Actually, this picture just makes me sad for the woman. Maybe she is desperate to be young or truly believes that she would be of less worth without all the hair and makeup.
Letâs feel sorry for her instead of making fun of her.Itâs fake, just like herâŚ
The same one you read. The one that says to keep all the traditions you have received and that which you have heard. The one that was compiled by the Catholic Church and translated from the original texts, and responsibly maintained traditional language rather than deforming the original meanings and making them bland. The one that does not buy into novelties to try to stay âfreshâ. The Church of All Time that need not change to accomodate the generations and ebb and flow of the world, because She serves God who is Eternal, and not the world. The very un-worldly, spiritual Church in direct contradiction to the very worldly, pop-psychology Protestant churches that hate Her oh-soâvery-much.
Well, thatâs odd. The one Iâm reading has all of those things that you say you canât find.
Show me the verse that commands us to have altar calls.
James 5:14-16
Oh, then by that logic, I take it you donât believe in the Trinity. After all, the word âTrinityâ never appears in the Bible.
All an altar call is is an opportunity to ask for prayer, so when you say âaltar callâ, you are talking about praying for one another.
AMEN, BROTHER!!! (and yes, that means I am in complete agreement with you!!)PSâIâm willing to bet that the cassock (long black or white robe) that I wear as an Orthodox clergyman looks a whole lot more like what Jesus and the Apostles wore than 3 piece suits sported by pop-evangelical preachers!
That one? Nothing about an âaltar callâ there. The âaltar callâ per se, is a tradition invented by Protestants. You have the Scriptures that say to pray for one another, yes, but no historical continuity to show that your way is the way the Apostles did it. Catholics have both the Scriptures and the historically continous tradition.
Say WHAT?? This says nothing about âAltar callsâ:
Uh-uhâŚsee post above.
Invalid premise. Nuclear bombs, Fords, Edsels, and chocolate bars arenât in the Bible either. ButâŚwhile the word âtrinityâ does not specifically appear in the Bible it is quite well clearly spoken, right?
So in other wordsâŚthis is one of those âMan-made Traditionsâ that yâall have created by personal interpretation of scriptures.
Really? You donât believe that passage is about the pastor and elders praying for somebody?
Well, but Rob, Protestants have a wide variety of Bible-truth⌠Perhaps Pastor Jimâs Bible-truth is different from theirs? The Bible is interpretable in many, many, many ways you know!Uh-uhâŚsee post above.
Invalid premise. Nuclear bombs, Fords, Edsels, and chocolate bars arenât in the Bible either. ButâŚwhile the word âtrinityâ does not specifically appear in the Bible it is quite well clearly spoken, right?
So in other wordsâŚthis is one of those âMan-made Traditionsâ that yâall have created by personal interpretation of scriptures.
The writer of this page seems to disagree with you:
gracesermons.com/hisbygrace/heed.html
This one tooâŚ
http://www.9marks.org/CC/article/0,,PTID314526|CHID598016|CIID1804792,00.html
And this fellow⌠a BaptistâŚagrees with me that it is âwhollyâ MAN MADE TRADITION and a MODERN ONE as well.
biblicalstudies.com/bstudy/ecclesiology/altar.htm
Do I smell the faint odor of hypocrisy wafting about?
I already explained that passage. Please donât ignore what I said.
OK. How are these verses not about having the pastor and elders pray for somebody?
My point, exactly.
No.
Donât care.
Read it again. It is not the altar call he is saying is Unbiblical, but the way some in the church are manipulating people using altar calls.
