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Marine: "The popes like all the other lemmings worshipped Mary and depended on her to take their requests to Jesus, which she cannot do." So you actually consider the line "Take It to the Lord in prayer" in the old evangelical hymn "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" is heresy? n2thelight: "What...

The OT canon was not fixed in Jesus' day and the books to be included in the NT canon were in dispute for the first 3 centuries. The discernment of Catholic leaders resolved these disputes. So if you can't trust Catholic tradition, you can't trust our biblical canon.

As expected, you ducked the relevant question I posed to you in post #134 and therebv demonstrate that you are clueless about Catholic biblical prooftexts for mariology. And som I suspect you are also clueless about other biblical prooftexts for Catholic distinctives. My next new thread will...

Ah, you tremble is terror in anticipation of being refuted without the patience to let a pro-Catholic lead you into unfamiliar territory in the Word. For now, here's a skill-testing question: what Bible passage expresses an exalted image of Mary shaped by goddess worship? btw, as Catholics...

Empty evangelical crosses trivialize the awesome price paid by Christ, who shed His blood for our sins on the cross. By contrast, Catholic crucifixes take seriously Paul's priority expressed in 1 Corinthians 2:2: "I decided to know nothing among you, except Christ, AND HIM CRUCIFIED." You...

Jim B: "Peter, a.k.a. Cephas, was given a specific task: apostle to the circumcised (the Jews). Claiming that Peter was the rock on which the church was built is not scriptural. First, you duck the plain sense of Matthew 16:18-19 and thus overlook Jesus' intent for Peter. 2nd, you overlook...

L3astAm0ngManyB13ss3d: "Whatever it is you are looking for YOU MUST tell us since you seem UNHAPPY with our answers. LOL, I just told you: I want details of your personal testimony, not the expected vague and cliched response that no one would find helpful. Many unbelievers monitor this...

Taken: "Jesus challenged his Disciples....who do men say I am, who do you say I am......none knew the answer." Duh, what you don't get is that Jesus asks "WHOM do you say that I am," not "What do you say that I am." The rock is a what, not a who. Taken: "God tells Simon Barjona.....oh, oh...

Time to repeat what I (an Evangelical) have often said here: I have successfully sued the Catholic church, but recognize that B of L has generally refuted his Fundamentalist critics here, who spew anti-Catholic ad hominems as an excuse to avoid getting into the Word in context! Fundamentalists...

MY 2ND HAPPIEST DAY Between my 2nd and 3rd year in seminary I was working in the Grand Canyon Tourist Center during the week and was hired to preach on Sundays at the altar by the natural colosseum at the rim's edge. I lived near the Grand Canyon Airport 9 miles from the South Rim village...

Wonderful but vague! Would you mind sharing some details about either or both days? For example, did you feel marvelously ambushed by God? Did your conversion seem a distinct possibility when that day began? Were you converted through a sermon or through personal evangelism? etc.

Describe the happiest day of your life. If several days come to mind that are hard to distinguish on the happiness meter, don't respond. Be careful to distinguish the most important day from your happiest day and the day on which you actually were the happiest from the day on which you SHOULD...

I was walking down a beautiful country road in rural New York, asking God to reveal a new hymn for my congregation to sing. Then the words of a song I'd only heard once many years prior began to play in my mind. It was supernatural that all the words came back so clearly. I contacted our...

Dropship: "I don't care two hoots what atheists think about me, I give it to them straight and if they can't handle it they'll have to find another boy." In other words, you'd rather feel righteous in your evangelical talking points than engage in the hard work of serving as a loving empathetic...

A loving response to our agnostic would recognize that if God seems like a fairy tale to him, so does Satan. Indeed, a loving response would tenderly search for common ground as a basis for his spiritual quest. Your attitude perfectly illustrates why the unchurched find evangelicals so...

A silly analogy, given that our agnostic would just love to hear a "booming voice" from God! You duck his issue with how he might find God real when he honestly feels like a loving God is no more than a fairy tale--and the unfair suffering in this world seems to decisively confirm that...

LookingForGod, WHAT NOT TO DO: (1) First. recognize that you can't TRY to believe. Built into the concept of trying is the expectation of inevitable failure. This is also true of misguided efforts to have faith that a healing miracle will be received. (2) Recognize that PROOF is the...

Scott Downey; "Jesus had no need to repent, as he was without sin in his life on the earth. Jesus never yielded to the temptations of the flesh or Satan." So you believe Jesus was exempt from the courtesy of notifying his parents as to where he was going? You think they should have just...

Prolific author, Michael Schermer, is perhaps the most notorious and popular atheistic defender of skepticism in America. So I was shocked to hear his testimony on Coast-to-Coast this past week. As a young man, he was converted and became a devout evangelical who offended friends and family...