It's amazing how many Catholics turn Atheist or anti-religion. The Catholic Church is completely fouled up. I did not write the following, I found it on a BMW message board:
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1Tim 3:2 "A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach"
and v4 and 5 "One that ruleth well his own house, having all his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)"
Hmm... being that the word "bishop" originally was a term for pastor, then how is it that the Catholic church preaches against a man holding a congregation and a wife at the same time? If a man has no experience in governing his own children, where does he get the ability to govern a congregation? Hmm.
How about this, taken from 1Timothy 4:1-3:
"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth."
Hmm. I've already addressed the ban on married Catholic clergy above, but its interesting that the warning against such bans was repeated much more clearly in this verse. Also interesting to note that the pre-Vatican Council II Catholic doctrine taught that you don't eat meat on a Friday. To this day, most restaurants serve clam chowder and fish specials on Friday only, just to accomodate Catholics who still follow this ban.
I'm afraid that the only "mystery" about God is perpetrated by the Catholic church, just to maintain their lock on what they consider the truth. My mom and dad were raised in that church, and I heard some pretty hair-raising things about how kids were taught in those days. My mom still shudders when telling the story about the "black masses" they were required to attend every Wednesday at St. Anne's in Chicago. The RCC is steeped in ritual and mysticism, and seeks to isolate people from God by placing themselves in between.
posted by "Chuck"
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The Bible is true, and all that we observe cannot disproved it!! God created the heavens (plural) and the Earth about 6000 years ago in 6 24 hour days. Einstein's thoery of relativity states that time is relative. If we are near the center of the universe, time will be moving much more slowly to us than those objects moving away from us at high speed. The Bible states that God "stretched out the heavens." The universe has been aging much faster than we have.
There is overwhelming evidence of a world-wide flood. Grand Canyon is evidence of a huge, breached dam, not millions of years of erosion. Petrified clams in the closed position (buried alive) are found all over Mt Everest and many other extrememly tall mountains. The mid-Atlantic ridge shows the scars where "the fountains of the deep broke open".
Dinosaurs used to be called dragons, and are mentioned 35 times in the Bible. In the the Belgian Congo in Africa, the native refer to a beast that looks identical to the apatosaurus as "mokele mbembe". Kenyans know of a flying lizard that eats decaying human flesh. They have to bury their dead deep or else it will dig them up. Plesiosaur carcasses have washed up on the beach more than once, and one was pulled up by a Japanese fishing ship in 1977. It was decaying badly.
The discoveries of "cave men" and our primate-based ancestors have all been debunked as deliberate frauds, mis-interpreted data, or simply made-up. "Nebraska Man" was created because one man one tooth that he thought looked half-man, half-ape. He even constructed the man's wife. All from one tooth. He found a pig's tooth. "Neaderthals" are real humans that were poorly assembled by those who are biased toward evolution. They have thick eyebrows and curved spines due to acromegaly, a condition of old age we still experience today. These people had larger brains than us and were much larger and stronger than us. "Piltdown Man" was a hoax. It was a human skull with ape jaw filed to fit, acid treated to make it look old, buried, and later "discovered". "Lucy" (australopithacus) was only 40% complete when found. They found a skull, but it was too crushed to reassemble. That doesn't stop the evolutionists from dreaming up skulls that look half-man, half-ape. They didn't find its feet, but they put human feet on it in all the displays. All they found was a tree-dwelling monkey. "Homo erectus" was pieced together from ape and human bones and later found out to be a fraud.
No known fossils have been dated with C-14 or K-Ar. They are dated by the rock layers they are found in. But they also date the rock layers by so-called "index fossils". This was all made up by a God-hating man named Charles Lyell, the father of "modern" geology. Dinosaur bones have been blind-analyzed to show they are less than 20,000 years old. Dinosaur tracks are still side-by-side with human footprints all over the world (especially in Glen Rose, Texas "Dinosaur Valley State Park"), but since this does not agree with evolution, many scientists have completely ignored the findings.
Did you know that nearly all of the modern sciences were begun by those who believed in God? Did you know that concept of evolution was brought about by philosophers, NOT scientists? Did you know tha Louis Pasteur proved, 150 years ago, that life must come from living matter and cannot come from non-living matter?
Some of you may say that none of this matters and there is no God. Evolution's mantra is "the survival of the fittest." This exact concept is what Hitler used to eliminate the Jews, and Stalin to murder over 60 million Russians, and Moussolini to believe the Italians were the "superior race", and Karl Marx to come up with the Communist Manifesto. Darwin was a racist and a sexist. If you don't believe me, READ HIS BOOK! Marx dedicated his book to Darwin. Hitler studied Darwin religiously. Those who thought the Africans were an inferior race did not believe in the same God that I do. Acts 17:26 states that we are all of one blood. Racism did not come from the Bible.
The Bible teaches that we all come from God, and man was created in His image. That means that we all have to answer to God. That's the problem that people have with the concept of God. If evolution were true (it has been disproved many times in the last 150 years since Darwin "thought it up"), it would mean that we do not have to answer to God.
If anyone wants to comment on the Bible, evolution, creation, or the existence of God, that's fine. Please do not attack my character, my peers' character, or views. That's not good debating technique.
JamesM
Have a bannana a realize that by attacking valid science you don't serve to prove or validate your religion, all you prove is your own childishness.
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