1 Timothy from 2 through 6 discusses Godliness, instructions on worship, those in authority, qualifications of deacons and pastors, etc. In 6:3, Paul says: These are the things you are to teach and insist on. 3 If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, 4 they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions 5 and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.
I began to wonder, are the discussions we tend to engage in here in keeping with this? Seems we often get so sidetracked on whether a person is always saved, whether or not we claim we're healed, whether or not depression is of God or not, what to say to homosexuals, etc. Mostly scripture tells us to proclaim the Gospel, which is proclaim Christ and what he's done for us. All the rest is geared toward church members toward OTHER church members and not towards unbelievers. We're to instruct one another in Godliness. All the side issues then, are they unhealthy interests in controversies and quarrels?
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I know next to nothing of other religions, but you said they "believe" this of Mary. So how did such belief come about on something that is nowhere to be found in Scripture?
Hi Seek, because they have a different bible than we. To get the same information, we must read the same bible. They are limited as to which bibles they are permitted to read.
They claim that the protestants took out parts of the Old, and New testaments. Where they have, I think, 73 books in their bible, we have 66. Part of what they claim is, “Quote” “the bible is the inspired, inerrant Word of God (written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit) We know this not because each book of the bible claims to be divinely inspired (most of them don’t) but because, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, they were determined to be inspired by the authority of Christ’s Church.
In (382 AD) Pope Damasus I, prompted by the bishops at the council of Rome, wrote a decree listed the present Old and New Testament cannon of 73 books. The council of Hippo (383 AD) also approved these 73 books. The bishops of the council of Carthage (397 AD) officially settled and declared that these 73 books were in fact, inspired, There were many other books that seemed to be inspired – like the Gospels of Peter and Thomas, or the letters of Barnabas and Clement, but these were not determined to be inspired by the Catholic Church.
About the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mary is a creature and not to be worshiped. She is to be honored, however, for God has honored her above all creatures, choosing her to be the mother of His son.
This could be pretty long, so I will add more as time goes on about their beliefs.
It gets pretty interesting though, to say the least.
I would appreciate it, if others who knows anything about the Catholic religion, would respond to this. Thanks and may God bless.
JB
Well I'm unsure of the books that weren't included or how those who felt the Holy Spirit led them to decide which books were divinely inspired. I do know however that we're warned to not take away or add to the Word. But I did know of books that were not included in the Bible as we know it and that the Catholics had more books in theirs, and I've perused a bit of that information. Yet even in those books, I saw nothing stating what they claim to believe about Mary. That's why I question how they get a belief if it isn't written in their Bible or anywhere else.
YIKES! How do they take a passage that is clearly referring to Solomon and Bathsheba and make it about Jesus and Mary?
I'm not sure if I felt a need to back off because of too much discussion on what I felt to be "trivial" matters of religion or if it was because I spent too much time online....perhaps the latter. But I also know some things can simply be discussed to death and no one ever gets anywhere. But I do question sometimes what I feel about scripture, which LT I believe mentioned is actually what we should do. Because I know early on there were things I heard, before I'd read the Bible or understood any of it, that simply did not line up with Scripture.
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