TopherNelson said:
I had not receive the Eucharist yet. My step-father is atheist, mother is a Buddhist, and my stepbrothers and stepsister are baptist. I was baptist until God call me to his church. My parish priest said they will confirm me by Christmas next year if I join RCIA. I have one and a half year to go.
Hi Topher,
I probably should not pursue this discussion much further on this thread. It is debatable whether or not it is compatible with the OP. However, I do discuss some of the 10 Commandments in the link I'm going to give you.
I've written a treatise regarding the eucharist. You can find it at
http://www.waltermartin.com/forums/showthread.php?1361-The-Ultimate-Catholic-Idol
I do not participate on that forum anymore. It is an RCC forum and I'm not welcome there, but previous postings of mine are still there. In fact, lots of things I did not post, that I've written, are there as well. After I left there, some on this RCC site followed me to forums I did post on, took some of my material, posted it on their RCC forum, and would critique it and ridicule it. It made them feel very safe since they knew that I would not respond on their forum and expose their biblical illiteracy. And expose I did, time and time again. But they were not interested in the Bible, they were only interested in RCC doctrine, which is contrary to the Bible.
Zeke25
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them."
- Jesus (Matt 5:17)
When Jesus said He had NOT come to abolish the law, what do you suppose that meant? The law still stands. Which part of NOT is not understood?
He who does not live by the law shall die by the law. But there are those who will retort by saying they live under grace instead. Let me ask a simple question. Does grace mean that such a man has a license to sin or does it mean he is no longer forced to live BY sin?
I actually heard a preacher tell his congregation that they should "go out and sin all your want this week so that grace may abound." Romans 6:2 states 'MAY IT NEVER BE." Grace does not abolish the law. Grace makes the law live in the hearts of the disciple.
Choir Loft,
You didn't tell us what you think Mt. 5:17 means, but you did ask what someone else thinks it means. (Although, I doubt seriously that it was anything more than a rhetorical question with no sincerity on your part to learn the answer). It means that Christ has fulfilled all of the requirements of the law. As a born again Christian I need not worry about keeping the law anymore, because it has been kept and fulfilled for me. But of course, I do not ignore the law. But I am not bound to the handwriting of ordinances that was against me (Colossians 2:14).
The law does not still stand! What part of 2 Corinthians 3:7,11, do you not understand?
2 Corinthians 3:6-16 KJV, “6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? 9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.”
Verse 10 explains that the glory of the Law had no glory at all when compared to the glory of the spirit; namely, doing away with the Law and replacing it with grace.
“11 For if
that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
”
Verse 11 means the Law was done away with, which is also stated in verse 7.
“12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of
that which is abolished:
”
As in verse 7 and 11, it is stated again in verse 13. The Law has been abolished. Which means the requirement to live under the oppressiveness and condemnation of the Law was done away with and replaced with grace and love.
“14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away
in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
15 But even unto this day,
when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
”
Those that return to the Law and teach others to do the same have a vail over their eyes and heart. Why put yourself under this vail? This is the gospel of man, this is the gospel of the antichrist. These people have rejected Christ, no matter how much they protest to the contrary. This is not my judgment call, this is what Scripture declares. Galatians 5:4 KJV, “
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.” Do you think you are not justifying yourself by the Law when you shackle yourself and others with the Law? Oh, but you are! Read the whole counsel of God, I could quote many more Scriptures, you need to find them. But a true born again Christian can be temporarily deceived. If so, they will listen to the Holy Ghost and come out of this antichrist system and not oppose the Living God. If they do not come out, the hand writing is on the wall. Daniel 5:27 KJV, “
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.” The kingdom has been taken from you.
“16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
” Repent, return to the Lord.
As far as this preacher you heard tell his congregation to go sin more, don't listen to him anymore.
In Christ,
Zeke25
