Catholic Heresy (for the record)

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JaumeJ

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For the sake of the body and the edification of the church, I think it would be better to stick with what the scriptures teach under the new covenant of grace. You purposely avoid the teachings of the body and of the church that we have in the NT scriptures and it would not matter if I or someone else made mention of them. YOU DO NOT WANT TO OBEY THOSE SCRIPTURES CONCERNING THE CHURCH AND BODY OF CHRIST and is reveals some of the hardness that you have against those teachings that our Lord gave to the apostle Paul. They are inspired of God and given by revelation as a mystery revealed that was not revealed to any of the OT prophets including Moses, but was revealed in the dispensation and time of the church and grace of God.

We as believers are to apply these teachings that have been given under the new covenant of grace by our Lord and not refuse them. You are very abstract about the teaching and doctrine of the church and body of Christ, which is THE FULNESS OF GOD. You won't make comment about the fulness of God in the body because you don't believe in it or in the inspired teachings that we have been given through the apostle Paul about it.

You do not see that I have paraphrased from the NEW TESTAMENT what Jesus teaches? This is a total departure from the teachings of Yeshua. I am afraid no amount of reason will penetrate the condemnation you feel for those who will not leave the teachings of Yeshua in favor of your own interpretation of the Word. The written code does indeed kill without the Holy Spirit to guide us through. Your recent posts seem as daggers attempting to tear the very fabric of the truth given us from Jesus Christ. Please, there is absolutely no reason for this, please read the New Testament, it truly is the continuation of Torah and the Prophets, and there really is nothing new if one reads the Old Testament with the veil of Moses removed.
 
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I know one thing this place is definitely lacking that I have seen on many church's websites and missions websites. That is a mission statement and a statement of faith. When I first came here, I thought this would be a very loving and caring community despite what I believe but I was wrong.
 
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JaumeJ

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I think what Red33 is trying to say is this:

We, as people, can help guide others towards Jesus and God. We are supposed to. We are meant to love and respect one another as we are first of all. If we cannot even know someone for who they are, how can we love them??
Using the historic meaning of the word, "respect," we are not to be respecters of persons. However when you mean recognizing the dignity of individuals, this is true. Loving others never means to yield to the will of any flesh when we know it is wrong in the sight of our Lord and Savior. Sometimes, respecting others will have nothing to do with giving them immediate satisfaction in what appears to be the correct way to approach a given situation. I refer to what I suppose some folks would call tough love. A toddler runs into the street, the mother grabs him and gives him a good whack so he remember she does not approve. Later the growing child learns the dangers of traffic and realizes the mother did everything in love knowing later in life the toddler would realize he was in danger. So it is with our love for one another. There are times we, if we love, appear stern, even cruel, but here is some wisdom from Jesus, "Judge not by appearances but with right judgment." And so we trudge along the path given us, sometimes it is easy, other times it is very rough, but once we have come to Jesus, we no longer suffer for doing what is wrong, no, we learn to suffer in patience for doing what is right, for the glory of God! amen....
 
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You do not see that I have paraphrased from the NEW TESTAMENT what Jesus teaches? This is a total departure from the teachings of Yeshua. I am afraid no amount of reason will penetrate the condemnation you feel for those who will not leave the teachings of Yeshua in favor of your own interpretation of the Word. The written code does indeed kill without the Holy Spirit to guide us through. Your recent posts seem as daggers attempting to tear the very fabric of the truth given us from Jesus Christ. Please, there is absolutely no reason for this, please read the New Testament, it truly is the continuation of Torah and the Prophets, and there really is nothing new if one reads the Old Testament with the veil of Moses removed.
This statement you have just made reveals what is in your heart concerning Christ and the church and that you do not believe in the teachings of Paul that we have been given concerning the church and body of Christ. You seem to have your own personal convictions about what Paul taught concerning the body of Christ and the church and I am going to make an assumption that you believe that much of what he taught about the body of Christ and the church was not from God or the Holy Spirit.

I want to hear from other believers of the new covenant that are indwelt by the Holy Spirit and what they believe in their heart concerning Christ and the church and the fulness of God in the body. Let them use and refer to the same scriptures mentioned and what ever else God leads them to use. But, let's use the Scriptures, God's counsel, given to us in the NT for the NT believer as it pertains to the mystery of Christ and the church.
 
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That may be okay for a toddler JaumeJ, but these people are adults, capable of reading a bible and making their own minds up.
 

loveme1

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Matthew 18

1At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? 2And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, 3And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 4Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. 6But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Peace and Blessings in the name of Yahvah God and Yahshua the Messiah.
 

JaumeJ

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That may be okay for a toddler JaumeJ, but these people are adults, capable of reading a bible and making their own minds up.

The idea is intended to demonstrate with something understandable that oft times God will teach us by means that seem stern or cruel, and we later realize why whatever the specific teaching was necessary and a demonstration of His love. All things work out for the good for those who love Yahweh. Once this last idea is understood, life becomes much easier, the Way He has given each of us. Understood is not simply the words, it is also understanding the depth of the meaning in the heart, soul and mind. The illustration is simply attempting to get a point across as painlessly as possible. And if you are not a child approaching the Father, you will never approach Him. Here is a thought for you, meditate on approaching the Maker of all that is as anything but a child, for instance, an intellectual, a philosopher, a scientist, or simply as an adult man-to-man. Think about that before hitting the keyboard.........
 

JaumeJ

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This statement you have just made reveals what is in your heart concerning Christ and the church and that you do not believe in the teachings of Paul that we have been given concerning the church and body of Christ. You seem to have your own personal convictions about what Paul taught concerning the body of Christ and the church and I am going to make an assumption that you believe that much of what he taught about the body of Christ and the church was not from God or the Holy Spirit.

I want to hear from other believers of the new covenant that are indwelt by the Holy Spirit and what they believe in their heart concerning Christ and the church and the fulness of God in the body. Let them use and refer to the same scriptures mentioned and what ever else God leads them to use. But, let's use the Scriptures, God's counsel, given to us in the NT for the NT believer as it pertains to the mystery of Christ and the church.
You realize of course I have not mentioned Paul, whom I read and believe as a teacher. However when any given subject has me wondering, I always go to what the Master has taught on that subject, and I am satisfied totally. It seems you think Paul taught us to forget the law. If this is the case, I think you had better read what Yeshua, Jesus, has taught quite plainly on the subject. You do believe Yeshua is the Authority of all that is, do you not?
 
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You realize of course I have not mentioned Paul, whom I read and believe as a teacher. However when any given subject has me wondering, I always go to what the Master has taught on that subject, and I am satisfied totally. It seems you think Paul taught us to forget the law. If this is the case, I think you had better read what Yeshua, Jesus, has taught quite plainly on the subject. You do believe Yeshua is the Authority of all that is, do you not?
You have problems with Paul's doctrine about many things but especially concerning Christ and the church. Our Lord spoke very little about the church and body of Christ because that revelation and mystery was revealed to Paul primarily and going back to what Christ taught on the subject, you would find very little, if anything. To find out about the eternal purpose and function of the church and body of Christ you have to go to Paul's writings in the NT epistles which are inspired of God and given by authority of the Holy Spirit. You are not being honest in your post and you avoid everything the scriptures gives to the believer concerning the church and body of Christ. You can't deny it because it is too obvious. Perhaps there will be a time when you will desire to know and be a part of this great church and body of Christ that we have been placed in by our Lord Jesus Christ.
 

JaumeJ

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You have problems with Paul's doctrine about many things but especially concerning Christ and the church. Our Lord spoke very little about the church and body of Christ because that revelation and mystery was revealed to Paul primarily and going back to what Christ taught on the subject, you would find very little, if anything. To find out about the eternal purpose and function of the church and body of Christ you have to go to Paul's writings in the NT epistles which are inspired of God and given by authority of the Holy Spirit. You are not being honest in your post and you avoid everything the scriptures gives to the believer concerning the church and body of Christ. You can't deny it because it is too obvious. Perhaps there will be a time when you will desire to know and be a part of this great church and body of Christ that we have been placed in by our Lord Jesus Christ.
So, you belong to Paul. Does not Paul teach that we do not follow him nor Peter, nor anyone other than Jesus, Yeshua? Were any of them crucified for your sins. I think not. Paul is the first to teach that Christ is the Head of the Body, and He brought the good news to us all. Yes, Yeshua does speak of the church, enough to know all true teaching is from Him. No member of His Body can possibly know or learn anything without His authority; it is simply impossible. I also read Paul extensively, however the words that always put me at perfect ease come from the Master for He has the words of Salvation. No, I do not belong to Paul; he and I belong to Yeshua. Perhaps one day you will understand this. Paul does teach this in no uncertain terms.
 
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So many do not realize that we as Believers in this dispensation of Grace are not held under a performance based acceptance system. We are justified by God through his grace:
Romans 3:24: Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

We have peace with God:
Romans 5:1: Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

We have His righteousness:
Romans 3:26: To declare, [I say], at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

We cannot be justified by the law:
Romans 3:19: Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Romans 3:20: Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law [is] the knowledge of sin.

So many do not realize that what Paul writes is what was given to him by the revelation of the ascended Lord Jesus Christ.

The Earthly ministry of Christ and what the Ascended Lord Jesus Christ are different dispensations. We need to follow the current dispensation or operating system.
Ephesians 3:1: For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
Ephesians 3:2: If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
Ephesians 3:3: How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
Ephesians 3:4: Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
Ephesians 3:5: Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
 

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Revelation 22

12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

This evening i was troubled with some things I've read today, and tonight was lead to the scripture below, and will share it to show Paul did teach the Keeping of Yahvah God's Commandments.
And there is a distinction from the 10 Commandments of Yahvah God and the Law of Moses which some deny..

1 Corinthians
9For it is written in the law of Moses
1 Corinthians 7

17 But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.

18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
NIV also

17 Nevertheless, each person should live as a believer in whatever situation the Lord has assigned to them, just as God has called them. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches. 18 Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man uncircumcised when he was called? He should not be circumcised. 19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commands is what counts. 20 Each person should remain in the situation they were in when God called them.

Glory to Yahvah God and Yahshua the Messiah.
 
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36 pages. wow. Another pointless and never-ending argument.
 
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The statement that Red33 is of Paul and not of Christ is laughable. Just my 2 cents. It would seem you lack understanding. Please re-read his posts and ask the Holy Spirit to assist you in your understanding.
 

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Well, it would seem that Paul left in his own words a Rebuke


1 Corinthians 1



1Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
2Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

3Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

4I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; 5That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; 6Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: 7So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: 8Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

10Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 11For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. 12Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. 13Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul? 14I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius; 15Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name. 16And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other. 17For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.

18For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

20Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. 22For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; 24But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. 25Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

26For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: 27But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: 29That no flesh should glory in his presence. 30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 31That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
 

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36 pages. wow. Another pointless and never-ending argument.
you say this a lot...perhaps you should just ignore them instead of commenting how pointless you think these threads because they obviously matter to those commenting.
 
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The statement that Red33 is of Paul and not of Christ is laughable. Just my 2 cents. It would seem you lack understanding. Please re-read his posts and ask the Holy Spirit to assist you in your understanding.
There are some believers (most of them of Jewish persuasion) who still want to live under the law selectively using the words of Christ in the gospels so that they can be satisfied with serving Yeshua. They know enough to realize that Christ was prophesied to come and they believe upon Him and the blood He shed with their whole heart but they have difficulty and wrestle with what Christ had left us when He ascended to His Father which began with Pentecost.

The mystery of the church and the revelation of the body of Christ does not satisfy their desired form of worship that includes the keeping of the Sabbath and other practices that the NT church it not obligated to keep. They want to be under the law as it fits their form of worship of Yahveh but also under grace because of sin. They have never learned how to worship the Lord in GRACE and TRUTH through the Spirit. Measures of the law dictate their worship that is contrary to grace and the gathering of the saints in the church and body of Christ.

They are more oriented to justification through keeping the commandments then they are being justified by grace through faith in the cross and blood of Christ. They acknowledge these things concerning what our Lord has done for them and they believe, but they do not rest in these things that have been accomplished on their behalf making them complete in Christ. Therefore they must keep the commandments including the Sabbath to stabilize a justifiable relationship with Yahveh under the law of righteousness instead of resting in God's imputed righteousness through the law of faith as a believer who is under grace and not the law.

This is difficult for them because of their heritage, background and identification as a Jew or Hebrew and they don't want to count it all dung to win Christ in their own life. The NT church and teachings of the body does not meet there requirements for a relationship with Yeshua because they want an independent recognition of Christ and not a corporate one that is dependent on the supply that comes from all believers in the body who make up the fulness of God. They do not discern the Lord's body and want to commune only with Christ the head but not with His body that receives from the head.

This is why Paul's teaching on this is so foreign to them, but it's the very reason why Christ gave it to Paul so that the Jews would break out of their shell of what they had come to rely upon under the law with all of its traditions including circumcision and into the glorious liberty offered through Christ in the church by grace and through the promises of God.
 

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You seem to have a problem seeing beyond people's blood line. You are aware we are grafted in to the original vine, Jews. If you, being grafted in wish to lord it over the original, take heed, if the Father grafted in He may just as easily prune unwanted grafts out and throw them in the fire.
 

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This is why Paul's teaching on this is so foreign to them
Red, i Truly believe Paul's teaching is not foreign to Jaume or myself, it is you that is without understanding.

It is you that ignores scripture that corrects your error....

Continue to believe, but do not be guilty of teaching others the error of your ways.


Glory to Yahvah God and Yahshua the Messiah.
 
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You seem to have a problem seeing beyond people's blood line. You are aware we are grafted in to the original vine, Jews. If you, being grafted in wish to lord it over the original, take heed, if the Father grafted in He may just as easily prune unwanted grafts out and throw them in the fire.
We are all grafted into the vine through mercy and grace, but I am speaking about the church and body made of Jew and Gentile that Christ prepared for us when He ascended to the Father and gave gifts according to (Eph 4:8-16). You are a believer of the NT church and body under grace and not the letter of the law. The body is a living organism that God has placed every believer within this dispensation and time of the Gentiles. As a believer in Christ (Yeshua) we have been saved and made a member of that body being placed in Christ. We are to function as one member of one body made up of many members.

Every believer has a measure of Christ and His faith in them that we need to receive from one another as a supply of the Spirit so that the body can be edified in the love and grace of God. There is dependency involved in that supply. The supply that I have from God, as a member of His body, can not be supplied by another and it is the same for each member. Together when we are giving of our supply, we are knit together and function together as one body and not as all these independent members running around doing service to God and keeping His commandments. We keep the commandments as a body and edify one another as a body and we grow up together into our head (Christ) together as a body. This is what God's redeemed church is doing as a body, a living organism revealing an invisible God as the living God through the life of the body of Christ.