Joseph wrote:
I'm not really sure what you're talking about...

Joseph wrote:
I was asking for scriptural proof for sola scriptura. Can you give me any? Paul rather tells us to "stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle." (2 Thessalonians 2:15)
I do believe that Christians from all denominations form the body of Christ.
At the end of 1 Peter, he says that those in "Babylon" greet you. Was Peter in Babylon? I doubt it. Babylon was a code name for Rome. I don't think that there is any evidence that Peter was in Babylon, but there are tons of writings that say that Peter was in Rome. But as you can imagine there were persecutions--Peter probably wanted to keep a low profile.
http://catholic.com/library/Papal_Infallibility.asp
Scroll down to "Peter not infallible?"
I am not putting confidence in man, I am putting confidence in the Church that Christ said would never be prevailed against in Matthew 16:18! He gave it divine authority.

Sure. Matthew 13:24-30: The wheat are true believers, the tares are professing believers that look like true believers. They are all in the same field(professing to be the church)They will be sorted on Judgment Day, and the tares will be burned.

All born again believers are sealed by the Holy Spirit(Eph.1:13) unto the day of redemption, regardless of denomination they belong to, and the Bible calls them "saints". There is no other use of the word saint in New Testament Scripture.

I think you'll find it very interesting, that when the apostle Paul wrote to the Romans, he addressed them as "all that be in Rome, called to be saints". Hmmm. It seems that if there were an established church at Rome, and if it was the one true church, Paul would have said so? Likewise, Peter wrote 2 epistles and made no mention of an established church at Rome that he was the head of,(and what's really amazing is Paul had to openly rebuke Peter for teaching false doctrine-Galatians 2. How's that for a pope?) but did talk about being born again and kept by God.

"The Bible is not the absolute basis of authority and truth, the Church is."

Jim Lincoln wrote:
Good for him! It's about time (illegal?) immigrants started to use English if they are going to be using all the other benefits of this country. It shouldn't be that hard to learn enough English to order food in our language, even Congress thought [URL=http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50032]]]the National Anthem should be song in English[/URL]

GG wrote:
I was not confused PreacherJonD, evidently as I charged in my post 12/12/07-11:02am - when you said, "they are all copied from the...corrupted mss as Rome's Bible.", its turned out that the corrupted ms was yours. You should apologise immediately.
I agree with the article, I insist on wishing everyone a "Merry Christmas". "Jesus is the reason for the season."

Moderator Alpha wrote:
Kevin and PreacherJonD,
If you desire to continue your discussion on 1 John 5:7; I ask that you do so in an appropriate thread. Since this is the Christmas season perhaps site visitors still have comments on the topic of this news item.
I would suggest [URL=http://www.sermonaudio.com/survey_details.asp?VoteID=ch41803174232]]]this[/URL] thread.
Thank you.

Certainly we see the trinity of the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, in Matthew 3:16-17, Mark 1:10-11, Luke 3:21-22, the first chapter of John, and many other verses, but even in the very first verses of Genesis do we see the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost.

So no matter whether any "fathers"(and Jesus says to give no man the spiritual title of father-- Matthew 23:9)quoted it or not, the fact is that we have manuscript evidence, so we must compare scripture to scripture, and the case for this verse being in the Bible is overwhelming.

Psalm 12:6-7 "The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever."

This is suprising. This world is ripe for the coming antichrist/pope/roman world leader that the Bible says will take over. When you see world leaders like Putin and Blair converting to the RCC(the orthodox can claim what they want, their nothing but a slightly tweaked version of Rome)you can bet the outcome isn't going to be good.

What about the more modern day production of the "Passion of the Christ"? That movie did exactly the same thing-- going on and on and on with the brutality and then almost nothing regarding the ressurection. (Not to mention infusing the audience with the catholic doctrines of the stations of the cross, and putting unbiblical emphasis on Mary.)

I wonder who GG thinks the civil authorities were at the time?

Wrong again. True Baptists are not protestants. We were never associated with Rome. There have always been groups of true believers who follow nothing but the Holy Scriptures in all matters of faith and practice. They have always existed outside of the devils church of Rome all the way back to the apostles. The name Baptist was given to them to mock them for their strong convictions in rejecting infant baptism which is unbiblical.

"The myth that RCC killed millions is just a fantasy"? Read any history book that was not produced under Jesuit control and see what you get.