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Recent content by boughtwithaprice

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    A perspective on Baptism and the plan of salvation that I have not heard before

    Now you are making straw man arguments to hold your position. This is a sign the you are like the Apsotle Paul when he was Saul Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It’s getting hard for you to kick against the goads. The Catholic Church does not claim that Mary is divine or semi divine...
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    A perspective on Baptism and the plan of salvation that I have not heard before

    Those are your teachings on the Scriptures, and not scripture itself, it is your interpretation. To find Apostolic teaching from the ones closest to Jesus, we go back to the first and second century. Specifically we read the Didache, and Demonstration of the Apostolic preaching by Iraneus...
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    A perspective on Baptism and the plan of salvation that I have not heard before

    Without form and void means not yet created, it does not imply chaos. Not even uninhabitable means chaotic. It was ordered by the will and purpose of God. As Peter states the Earth out of water and through water, consisting by the word of God. No chaos there, unless you say the word of God is...
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    A perspective on Baptism and the plan of salvation that I have not heard before

    Thank you for your thoughtful reply. While I don’t agree with it, it helps me to understand your thinking. You say there was chaos at the beginning of creation. Where did this chaos come from? Are you saying God is the author of chaos, and merely to glory in power does He bring forth order...
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    The Harm Caused by Excessive Criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and Other Denominations

    Completely agree That does beg the question what is an idol? Can we agree that an idol is an object or idea made by human hands put forth and to be worshipped as God, but it is not God, rather the work of human hands? Is that a reasonable definition? Are all graven images idols? That...
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    The Harm Caused by Excessive Criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and Other Denominations

    The contrary is also true. Every charge that can be brought against the Catholic Church can be explained away. But what do these charges and explanations do? Sway the minds of men? Faith is required to see God and the kingdom of heaven, that is true, but God does not require our faith for...
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    First must he suffer many things, and be rejected of "this generation"...

    The question then becomes, who are the man based churches and who is God’s Church? How can we tell?
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    A perspective on Baptism and the plan of salvation that I have not heard before

    We seem to be getting hung up on semantics, which is “hair splitting”, but it is important hair splitting, much like the not one iota from the Nicene council or Our Lord saying not one jot or tittle will pass from the law Chaos implies that a creature or created thing is unruly or implies...
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    A perspective on Baptism and the plan of salvation that I have not heard before

    The Earth was without form. That is a given, because the water was present before its creation. The Hebrew words tohu and bohu refer to the Earth. They do not refer to the waters It is reasonable to infer that water in a vacuum with no light, and therefore not heat existed as a large ball...
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    A perspective on Baptism and the plan of salvation that I have not heard before

    Where does the word say chaos? It says the Earth was without form, as it had not yet been created. The Bible does not say that the water was in chaos. Why do you interpret order from chaos? Could it not be order from another form of order? At each point of Creation, God says He looked upon...
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    A perspective on Baptism and the plan of salvation that I have not heard before

    His name was Lucifer which is light bearer. His sin was pride in that he wanted all beauty and power to himself apart from God. Satan values his own status above that of the humility required by God Jesus, who is God, did not think equality with God something to be grasped. He emptied...
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    A perspective on Baptism and the plan of salvation that I have not heard before

    I picked it to allow all those that call themselves Christian to discuss this topic. I did not want limitations of denominations to restrict discussion, but it is here in theology, as non Christian opinion is not necessary for this topic, but if interested, non Christians can come and read the...
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    A perspective on Baptism and the plan of salvation that I have not heard before

    Water is matter, which is created by God, as water is not God. It was present before the creation of the Earth and even light itself, but it was not eternally existent as God Himself We do not call it the antithesis of God’s order, it was just present at the start of creation. There is no...
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    A perspective on Baptism and the plan of salvation that I have not heard before

    I have wondered why God commands us to be baptized. The perspective affects our view on creation and salvation. To begin to think about this, we must discern between science, which is observable data and narrative, which is an explanation of the data. The current narrative in science is that...
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    Please explain CCC 536 regarding Jesus and the Spirit: 'possessed in fullness' yet 'comes to rest on him'.

    To begin to understand this, we have to look at the Baptism of Our Lord Matthew 3 16 And Jesus being baptized, forthwith came out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened to him: and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him. 17 And behold a voice from heaven...