You did not prove he was the “Word of God” prior to his birth. Nor did you prove the logos of John 1:1 is a person rather than a thing.
It means we are joined to Him through His indwelling Holy Spirit which imparts a small measure of His divine nature to us.
I discard what the indwelling Holy Spirit leads me to discard. Do you just blindly accept everything your leaders tell you or do you use discernment to reject false doctrine? We are to search the Scriptures under the leading of the Holy Spirit as the Bereans did and not blindly accept everything we are told.
All believers die and await their resurrection from the dead at the appointed time (the last trumpet).
The article said, “The Council of Trent instituted severe reforms in the practice of granting indulgences, and, because of prior abuses, “in 1567 Pope Pius V canceled all grants of indulgences involving any fees or other financial transactions” (
Catholic Encyclopedia). This act proved the Church’s seriousness about removing abuses from indulgences.” In other words, there were those who were charging fees and making money off of indulgences.
The article gave no Scripture showing indulgences exist, or are acceptable or desired by YHWH.
“Being”, “matter”?? Where do you find that in Yeshua’s symbolic words? He was referring to the bread and cup we partake of on the day of his death to symbolically remember his shed blood and broken body for us.
Say what you will. I know of many Catholics that talk to the statues as though the statue hears them. It is utter foolishness, if not worship.
Why did you leave out the most important words of Romans 10:4; “for righteousness”? In other words, seeking to obtain righteousness through keeping the law as the Jews were doing has ended. The law has certainly NOT ended.
As for Romans 7:1-6, you took it out of context in which Paul delights in the law of God inwardly (Romans 7:22) and shows how the spiritually minded man will be subject to the law, but the carnally minded man will not subject himself to the law (Romans 8:7). We are released from the condemnation of the law (the death penalty), not from the necessity of obeying the law.
Of course they do, but only when they are both obeyed perfectly. If you break any commandment of the law, for example steal, then you have broken the two greatest commandments.
You have every right to call her the “mother of our Lord”. You have NO RIGHT to call her the “Mother of God”. “God” has no mother.
I agree, but if you do steal, it shows you really don’t love your neighbor or God. The same holds true for breaking the seventh day Sabbath or eating swine’s flesh, or trampling on the Day of Atonement, etc.
I agree. When it is used of the Son, it is used in the context of him being a man since there is only one true God (Yeshua’s Father- John 17:3).