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I follow the Bible. The Bible contains the dispensations. I could care less about him. We only follow the Bible. No one reads some heretic that spouts nonsense like that.
You do not follow the Bible. If you did you would believe in the Real Presence. You do not even received the Body and Blood of the Lord.

In the CC, we Eat Jesus Christ and drink his Blood. You folks do not have that. Your brand of worship is just praise and singing.
 
Your theology is Calvinistic, who himself is one of the Fathers of the Reformers. So you are a Protestant Dispensationist.
CALVINISTIC???
Calvin!! 5 point TULIP???
Oh my goodness. More lies. Calvin was an evil man. He was against religious liberty. Look at Geneva. He killed heretics or let them be killed just like some other people who did not believe in relgious liberty. Calvin??? We are not Calvinists!!!
 
You do not follow the Bible. If you did you would believe in the Real Presence. You do not even received the Body and Blood of the Lord.

In the CC, we Eat Jesus Christ and drink his Blood. You folks do not have that. Your brand of worship is just praise and singing.
CHARISMATIC??? YOu cannot be serious. You cannot be serious. You must be serious. Praise and singing??? Show me “praise” in the NT as part of the worship service???
 
CALVINISTIC???
Calvin!! 5 point TULIP???
Oh my goodness. More lies. Calvin was an evil man. He was against religious liberty. Look at Geneva. He killed heretics or let them be killed just like some other people who did not believe in relgious liberty. Calvin??? We are not Calvinists!!!
you follow his theology though. You may not be a Calvinist but you borrow some of his beliefs.
 
and its odd you follow Scofield’s theology.
In what way? That we both know the Bible teaches about the dispensations. That is like saying you follow Jehovah Witness because you both go to Church. Absurd.
 
CHARISMATIC??? YOu cannot be serious. You cannot be serious. You must be serious. Praise and singing??? Show me “praise” in the NT as part of the worship service???
When we praise we praise God. Usually, we recite Psalms from the OT.
 
In what way? That we both know the Bible teaches about the dispensations. That is like saying you follow Jehovah Witness because you both go to Church. Absurd.
You believe in dispensationist view which Scofield teaches.
 
You still have not proven your point where Bible Alone is the sole role of faith.
 
When we praise we praise God. Usually, we recite Psalms from the OT.
Good for you. Scripture reading is encouraged. I thought you meant happy clappy tongue speaking chaos. Paul warned against that.
 
Good for you. Scripture reading is encouraged. I thought you meant happy clappy tongue speaking chaos. Paul warned against that.
Oh no. Happy Clappy tongue is not part our worship.

Our Catholic worship is Liturgical and deeply rooted in the Paschal Mystery of Jesus Christ. I believe the Eastern Catholics have much older Liturgy than ours. The Liturgy of St. James is perhaps the oldest one.

**The Liturgy of Saint James is considered to be the oldest surviving liturgy developed for general use in the Church. Its date of composition is still disputed with some authorities proposing an early date, perhaps ca. AD 60, close to the time of composition of Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, while most authorities propose a IV century date, being this anaphora a developed from an ancient Egyptian form of the Basilean anaphoric family united with the anaphora described in The Catechisms of St. Cyril of Jerusalem[1].

The earliest manuscript is the ninth-century codex, Vaticanus graecus 2282, which had been in liturgical use at Damascus, in the diocese of Antioch.

The only critical edition is the one published by Dom B.-Charles Mercier in the Patrologia Orientalis, vol. 26 (1950).**
 
You still have not proven your point where Bible Alone is the sole role of faith.
Like I said. Traditions are man made. If any of the early Christian writers have additional sayings from Jesus, I would know about them
 
1Cr 9:17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation [of the gospel] is committed unto me.
1 Cor 9:17
If I do so willingly, I have a recompense, but if unwillingly, then I have been entrusted with a stewardship. (NAB)
Eph 1:10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; [even] in him:
Eph 1:10
as a plan for the fullness of times, to sum up all things in Christ, in heaven and on earth. (NAB)
Eph 3:2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
Eph 3:2
if, as I suppose, you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for your benefit, (NAB)
Col 1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
Col 1:25
of which I am a minister in accordance with God’s stewardship given to me to bring to completion for you the word of God, (NAB)

How do you explain these differences?
 
1 Cor 9:17
If I do so willingly, I have a recompense, but if unwillingly, then I have been entrusted with a stewardship. (NAB)

Eph 1:10
as a plan for the fullness of times, to sum up all things in Christ, in heaven and on earth. (NAB)

Eph 3:2
if, as I suppose, you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for your benefit, (NAB)

Col 1:25
of which I am a minister in accordance with God’s stewardship given to me to bring to completion for you the word of God, (NAB)

How do you explain these differences?
How do I explain bad translations?
 
Like I said. Traditions are man made. If any of the early Christian writers have additional sayings from Jesus, I would know about them
According to who? Paul told us to hold fast the traditions not abandon them. Only when God is taken out it it should be abandon.
 
How do I explain bad translations?
My point is that where in the bible does it tell us to follow dispensationalism?

Where in the bible does it tell us what dispensationalism is?

Shouldn’t the bible explain these things?
 
They warned us about the traditions of men. So when I examined traditions I got a bunch of contradictory mess. Orthodox say one thing. Polish National Catholics say another. Roman Catholics say this. Tradiiton and scripture is leading to division. The first break up was between two churches who could not agree. Catholicism led to division. There is a church on every corner claiming apostolic succession. That is why I follow Jesus. Using the Bible of course. If they had done that all along, think how much less division the world would have in Christianity.
What you fail to understand is the fact that there are two types of tradition, Divine and ecclesiastical Tradition. Divine being from God, whether it be Dominical or Divine Apostolic (from the Holy Ghost). And ecclesiastical or Simple Apostolic, the Divine Traditions are throughout the whole Roman Catholic Church and Catholicism. Due to the disputes on the Ecclesiastical Traditions is what led to the Division. Here is the thing the Orthodox is really a fork of the Catholic Faith. This fork began with the Great Schism in 1054 AD. Protestantism (this includes all denominations outside of Catholicism) is a complete break from the Catholics, and started when Martin Luther revolted in 1517 AD. We know that the Scriptures are hard to understand: *“*As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.” II Peter III, XVI, and that private interpretation will lead to disaster (2 Peter 1, 20). If Scriptures are clear to understand, why did Martin Luther and his imitators make new catechisms of Christian doctrine? Why do they fill the libraries with innumerable books of interpretations, explanations and commentaries? Above all, why have they any churches, where the Scriptures are explained, if the Scriptures are sufficient? And if there should be a church, why so many churches, of so many denominations, in every city and in every town? If there is a clear statement that in the Scriptures which all Christians should endeavor to put into execution, it is certainly the desire which Christ expressed in His prayer to the Eternal Father on the eve of His Passion and Death, “That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me” (John 17, 21). What else do such words mean than that all Christ’s followers should first of all have the same faith?—“One Lord, one faith, one baptism.” (Eph. 4, 5). If you are in a faith that contradicts the teachings of the Apostles and the Roman Catholic Church then you cannot claim to be apart of this “one faith.”

It is a historical fact that the Church of Rome was always considered the first, the most important, and the most powerful Church in Christiandom. This was admitted in the first centuries and is so regarded today. She saved civilization and the Scripture. Her children outnumbered by far members of all other churches put together; and what is most important, they are bound in “One Faith,” as there can be but “one Lord, one faith, one baptism.”

“While they argue from the Scriptures, they make poor exhibition of the Scriptures… because truth cannot be found by those who do not know Tradition, for not through writing, but by the living voice, Tradition was delivered.” Saint Irenæus (born between 135 – 140 Anno Domini., Smyrna / died 202 Anno Domini., Lyons., disciple of Saint Polycarp)
 
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