QUOTE="JM2C, post: 4235000, member: 53604"]Sometimes people asked, was it really from the genes, from our parents, we inherited some of the traits of who we are, or was it from the environment? Environments required no traits from the genes to follow its way of life, but it does influence the...
The real reason is that they choose to be celibate.
Actually, the article is flawed when it states that all Catholic priests can't have sex.
Eastern rite priests are in communion with Rome/Pope and they can marry.
Celibacy is not a doctrine. It's a discipline. The Eastern rite discipline...
Nice tap dance on the cups from the same chapter of Paul. The cups belong to Christ, not Jehovah. The NWT changed Lord to Jehovah so as not to have a direct link to Jesus being God. So they replaced Lord with Jehovah to confuse your flock.
BTW, your Jehovah Witness info above is wrong. Jehovah...
You have no link to the teaching method used by the Father, Jesus and the apostles so you are neither fit to teach or lead as was Jesus, Paul and the apostles.
Sorry.
And there is no requirement by the Catholic Church for anyone to have a statue, a relic, a cross, a picture, a rosary, a scapular, etc.
So what's your point?
You better read some of Luther's stuff regarding the Jews. He was a really big anti-Semite. BTW, you may also want to read his writings on Mary as you would be more than shocked. I believe from my past readings that his tomb is under or near, uh oh, a statue of Mary being crowned Queen of Heaven.
Under 1) Correct. To father, sire etc. The result is a being of the same NATURE as the begettor.
Under 2) Correct. Violence begets violence. It begets something of the same NATURE.
Jesus is of the same NATURE as the Father via begetting.
All that you've posted above are just examples of the Jewish teaching method. The Father is the ultimate teacher with authority of his doctrine. Jesus learns from the Father and becomes the Father's teacher with authority AKA The Word and is sent forth to preach by the Father. Jesus is the...
WHAT DOES YOUR NWT SAY?
I'll repeat it for you since you don't want to see it..
"No; but I say that what the nations sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God;+ and I do not want you to become sharers with the demons.+ 21 You cannot be drinking the cup of Jehovah* and the cup of...
Can't reason from the scriptures when the truth is right in front of you and can't be twisted? The NWT makes Jesus equal to Jehovah. They really should have left the scripture the way everyone else translated it rather than look so foolish as to make Jesus equal to Jehovah. Maybe you should ask...
Yep. That's what happens when you write/change scripture in the NWT to match your doctrine. You end up with Jesus being Jehovah. Silly, huh? But it's there for all to see.
Of course you don't. I'll help you out.
Therefore, my beloved ones, flee from idolatry.+ 15 I speak as to men with discernment; judge for yourselves what I say. 16 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of the Christ?+ The loaf that we break, is it not a sharing...