Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.
Dude! I'm almost 53. I got stories. Loads of 'em.
You bring the beer.
Nah, just they (mostly Protestants) need to get over things that their apparent "enemy" (Roman Catholic Church) did during the Reformation. That being said, the Protestants also need to take the accountability to persecutions of Roman Catholics in Protestant lands (England and Ireland anyone?) and not to forget overall ill will towards Catholics (Irish immigrants 1840s anyone?)Get over the gates of hell prevailing?
You realize that is what is (typicaly) equated with an error in teaching, your imperial highness?
What's the old verse, adage or proverb?! We'd better be thinking about how we're going to answer Jesus when he asks us about our own. We are to forgive others for what they have done, as Christ Himself pointed out in the Gospels in at least 4 places. He says if we do not forgive others their sins, the Father does not forgive us ours. Also, both the Lord's Prayer ("Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us") and the Beatitudes ("Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy") reiterate the same thing. God is the ultimate parent--He knows that sometimes you have to give your kids some negative incentive to do the right things--like, if you don't forgive or show mercy to others, you aren't getting it from me either. I do have to say that I admire Pope John Paul II for forgiving the person that tried to assassinate him. That is what Christ calls for us to do--and to love, pray for, and do good to even our worst enemies. Jesus threw out "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
Every person and every denomination has committed sins and errors that they will have to take responsibility for and repent for (of course, repentence means taking total responsibility for our sins and errors and turning from them each time we fall into it) these. One of Satan's biggest tricks is to get us focused on the sins and errors of other people instead of concentrating on our own. On Judgment Day, Christ is not going to be sidetracked. He will be focusing on each one of us, and He's not going to let us get away with trying to get sidetracked into discussing other people's sins and errors.
What would work for you?Sure, if that works for you. But its not my case.
hahahahah, well knowlodge, experiencing, feeling, living and coming to my own conclutions, not the ones handed by some book.
Or take the sliver out of thy own eye so you can better see the plank in thy brother's eyes?Nah, just they (mostly Protestants) need to get over things that their apparent "enemy" (Roman Catholic Church) did during the Reformation. That being said, the Protestants also need to take the accountability to persecutions of Roman Catholics in Protestant lands (England and Ireland anyone?) and not to forget overall ill will towards Catholics (Irish immigrants 1840s anyone?)
What's the old verse, adage or proverb?
"Take out the plank in your own eye so you can see the sliver in your brother's eye"? Something like that...
What error was that just out of curiosity?um, I got one, well kind of, not an error by the Pope but some errors made by a Catholic King and Catholic Monk.
Luthernism and Anglicanism
Inventions:
-Infallability of the Pope
-Papal supremacy
-Immaculate coneption
-purgatory
Errors:
-Vatican I and II(not the councells but their decisions....although II was worse than I)
-indulgencies
-crusades
-Vatican City.... (never should have been a "seperate state"but goes hand in hand with the Papal supreority)
Weren't many innocent Christians as well as many other innocent people killed during the crusades?How are the crusades an error? You do know that Islamic nations were expanding and taking nations by force some of which were Christian. The Crusades were called to protect pilgrims on their journey, protect remaining lands from Islamic threat and to try and claim back the nations they had lost. I don't see how it's an error when it was established out of defense.
Weren't many innocent Christians as well as many other innocent people killed during the crusades?
What about the Inquisition? Do you think that also was ok?
Yeah... I respect you.... But I don't respect your RC Church.Roman Catholicism is like any other Religion / Government. Roman Catholics, however, are people like you and me. People that deserve just as much respect as your fellow believers.
Yeah... I respect you.... But I don't respect your RC Church.
You know what they say, "Love the sinner, but hate the sin!"
i agree that it is not the people that most of us have a problem with - it is the system.Roman Catholicism is like any other Religion / Government. Roman Catholics, however, are people like you and me. People that deserve just as much respect as your fellow believers.
http://www.counterpunch.org/kozloff09172005.html[SIZE=-1]"I found [Rios Montt] to be a man of humility impeccable personal integrity, and a deep faith in Jesus Christ." [/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]One reason that Rios Montt may have appealed to Robertson was the dictator's dislike of Catholic priests. In the 1980s, they had become an obstacle to the expansion of evangelical Protestantism. Working within indigenous communities, Catholic priests had been driven out or murdered. Protestant sects, on the other hand, allied to the Guatemalan military. They preached individual conversion, the importance of obedience to military and political authority, the merits of capitalism, and the value of inequality. Rios Montt's own Church of the Word went so far as to define priests and nuns as the enemy. According to Walter LaFeber, a historian of Central America, three priests were killed within a thirty-six month period in just one province. With the Catholic Church out of the way, Rios Montt conducted a scorched earth policy. His forces massacred as many as 15,000 Indians. Whole villages were leveled and the army set up "Civilian Self-Defense Patrols" which forced 900,000 villagers to "voluntarily" aid police in tracking down suspects. Rios Montt created "model" villages, similar to concentration camps, which housed Indian refugees. However, when 40,000 survivors sought safety in Mexico, Guatemalan helicopters machine gunned the camps. Rios Montt justified the genocidal policy by claiming that the Indians were suspected of cooperating with the URNG, the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union, or "might" cooperate in future. Amnesty International noted that extra judicial killings carried out the by the military "were done in terrible ways: people of all ages were not only shot to death, they were burned alive, hacked to death, disemboweled, drowned, beheaded. Small children were smashed against rocks or bayoneted to death." [/SIZE]
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?