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Like I thought, you can't name one. Church discipline has become pretty lax everywhere, but ipso facto excommunication is a non-discipline and meaningless before God and man. By the way, you must have a serious conscience issue with idolatry as none of my statements could even be construed as...

So now the Catholic church condemns the practices of its own members? How many Mary devotees have been excommunicated? Name one. Stop telling lies.

If we learn truth from men, then the original source is still God, the source of all knowledge, but even the Apostle Paul advised disciples to study the scripture to see that the things that he said were true. The problem is with people who for whatever reason, never crack the binding of a bible...

There's a place for scholarship in the church; the scripture even says to study to show yourself approved, but scholarship is no guarantee of relationship and we need to not just know about Christ, but to know Him personally through the gift of His Spirit. Problem is that people like to tell...

I don't know a single born again believer who does the sort of thing you attribute to Christians, but there are a lot of self righteous pretenders and wannabees that go about banging the brass, some even on this web site.

Heretical beliefs started in the 1st century AD and if you look at today's heresies, you'll find that they're mostly just repeated from the previous centuries. The leadership of the church has the burden of addressing false doctrine, but God in the person of our Lord intentionally held back...

Interesting proverb quoted, but the point is that the prerogative of saving grace is God's alone, so He is obviously exempted from such statements. The scripture expresses the "repentance" of God, but this is from our perspective , not His. God exists outside His creation as well as in it. God...

Agreed, but that hasn't stopped the existence of societies and orders within the church for "devotional" purposes. My own mother was a member of at least two, one of which was devoted to the saint who's name she shared, Mary.

Haven't lied once. Grow up and stop telling lies.

"Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men. For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice...

You think that only 1.5 % of the American electorate see illegal immigration as a problem? You think that only 1.5 % of the American electorate see big and intrusive government as a problem? You think only 1.5 % of the American electorate are concerned with the aggressive nuclear proliferation...

Nothing wrong with loving saints, the problem is with elevating their significance. The queen of heaven was a pagan deity that went by numerous names prior to the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This mystery religion deity survives in the church among those who equate the saint...

And you're supposed to be a Christian?

I've found bits and pieces of truth in other works, but a little bit of the truth is what makes an effective lie. Scripture says that the gods of the nations are demons. The goal of demonic entities is to deceive people and keep them from believing and receiving Jesus Christ. When someone says...

I've read the "gita", some of the translated vedas, the Tao te Ching, Chuang Tsu, the Tibetan Book of the dead, the Egyptian book of the dead, the writings of Kung Fu Tsu, the Quran, the gospel according to Thomas, as well as a lot of other philosophical and religious garbage, but the Bible is...

Your example misrepresents the scripture it was taken from. The commandment goes on to say, "you shall not bow down to them or serve them." It wasn't that God simply prohibited the making of images, but He commanded that His people make no images to bow down before and serve. The bronze serpent...

I'm not party affiliated and didn't vote for him or the Democratic candidate, but the man despite his vulgarity, is doing a bang up job as president and attempting to keep his campaign promises. If his successes continue as they have to date, he'll see a second term with the blessing of the...

When I started using the word hypocrite in application to nuns and priests, my mom took away the copy of the NKJ bible that I was reading, but pop gave me his pocket NT and psalms (army issue) and pop wasn't especially religious. I was also surprised and a bit confused when I got my hands on a...

Thanks. The Old Testament is tough for a child to understand, but I loved the stories That I was taught in "Catechism" about King David and his fight with Goliath, Samson and his great strength, Solomon who asked for wisdom, etc. Those men were heroes to me and role models, but my mind was...

I find teacher/preachers like J. Osteen using such verses to imply that God's desire is to make us all wealthy in Christ, but I see no such promises to Christians in scripture. God does make His children rich as coinheritors of His creation, but the norm for Christians is not worldly prosperity...