Quote That doesn't mean that the Catholic church is responsible for the atrocities.So, the infallible pope was wrong when he mea calpa'd …..Anyway, yes, they absolutely are responsible for the atrocities.Quote Most of Europe was Catholic during much of these times. Too bad they weren't Christians. The whole thing would have been much less…[Read more]

Quote and his writings are Trinitarian.Click here…I “clicked here.”He apparently wrote 7 authentic letters, letters actually written by him.But, the article said: By the 5th century, this authentic collection had been enlarged by spurious letters, and some of the original letters had been changed with interpolations, created to posthumously…[Read more]

Quote I, for one, am a geocentrist. –CAI see.Stu, he is all yours.david.

Quote (heaven @ Aug. 31 2009,22:53)I think you make some fair points here.Are you sure you want me to delete it?You would be breaking your own rule if you did.  (I have recently been checking “the rules”)I know the points were fair, T8. I just hate the way I posted it.

Quote Wow was your first sentence a personal attack on my intelligence? You're really doing the work of God there buddy!Rokkaman, I did not mean to insult your intelligence. I meant that it would hurt your brain the same way a paradox hurts someone's brain. And guess what, you didn't answer it, just as I predicted. You can't answer it. It's…[Read more]

Quote You have a false premise. You can't prove from Scripture alone that dunking is the “only” licit means of performing a valid baptism. –CA.That is, afterall, what the word actually means.–The Greek ba′pti·sma refers to the process of immersion, including submersion and emergence.–It is derived from the verb ba′pto, meaning “dip.” (Joh…[Read more]

In the Greek Septuagint version of the Bible the translators appropriately used the term “paradise” (pa·ra′dei·sos) with reference to the garden of Eden, because it evidently was an enclosed park. The Hebrew Scriptures had never led faithful Jews to expect a reward of heavenly life. Those Scriptures pointed to the restoration of Paradise here…[Read more]

Quote I already dealt with this. Joseph did not know her “until”. This does not necessitate him knowing her “after.” The text ONLY gives us the information that Joseph did not have relations with Mary during the time before the birth of Jesus. Scripture is silent regarding anything after.So you have NO argument there. This is just…[Read more]

Quote Here's the reason. We don't “sprinkle” babies. That's a protestant thing.Whether sprinkled or the priest takes a few handfulls of water and pours it, this is not “baptism.”

Quote CA has told us that sprinkling of infants is of protestantism and not catholicismCA, first, did you actually say this? Let's be clear. Whether sprinkled or you pour some water on someone's head, that is not in any way what the earliest, true Christians did. Nor does it match with what the word “baptism” means. The word “baptize” com…[Read more]

Quote You would not find it so surprising if you could realize that the pope is the Anti-Christ.I have always considered anything “against Christ” to be “anti-christ.” There are “many antichrist.s”But I do consider the clergy of Christendom as a whole to be the “man of lawlessness” (Thess)

OK, let's start slowly:JESUS IS OUR EXEMPLAR IS HE NOT?On one occasion, someone said to Jesus: “Happy is the womb that carried you and the breasts that you sucked!” This was the perfect opportunity for Jesus to give special honor to his mother and to show that others should do the same. Instead, Jesus said: “No, rather, Happy are those heari…[Read more]

Anyway, “apostolic succession”?

Quote If Mary is not your mother, then you are not a disciple of Jesus Christ (See Rev. 12).Obviously, that is not the “woman” Rev is referring to.

For Evah.

We should just create a thread on Jesus' resurrection. This thread is on the trinity.

Quote Scripture does not say he was raised a spirit does it?It says this:1 Pet. 3:18: “Christ died once for all time concerning sins, a righteous person for unrighteous ones, that he might lead you to God, he being put to death in the flesh, but being made alive in the spirit .” (At his resurrection from the dead, Jesus was brought forth with a sp…[Read more]

New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967, Vol. XI, p. 1034) acknowledges: “In the final analysis, the Catholic doctrine on purgatory is based on tradition, not Sacred Scripture.”“The church has relied on tradition to support a middle ground between heaven and hell.”—U.S. Catholic, March 1981, p. 7.“What goes on in purgatory is anyone’s guess.”—U.S.…[Read more]

“His soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.” (Acts 2:31, King James Version; Psalm 16:10) No, the body of Jesus never had time to become corrupt in the grave, that is, to decay.

Quote Then how is Acts 2.31-32 proven to be fulfilled?ACTS 2:31-32“he saw beforehand and spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he forsaken in Ha′des nor did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus God resurrected, of which fact we are all witnesses.”And you also have these scriptures:PSALM 16:10“For you will not leave…[Read more]