Recent content by Dave Ulchers

Here's the latest update from the BBC. A monk has been critically wounded, and Israel has rejected a plea from the Francisan Order to end the seige peacefully which the words "stop bothering us"

:confused: I myself mentioned that the Israeli army was making this claim in post #30. This hasn't been confirmed as a fact by an independant party, and has been denied by a Roman Catholic priest inside the Church. I'm willing to wait and see what is determined to be factual, but the fact that...

I wonder who the Pope's patron saint is?

Adios, amiga! Non illegitimi descendari. :wave:

Gnostics are Christians. Anyone who has been baptised is a Christian.

Anyone can be perfect for Jesus taught the way to perfection. A person need only accept the grace of God to overcome sin and submit themselves to God's will, and once he has repented his old sins are washed away. Therefore, such a person would indeed be perfect, just as God himself is perfect.

Hey there Hervey. Unless it has changed since the last time I found it there. From Jesus. :) John 14:15-17, 21, 23-24 So, if you obey Jesus's teachings, you have the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit dwelling in you. Three persons, one essense. You might also want to see Acts 5:32...

Primarliy, the Trinity is what dwells inside you if you obey Christ's teachings. It is explained in John 14.

Nice scenario. Problem is, no one has been shooting from inside the building according to the people inside the building, which includes priests and nuns, etc. who wouldn't lie about that sort of thing. And the army won't let the media any where near the place to obtain an impartial viewpoint...

OK, thanks.

They are both wrong.

So, let me get this straight. Jesus is talking on and on about John, but then in the middle suddenly stops talking about John, does a complete one-eighty, and actually is speaking about himself in the third person?? Then in Matthew 17:12, he is really talking about himself in the third person...

For starters, what is Arminism? Who thought it up?