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Pastor of Hermeneutics and Apologetics Bathed in Christ's Precious Blood Apostle to the Cactuses, Tumbleweeds and Jackrabbits
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Re: Things we share in common -
08-18-2010, 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by The Cantabrian
Of course celibacy is important, and is preferable to marriage as St Paul says. You can't just make anything up as you please. Sacred oral tradition evolves gradually over centuries among the popes.
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Like infallibility, papal succession and the bishop of Rome being the head of the church? Like Peter dying in Rome?
All oral traditions.. Not biblically based nor sound.
You never answered the question about the bishopric being required to be married.
1 Timothy 3 1This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
2A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
3Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
4One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
5(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
Christians are superior because we possess an understanding that unbelievers lack. It is through the Power of Jesus only the converted mind is able to understand what is going on in the world; what the Communists are really up to; what Satan's intentions are. Most unbelievers do not even believe in Satan and cannot understand his tactics.
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Unsaved trash, God-mocking gayboy
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Re: Things we share in common -
08-18-2010, 11:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Levi Jones
You never answered the question about the bishopric being required to be married.
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I noticed the same thing. Cantabrian, you're not exactly helping your case by ducking questions and relying on proof by assertion.
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Warning: Ring-kissing, Mary-worshipping, baby-baptizing, idolatrous papal cultist
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Re: Things we share in common -
08-19-2010, 08:44 AM
Ok well you know my ability to answer questions would be greatly aided if I were not impeded by a 700 second delay between posts.
Let us look then at the question of bishops. In the early years of the Church, there was a great scarcity of single men who were eligible for ordination, so that is why men who were already married were accepted for the priesthood and the bishopric. When St Paul said that a bishop must be the husband of one wife, he did not mean that bishops must marry. That would be plainly a wrong interpretation since Paul would have then contravened his own rule! The rule means that a bishop must not have more than one wife, and this include remarriage in the event of widowing. We see then that a man who never marries does not violate this rule.
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Re: Things we share in common -
08-19-2010, 08:48 AM
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Originally Posted by The Cantabrian
The rule means that a bishop must not have more than one wife, and this include remarriage in the event of widowing. We see then that a man who never marries does not violate this rule.
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Ok, if we go with that for a minute, then where exactly does it say that it includes remarriage if widowed?
"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." - Revelation 1:8
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Pastor of Hermeneutics and Apologetics Bathed in Christ's Precious Blood Apostle to the Cactuses, Tumbleweeds and Jackrabbits
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Re: Things we share in common -
08-19-2010, 08:57 AM
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Originally Posted by The Cantabrian
The rule means that a bishop must not have more than one wife, and thhttp://www.landoverbaptist.net/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=582850is include remarriage in the event of widowing. We see then that a man who never marries does not violate this rule.
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What a weak argument.
At least you didn't claim that the pope's law trumps even Paul's. I have seen that line of argument before. I have to give you some credit for that.
Still, you are purposely ignoring the scriptures, yet again. It's funny how it gets easier and easier for you popists to lie to yourself when the scriptures clearly say a Bishop should be married with children. Otherwise, they would be unqualified to give practical advice.
Paul even warns against false prophets prohibiting marriage. but you knew that too.
The truth is that even you know you only give lip service to your false religion. You only want to be right. The more you study it, the more falsity you see.
Christians are superior because we possess an understanding that unbelievers lack. It is through the Power of Jesus only the converted mind is able to understand what is going on in the world; what the Communists are really up to; what Satan's intentions are. Most unbelievers do not even believe in Satan and cannot understand his tactics.
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Senior Usher True Christian™ missionary to the Unsaved Kingdom A very nice young man
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Re: Things we share in common -
08-19-2010, 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by The Cantabrian
Of course celibacy is important, and is preferable to marriage as St Paul says.
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So married priests are not as good as celibate priests, that's what you're saying. BTW, who do you think Paul was addressing in Phil. 4:3?
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You can't just make anything up as you please. Sacred oral tradition evolves gradually over centuries among the popes.
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Right. Gotcha. I have to put on a silly hat, then I can make up anything I please. BTW, did evolution happen or not? Was Galileo right, or were his persecutors right?
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Originally Posted by The Cantabrian
Let us look then at the question of bishops. In the early years of the Church, there was a great scarcity of single men who were eligible for ordination, so that is why men who were already married were accepted for the priesthood and the bishopric. When St Paul said that a bishop must be the husband of one wife, he did not mean that bishops must marry. That would be plainly a wrong interpretation since Paul would have then contravened his own rule! The rule means that a bishop must not have more than one wife, and this include remarriage in the event of widowing. We see then that a man who never marries does not violate this rule.
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1 Timothy 3:4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
How on earth could anyone interpret that in any way other than what it clearly says - that having a family is a positive asset for a bishop?
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it--for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
God being truth, justice, goodness, beauty, power, and life, man is falsehood, iniquity, evil, ugliness, impotence, and death. God being master, man is the slave. Incapable of finding justice, truth, and eternal life by his own effort, he can attain them only through a divine revelation... he who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter, but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
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Re: Things we share in common -
08-21-2010, 01:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Brother Temperance
Was Galileo right, or were his persecutors right?
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One could not write anything funnier or more rediculous that the contemporary response by the Vatican to "the Galileo problem".
The Vatican spent ten years trying to figure out what to say about the fact the Galileo was right and the Pope was wrong. But after ten years of study, you will not find these words in the final report, "The Pope was wrong, Galileo was right."
Instead, there is some indirect references to "mistakes". The lie that the Pope is infallible must be preserved at all costs because cash flow is more important than truth.
We can be proud that at Landover Baptist, unlike the Catholic Church, only the truth prevails.
Isaiah 24:1-3 Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty (2)...as the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. (3) The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken his word.
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