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  1. jamiec

    Roman Catholic Church in Kentucky Blesses Women in Immoral Relationship

    That is not an abuse of Fiducia Supplicans - that is an example of how it is meant to be used. Which reflects extremely badly on Bergoglio and the other enablers of this garbage. Bergoglio is a disgrace to the Papacy. At least other morally worthless occupants of the See of Peter did not allow...
  2. jamiec

    Cardinal Sarah: ‘The crisis of the Church has entered a new phase’

    Cardinal Sarah says some stupid things at times. Such as his asinine remark about communion in the hand. It's a long time since I thought the gentlemen in the Vatican deserved any special confidence because of their positions. The Vatican seems to be as full of crooks, morons, perverts & cowards...
  3. jamiec

    They shall say "where is the promise (age-lasting life) of His coming"...

    Vomiting verses of the Bible is neither an argument for, nor a proof of, anything. It is meaningless when Fundies do it, and equally meaningless when anyone else does it.
  4. jamiec

    The "Fewness of the Saved"

    Most definitely. Why not ? It is lunacy, and worse, to condemn people for the "sin" of never having been able to hear Christ preached. The overwhelming majority of all mankind, for the last 200,000 years at least, would be done for. Is that the act of a Good, Wise, Merciful, & Righteous God ...
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    The "Fewness of the Saved"

    Anyone who claims to know how many are finally saved, or not, is a fantasist or a liar.
  6. jamiec

    The "Fewness of the Saved"

    I've heard of that sermon. That kind of sermon is atrocious trash. That the preacher is a canonised Saint, does not make that sermon any less trashy or spiritually dangerous. It leaves no room for confidence in God's mercy, and is a temptation to despair, so as to cause the very evil it is...
  7. jamiec

    What is an Emendation?

    Changing "Manasseh" to "Moses" in Judges 18.30 is an emendation - and the sense seems to require it. It seems to be an emendation of a text that was at some time "corrected" from reading "Moses". Biblehub lists several dozen English translations, which between them supply both readings of the...
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    NO ONE among those born of women is greater than John the Baptist

    Jesus was “born of a woman” - so if one were literalistic, as so many people seem to be when it comes to interpreting the Bible, one would have to conclude that Jesus is less than John. If one takes the text exactly as it stands, and leaves the requirements of Christian belief entirely on one...
  9. jamiec

    What are YOU currently reading? (8)

    The Two Towers. I am about to embark on chapter 6. I also look forward to continuing The Wheel of Time, vol.1 The Eye of the World, from (I think) page 374.
  10. jamiec

    the People who say "God told me, God spoke to me" extra biblical revelation

    Good post. The Bible does not say whether voting in politics is OK. Should Christians be monarchists or republicans or something else ? May Christians take part in politics at all ? Should women be employed ? Do children - does anyone - have rights ? Is owning slaves OK ? Is it all right...
  11. jamiec

    St Matthew 24.21 is falsified by events

    The passage is as follows: 15So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ described by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand), 16then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his...
  12. jamiec

    Roman Catholic Church in Kentucky Blesses Women in Immoral Relationship

    What do you think St Sergius I (687-701) was - a Mormon ? A leprechaun ? A South Sea islander ? He was a Syrian, one of several entries, in a century in a century rich in them. But Papal history is probably far too "Western" & "Latin" & "Augustinian" & "scholastic" to be worthy of notice. Except...
  13. jamiec

    Roman Catholic Church in Kentucky Blesses Women in Immoral Relationship

    obedience is not the highest virtue, important & essential though it is.
  14. jamiec

    Roman Catholic Church in Kentucky Blesses Women in Immoral Relationship

    There is no remedy for this. The best one can hope for, is that a future Pope will cancel FS. Though it is always possible that it may simply be allowed to become a dead letter.
  15. jamiec

    Roman Catholic Church in Kentucky Blesses Women in Immoral Relationship

    Since the Orthodox reject a number of Catholic dogmas, no reconciliation is ever going to be possible. So FS, no matter how deplorable, changes nothing. Re-union between Rome & Constantinople was completely impossible before PF, and will remain equally impossible after him. Ir is never going to...
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    Roman Catholic Church in Kentucky Blesses Women in Immoral Relationship

    People said this would happen. Did PF or Tucho listen ? No.
  17. jamiec

    Should Christians give aid to those affected by earthquakes?

    The Bible often says "God did X" in order to explain plagues & other calamities. Of course it does, because the authors of the Bible, like the nations round about, had no better explanations available to them. They knew nothing about bacteria, viruses, infection, lightning, seismology. tsunamis...
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    I have never heard this before concerning baptism.

    I have seen this suggested once previously, on this forum. And I think it is nonsense. "There is....one baptism" - and St Paul was not referring to anything gynaecological when he said that. How is being born supposed to lead to the remission of sins ? But that is one of the results of...
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    The Infallible Word of God versus Human Error

    I agree with everything in that post. I don't believe the Bible is totally inerrant, and I don't believe it needs to be. Is it infallible ? Maybe that depends what one means. What you understand by "taking the Bible literally" ?