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sounds like we have the potential for a great discussion! well, if they said that, the magisterium would still have to be expressed in practice through documents from councils and popes. well, we can talk about what you and I say. I can see that final authority is the central issue. but what...

I think Paul says he wrote a letter to the church at laodicea. it's either lost, or, some scholars speculate, it's the book of Ephesians.

it seems to me that a strange situation arises if a person says that they are going to use only scripture and not tradition. without tradition, how does a person decide what documents are scripture?

interesting situation when it comes to final authority, imo. for Catholics I think that would be the Pope. most Protestants would say the Bible. an observation, though: the Bible is a set of words, so in practice it's the reader of those words that becomes the final authority. I don't know...

well, what I see in the story about God is that he uses deeply flawed individuals. Jacob is a cheater who himself gets cheated by Laban. so there's hope for me yet!

Can I bring my own unit and just put it on top?

thanks for letting us know! I remember Willie T. , wonderful Christian brother. may the Lord be with his wife and relatives!

So cute! Love her to death!

this came to my mind while I was pondering the things on this thread 26. In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don`t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can`t be uttered. (Romans, 8) we don't know how to...

great question! I'm going to go with no, he was not wrong to marry Rachel. my impression is that he could have been nicer to Leah later on, so in that sense he wronged Leah. ya lost me there. but that's okay; it looks like other people followed what you said, so there must be something about "a...

possibly, but then the church would be giving birth to Jesus, which sounds strange to me 2. She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth. (Revelation, 12) that's true. at the same time, we don't read about any church groups owning buildings in the Bible, either. yet it is...

I believe you are misunderstanding the English there.

the Bible doesn't state that she can or she can't. I wouldn't say that a person couldn't be a Christian because of a belief one way or the other. yes, asking another Christian to pray for you is biblical, imo. right, that's part of your practice. sorry, I can't make sense out of your English...

I don't know for sure if it's Mary or not. my feeling is our probably refers to the nation of Israel. I think the Bible is unclear about our relationship with Christians who have died. since to God everyone is alive, it's hard for me to believe that people stop being part of the church, the...

well, there was a lot of variation in the world of slavery back then, wasn't there? consider what we know of human nature. put one person in control of another. if the master has perverse desires (very common) and the slave is attractive (common again), sex slavery will result. there's some...

it's possible! we may wish to remember, too, that when most modern English speakers use the word pray, they think in terms of worship toward a deity. probably better when talking about Mary to think in terms of asking Mary to intercede for you.

by "the word", do you mean the words of Jesus? did Jesus stop speaking when the last scripture was written down, in your view?

imo, there's not a simple answer to that question. there's this 18. But since we left off burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. (Jeremiah, 44) but that's not what...

well, my impression is that slavery in New testament times varied widely. some things I found: The fate of a slave depended largely on the temperament of his or her master. Masters could punish slaves brutally for real or perceived infractions. Sexual abuse of slaves was also common. Slave work...

apology accepted. I think some things in history are facts, like that there was a Roman empire. other things would be opinions, like Julius Caesar being a great emperor. if a person says it is a fact that the Catholic Church corrupted the words of Jesus, then it's good if they have a standard...