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@Marine and Dropship, I'm not defending Irish bombers; I'm critiquing your penchant to define a whole movement (Catholicism) by its worst examplars and your glib penchant pontificating from ignorance about their confession habits. Readers will notice how you ducked my example of Catholics...

Your post is the very embodiment of evangelical bigotry and illustrates why I defend Catholics, even though I'm an evangelical who has successfully sued the Catholic church. First, you have no clue as what the bombers did; you simply want to slander them without regard to the facts. Second...

Jim B: "He didn't say I am dead on the cross..." LOL. Dead men can't talk! Jim B: "Your portrayal of Him as dead is not only contrary to Scripture, it is disgusting! It play right into the false doctrine of suffering, as opposed to joyful living in Christ" First, I don't portray Jesus as...

Jim B: "One question: is Jesus resurrected and sitting at the right hand of God or is He dead on the cross? You are trivializing His sacrifice -- or more properly, denying it -- by portraying Him as dead. Here's the point that you and your ilk don't get. People don't walk around with a symbol...

Jim B: Are you following a dead man? That is how you portray Jesus: dead on the cross." Why evangelicals here want to trivialize Jesus' shed blood on the cross is beyond me. Catholics grasp Paul's point when he proclaims: "I determined to know nothing among you, except Christ and Him...

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...