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good! is the statement below true or false? 32They worshiped the Lord, but they also appointed all sorts of their own people to officiate for them as priests in the shrines at the high places https://biblehub.com/niv/2_kings/17.htm

we agree there. no, I do not. that certainly isn't something I believe. again, I do not believe that.

please be more specific. :) I believe Jesus is the truth. I don't think there is ultimate truth and some other kind of truth. it is a document. some people believe it contains lies. human language contains ambiguities. these ambiguities make it possible to find lies if a person really wants...

sorry, I don't follow what you're saying here. suppose John wanted the book to circulate freely. how does his being close to death and living in Ephesus relate to that? :)

please feel free to ignore post 2165.

seems to me there would be good reasons for not naming the name. if the Roman government thought that it was inciting rebellion, then it would suppress the book. but if they thought it was just more harmless Jewish stories, then they would just ignore it. literally, never. as a figure of...

I think there are far more than two ways of thinking. what leads you to imply that I think that there is no ultimate truth? Why do you imply that there are different kinds of Truth? In your view, what is the difference between ultimate truth and other kinds of Truth?

is he being disrespectful, in your view?

then you believe something that is not true. yes! but anything written by a human, including my posts and your posts, may contain error. as such, there is nothing wrong with questioning their claims. no, I do not always say that.

yes I agree that the article is not an official Catholic document. and I agree that according to the documents of the second Vatican council, the official name is Catholic Church. notice, though, if you wish, that the gentleman writing the article is also a priest, highly experienced and...

okay, I see what you're saying about the signs. but I think you can see why it would be confusing to outsiders. also, and I mean this in a friendly way, you may be requiring too high a level of precision from outsiders. kind of the way people often use Britain and England interchangeably.

that's a possible interpretation. how does the mark of the beast then prevent buying and selling, as you see it?

I believe you wrote who is the "we" that you are referring to? I assumed you had meant people in general, including you and I. are you saying that, for example, neopagans are actually false Christians, not just non-christians who are following a false religion? do you mean that the pope...

I hear what you're saying, and I think that for the most part we agree. to be fair, I have seen the kinds of things you describe in many different flavors of church. I think it tends to occur any place that church attendance it's part of the culture. like small-town America in the 1950s, for...

yes, all-or-nothing thinking is often found in depressed people. but it sometimes occurs in other people as well. when I read your posts, I often come away with the impression that you believe that a person must worship the true God in spirit and in truth (that would be the "all"), or they are...

well, of course remembering the irenaeus could be wrong, could it be that if John knew the name of the beast but didn't want to reveal it, it was because the beast was someone alive at the time, or at least those alive at the time would then have suppressed the book because it was referring to...

so it sounds like the drift began early. so if irenaeus said that the book of Revelation was mostly prophecy about future events, that wouldn't necessarily be conclusive, it sounds like.

did some research that might be of interest found this page https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=1357 it seems to be an article from The Catholic University of America Press "The second way in which the basic teaching that the Roman Catholic Church is the one and...

I'm fine with using the name "Catholic Church". at the same time, since the Catholic church is headquartered in Rome, I don't see that it is a negative thing to add Roman in front of Catholic Church. I did an image search for "Roman Catholic Church sign". found loads of examples, like...

do you believe this has already been fulfilled? 1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.