I Thes 5:22

[OldSchool2]

11 hours ago, Butero said:

In the book of Acts, it states that one of the necessary things to forbid Christians from doing is eating blood.  

"For Moses has been proclaimed in every city from ancient times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath...."

[OldSchool2]

10 hours ago, Butero said:

The problem is that they intentionally made the decision to use improper words when they translated from Greek to English.  As such, the translation is false.  

Galatians 3:28 is not false.

[OldSchool2]

10 hours ago, Butero said:

I have a suggestion for those in charge at Worthy Christian Forums.  I think there should be a new label for Catholics.  Instead of Royal Member, why not just say Catholic?  That way we know what we are dealing with up front.  It certainly explains a lot.  The same thing could be done for cults like Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.  That way we will immediately recognize they are not real Christians....

If you're saying that those in charge here can't tell a cultist from a true Christian, why tell me as I'm not running this website? Tell them!

[OldSchool2]

9 hours ago, Gary Lee said:

Did you never make your First Communion?

Yes

Actually Oldschool, if you would look at my reply you would have seen my reply, I said yes....

 

Look at my question again.

[OldSchool2]

7 hours ago, Heleadethme said:

Amen Gary.......I was raised Catholic too, baptised, communion, and confirmed and attended catholic schools right through high school.  It is sad that for all their belief about life in the Eucharist, there is no life in Catholicism....

"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" (John 6:53).

[Guest shiloh357]

35 minutes ago, OldSchool2 said:

But Jesus didn't say "save"; he said you have no life in you without partaking of his body and blood.

Jesus is talking about eternal life and a saved person is a person who has eternal life through faith alone in Christ alone.

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And Lady Kay was referring to the perception of evil from the perspective of others, not God.

Yes, I know that.  But the Bible in I Thess. 5:22 is using the Greek word "poneron" which is defining evil from God's perspective.  And it is God's perspective that is of primary importanace.

 

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What his disciples couldn't accept was Jesus' claiming to be the Bread of Life (John 6:48).

Wrong.  What is disciples rejected was his claim that He was the giver of eternal life, making Him God.   The word for "life" is the Greek word "zoe" which is the Greek word for eternal life that comes only from God. 

I realize that the RCC is a little slow on the uptake when it comes to good, sound biblical doctrine.

[Heleadethme]

8 hours ago, frienduff thaylorde said:

GOD has mercy on us people , HE sure does.  He has drawn men and women out of that pit of darkness wherein their is no life nor hope.

While I may never have been one.   What I was , \was simply one of the worst wicked things ever .   GOD had mercy on me too.

Called me out , drew me to Christ and put me directly IN the B   I   B   L   E,  which by those holy scrips , makes us wise unto salvation

and far from the salvation of many men in many churches gone wrong.     OH let us praise the LORD for his mercy indeed.  and let us pray that many trapped in deception

of mens traditions and lies , will be set free in Christ to learn and grow and feed on the real true holy scrips and not the doctrines taught by men which have led many astray .

Amen brother......and that is true in most all the churches as well.  I was led astray even by evangelical groups until the Lord led me out, to seek Him in His word alone.  But at least at the time I came to faith in Christ, some still had the gospel, thankfully......praise God for His mercy, indeed!  Apostasy is much worse and more widespread now.....and the glory has departed from most of them, sadly.

[OldSchool2]

12 hours ago, Davida said:

What contradiction?  explain this in detail -- thank you.

The contradiction of being in the New Testament while still living in the Old.

You're welcome.

[Heleadethme]

7 hours ago, Gary Lee said:

Very well put, Heleadethme. It sounds just like myself, all the way through high school. I have had to go to a few funerals at some old catholic churches I had been to many years past. When I enter the church, I feel such a foreboding, a feeling of despair as I listen to the priest, and look at the people, many of which are relatives and friends, and such a sense of hopelessness. I see people that  are so entrenched in church tradition and doctrine, never hearing a gospel message, and feeling a sense of despair, like you said, devoid of His Spirit. Looking at all the paintings and statues of dead "saints" people pray to, like a good luck charm, trying to get an inside track on God's ear, not knowing they can go directly to God and not need an earthly intercessor, only our advocate, Jesus Christ.   1John,2:1  And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous  Yes there are well meaning Catholics, but never reading God's letters written to us, only hearing what the church has decided they need to hear. Why is it so many, going to church, never understand salvation cannot be worked for, cannot be bought, no mater how many novenas, rosaries, stations of the cross, masses, eucharists, confessions, baptisms, the sacraments, etc. It's a gift. From our Creator. His great and wondrous Grace. Only add your part, faith.
2Co 4:3,4  But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Amen Gary, bless you.  To have any other advocate besides Christ Jesus is sinful and any organization that teaches and perpetuates that is guilty of egregious error and will have to give account to God for the souls they led to hell.  Well they have not the Spirit to help them understand the word of God, they rely on the intellect which is enmity with God........and the organization itself is self-interested and instead of just being a means to an end, to point souls to Christ and His salvation, it is and always has been since its inception, an end in itself.  It keeps souls in bondage to itself instead of freeing them to serve and worship God in Christ alone.  Unfortunately after the reformation the evangelical churches did not separate themselves enough from the ways of the mother institution and has produced a lot of the same kind of fruits, especially now that the fruit of it has grown to the full, instead of being a viable living Body with all its divers parts under one Head, it has been a one man in a pulpit kind of organization....antichrist.  This is WHY it is falling away now, and all will lead to the Antichrist and persecution of those who remain faithful to Christ alone.

[OldSchool2]

47 minutes ago, shiloh357 said:

Jesus is talking about eternal life and a saved person is a person who has eternal life through faith alone in Christ alone...

"I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty..." (John 6:35).

Do you have enough faith in Christ alone to believe that he is the "bread of life" in the here and now?

47 minutes ago, shiloh357 said:

...  What is disciples rejected was his claim that He was the giver of eternal life, making Him God.   The word for "life" is the Greek word "zoe" which is the Greek word for eternal life that comes only from God. 

I realize that the RCC is a little slow on the uptake when it comes to good, sound biblical doctrine.

How good is your uptake on this biblical doctrine?

"'... I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

"The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?'

"Then Jesus said unto them, 'Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

'"Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

"'For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

"'He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

"'As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

"'This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.'

"These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

"Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

"When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, 'Doth this offend you?'"

John 6 (KJV).

Does it offend you too?