Frank wrote:
Amen Pilgrim!
I copied the below again for SteveR. I wanted to make sure he read it.
SteveR. Which women did Mother Angelica bring closer to the Lord? She was very famous and extremely influential, so it shouldn't be difficult to name someone. Any women she influenced would of by logic stayed in the RCC or gone into the RCC. Was it through the movement led by Mariology? They do call her the queen of the heavens.

"By Judy June 19, 2012
This is a wonderful book, she is very witty and has a unique way of applying Bible to ordinary life. This is the first one I have read, but I will look for more. I think everyone would enjoy this book, even if you are not Catholic. ...more"

Grace (Charleston, SC) Mother Angelica is so wise, funny, and practical. This collection of short Bible lessons and meditations is perfect for reading or listening while exercising or driving. It makes boring tasks fun and spiritually enriching.

By Julia
Extremely thought provoking. You will never read your bible the same way again

John UK wrote:
Great texts Frank in determining who is a Christian and who isn't. It's a good job God told us this, or we'd struggle to discern the pseudos.
Righteous IN HIM, not of ourselves. Praise God that Jesus has done it ALL, not just some.

wrote:
So glad we have Gods Word that defines the wicked and not yours!!

Unprofitable Servant wrote:
Proverbs 17:15 (KJV)
He that justifies the wicked, and he that condemns the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

wrote:
Frank,
Her name is Mother Angelica.
She is clueless concerning the Gospel of Grace.
She is a heretict

"JESUS MY SAVIOR
Mother M. Angelica
"It is never the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost." (Matt. 18:14)
...When we prefer our will to His we sin or weaken our will.

By His life, death and resurrection Jesus merited the indwelling of the Spirit and through the grace of His Spirit, we are able to rise above our own will and desires and live in His Will, His peace and His love.

We have then two aspects of Salvation—God's and ours.

God's Will

a. The Father wills that we are saved.

b. Jesus merited salvation by shedding His Precious Blood.

c. The Spirit fills our souls with grace—gifts and fruits in order to sanctify us."
--

Unprofitable Servant wrote:
SteveR, I really wonder why you insist on showing a negative, condescending attitude toward those whom you say are your brothers in the Lord. God says, if you say you love Him and don't show love toward your brother you are a liar (I John 4:20) You negate yourself with the snipes that you persist on taking and make your own posts of little or no value. It is not Frank's fault that you do not share his sense of humor. You could have left off your post with the first line and have expressed your opinion without the snarky paragraph that followed. (like you really had anything to do with the different views of lapsarianism)

Frank wrote:
I was just attempting to be cute when I wrote supralapsarianism versus infralapsarianism. I think Chris got the humor; notice his ha ha.

Listen Frank, I just talked it over with the big shots over here. We really dont like you using our words that you dont understand to appear intelligent. Do you think it was easy for us to think up such long words? Those are some pretty long words! Sure, its easy for you with all kinds of time and free cyberspace to display your ignorance showing off but what about the fortune we spent on typesetting 'Infralapsarianism' and 'Supralapsarianism' all these centuries just to have you ruin their meaning in 2013?

I tell you what, you want to critique our form of baptism...fine!

You want to redefine words to justify your form of baptism? Big deal, it just makes you look more ignorant than you are.

Frank wrote:
Hey Chris. Thanks, it is a difficult subject and my musing was sort of rambling, but that is the way I look at it. As parents, we create the impetus or the source for evil, but not the evil. When God created mankind, He created the impetus or source, but not the evil. Therefore, He is not the author of evil.
Supralapsarianism versus infralapsarianism.

Mike wrote:
The fall that afflicts mankind with tornadoes is the same fall that afflicted Herod. Blame is better applied where it belongs.

Matthew 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. Matthew 10:30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

I would add the ENTIRE Song of Moses, to which this is but a sample

Jim Lincoln wrote:
Why SteveR, I have to say I agree with you the message right before this one!
When you have the Bible you don't need Confessions, etc. One doesn't need what the Romish Church thinks passes for Roman Catholic Authority (PDF).

San Jose John wrote:
We're studying this in the Bible study I presently attend. Our teacher gave each of us a small paperback copy of a book that contains the Heidleberg Catechism, the Belgic Confession, and the Canons of Dort.
So far it's been pretty enlightening. Even though these works are NOT the Bible and therefore not authoritative in themselves, they do a very fine job of explaining the Bible's doctrines and include many scripture proofs for each one.
Regarding the tornado, Psalm 90 provides ample perspective regarding the present fallen nature of our flesh and the world, and God's general reaction to these (earthquakes, etc.)

Sayin wrote:
So you keep saying. But getting your lies from Roman Catholic sources gives you no credibility here.

Unproifitable Servant wrote:
Not sure why you are quoting a Catholic priest with an agenda as a reliable source.
. When you start decrying the over 1000 years of Catholic persecution, raping of women, burning of villages, torture, and unmentionable abuses, then we will see that you are balanced in your approach. No one is this forum has ever, that I have seen, stood up in favor of violence in the name of Christ. So, I am not sure what point you are trying to prove. I suggest that if you have not that you take the time to read Foxes Book of Martyrs, it is available in mp3 format on this site (different readers, some good some not so good) or online at many sites instead of a misguided Catholic priest defending Catholicism

Mr b wrote:
Thank you stevenR. I didn't know the meaning. Thank you for showing me that.

Joplin Meaning: the son of Job

Job 1:18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: Job 1:19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Mr b wrote:
I don't know what the Belgium confession is either. I thought the reason why things happen us because its a fallen world. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. God only knows

Mike wrote:
In other words, the creation is not fallen and acting accordingly. Death by tornado is now "fatherly care."

Matthew 2:16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.

Welor wrote:
Now Steve, don't forget that the Roman Catholic organisation is waaaaayyy ahead on the paedophilia stakes .....
And;
"An openly gay former Dominican friar insisted today that homosexuality is the ‘ticking time bomb in the Catholic Church’ and that homosexual men are ‘massively over-represented’ within the Church.
Mark Dowd, who is now a journalist, said research for his 2001 Channel 4 documentary Queer and Catholic suggested that at least half of people attracted into seminaries in the priesthood are gay."
Mail Online 26th Feb 2013
And thats before we go into the pagan idolatry of the RCC.

Sayin wrote:
His work was on the German people, not specifically about the German Reformation.
No sources! What a surprise.
Who would believe a Roman Catholic priest who was made domestic prelate to the pope?!!

Ezekiel 23:1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Ezekiel 23:2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: Ezekiel 23:3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. Ezekiel 23:4 And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah. Ezekiel 23:5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, ... Ezekiel 23:7 .. she defiled herself.
. Ezekiel 23:9 Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, ... Ezekiel 23:10 ... for they had executed judgment upon her. Ezekiel 23:11 And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.

Sayin wrote:
More Roman Catholic lies!

Lutherans on Zwingli
""I will not read the works of these people, because they are out of the Church, and are not only damned themselves, but draw many miserable creatures after them."

"Zwingli was an offspring of hell, an associate of Arius (13), a man who did not deserve to be prayed for . . ."

Zwingli, returns the compliment
"The devil has made himself master of Luther, to such a degree, as to make one believe he wishes to gain entire possession of him."
"To see him in the midst of his followers, you would believe him to be possessed by a phalanx of devils."

"We do you no injustice when we reproach and condemn you as a worse betrayer and denier of Christ than the ancient heretic Marcion (16)."
Zwingli's Church of Zurich wrote of Luther:

"He will not and can not associate himself with those who confess Christ . . . He wrote all his works by the impulse and the dictation of the devil."
Luther on Calvin and Oecolampadius