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How can a woman have billions of biological children?Again....you are incorrect.
Revelation 12:17.......
" And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."
There is not one single word in that Scripture that says..."Spiritual children of a spiritual mother".
Take time to read and study and investigate te literal words of that Scripture. When you do you will understand that This description is of the rest of the woman's PHYSICAL offspring and clearly identifies believers in Jesus. They may be a group of Jews, and possibly also Gentiles, who welcomed the message of the 144,000 identified in chapter 7. The tribulation period certainly leaves no room for wishy-washing professors of Christ. The severe trials of the tribulation will demonstrate genuine faith. As the apostle Peter explained, faith that is tried proves its genuineness and results in "praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 1:7).
Members of Christ’s new covenant of grace by faith and baptism, united to the mediator and having union with God and His saints!Thank you or the kind words. As I have said.....I do not argue and I only speak to what the Bible actually says.
I appreciate your post, however....the fact that a Catholic believe that a man can absolve their sins is the 1st problem.
Now lets talk facts. Penance is one of the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church.
The fact is simply that It is used as a form of discipline or punishment imposed on a person to demonstrate repentance for his or her sins.
Fact is that usually, the act of penance as done and seen in the Catholic church takes the form of praying certain prayers a specified number of times, fasting, or spending time in front of an altar. Please understand that this is unbiblical. It is completely a Catholic church teaching.
Nowhere does Scripture teach that performing works or punishing oneself will make restitution for sin. The Bible does teach us to repent i Acts 11:18; Acts 20:21: Luke 15:7. To repent means to have a change of mind or a change in attitude toward God. Repentance of sin is accompanied by faith in Jesus Christ; they are inseparable and can not be added to.
Baptism has nothing to do with salvation!Members of Christ’s new covenant of grace by faith and baptism, united to the mediator and having union with God and His saints!
Belong to God purchased at the price of the precious blood of Jesus
my grace is sufficient: 2 cor 12:9
Seek the kingdom: Matt 6:33
Abide in Christ / bear fruit Jn 15:4
Perpetual state of faith: Jn 3:16
Watch & Pray: Matt 26:41
Ask and receive: 7:8
Pray: Matt 6:6
Fasting: Matt 6:17
Alms: Matt 6:3
Practice of the virtues of Jesus
Christ: Matt 11:29
Narrow gate road lead to life Matt 7:14
Beatitudes: Matt 5:3-16
Christian suffering / Deny thyself, take up Thy cross: Matt 10:38 & 16:24 rom 8:18 2 thes 1:5
2 Tim 2:12 Phil 1:29
Frequenting the sacraments (promises) of grace: Heb 8:8
2 Timothy 1:1 Jn 20:21-23
Endure to the end: Mk 13:13 Matt 24:13
All united in Christ and Soaked in His blood, grace, the merits Christ won for us by His life, death, and resurrection!
God provides for everything:
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
He is the way we must follow!
He is the truth we must believe!
He is the life, life of grace thru the sacraments of the church in which we must live!
Abide in Christ and His church with grace and life provided by God thru the sacraments!
Jesus Christ instituted the sacraments for the salvation of all men!
Sacramental life of the Christian church: I come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. Jn 10:10 Jn 1:16-17
Baptism: (initiation into the covenant)
Mk 16:16 Jn 3:5 acts 2:38-39 8:36
1 Corinthians 12:13 2 pet 1:11
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
The Eucharist: (holy communion)
Mt 26:26-39 Jn 6:51-58 1 Cor 11:23-25
Confession of sins:
Jn 20:23 / 1 Jn 1:9 / 2 cor 5:18
Confirmation
Lk 22:32 acts 8:14-17
acts 14:22
Marriage:
Matt 19:4-6
Holy orders: (priesthood)
Jesus Christ continues HIS ministry in His new covenant church thru His priesthood in Peter, the apostles, and their successors with the same mission, power, and authority!
Mt 10:1-8 Mt 16:18 Mt 28:19 Lk 10:16 Jn 8:32 Jn 13:20 Jn 15:5 Jn 16:13
Jn 20:21-22 acts 1:17 acts 6:4 acts 8:26
2 Cor 5:18 1 Tim 4:14 Eph 2:20
Extreme unction: (anointing with oil)
1 Tim 4:14 James 5:14
The ark of salvation: one, holy, catholic, (universal) and apostolic church founded by Jesus Christ on Peter and the apostles!
So you don’t believe any of the 255 dogma’s?With all due respect, you are completely ignoring and changing the literal, actual words of the original Greek to make your point.
I totally understand that you MUST quote Catholic teachings given to you, however I only accept Bible Scriptures and what you have posted is all Catholic dogma.
Now, please understand....I am not trying to be a know-it-all and I am not trying to argue.
That being said, please allow me to teach you the Bible. In the Bible, in each instance, the specific Greek word for “brother” is used. Its normal, accepted and literal meaning is a physical brother. It does not mean or tanslate as "Cousin!"
Please understand that there is a Greek word for “cousin,” and it was not used!!!!
Further, if they were Jesus’ cousins, why would they so often be described as being with Mary, Jesus’ mother? There is nothing in the context of His mother and brothers coming to see Him that even hints that they were anyone other than His literal, blood-related, half-brothers.
The woman is Israel!How can a woman have billions of biological children?
Logic would indicate spiritual mother
And there is biblical precedent Rachel was the “spiritual mother” of the children of Israel
Matt 2:18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Did Christ found a church endowed with his power and author bind all Christians to believe the truth he revealed? Matt 16:18-19 & 18:18With all due respect, you are completely ignoring and changing the literal, actual words of the original Greek to make your point.
I totally understand that you MUST quote Catholic teachings given to you, however I only accept Bible Scriptures and what you have posted is all Catholic dogma.
Now, please understand....I am not trying to be a know-it-all and I am not trying to argue.
That being said, please allow me to teach you the Bible. In the Bible, in each instance, the specific Greek word for “brother” is used. Its normal, accepted and literal meaning is a physical brother. It does not mean or tanslate as "Cousin!"
Please understand that there is a Greek word for “cousin,” and it was not used!!!!
Further, if they were Jesus’ cousins, why would they so often be described as being with Mary, Jesus’ mother? There is nothing in the context of His mother and brothers coming to see Him that even hints that they were anyone other than His literal, blood-related, half-brothers.
Mark 16:16Mk 16:16 faith and baptism
Eph 4:5 faith and baptism
Acts 8:36 faith and baptism
(How did the eunuch know about baptism if Philip preached faith alone?)
Acts 22:16 wash away sin in baptism
1 pet 3:20/21 baptism saves
Thks
And Jesus who we both say is God said..."Call no man your heavenly father".Pope is papa from the Italian for father as Isa 22:21-22 says
"Not of yourselves" .How can it when it says plainly: “not of yourselves”?
I get scripture is your only authority but other things are illustrative
But even decrees of councils, creeds and dogma have authority from christ in scripture
Thks
No sir.And the grace to do penance is from Christ’s merits of his blood
The church does what Christ does
Christ and his church are one! Acts 9:4 eph 5:32
1 Peter 4:8
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
We participate with Christ in the redemption of the world
I have no failed as I was not asked. Now I will be glad to do so.You have failed to explain how there is sin that is not unto death?
1 Jn 5:16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
If you are saved why do you need mercy?I don't know what you are referring to.
If they are "saved", they have their salvation.
I won't claim being "saved" until after the day of judgement.
Doing the beatitudes is the result of conversion and rebirth from God's seed.
Thanks be to God !
Why do you believe in scripture if you don’t believe what it says?Baptism has nothing to do with salvation!
When did the children of Israel “EVER” keep the commandments much less have the testimony of Jesus Christ???The woman is Israel!
“Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a sucking child,’ to the land that you promised on oath to their ancestors? Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they come weeping to me and say, ‘Give us meat to eat!’ I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me.” (Num. 11:12–14)
Moses reminds God that he is not the people’s mother. Instead, he implies, only God is the mother figure of Israel. Moses’ choice of maternal imagery is far from arbitrary. It is an astute response to the Israelites’ own infantile complaints. The Hebrew mi ya’achilenu basar, rendered above as “If only we had meat to eat,” literally translates as “Who will feed us meat?” The image evokes spoon-fed toddlers. The Israelites are in their spiritual infancy, and God and Moses disagree over who is obligated to be their caretaker. According to Moses, only God can fulfill the role of mother to these demanding children.
Mk 16:16 same word as eph 2:8Mark 16:16
Does that Scripture teach that baptism is required for salvation? The short answer is, no, it does not. In order to make it teach that baptism is required for salvation, one must go beyond what the verse actually says. What this verse does teach is that belief is necessary for salvation.
Ephesians 4:5.
When we read the CONTEXT of the passage we see that Paul IS NOT speaking of water baptism at all but is focused on the baptism of the Holy Spirit after one comes to Christ.
Acts 8:36
This Scripture does not say or suggest anything about baptism being needed to be saved.
What is actualy says is....."And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?"
Everyone who accepts Christ should follow in baptism just as did the eunuch did.
Acts 22:16
You are only Concerned with the words, "be baptized, and wash away your sins," .
However, again when we actually read the whole contextual focus of the passage we learn that because Paul was already cleansed spiritually at the time Christ appeared to him, He accepted Christ and therefore these words refer to the symbolism of baptism. Baptism is a picture of God’s inner work of washing away sin
1 Peter 3:20-21
I think that you do not understand the Jewish economy. You see my friend. The people in the Old Test brought an offering to the Tabernacle or Temple as a token to God for saving them. Then The Old Testament Jew was saved before he brought the offering. That offering was only his outward testimony that he was placing faith in the Lamb of God of whom these sacrifices were a type....Water baptism is the outward testimony of the believer’s inward faith.
The point is.....the believer is baptized AFTER he is saved because he is saved by faith and baptism is an out testimony of an inward decision.
Scripture cancels scripture?Mark 16:16
Does that Scripture teach that baptism is required for salvation? The short answer is, no, it does not. In order to make it teach that baptism is required for salvation, one must go beyond what the verse actually says. What this verse does teach is that belief is necessary for salvation.
Ephesians 4:5.
When we read the CONTEXT of the passage we see that Paul IS NOT speaking of water baptism at all but is focused on the baptism of the Holy Spirit after one comes to Christ.
Acts 8:36
This Scripture does not say or suggest anything about baptism being needed to be saved.
What is actualy says is....."And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?"
Everyone who accepts Christ should follow in baptism just as did the eunuch did.
Acts 22:16
You are only Concerned with the words, "be baptized, and wash away your sins," .
However, again when we actually read the whole contextual focus of the passage we learn that because Paul was already cleansed spiritually at the time Christ appeared to him, He accepted Christ and therefore these words refer to the symbolism of baptism. Baptism is a picture of God’s inner work of washing away sin
1 Peter 3:20-21
I think that you do not understand the Jewish economy. You see my friend. The people in the Old Test brought an offering to the Tabernacle or Temple as a token to God for saving them. Then The Old Testament Jew was saved before he brought the offering. That offering was only his outward testimony that he was placing faith in the Lamb of God of whom these sacrifices were a type....Water baptism is the outward testimony of the believer’s inward faith.
The point is.....the believer is baptized AFTER he is saved because he is saved by faith and baptism is an out testimony of an inward decision.
Everyone who accepts Christ should follow in baptism just as did the eunuch did.Mark 16:16
Does that Scripture teach that baptism is required for salvation? The short answer is, no, it does not. In order to make it teach that baptism is required for salvation, one must go beyond what the verse actually says. What this verse does teach is that belief is necessary for salvation.
Ephesians 4:5.
When we read the CONTEXT of the passage we see that Paul IS NOT speaking of water baptism at all but is focused on the baptism of the Holy Spirit after one comes to Christ.
Acts 8:36
This Scripture does not say or suggest anything about baptism being needed to be saved.
What is actualy says is....."And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?"
Everyone who accepts Christ should follow in baptism just as did the eunuch did.
Acts 22:16
You are only Concerned with the words, "be baptized, and wash away your sins," .
However, again when we actually read the whole contextual focus of the passage we learn that because Paul was already cleansed spiritually at the time Christ appeared to him, He accepted Christ and therefore these words refer to the symbolism of baptism. Baptism is a picture of God’s inner work of washing away sin
1 Peter 3:20-21
I think that you do not understand the Jewish economy. You see my friend. The people in the Old Test brought an offering to the Tabernacle or Temple as a token to God for saving them. Then The Old Testament Jew was saved before he brought the offering. That offering was only his outward testimony that he was placing faith in the Lamb of God of whom these sacrifices were a type....Water baptism is the outward testimony of the believer’s inward faith.
The point is.....the believer is baptized AFTER he is saved because he is saved by faith and baptism is an out testimony of an inward decision.
Acts 22:16Mark 16:16
Does that Scripture teach that baptism is required for salvation? The short answer is, no, it does not. In order to make it teach that baptism is required for salvation, one must go beyond what the verse actually says. What this verse does teach is that belief is necessary for salvation.
Ephesians 4:5.
When we read the CONTEXT of the passage we see that Paul IS NOT speaking of water baptism at all but is focused on the baptism of the Holy Spirit after one comes to Christ.
Acts 8:36
This Scripture does not say or suggest anything about baptism being needed to be saved.
What is actualy says is....."And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?"
Everyone who accepts Christ should follow in baptism just as did the eunuch did.
Acts 22:16
You are only Concerned with the words, "be baptized, and wash away your sins," .
However, again when we actually read the whole contextual focus of the passage we learn that because Paul was already cleansed spiritually at the time Christ appeared to him, He accepted Christ and therefore these words refer to the symbolism of baptism. Baptism is a picture of God’s inner work of washing away sin
1 Peter 3:20-21
I think that you do not understand the Jewish economy. You see my friend. The people in the Old Test brought an offering to the Tabernacle or Temple as a token to God for saving them. Then The Old Testament Jew was saved before he brought the offering. That offering was only his outward testimony that he was placing faith in the Lamb of God of whom these sacrifices were a type....Water baptism is the outward testimony of the believer’s inward faith.
The point is.....the believer is baptized AFTER he is saved because he is saved by faith and baptism is an out testimony of an inward decision.