.

The Catholics popes take the seat of most importance.

Proof of this wild idea is needed

The Word of God says to repent and be baptized.

The Catholics baptize babies who cannot repent.

The Scriptures also declare whole households were baptized so Scripture must contradict itself. Of course the right explination is that Scripture does not say the only way to be baptized is to believe here you protestant add to Scripture

God says do not make an image and bow to it.

The Catholics make many images and bow to them.

Catholics do no such thing. Do you adore pictures of your children or loved ones? Better stop because your sinning. You see Catholics do not pray to statues the idea is silly, instead they pray to the saint or Christ who the statue represents. The statue is no more than a mere 3d picture


And other such things the Catholics do.

No other such falsehoods as you been taught
 
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Yes the old tried refrain of "I'm not Protestant" yet you and all others protest.
I am not a protestant either, and what do I protest?
What kind of church do you attend btw?
 
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[FONT=&quot]Yes the old tried refrain of "I'm not Protestant" yet you and all others protest.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]I speak against all false doctrines.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Here are some things...

Jesus says call no man 'father', and that they are 'brothers' in Christ.

The Catholics call their brothers in Christ 'father'.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Then you sin if you call your Dad Father at anytime since he is just your brother.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]According to your defense, you are a sinner.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Jesus was speaking of Spiritual things. Jesus was not speaking of not calling our earthly fathers ‘father’.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]I do not call my brothers in Christ ‘father’. [/FONT]That is how I obey Jesus. How do you obey Jesus by not calling your brother 'father'?
[FONT=&quot]Proof of this wild idea is needed[/FONT].
[FONT=&quot]Are you saying you do not know that the Catholics popes take the seat of most importance. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The Catholics pope always takes the seat of most importance. He even has his feet kissed, and the scriptures speak against the men of God having their feet kissed, or just being bowed to, even for reverence.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]See Acts 10:26 [/FONT]But Peter made him get up. "Stand up," he said, "I am only a man myself."
[FONT=&quot]The Catholics say their popes are in the line of Peter, yet they do not do as Peter does.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The Catholic pope even has a special chair for himself.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Do a research on the Chair of “St. Peter”.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The Scriptures also declare whole households were baptized so Scripture must contradict itself. Of course the right explination is that Scripture does not say the only way to be baptized is to believe here you protestant add to Scripture[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Not every household has infants. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Catholics do no such thing. Do you adore pictures of your children or loved ones? Better stop because your sinning. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]You do not know what your own religion teaches. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]I hope that you are truly appalled and will stop doing things that God says not to do.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Read this carefully…[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The following paragraph is part of an article that explains further the acts Catholics perform.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]In both East and West the reverence we pay to images has crystallized into formal ritual. In the Latin Rite the priest is commanded to bow to the cross in the sacristy before he leaves it to say Mass (“Ritus servandus” in the Missal, II, 1); he bows again profoundly “to the altar or the image of the crucifix placed upon it” when he begins Mass (ibid., II, 2); he begins incensing the altar by incensing the crucifix on it (IV, 4), and bows to it every time he passes it (ibid.); he also incenses any relics or images of saints that may be on the altar (ibid.). In the same way many such commands throughout our rubrics show that always a reverence is to be paid to the cross or images of saints whenever we approach them. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Veneration of Images[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Every time a Catholic walks in a church for Mass, they bow to the altar with the statues and images placed there. This is against God.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]You see Catholics do not pray to statues the idea is silly, instead they pray to the saint or Christ who the statue represents. The statue is no more than a mere 3d picture[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]That is exactly what pagans says about their statues.
[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]No other such falsehoods as you been taught[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]You are afraid, and that is why you hide behind the teachings of the Catholic Church. If you want to know God’s Truth, then obey God’s Truth.[/FONT]
 
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I am not a Protestant. They do things too that are against the scriptures.

You're not Orthodox. You aren't Catholic. You follow the five Solas as written during the Reformation. You follow a set of beliefs that was sourced in a church in the Reformation. Therefore, by definition, you are a Protestant.

I can prove to you easily that the Catholics do things against the scriptures in the name of tradition.
You can try.

Here are some things...

Jesus says call no man 'father', and that they are 'brothers' in Christ.

The Catholics call their brothers in Christ 'father'.
I Timothy 1:18
Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the battle well,

Paul called Timothy Son as inspired to do so by way of the Holy Spirit. It is logical that if the divinely inspired Apostle called Timothy son, that he saw a sort of father-son relationship.

Or of course, we could say: Jesus said call no man father. Paul acted as the father of Timothy, therefore his writings are not Scripture.

Jesus says do not take the seat of most importance.

The Catholics popes take the seat of most importance.
I'm not Roman Catholic. I'm Orthodox Catholic. Therefore, I will not respond.

The Word of God says to repent and be baptized.

The Catholics baptize babies who cannot repent.
Scripture was speaking to adults. Baptism joins us to Christ, because "As many as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ."

If all who have been baptized into Christ have the wonderful, powerful, awesome Christ put on them, then why do you refuse to Baptize your baby into Christ?

God says do not make an image and bow to it.

The Catholics make many images and bow to them.
God says not to make an image to bow before AND WORSHIP. Neither Catholics, nor Orthodox, worship the images, which removes the second half of the command, which is included by an inclusive conjunction. If a person bows down to and worships an image, he is wrong. In the Greek Septuagint, the word is "Latreia", which means "do not make an image that you bow down and worship as God". What is done toward the Icons is not worshiping the Icons. Rather, we worship God WITH the Icons
 
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[FONT=&quot]You're not Orthodox. You aren't Catholic. You follow the five Solas as written during the Reformation. You follow a set of beliefs that was sourced in a church in the Reformation. Therefore, by definition, you are a Protestant.
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[FONT=&quot]I go against the Protestants. Read what Jesus says about going against someone.
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[FONT=&quot]I Timothy 1:18
Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the battle well,

Paul called Timothy Son as inspired to do so by way of the Holy Spirit. It is logical that if the divinely inspired Apostle called Timothy son, that he saw a sort of father-son relationship.

Or of course, we could say: Jesus said call no man father. Paul acted as the father of Timothy, therefore his writings are not Scripture.
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[FONT=&quot]Paul did not tell anyone to call him ‘father’.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Apostle Paul was an Apostle, that means the first prominent missionary. In addition, he was older. In 1 Corinthians 1:15, Paul says to the believers in Corinth that they do not have many fathers in Christ. However, we can see how this is opposite of the Catholic religion. The Catholic religion calls all their priests “father.” There must be tens of thousands of fathers in the Catholic religion. Yet another scripture that shows the Catholic religion goes against the Word of God. Furthermore, no apostle ever told anyone to call him ‘father’.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]I'm not Roman Catholic. I'm Orthodox Catholic. Therefore, I will not respond.
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[FONT=&quot]You will not admit either when you have been shown God’s Truth.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Scripture was speaking to adults. Baptism joins us to Christ, because "As many as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ."

If all who have been baptized into Christ have the wonderful, powerful, awesome Christ put on them, then why do you refuse to Baptize your baby into Christ?
[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]We put on Christ when we obey Christ.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]We must repent and be baptized.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot][/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]God says not to make an image to bow before AND WORSHIP. Neither Catholics, nor Orthodox, worship the images, which removes the second half of the command, which is included by an inclusive conjunction. If a person bows down to and worships an image, he is wrong. In the Greek Septuagint, the word is "Latreia", which means "do not make an image that you bow down and worship as God". What is done toward the Icons is not worshiping the Icons. Rather, we worship God WITH the Icons
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[FONT=&quot]God says not to bow down before the works of your hands. Catholics bow down before the works of their hands! You are making up lying excuses as to why you will not do what God says.[/FONT]
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Deuteronomy 4:15-17 You saw no form of any kind the day the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire. Therefore watch yourselves very carefully, 16 so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman, 17 or like any animal on earth or any bird that flies in the air,


Micah 5:13 I will destroy your idols and your sacred stones from among you; you will no longer bow down to the work of your hands.



The Israelites burned incense to the bronze snake/the Catholic priest burns incense to the crucifix, and any relics or images of saints. If the bronze snake that Moses had made was broke into pieces because the Israelites had been burning incense to it (see 2 Kings 18:1-4), then why is it okay for the Catholic priests to bow to and incense the crucifix?
 
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My guess is that for most people who hold to Scripture as the standard of truth, the minutaie and translation possibilities about the filioque are of absolutely no importance to them.
It is understood well enough as it is, it changes nothing essential to the faith and belief systems either way, and seems to be from the era of endless debates on obscure philosophical points and concentrating on arcane mumbo jumbo that have nothing to do with accepting Jesus into your heart and walking in the way of Christ that most people who adhere to Scripture are most interested in.

If you read what Christ states, recorded in the Holy Scriptures, it is not minutuiae but the truth; Christ states that He will send the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father (John 15:26).

As you hold that the Bible is the only standard for truth per what I read in the thread, I've only asked that you demonstrate that the filioque is valid by citing the Scripture that teaches that the Holy Spirit proceeds from (ie originates in) the Father and the Son.

I was under the impression that SS adherents hold that all doctrine must be in accord with Scripture.

Of course we (EO) also honor Scripture as valuable for the development of the spiritual heart and guidance in the walk in Christ; of course !

The idea that such arcane and picky details could still be separating Christian communities from each other, from the point of view of someone who looks to Scripture as the standard of truth, is such a ludicrous proposition that no one want to proceed down that kind of rabbit hole, even if that is where you want to try to send us.
I am not trying to "send you/us down a rabbit hole"; I am only asking that you demonstrate from Scripture this teaching (that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son) - which will demonstrate also for us the view that SS adherents have of the value of Scripture.

Maybe sometime in the next two to four thousand years, if we are all still here, EO and RCC will be able to move on from their 'oopsie' moment of bad translation, or whatever it is that still keeps them from communing with each other, but for the rest of us, we have moved on from that kind of discussion long ago.
It seems there is a degree of hesitation on your part to provide the Scripture citations on the Holy trinity that demonstrate your teaching on the origin of the Holy Spirit; yet, this is just the thread for this opportunity.

And yes, we take Scripture that seriously.

So also we continue to talk on this issue towards mutual understanding, which also includes the role of the RC pope. Supposedly, this was also an important issue for Luther and SS adherents.

And this, from my previous post:

The received teachings interpret the Bible; in fact, Tradition interprets your Bible. It was the received teachings, Tradition, that were used to supply the separation of words and division of these words further into "sense units" (which are now presented in your Bible as sentences, etc.). This was done by people illumined by God who held to Tradition - what was received - and battled to preserve it for me and you and every other Christian, and by the grace of God they won ... despite great sacrifice.
 
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Iconography comes from Luke. If you are brave enough to visit the churches in Syria, you can see what might be the only remaining icon originally painted by the Apostle Luke.

There's one of St. Luke's icons in Greece at a monastery that we visited back in 2010. :)
 
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[FONT=&quot]I speak against all false doctrines.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]According to your defense, you are a sinner.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Jesus was speaking of Spiritual things. Jesus was not speaking of not calling our earthly fathers ‘father’.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]I do not call my brothers in Christ ‘father’. [/FONT]That is how I obey Jesus. How do you obey Jesus by not calling your brother 'father'?

[FONT=&quot]Are you saying you do not know that the Catholics popes take the seat of most importance. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The Catholics pope always takes the seat of most importance. He even has his feet kissed, and the scriptures speak against the men of God having their feet kissed, or just being bowed to, even for reverence.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]See Acts 10:26 [/FONT]But Peter made him get up. "Stand up," he said, "I am only a man myself."
[FONT=&quot]The Catholics say their popes are in the line of Peter, yet they do not do as Peter does.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Do a research on the Chair of “St. Peter”.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Not every household has infants. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]You do not know what your own religion teaches. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]I hope that you are truly appalled and will stop doing things that God says not to do.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Read this carefully…[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The following paragraph is part of an article that explains further the acts Catholics perform.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]In both East and West the reverence we pay to images has crystallized into formal ritual. In the Latin Rite the priest is commanded to bow to the cross in the sacristy before he leaves it to say Mass (“Ritus servandus” in the Missal, II, 1); he bows again profoundly “to the altar or the image of the crucifix placed upon it” when he begins Mass (ibid., II, 2); he begins incensing the altar by incensing the crucifix on it (IV, 4), and bows to it every time he passes it (ibid.); he also incenses any relics or images of saints that may be on the altar (ibid.). In the same way many such commands throughout our rubrics show that always a reverence is to be paid to the cross or images of saints whenever we approach them. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Veneration of Images[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Every time a Catholic walks in a church for Mass, they bow to the altar with the statues and images placed there. This is against God.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]That is exactly what pagans says about their statues.
[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]You are afraid, and that is why you hide behind the teachings of the Catholic Church. If you want to know God’s Truth, then obey God’s Truth.[/FONT]
So many errors it is sad. An example of Sola Scriptura gone wild
 
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If you read what Christ states, recorded in the Holy Scriptures, it is not minutuiae but the truth; Christ states that He will send the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father (John 15:26).

As you hold that the Bible is the only standard for truth per what I read in the thread, I've only asked that you demonstrate that the filioque is valid by citing the Scripture that teaches that the Holy Spirit proceeds from (ie originates in) the Father and the Son.

I was under the impression that SS adherents hold that all doctrine must be in accord with Scripture.

Of course we (EO) also honor Scripture as valuable for the development of the spiritual heart and guidance in the walk in Christ; of course !

I am not trying to "send you/us down a rabbit hole"; I am only asking that you demonstrate from Scripture this teaching (that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son) - which will demonstrate also for us the view that SS adherents have of the value of Scripture.

It seems there is a degree of hesitation on your part to provide the Scripture citations on the Holy trinity that demonstrate your teaching on the origin of the Holy Spirit; yet, this is just the thread for this opportunity.

And yes, we take Scripture that seriously.

So also we continue to talk on this issue towards mutual understanding, which also includes the role of the RC pope. Supposedly, this was also an important issue for Luther and SS adherents.

And this, from my previous post:

Christ is not minutaie. Scripture is not.
The same old tired discussion of the filioque on the other hand is.

Time to move on. Some 'Traditions' have all the weight of a piano tied to one's butt and half the usefulness.
 
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In both Moses' and apostles' times, they spoke and then were told to write it down for future generations (Rom 10).

Passover meal has a very formal q/a (oral to teach meaning/understandings) from what I understand.

Ok. Thanks. :)
 
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Paul did not contradict in person that which he wrote.

The Catholics do things as their tradition, and those things go against what the scriptures say.

I haven't seen many Catholics posting in this thread in a while. Just wanted to make sure you weren't mixing us Orthodox up with the Roman Catholics. :D
 
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You're not Orthodox. You aren't Catholic. You follow the five Solas as written during the Reformation. You follow a set of beliefs that was sourced in a church in the Reformation. Therefore, by definition, you are a Protestant.

You can try.

I Timothy 1:18
Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the battle well,

Paul called Timothy Son as inspired to do so by way of the Holy Spirit. It is logical that if the divinely inspired Apostle called Timothy son, that he saw a sort of father-son relationship.
Don't forget Christ says Himself in the story of Lazarus and the rich man, Father Abraham. :)
 
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So many errors it is sad. An example of Sola Scriptura gone wild

I gave many scriptures and explained carefully what I believe.
All you have left to do to defend your false doctrines is to merely deny the truth, and give insults.
 
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I gave many scriptures and explained carefully what I believe.
All you have left to do to defend your false doctrines is to merely deny the truth, and give insults.
No insults just sadness at the parroting of errors that Protestants put forward
 
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I haven't seen many Catholics posting in this thread in a while. Just wanted to make sure you weren't mixing us Orthodox up with the Roman Catholics. :D

Do you call your brothers in Christ 'father'?

Does your denomination baptize infants?

Do you make 'holy images' and bow to them? Do you incense them, as the Roman Catholics do?

Why would it only be wrong for Catholics to do those things and not the Orthodox Catholics?
 
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Don't forget Christ says Himself in the story of Lazarus and the rich man, Father Abraham. :)

Jesus was not speaking of Abraham. Jesus was speaking of the 'brothers' and 'sisters' in Christ.
 
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Do you call your brothers in Christ 'father'?

Does your denomination baptize infants?

Do you make 'holy images' and bow to them? Do you incense them, as the Roman Catholics do?

Why would it only be wrong for Catholics to do those things and not the Orthodox Catholics?

I have no problem answering that we have icons in our churches and homes and that we pray in their presence and venerate them, our brothers and sisters gone before us, and use incense in our services, but we are not Roman Catholics. You do realize we split from each other (charitable way of putting it) around 1054 A.D., right? So, if you are going to address us Orthodox here who have been conversing, I'd appreciate you addressing us by the faith we are part of. :)

Incense is actually Biblical. Read Malachi. God said the Gentiles would be burning incense in glory to Him (paraphrasing) in our churches. :thumbsup:
 
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Jesus was not speaking of Abraham. Jesus was speaking of the 'brothers' and 'sisters' in Christ.

He says Father Abraham. If He meant brother, He would have said Brother Abraham. He didn't.
 
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