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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Papal infalibility? Peter, the rock?

No fictionalized account can boast of more intrigue, illicit relationships and murder, a veritable "who done it" in the greatest measure, as does the history of the Papacy! At one time there were three such "popes," each fighting for sovereignty in his own "right!" It was he who was more powerful politically that was to win: the Roman Catholic Church, whose exercise of political power has been waged through the centuries, through the World Wars, and is felt to this day, albeit, quite covertly!

As just shown in the previous post, Pope Clement XIV FOREVER BANNED the Order of the Jesuits on July 21, 1773, and died on September 22, 1774, a mysterious death, attributed to poison administered by the Jesuits!

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Roman Catholics, invariably, will never fail to remind anyone who will listen that their church was "founded" by Jesus Christ. THIS IS NOT SO!!

They will bring up the fact that Jesus said to Peter "On this rock,..." to mean Peter, the rock! THIS IS NOT SO, EITHER!!

But, supposing that it was Peter whom Christ addressed as a "rock!" Would it be the same Peter who was to betray Him three times?!

The same Peter who gave in to compromises with the Judaizers, and who had to be harshly rebuked by Paul in Galatians 2:14 "When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?"

[It becomes obvious to anyone who has been on the blog before, of who knows me, that I have come to learn the truth of God's word can only be found in the King James Bible, of which I did not learn until sometime AFTER this post. I will, eventually, change the verses shown to reflect the King James Bible's accurate translation!]

Matthew 16:16-19 (New American Standard Bible)

16 Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
17And Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.
18 "I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
19 "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven."


...namely, on the PREACHING of Christ, the true "ROCK," by connection with whom only he was given the designation: a title shared in common on the same grounds by the rest of the apostles, as the first founders of the catholic* Church of Christ, "the chief corner-stone"


*catholic definition = UNIVERSAL

Ephesians 2:18-20

18 for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints,* and are of God's household,
20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,
*saints here NOT to mean any dead ones, as the Roman Catholic Church sees them. Saints in those days were ANY WHO SHARED BELIEF IN CHRIST, as they still are, outside of the Roman Catholic Church!

A name is often given in Hebrew, not that the person is actually the thing itself, but has some special relation to it;

as Elijah means "Mighty Jehovah," so Simon is called Peter "the rock," not that he is so, save by connection with Jesus, the only true Rock.

Isaiah 28:16

16 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD,
"Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone,
A costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed.
He who believes in it will not be disturbed.


1 Corinthians 3:11

11 For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.


Romans 9:33

33 just as it is written,
"BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE,
AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED."


Psalm 118:22

22 The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief corner stone.


Isaiah 8:14

14 "Then He shall become a sanctuary;
But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike and a rock to stumble over,
And a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


Matthew 21:42

42 Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures,
'THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED,
THIS BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone;
THIS CAME ABOUT FROM THE LORD,
AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES'?


Acts 4:11
11 "He is the STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED by you, THE BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone."


Ephesians 2:20
20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,


1 Peter 2:6

6 For this is contained in Scripture:
"BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A CHOICE STONE, A PRECIOUS CORNER stone,
AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED."

Surely Peter was not so presumptuous as to believing himself to be the cornerstone, the rock!


No, this was a purposefully engendered lie by the Roman Catholic Church, centuries later. Ironically, the "church" as such did not even come into prominence as being called such until the third century, over three hundred years after the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.


THE ROCK IS CHRIST, HIS CHURCH,
WHICH COMPRISES THE BODY OF CHRIST!!

In his own day, Peter never knew he to be a "pope!" Peter's failure to fulfill his mission among the Jews became evident very soon for his willingness to compromise the teachings of Christ. It is thanks to Paul, as stated previously, that Christianity was salvaged, Peter having been brought to his senses quite publicly by Paul, himself.

Paul's mission given to him DIRECTLY by Christ, was to spread the Gospel among the Gentiles. Paul was an erudite Jew, and would have much preferred to have done so among the Jews, as he so states. I am sorry, as I have said before, I cannot recall chapter and verse to point such instances readily, but, I KNOW THEM TO BE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT and can paraphrase them. Anyone in doubt should verify the same.

And Paul fulfilled his mission, unwaveringly, to the end, as he so states: I have run the course! I have fought the good fight!

One who delved among the Jews also was James, who, it seems, held a "higher" position than Peter. Peter to NEVER have been in Rome, either!


1 Corinthians 10.4

"and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, AND THAT ROCK WAS CHRIST."

Just as Paul says in Galatians 3:16 The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed.

The Scripture does not say and to seeds, meaning many people, but and to your seed, meaning ONE person, who is Christ.
I doubt very much that God would have sacrificed His only son, and risk the Holy Scripture NOT be followed by entrusting one sole person, WEAK AS HE PROVED HIMSELF TO BE, and Christ was well aware of his weakness!

NO!! CHRIST IS THE ROCK, THE UNFAILING, UNWAVERING ROCK THROUGHOUT THE AGES!!

Mankind had already proven to God, time and again, that it could not be trusted:

In Hebrews 8:9 It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT REMAIN FAITHFUL TO MY COVENANT, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord.

Neither has the Roman Catholic Church remained faithful, ONE among many of the Catholic Churches in existence, 52 to be exact,... so far!

Roman Catholics love to point out how it is that there are a number of Protestant Churches as opposed to there being only One Catholic Apostolic Church!! WRONG!! THERE ARE 52 such, MOST, IF NOT ALL, PROFESSING THE SAME LINEAGE, CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCHES, and, perhaps, still counting, with power struggles surfacing within their midst to this day.

Galatians 5:
4 You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
7 "You were running well; who hindered you from obeying the truth?
8 This persuasion did not come from Him Who calls you."
9 "A little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough."

Thus, if you in the Catholic church seek to live by your man-made doctrines and dogmas:

Galatians 5:4
You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

At first, it was the catholic Church of Jesus Christ, catholic with a small "c," which definition is "universal!" This a concept that was primordial in the choosing of it to be a Catholic, with a big "C" church.


CHRIST GAVE NO SACRAMENT, NO DOCTRINES, NO DOGMAS.
He despised the tradition of the Pharisees!

Matthew 15:1-3

Tradition and Commandment
1 Then some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,
2 "Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread."
3 And He answered and said to them, "Why do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?



Mark 2:23-28
Lord of the Sabbath
23 One Sabbath Jesus was going through the grainfields, and as his disciples walked along, they began to pick some heads of grain. 24The Pharisees said to him, "Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?"
25 He answered, "Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need? 26In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions."
27 Then he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

28 So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."



PAPAL TEACHING THROUGH EXAMPLE

THE POPE'S INFALLIBILITY


"Would heretics dare to come to the very seat of Peter whence apostolic faith is derived and whither no errors can come" (Epistulae 59 (55), 14, [256 A.D.] Fallible means to err. Here it says they can't, which means the Pope is infallible.


I dare anyone to find me a Muslim, the most ignorant one there is, and have him bow before the Cross, kiss the Cross, be baptized, place the Cross in a Mosque or in Mecca!! I wager my own life there is not one such who would compromise their faith in such a way.

But here we have the Pope, the LEADER of the Roman Catholic Church doing all of this and worse, the other way around!



This one is self-explanatory!! John Paul II kissing the Koran, Islam's Holy Book, JUST AS HE DOES THE HOLY BIBLE!!



Here is Pope John Paul II confidently being anointed with the pagan "Sign of the Tilak"- A PAGAN RELIGION, NO LESS!!



And here, Pope John Paul II, unceremoniously places Buddha ATOP the Tabernacle, in Assisi, to be WORSHIPED TOGETHER WITH THE EUCHARIST during the ensuing ceremony!


View the following sites for more proof.
A picture is worth a thousand words, indeed!

http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/jp2.htm
http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/popekiss.html


Thursday, November 30, 2006 "Pope turns to Mecca at Istanbul"


From correspondents in Istanbul
"AFTER offending the Muslim world by linking their religion with violence, Pope Benedict XVI, in an exceptional gesture, turned towards Mecca in an attitude of Muslim prayer at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul today, Turkish state television showed."

On May 8, 2009, this very Pope was visiting an Amman Mosque!!!
And, for certain, BOWING!!


The 1st Commandment:

THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME!!!

The 2nd Commandment:

Thou shalt NOT make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: THOU SHALT NOT BOW DOWN THYSELF TO THEM: FOR I THE LORD THY GOD AM A JEALOUS GOD, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments."

(Know that even the order of the Commandments was altered by the Roman Catholic Church, in order to accommodate their idols.)

I wonder what part of "NOT" do these so-called leaders not get!!!

The Catholic Church has and does, continually, compromise Christian values to "appease" and garner favor with "all religions!" View "A Woman Rides the Beast - Dave Hunt" by BereanBeacon, and you will see that the New World Order is exactly what is in view in all sectors, political and religious!!




The Catholic Church, Chapter 841:


The Church's relationship with the Muslims. "The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's judge on the last day."


My goodness!! They completely MISS what the "plan of salvation" really involves!!

WHERE IS CHRIST IN IT??!!

SATAN "ACKNOWLEDGES" GOD AS THE CREATOR!!


Is he saved, according to the Catholic Church??!! This is blasphemy!!


Furthermore, the allah of Islam IS NOT THE ALMIGHTY GOD!!

allah is no more than a figment of the imagination of one who was a pedophile, a thief, a sex pervert and abuser women, a murderer!

The koran reads like a book on filth! Pure, unadulterated FILTH, and here Pope John Paul II was kissing it!!

Anyone wanting to know more please tune into my YouTube RainhadoCanto7 channel, which is "dedicated" to Islam! Better yet, look up the channels of those to whom I subscribe, many of whom CONVERTED from Islam, and seek to disseminate the truth of the Gospel! And these are not engaged in "Muslim bashing," either!

I HAVE PURPOSELY WRITTEN allah IN SMALL LETTERS, BECAUSE OUR GOD AND it ARE NOT ONE AND THE SAME!


John 14:6

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.


Matthew 7:

13 "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.
14 "For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it."

What sobering words! These, alone, should give all pause!!
Here HE tells us that there are "few who find it"!

Let's pray that we number among the "few" who find it!


Tell me, by what INFALLIBLE DOGMA OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH did Pope John Paul place the BUDDHA ON THE ALTAR TO BE WORSHIPED TOGETHER WITH THE HOLY EUCHARIST?? Is worshiping not a matter of faith?

Anyone who has read the post on "Mary Worship?" has seen the contradiction after contradiction that has come out of the Vatican through the centuries:

"Pope Benedict XV said of Mary that [O]ne can justly say that with Christ, she herself redeemed mankind."

Christ, Who, as you have read before, distanced Himself from her, addressing her as "woman," and never having called her mother!

"Pope Pius IX said, Our salvation is based upon the holy Virgin."

A "virgin" whom the Bible shows to have had other children!

"However, as we will see, the teaching of the Assumption originated with heretical writings which were officially condemned by the early Church.

"In 495 A.D., Pope Gelasius issued a decree which rejected this teaching as heresy and its proponents as heretics.

"In the sixth century, Pope Hormisdas also condemned as heretics those authors who taught the doctrine of the Assumption of Mary. The early Church clearly considered the doctrine of the Assumption of Mary to be a heresy worthy of condemnation.

"Here we have infallible popes declaring something to be a heresy. Then in 1950, Pope Pius XII, another infallible pope, declared it to be official Roman Catholic doctrine."

Had she been "assumed into Heaven," John, to whom Christ entrusted her, would never have missed noting it for us!

One would think that if anyone had it right, it would have been the early church leaders!

"The Pope is said to be infallible whenever he makes an official decree on matters of faith and morals. According to Catholic doctrine, it is impossible for the Pope to teach false doctrine. Catholics are expected to obey the Pope without question, even when he is not making an infallible statement about doctrine. They are expected to submit their wills and minds to the Pope without question.

"The Early Fathers, and the theologians and canon lawyers of the Middle Ages, never taught that the bishops or the Pope were infallible. This is demonstrated by the fact that in 680 A.D., the Sixth Ecumenical Council condemned a pope as a heretic. It was not until the fourteenth century that the theory of infallibility began to emerge. With the development of this theory came a change in the interpretation of some biblical passages." - Mary Ann Collins, former nun.


March 13, 2000
JIM LEHRER: There was an extraordinary event in Rome yesterday as Pope John Paul II issued an apology for errors of his church over the last 2000 years.

P MORGAN: The pope's "Day of Pardon" mass was designed, in the Vatican's words, to ask forgiveness for the past and present sins of the Church.

Sins shared through the promptings of the "ruling" Popes!

Pope John Paul II also endorsed DARWINISM, as does Pope Benedict XVI, which is TOTALLY CONTRARY TO THE TEACHINGS IN GOD'S WORD!! God's Word to have become irrelevant in the Roman Catholic Church.

1 Corinthians 1:25 (King James Version)

25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men;
and the weakness of God is stronger than men

1 Timothy 4

Apostasy
1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,
2 by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,
3 men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.
4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude;
5 for it is sanctified by means of the word of God and prayer.
"To Him such 'holiness' is a sham!! God calls their sacrifices 'futile' and their incense 'an abomination,' the spiritual basis of their worship to be profane. Their worship merely went through the motions with punctilious observance of the Sabbath and rituals. Obviously, the god they conceived was not the true God because He is more concerned with right relationships than scrupulous regard for ceremony.

"They broke both the first and second commandments: They conjured up their own image of God and then worshiped in the name of the true God as they saw fit. Worship is the reaction to one's god at all times and cannot be separated from character and attitudes. The true God cannot be fooled." (Adapted from The Berean)


And this is exactly how it is that the Roman Catholic Church has reinvented God, to suit their own purposes!


"The Cross and the Mass by Richard Bennett" video by BereanBeacon. Mr. Bennett was a devout priest for 22 years, and this is a most painful and compassionate testimony of his redemption in order to bring the truth to the Catholics who are still deceived by the guile of the Catholic Church!




Galatians 5:9
"A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough."

And, continuously, it has been contaminated, under the auspices of this "infalible church!"


Galatians 5:4
"You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace."

Galatians 2:11 "But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned."

It seems that catering to ALL had a sad beginning with Peter, which is what the Catholic Church seems to wish to emulate, perpetually!!


John 15:22
"If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin."


Thus, anyone who has read these posts can never claim ignorance as an excuse:





But, I concede that there is only so much one can do with some!! Jesus tells us, quite well, how to proceed!

Mark 6:
10 And He said to them, "Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave town.
11 "Any place that does not receive you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake the dust off the soles of your feet for a testimony against them."
12 They went out and preached that men should repent.

Once we have done our best to open the eyes of the blind, what he/she chooses to see, is totally up to God!!

John 6:
44 "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.
45 "It is written in the prophets, 'AND THEY SHALL ALL BE TAUGHT OF GOD.' Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me."

Matthew 11:25-27

(27) All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.


John 14:6-10

(6) Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

One need read the Bible in order to learn. Otherwise, no teaching can be accomplished!!

Matthew 10:
11 Whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it and stay there until you leave.12 As you enter the house, greet it.
13 If the house is worthy let your blessing of peace come on it. But if it isn't worthy, let your blessing of peace return to you.
14 If no one welcomes you or listens to your words, as you leave that house or town, shake its dust off your feet.
15 Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town!

There is, obviously, a big difference between being judgmental and using discernment!!
HE called us to use our discernment!!

Ignorance of this difference, will not be an excuse!!


1 Corinthians 16:13
"Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong"

And, it surely isn't that we can make conditions upon which, depending on any outcome, we decide whether He is worthy of our belief or not! He needs us not! WE NEED HIM, DESPERATELY! Here, Timmo (bloootube channel on YouTube) caves in to "please" someone, which is exactly his style, he to have gained many medals for brown-nosing! To "stand firm," to "be a man of courage," not to be part of his vocabulary, at all, much less his character!

GOOD WORKS DO NOTHING TO GET ANYONE INTO HEAVEN!!
NOT ONE THING!!

THE BIBLE IS QUITE CLEAR ON THIS!!

Then he goes on to say: "Early in this decade I was in poor health - unable to work - and it was largely my Roman Catholic friends who sent me food - clothing - and surrounded me by Love in many many ways." This is laughable!! I cannot believe a 60-year-old makes such ludicrous statements!!

EVEN THE BAD DO GOOD FOR THEIR OWN!!

PAGANS DO THE SAME, TOO!!

THIS IS A NO-BRAINER!!

It truly SICKENS ME that anyone who purportedly KNOWS THE BIBLE, as does Timmo, would be so twisted as to brand anyone who does STAND FIRM and IS of COURAGE, no more than what Christ, Himself, proposed we do, as "Catholic bashing!"

Analogous to this is the extreme Left's retort that, should anyone question ANYTHING Barack Obama does, it is because he/she must be a racist! This is the epitome of ignorance! This is pure malevolence!!

And it is simply beyond pathetic to claim that because "There are many charities here in Pittsburgh - including crisis pregnancy centers - that COULD NOT FUNCTION without Roman Catholic people and resources" What a joke! So because they do charity, it is OK to not observe the Word of God! How pathetic! By the way, so do many other denominations, albeit not as loudly advertised, obviously, to include the Jews and the Salvation Army!

"I Love my Roman Catholic brothers and sisters, and I take grave offense when my fellow evangelicals initiate or perpetuate ad hominem attacks against Roman Catholics." says Timmo!

It is not only pathetic, IT IS DOWNRIGHT OFFENSIVE that such a MORONIC statement be made!! There are so very many who truly wrestle with the love for their own family who are in the grip of this religion, and the OBLIGATION they have to bring these to the Lord, at the expense of being made outcasts, themselves!! The incredibly horrible dilemma involved in this, and this fool claims it to be "Catholic bashing!"

I KNOW NO ONE WHO INITIATES OR PERPETUATES ATTACKS ON ROMAN CATHOLICS!! IT IS THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH WHO IS ADDRESSED AS BEING APOSTATE IN THESE INSTANCES, AND NOT THE ROMAN CATHOLICS!


THIS IS A CLEAR ATTEMPT TO PERVERT THE GOOD INTENTIONS OF THOSE WHO DO NO MORE THAN TO ACT OUT OF LOVE AND CONCERN FOR THEIR FELLOW MAN!! SUCH BEHAVIOR IS MOST CONTEMPTIBLE!!

It would be so much easier to just do nothing, and be selfish for having the peace it brings you to know that you have Eternal Salvation, while it is that these others can do no more than contemplate a shorter stay in purgatory to pay for their sins! Can there be a more selfish act than to NOT share THE GOOD NEWS?!

You should have seen Timmo in a discussion with my friends, back in 2008, upholding the very views I sponsor, friends who are Born Again Christians, which, Timmo, also, PRETENDED to be! A complete fake is this most contemptible being! This the wolf in sheep's clothing about which the Bible warns us! A Bible verse perpetually on their lips, with the most evil of intentions lurking within!

Matthew 7:15
"Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 (a)By their fruit you will recognize them.

INDEED!!

He also writes: "However, I will not permit my site to be turned into a clearinghouse for a cornucopia of theological/ideological agendas." Here a spot of much-needed humor! Anyone see the possibility that anyone has cared to do so on his most bland of channels? Ever? He is delusional, at best!

And this from someone who has NEVER cared to make his "ministering" public on YouTube! Of course not! He has too many Roman Catholic "friends" he would not dare offend!! But he never fails to let a few know of how he continually "ministers," for 20-plus years, the very same people, who he doesn't even know if they are saved.

Titus 3:10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
Titus 3:11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

Paul is quite clear as to this, that it not to be done like so! But, of course, because Timmo says so does not mean it is true! After all, he was also "ministering" to that guy whose only interest was to make gory horror videos... about which, as it turned out, Timmo was giving him pointers, and for which he was thanked,... just this last Christmas day of 2008!

But, then, he also says he isn't sure of his own salvation!
I am not surprised!

Proverbs 26:4-5

(4) Do not answer a fool according to his folly,
Lest you also be like him.
(5) Answer a fool according to his folly,
Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

And before there be some finger-pointing in my direction:

Matthew 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

Timmo has been very GOOD about providing PLENTY OF CAUSE!

Timmo had also best keep in mind a couple of Scripture verses:

Mark 9:42
42 "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble, it would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea.

Matthew 18:7
7
"Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes!"


"as we attempt to extend to a discouraged world the Good News of Love, Forgiveness and Reconciliation during these perilous times." someone wrote!

Actually, it is Repentance that is a Necessary preparation for Receiving the Gospel: The Good News!
Forgiveness of Sins is more readily realized (and RECOGNIZED!)
when we are most AWARE of OUR SIN !

The times are to become even more perilous, and without true repentance, there can be no forgiveness!


Matthew 3:8 "Bear fruit worthy of repentance," said John the Baptist!

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Proverbs 9:10
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding."

I would like to share with you a most beautiful video "The Holy Character of God"[Knowing God!]"by Aflame4God




(8) Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”
(9) Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
(10) Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.

Jesus is saying, "If you want to see the mind and nature of God, if you want to see His attitudes, look at Me." God reveals Himself and declares His glory to us through the life, works, and words of Jesus of Nazareth as He opens our minds by His Holy Spirit. (The Berean)


May our Father draw and enlighten anyone who comes to Him in humility!


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2 comments:

  1. You have nothing to say about the shameful disgrace of John Paul II in the synagogue of Rome with the Talmud. From your silence what should we think about this? You have a lot of things to say about the Koran. What do you imagine are the contents of the Babylonian Talmud, as taught by the rabbis and embraced by this pope?

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  2. Response I have just posted on Mr. Hoffman's blog, "To the contrary."

    "You have nothing to say about the shameful disgrace of John Paul II in the synagogue of Rome with the Talmud. From your silence what should we think about this? You have a lot of things to say about the Koran. What do you imagine are the contents of the Babylonian Talmud, as taught by the rabbis and embraced by this pope?"

    Perhaps, Mr. Hoffman, you may think that I haven't heard about it!! And it would be true!

    I have just found your above-quoted comment, dated February 24, 2010 12:09 PM, on my blog post titled: "Papal infallibility? Peter the rock?"

    It would be obvious to anyone that I do not presume to be a connoisseur of the popes' every misstep, which in itself would result in a full-time job!

    My purpose, as my blog suggests, is to gauge "True Christianity vs Roman Catholicism," and the popes' continued pagan advances to be very relevant!

    In any instance, I shall look into this, and thank you for visiting my blog!

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