I Believe that I know what your Answer will be but I still need to ask you this Question:
"What do you consider to be The Pillar and Foundation of ALL TRUTHS?"
"What do you go consider 'The Final Court of Appeal'...when it comes to Questions of Morals and Religion?" I mean..."where does the Bickering end...who or what has The Final Say?".
It would be nice if you could answer with Scriptural Backing and without Insults and Slander and Slobbering (you spit when you scream).
15 if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God�s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
:yay:...:applause:...:bouncy:....I really did not "THINK" to look for Pillar, Foundation, Truth as being in one Scripture...:winksmile:...I've probably read it many times & jus didn't "SEE" it...thank you Steve for sharing & teaching this...I Agree & am Beside you on the Don't Attack the Church or YOU for your Convictions or Belief...Its jus not a Very Nice or Loving thing to do...regardless of personal Opinions or Perspective...Luv ya...xo
2 Timothy 3:16; & 2 Tim 4:3,4: � **ALL SCRIPTURE** is God breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.... For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
Matthew 1:24,25: When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. But he had no union with her **UNTIL** she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.
Mark 6:1,3:Jesus left and went to His hometown...and began to teach...They asked, "Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't His sisters here with us?"
Mark 3:31-34: Then Jesus' mother and BROTHERS arrived. Standing outside...A crowd was sitting around Him, and they told Him, "Your mother and BROTHERS are outside looking for you." "Who are My mother and my brothers?" Jesus asked. Then He looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother!"
Matthew 6:6,9-11: Jesus says, �When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your **Father**, who is unseen. Then your **Father**, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you ...This then is how you should pray: �Our Father in Heaven, hallowed be your name, your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.....�
Is there even one instance where a believer prayed to someone other than the **Father** in the OT or the NT?? Answer; ZERO!
What church:devil: had its evil leader:devil: decree that it is OK to pray to and worship Mary, a human being, who was a sinless VIRGIN??
I Timothy 3:1-5:If anyone sets his heart on being an Overseer or Bishop, he desires a noble task. Now the Overseer or Bishop must be the husband of but one wife.....He must manage his own family well..If anyone does no know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church? I Tim 3:12 and Titus 1:6: Deacons and Elders should also be the husband of but one wife.
I Corinthians 9:5: Paul said �Don't we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other Apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas {PETER} What church:devil: became famous for having thousands of their unmarried priests fondle and seduce hundreds of thousands of innocent and trusting children?? There were over 250 Roman Catholic priests and teachers found guilty of seducing children just in the German province of Munich alone. As a result over 200,000 disgusted Germans and about 76,000 Austrians left the Roman Catholic Church in 2010.
Matthew 23:9: Jesus says, �Do not call ANYONE on earth 'father,' for you have ONE {Spiritual} Father, and He is in Heaven!!� What Church:devil: calls all their priests spiritual �Fathers�?? And their Satanic leader �Holy Father�?? And their evil followers bow down and kiss his ring and worship him???
This Church:devil: actually claims that they do not worship Mary but what are all these "Hail Mary's" all about??? Actually this Church worships and prays to Mary far more than they worship Jesus and His Father combined even though God's Word commands us over 100 times to Worship and pray to GOD ALONE!!
Hebrews 9:15,26b-28: Christ is the mediator of a NEW COVENANT so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance--now that He has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant...But now He has APPEARED ONCE FOR ALL at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the SACRIFICE of Himself... so Christ was SACRIFICED ONCE to take away the sins of many people, and He will *APPEAR* a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those:rolleyes: who are waiting for Him. Hebrews 10:10: �We have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus **ONCE FOR ALL**!!�
What Church:devil: believes that Jesus has to die every day except Good Friday to take away sins and that Satanic priests:devil: have the power to change wine into the blood of Jesus which they drink and wafers into the body of Jesus which they eat.
Romans 6:9,10: "We know that since Christ was raised from the dead, *HE CANNOT DIE AGAIN*; death no longer has mastery over Him. The death He died,* HE DIED FOR SIN **ONCE** FOR ALL*; but the life He lives He lives to God!":applause:
If only more of us could be like You (myself included).
You did not �Rail� against this �News� or attempt to Defend your Position, but rather with Joy in Your Heart and Thanksgiving on Your lips�you gave Thanks.
When God Speaks of us ( His Children) in Scripture�He does not call us�Giants or Eagles or Lions or Tigers or Bears (oh my!...couldn�t resist). When God Speaks of us God calls us Sheep! We are Sheep. Sheep are not all that Smart or Clever. Sheep need a Shepherd.
God Created His Church � not only to Hold and Preserve His Truths and Plan of Salvation, but to also Guide and PROTECT us! Left on Our own Devices and Our ENORMOUS EGOS�we would most likely Strike Out on Our OWN and
Eventually Start 30,000 Different churches All Based on Scripture!
Now�before you all Fire Up those Torches and hunt me down. I personally Believe that there are Many Paths to Heaven�but�But�BUT�they all Eventually Converge and lead to Christ!
Anyone that has been Baptized�Believes in The Trinity�that only Christ can Mediate for us�Believes in Christ�s Resurrection and His RETURN � that person is a Brother or Sister in Christ � Regardless of Where They WORSHIP!
I am a Catholic not because of The Pastor�or the Choir�or the building�or the people�or Anything other than the Fact that She has The Sacraments! She has �The Body and Blood of Christ�
John 6:53-58
New International Version (NIV)
53 Jesus said to them, �Very truly I tell you, unless you
eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will
raise them up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is
real food and my blood is real drink.
56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.�
I am not going to question Jesus as to How�or�Why? I am not going to Leave Him for something as Trivial as this. I am right beside The Apostles when they replied to Jesus� Question:
67 �You do not want to leave too, do you?� Jesus asked the Twelve.
68 Simon Peter answered him, �Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
Again Jude��When I Grow Up I want to be Just Like You!!
