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RCC priests are forced to be celibate if they are to remain priests. I think the Council of Trent says that priests who marry are to be anathema (condemned to hell). The celibacy rule for priests was instituted because the Pope did not want priests marrying outside of the Church, or to wives...

You are correct. But it is not a description of the Roman Catholic church, which is a fraud.

It is interesting that when Pope John Paul II visited the United States, he spoke of unity and tolerance between Catholics and Protestants - that we should find common ground. But when he went to countries in South America where the Roman Catholic church was dominant, he spoke of absolute...

True. the O.T. Law is to convict of sin and point sinners to Christ. Being Spirit led is the characteristic of being a genuine convert to Christ. This goes along with the Scripture, "Those who are led by the Spirit are the children of God" (Romans 8:14).

1 John 2:27: "As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit--just as it has taught you, remain in him." "But when the Father sends the...

Paul says that: "know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified"...

The Scripture says that just one infraction of the Law is disobedience against the whole Law, and disobedience against the Law brings condemnation and death. So if you are trusting in your obedience to what you consider the important commandments and making excuses that the others are just...

Because even the Scripture is just dead ineffective letter without the involvement of the Holy Spirit, the Pharisees, because the Holy Spirit was not involved in their interpretation of their Scriptures, their view came from the flesh and not from the Holy Spirit.

The difference is that New Covenant believers have the indwelling Holy Spirit. The New Testament examples of dreams contained clear and unmistakable messages that didn't need interpretation. There is no New Testament evidence that ordinary believers are guided by dreams and visions. Guidance...

My comment about Sigmund Freud was a tongue in cheek comment to show my belief that trying to interpret dreams belongs to New Age thinking, originating from a godless author who originated the occult-like theory of dream interpretation.

You seem to be talking about gays who profess to be Christian believers. If they are saying their pastor supports their lifestyle, that is their word which may not be the facts of what the pastor is really supporting. I would be more interested in what the pastor himself is saying. If the gay...

When I specified those infractions of the Commandments, I was talking about from our youth up. ie: from the age of accountability when we came to know the difference between right and wrong. So, anytime since our childhood: Have we ever been disrespectful to parents? Have we neglected to love...

Only the Holy Spirit can make repentance possible. Repentance is not giving up sins. It is a total change of attitude toward Christ. It is a change of direction from rebelling against Christ to embracing Him as Saviour. Only the Holy Spirit can give a sinner saving faith to achieve that...

You missed my point. My point is that we won't win souls for Christ by saying to sinners that they must give up their sins before coming to Christ. And even when they do come to Christ, they cannot give up their sins in their own strength, but need the Holy Spirit to do the work of...

In these days, Zealots, if they are following the Jewish Zealot pattern, they are the extremists who are the suicide bombers, shooting up mosques, attacking the Congress building, looting and burning in the name of the BLM movement. Jesus didn't do any of these things, and He would never have...

Simon the Zealot was a disciple of Jesus. The Zealot in Jesus' time was the name of a Jewish organisation that was violently opposed to Roman occupation. Their members would wait until a Roman was in a crowd, gather around him, stab him to death, and then disappear into the crowd, evading...

A zealot is a person who goes to extremes in his zeal. A Christian zealot is like a member of the Westboro Baptist church who demonstrates against gay people saying "I hate fags!"

If I had a dream and someone I know is part of it, I take it as a prompt to remember them in prayer that whatever their need is which prompted me to dream about them, God will take care of.

Those ones who have already died could tell us, but they can't come back and let us know.

I have some pretty crazy dreams at times. I never try to interpret them because I know they don't come from the Holy Spirit. I have a book that the Holy Spirit wrote that gives me all the answers I need. If the Holy Spirit decided to give me a dream to show anything that He wanted me to know...