>Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6 KJV)
DAILY BREAD God is our refuge and strength, a well-proven help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains shake with its swelling. Selah There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy dwelling place of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she will not be moved; God will help her in the early dawn. The nations roared; the kingdoms were moved; He uttered His voice; the earth melted. The Lord of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah
“For no other reason does God punish the sinner either in the present or future world, except because He knows that the sinner was able to conquer but neglected to gain the victory.” Recognitions of Clement of Rome. 111. 23, V. 8, IX. 30.
There is, therefore, nothing to hinder you from changing your evil manner of life, because you are a free man. (Melito, 170 AD, 8.754)
· We were not created to die. Rather, we die by our own fault. Our free will has destroyed us. We who were free have become slaves. We have been sold through sin. Nothing evil has been created by God. We ourselves have manifested wickedness. But we, who have manifested it, are able again, to reject it. (Tatian, 160 AD, 2.69)
Ryder Price
Because you were in it
Nathaniel Williams
No idea
Blake Wright
MAN HAS FREE WILL WHICH IS WHAT THE CHURCH FATHERS TAUGHT
I have proved in what has been said that those who were foreknown to be unrighteous, whether men or angels, are not made wicked by God’s fault. Rather, each man is what he will appear to be through his own fault. (Justin Martyr, 160 AD, 1.269) · He created both angels and men free to do that which is righteous. And He appointed periods of time during which He knew it would be good for them to have the exercise of free will. (Justin Martyr, 160 AD, 1.250) . We maintain that each man acts rightly or sins by his free choice….Since God in the beginning made the race of angels and men with free will, they will justly suffer in eternal fire the punishment of whatever sins they have committed. (Justin Martyr, 160 AD, 1.190) · We…have believed and are saved by voluntary choice. (Clement of Alexandria, 195 AD, 2.217) · Each one of us who sins with his own free will, chooses punishment. So the blame lies with him who chooses. God is without blame. (Clement of Alexandria, 195 AD, 2.226)
Landon Miller
We call this food Eucharist; and no one else is permitted to partake of it, except one who believes our teaching to be true and who has beenwashed in the washing which is for the remission of sins and for regeneration [Baptism], and is thereby living as Christ has enjoined. For not as common bread nor common drink do we receive these; but since Jesus Christ our Savior was made incarnate by the word of God and had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so too, as we have been taught, the food which has been made into the Eucharist by the Eucharistic prayer set down by Him, and by the change of which our blood and flesh is nourished, is both the flesh and the blood of that incarnated Jesus. [First Apology 66 (c. 151 AD)]
Julian Nelson
I know it's a wierd question but recently I've been feeling like the way I pray isn't the proper way. So can someone post the proper way to pray? Obviously there should be nothing about Mary.
Nicholas Williams
Stop trying to sucker people from this board into your suicidal ideology
Robert Morris
NEVER CITING WHAT ELSE THEY SAID HUH? LIKE THAT THERE IS FREE WILL. MAN HAS FREE WILL HERETIC
· But man, being endowed with reason, and in this similar respect similar to God, having been made free in his will, and with power over himself, is himself his own cause that sometimes becomes wheat, and sometimes chaff. (Irenaeus, 180 AD, 1.466)
· I find, then, that man was constituted free by God. He was master of his own will and power….Man is free, with a will either for obedience or resistance. (Tertullian, 207 AD, 3.300, 301)
· Man is able to both will and not to will. He is endowed with power to do both. (Hippolytus, 225 AD, 5.152)
· The liberty of believing or not believing is placed in free choice. In Deuteronomy, it says, ‘Look! I have set before your face life and death, good and evil. Choose for yourself life, that you may live.’” (Cyprian, 250 AD, 5.547)
Man was made with a free will…on account of his capacity of obeying or disobeying God. For this was the meaning of the gift of free will. (Methodius, 290 AD, 6.362)
Isaiah Edwards
The God Who Gives Life That Is Truly Life: Meritorious Almsgiving and the Divine Economy in 1 Timothy 6
Among the interpretative challenges offered by the final chapter of 1 Timo-thy, one literary and one theological question are especially resistant toeasy answers. First, how does the personal charge to Timothy in 6:11-16 re-late to its present literary context, particularly since the directives given toTimothy in verses 11-14,which are punctuated by a brief doxology in verses15-16, appear at first glance to interrupt the focused teachings on wealthfound in verses 6-10 and verses 17-19? Second, does the instruction to therich in verses 17-19, with its suggestion that the wealthy are able throughgenerous deeds to store up a treasury of credit from which funds can beused to purchase reward in the next life, contradict or stand in tensionwith the Pauline doctrine of justification by faith and not works?
This essay will suggest that the answers to these two questions are notonly related but also indiscernible without careful attention to the charac-ter and activity of God in the “theologizing” of 1 Timothy. 1 I shall arguethat all of 1 Timothy 6:6-19, including verses 11-16, represents discourseabout wealth, but this unified passage is also, at the same time, discourseabout the God who richly provides all things. In short, 1 Timothy 6 doespromote meritorious almsgiving: the rich in the present age are able to se-cure heavenly treasure through the “enjoyment” of their wealth, enjoy-ment that takes the form of generous sharing of material resources (vv. 17-19).
Epiphanius: (310-403) ‘if ye be willing and obedient’; “whence, it is plainly manifest and indubitable, that God had granted to man free-will, so that it is in his power to do the good, or choose the evil. For if it be predestined that one man be good and another man evil, then the first is not deserving of praise or the other to be blamed.AgainstHeresies16 Isaiah
Basil the Great: (329-379) Why in short was it receptive to evil? Because it was endowed with free will, which is expecially appropriate for a nature endowed with reason. So the soul is freed of all constraints, and obtains from the Creator a life at its own discretion; and because it was made in God’s image, it understood the good and knows its joys, and has the possibility and power of maintaining its natural life by continuing to gaze on the good and to enjoy the life of the spirit. But it has also the possibility on occasion of abandoning the good. – God is not the author of Evil (Homily 9)
Joshua Thompson
I thought about what I did for a while and I realised all I did was be mean to you when you were so nice to me. I didn't thought that I would make you cry. Please stop crying now
Aiden Stewart
I'm trying to show them life through Jesus Christ
Jason Perry
Step 1: Realize Christianity is a Jewish means of control Step 2: Realize the christcuck threads on Sup Forums are created by shills Step 3: Realize "gods word" is the hearsay of man and nothing but conjecture Step 4: Be spritual, not religious. Focus on self betterment and self meditation. The spirit in the sky is bullshit and is not going to help you.
Spiritual: Being open minded about our consciousness and its connection to the wider universe; are we insignificant or just the universe experiencing itself. Do we really die? Are we really alive?
Religion: Believing a book written by a couple of lunatics 2 thousand years ago about the adventures of a schizophrenic and his stories of an invisible sky wizard who created everything
Spiritual: Being a human, wondering, building, dreaming
Religion: Cancer, war, money, mind control, pedophilia, death
Christianity is a jewish scourge upon the western world, and the root of hyper-empathetic liberal ideology. It glorifies weakness and submission while vilifying strength and self determination.
Christians have been duped by the unholiest hoax in all history, by so-called Jews. This is considered their most effective weapon.
This 'big lie' technique is brainwashing United States Christians into believing that Jesus Christ was "King of the Jews", in the sense that so-called 'Jews' today call themselves 'Jews'. This reference was first made in English translations of the Old and New Testaments, centuries before the so-called Jews highjacked the word 'Jew' in the 18th century A.D. to palm themselves off on the Christian world as having a kinship with Jesus Christ. This alleged kinship comes from the myth of their common ancestry with the so-called 'Jews' of the Holy Land in the Old Testament history, a fiction based on fable
Alexander Rogers
AND YOU STOP USING SHITTY ART. EVERYBODFY FUCKING HAAATTEESS IT REEEEEE. FUCKING PROTESTANTS
James Barnes
Bump
Michael Ramirez
The only life you have exists because of the tens of thousands of heroic ancestors who killed and died on the battlefield to make this world happen for you.
Christianity is an ideology of weakness. Therefore it is anti-life. The end result of Christianity is the rotting corpse of your decedents as they are dominated and eventually eliminated by stronger forces
Colton Adams
Daily Communion
(1) Read scripture or Pray.
(2) Repent sins.
(3) Break Bread (The Body of Christ Jesus) in the Name of the Father Jehovah, in the Name of the Son Jesus Christ of Nazareth, in the Name of the Holy Spirit the Counselor.
(4) Read scripture or Pray.
(5) Drink Wine or Grape juice (The Blood of Jesus Christ) in the Name of the Father Jehovah, in the Name of the Son Jesus Christ of Nazareth, in the Name of the Holy Spirit the Counselor.
(6) Read scripture, Pray or Sing.
Hope this helps, God bless you.
Lincoln Gomez
shills entering here , meanwhile 5 israhell threads (obvious sliders)
>oh boy someone doesn't like talking about Jesus Christ
James Morales
Oh user it's okay, it's the Internet. I'll pray for user.
Luis Smith
Annie Vallotton is Catholic
Andrew Walker
It is not ok. I feel so wrong but I also feel that you should start fasting more to trim down that excess fat of yours
Grayson Ross
"Christianity is a Jewish means of control" is satanic drivel. Christianity does not glorify weakness and submission. CATHOLICISM IS THE TRUE RELIGION
Oliver Cook
You're not using the word, so we don't want to hear it. You expect answers from everyone while simultaneously ignoring them. Academia.whatever means shite all, leaf.
Ignore all non-geo flags
Asher White
Hey, Christianfags, when will you start bombing abortion clinics again?
Hudson Martinez
Thank you user, I've been only doing the 1) 2) all these days.
Why do you think I'm fat
Mason Bell
>scholarship is bad Stop reading the news for information Stop trusting science Stop trusting any breakthroughs
Tyler Young
NOT USING DUTCH MASTERS
Parker James
Are you? I know you are a girl
Evan Roberts
anyone have the screencap of the commie from earlier today?
Joseph Wood
I notice Christians from Canada are always off in some way. Some deny existence of Hell. Some insist on following the Mosaic covenant so they go and burn sacrifices on altars. Very strange group of people. There is a spirit of delusion over that country.
Justin Perez
I'm not fat stop calling me fat, even If someone's fat don't call them fat it hurts them :( I used to be one
Michael Peterson
>Obviously there should be nothing about Mary.
This is anti-Catholic disinformation. You can pray and say the name of Mary, as long as you don't equate Mary or anyone else to the Holy Father himself.
Dylan Hughes
But you are a girl right?
Jace Lopez
FUCKING VATICAN II NOT REAL CATHOLIC ART GET THE FUCK OUT.
Is that not like almost the same thing? Personally I'm an agnostic.
Jaxson Gray
Shut the fuck up you fat cunt.
Matthew Cruz
Matthew 6:9-13 KJV [9] After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. [10] Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. [11] Give us this day our daily bread. [12] And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. [13] And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. …
Matthew 6v9-13
I believe this was laid out as a format. Including thanks, repentance and acknowledgement of his greatness. Ultimately I believe God wishes to hear from you so your heart attitude may be "correct" regarding this matter. Also, beware of vain repetition such as the roman roman Catholics practice
God bless brother
Luke Clark
>implying niggers are human
Brandon Phillips
FUCKING WHITE KNIGHTS
GET THE HELL OFF MY BOARD. THIS ISN'T FOR FISH BUCKET PUSSY SUCKING DICKLESS CVCKS
Jeremiah Gonzalez
Amen
Aiden Perry
>vain repetition Funny this is practically Early Christian prayer
Charles Foster
Presbyterian here. I'm considering seeking out the Catholic church. Can someone please give me the basic gestalt and tell me why this would be good/bad?
As Presbs., why do we only break bread once every month? I was just brought up Presbyterian, and my preacher is a fantastic speaker and great at relating the Bible to contemporary events. I do love him and appreciate what he does and I trust in God's Word. However, I find there's a deeper connection with Christ which I'm lacking. This could be due to my own negligence in other aspects of my devotion to God. I read the Bible daily, and pray semi-regularly, but I still feel there's something I'm missing - a closer connection of sorts.
tl;dr Crisis of denomination
James Carter
And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings (Excerpt from the Book of Acts)
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, and there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Excerpt from the Book of Galatians)
Carter Anderson
OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN HALLOWED BY THY NAME
Brody Cook
How the fuck does he not cut anything with a machete?
Anthony Allen
You know Hell doesn't even exist? Not the way they believe it anyways.
I swear, these people seriously think their loved ones are in heaven right now when the effing bible itself makes it CLEAR as day what happens when we die, where we go...
It's a case of people allowing themselves to be taught something so important by people who are given power and status from other people. It's sad.
Cameron Ortiz
Because when the Eucharist become nothing more than a symbol, it becomes less relevant. This is why Protestantism is such a joke. It contradicts everything we know about the Bible, the early Christians and the Church Fathers
And for Calvinism, it contradicts reason
Camden Davis
>Funny this is practically Early Christian prayer It doesn't matter what "early Christians" did. We are to imitate Jesus Christ the Son of God who manifest in the flesh. This is why we read the Bible cover-to-cover in the Spirit.
Camden Martin
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Aaron Bell
>He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth So Christians literally believe we're all equal now?
Obviously not true
Adrian Reed
>Stop reading the news for information Yes CNN >Stop trusting science Yes unified science meme >Stop trusting any breakthroughs If it is a more unified version of science or news sure I don't trust it
Just accept the teaching of Jesus, repeal your sins and live a prosperous happy life. The towers will fall, if you watch it or not doesn't matter
Eli Richardson
In English when we wish to emphasize something we may use caps or exclamation points to highlight something. In Hebrew and other earlier, broader languages, they would repeat. "abba abba abba" could translate to the English "ABBA!!!".
The emphasis is on VAIN repetition.
Thomas Morgan
Praying to Mary and asking for help is idolatry. Catholicism is disgusting now. Completely tainted. Enjoy the aesthetics! That's all they are. Pretty colours with pretty shapes for man to look at and admire.
Nothing to do with the Father.
Xavier Price
Hell does exist, it's mentioned many times in the Bible. There are people who have seen Hell:
>He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’” (Luke 16:31)
Ryder Cox
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Christian Smith
Maybe instead of looking for titles and sects to join, read the actual book and make a relationship with God, and walk with Jesus in your life.
Owen Bell
I never said pray to Mary. I replied to someone who said "obviously nothing about Mary" and said you can say her name. Yes, that is idolatry.
Brayden Moore
Oh you want to understand the Bible? Well why don't you show any level of understanding it then?
I am the only one who shows Biblical Scholarship and it is from a Protestant
I am the only one who shows the Early Christians in their own words or from scholarship
No one does this but me
I am your God now
Oliver Wood
>practically using a Catholic defence
Julian Long
>YOU CAN'T MATCH MY BIBLICAL INTELLECT >TIPS FEDORA
Eli Ortiz
Read the Bible in its entirety cover-to-cover and see what God really has to say about this. By the way, evolution is a lie. We did not evolve from monkeys, we are all descended from Adam and later on Noah after the Flood. From Noah's three sons: Japeth was the ancestor of the Indo-Caucasoids, Ham was the ancestor of Africans and East Asians, and Shem ancestor of the Semite people Arab and Jews.
>evolution is a lie >zero scientific reasoning or evidence presented
Eli Davis
We get our "Bible scholarship" from the Holy Spirit the Counselor.
Sebastian Bennett
>evolution is a lie holy fucking shit dude
Josiah Parker
>ALOHA SNACKBAR
Eli Kelly
And get nowhere but endless schisms
Just look at the Reformation
Andrew Phillips
> CATHOLICISM IS THE TRUE RELIGION For a filthy pagan.
Robert Anderson
You are disgusting misusing the name of the Lord in such a wayself righteous prick. Please accept Jesus and accept you are a sinner
Josiah Thompson
Welcome to Sola Scriptura where reason is adbandoned for circular reasoning
Alexander Sullivan
HOW ABOUT REFORMING YOUR VIRGINITY?
Grayson Taylor
Nope. Sheol exists. The pit exists. Hell as Catholics know it does NOT exist.
We do not go anywhere until the dead are raised, and all are judged before the Lord. That is when the seperatipn of the wheat and the tares will begin.
Sure, it exists physically as we speak. What I'm saying is that their idea of immediate descent into hell after death is entirely false. Jesus tells us we sleep when we die. Anything else is a deception from Satan, as the Lord purposely removed Himself from 'walking with man', and left the spirit so that man may choose between good and evil.
Our loved ones in Christ are NOT in heaven right now. We don't join Christ until His return. Those dead AND alive. Same with hell. God bless~
Sebastian Walker
I am God compared to you
I know way more than any of you pathetic losers could stupidly listening to dumb pastors who themselves won't tell you what the Bible actually says
Jordan Parker
He is an ex Jesuit, they can not be concidered Christians
Andrew White
What kind of "loving god" would create this?
Christians BTFO!!!
Carter Brown
Damn. That is the most curt and truthful comment I've read.
Isaiah Bennett
ah, sorry for the misunderstanding x
Connor Sanders
Paganism in the 2nd century,
Chapter 13. The funeral pile is erected
This, then, was carried into effect with greater speed than it was spoken, the multitudes immediately gathering together wood and fagots out of the shops and baths; the Jews especially, according to custom, eagerly assisting them in it. And when the funeral pile was ready, Polycarp, laying aside all his garments, and loosing his girdle, sought also to take off his sandals,— a thing he was not accustomed to do, inasmuch as every one of the faithful was always eager who should first touch his skin. For, on account of his holy life, he was, even before his martyrdom, adorned with every kind of good. Immediately then they surrounded him with those substances which had been prepared for the funeral pile. But when they were about also to fix him with nails, he said, Leave me as I am; for He that gives me strength to endure the fire, will also enable me, without your securing me by nails, to remain without moving in the pile.
Ayden Mitchell
I don't need to give you scientific reasoning because there isn't scientific evidence to back up evolution. Go visit the Smithsonian museum and look at those caveman exhibits. They're just props. They put those up there to push a viewpoint, there's no science or validity behind what they're pushing. It's a complete joke.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water. (Genesis 1:1-2)
Charles Ward
FAGGOTRY SAINTS GO ABOVE . PURGATORY IS IN SHEOL
Austin Myers
Meanwhile....
Chapter 13. The funeral pile is erected
This, then, was carried into effect with greater speed than it was spoken, the multitudes immediately gathering together wood and fagots out of the shops and baths; the Jews especially, according to custom, eagerly assisting them in it. And when the funeral pile was ready, Polycarp, laying aside all his garments, and loosing his girdle, sought also to take off his sandals,— a thing he was not accustomed to do, inasmuch as every one of the faithful was always eager who should first touch his skin. For, on account of his holy life, he was, even before his martyrdom, adorned with every kind of good. Immediately then they surrounded him with those substances which had been prepared for the funeral pile. But when they were about also to fix him with nails, he said, Leave me as I am; for He that gives me strength to endure the fire, will also enable me, without your securing me by nails, to remain without moving in the pile.
Matthew Sullivan
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Asher Fisher
Please just stop it, you are embarrassing yourself. Remember, you have been saved by Jesus on the cross, don't ask why, it makes no sens, it just is.
Christopher Lewis
Ah okay, we can disagree on these technical things, and maybe you are right. As long as our focus is on Jesus Christ and preaching the Good News. God Bless you brother.
Charles Flores
You dumb nigger, those remains are kept for studies and a cast is made to show you what they look like
They can't just supply every museum in the world with the actual remains
Zachary Peterson
>no attempt to refute
Eli Scott
>walk with Jesus in your life. How about instead you Crusade with Jesus in your life. Take back the fucking Holy Land already you limp wristed faggot
Says the loser whose only 'argument' is "stop embarrassing yourself'
Logan Adams
>WHO LOOK AT ME I HAVE CITATIONS YOU CANT MATCH ME I READ THINGS MEANWHILE ELSEWHERE
ATHENAGORAS: (177 AD) “Just as with men, who have freedom of choice as to both virtue and vice, so it is among the angels…Some free agents, you will observe, such as they were created by God, continued in those things for which God had made and over which he had ordained them; but some outraged both the constitution of their nature and the government entrusted to them.” – A Plea for the Christians 24.
· For God made man free from the beginning, possessing his own power, even as he does his own soul, to obey the commandments of God voluntarily, and not by compulsion of God. For there is no coercion with God. (Irenaeus, 180 AD, 1.518)
· Because man is possessed of free will from the beginning, and God is possessed of free will (in whose likeness man was created), advice is always given to him to hold fast to the good, which is done through obedience to God. God has preserved the will of man free and under his own control. This is not merely in works, but also in faith.
(Irenaeus, 180 AD, 1.519) · Nor, again, does God exercise compulsion upon anyone unwilling to accept the exercise of His skill…. They have been created free agents and possessed of power over themselves. (Irenaeus, 180 AD, 1.523)
