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An old dog grows wise and lays at his master's feet.

@Fr_RonPG You don't even need it. You can point people to Jesus and He'll find His sheep. That's the Holy and Righteous power of Jesus.

@pgwizzle So you don't need the rest of the Bible then.

Who gets the gospel exactly right?

@CombatJoe1010 @JennyWakefiel12 Can't help but notice your use of Scripture to support your beliefs.

God’s Word IS the highest authority. The problem is you’re assuming “Word of God” means “the Bible alone.” Scripture never says that. The Word of God comes to us in BOTH written form, Sacred Scripture, and apostolic oral tradition as scripture say in 2 Thess. 2:15…..hold to traditions taught “by word of mouth OR by letter,” And in 1 Cor. 11:2….Paul praises them for maintaining traditions delivered to them. And in 2 Tim. 2:2….apostolic teaching passed person-to-person. And Christ didn’t leave behind a New Testament book. He established a Church with authority….. Luke 10:16… “He who hears you hears Me.” Matt. 16:18-19 Matt. 18:17-18 1 Tim. 3:15….the Church is “the pillar and foundation of truth.” We are not about Tradition over Scripture. Its God’s revelation is transmitted through Scripture and apostolic Tradition, authentically interpreted by the Church Christ established. Also, Sola Scriptura creates a huge problem…..if the Bible alone is the only infallible authority… where does the Bible infallibly teach WHICH books belong in the Bible? Because It doesn’t. The canon itself was recognized through the authority of the Church and apostolic Tradition. So Sola Scriptura depends on a non-Scriptural authority before it can even function.

If God’s Word is not the only infallible source of truth, and isn’t the highest authority to which all Christians must submit….then what is?

@kat_maryb And I've got one more silver dollar.

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair

@Annchap43858665 Yes, but you're now on the path to being purified by fire.

@sola_chad @farmingandJesus It's tough. My dad will forever be the man that carried my brother in one arm and me on his shoulders up stone mountain.

@farmingandJesus Dad’s been fighting cancer for several years and we thought it was gone but now we aren’t sure. He said he’s tired. I’ve never heard him say that 😭

Nothing prepares you to witness your parents get older.

@seaexplorer561 @SpeelingBChamp Cool story.

@SpeelingBChamp @pgwizzle Protestants are satanists, just like Mormons and Moslems.

If I hear “we gave you your Bible” one more time ….. You gave no one a Bible. You kept it from people and choked/burned them at the stake for translating it. The books had already been compiled and decided on well before yall got your canonization bragging rights.

@FatherChrisVor1 It's the proverbial wool over the eyes.

One of the most influential ideas to emerge from parts of the American Restorationist movements of the 19th century was the idea of the “Great Apostasy”: the belief that the Christian Church completely fell away from the truth for centuries until a new movement finally restored authentic Christianity. This idea shaped Mormonism, Adventism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, parts of the Holiness movement, and many other restorationist traditions born during and after the Great Awakening. But the theory only works if Christianity truly disappeared. And history simply does not support that claim. The Christians within those movements were often deeply sincere, but many emerged from isolated parts of the American frontier and inherited a very limited picture of Christianity, often seeing only fragments of post-Reformation Western religion around them. What many did not yet understand was that Christianity had never existed only in modern American Protestantism. The ancient Churches of the East still existed. Ancient liturgies still existed. Ancient lines of bishops still existed. Ancient sacramental worship still existed. Ancient Christian writings still existed. Christians were still baptizing, celebrating the Eucharist, preaching Christ crucified and risen, preserving the Scriptures, praying the Psalms, confessing the Trinity, and carrying forward apostolic worship across the world. Christ Himself promised: “The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” (Matthew 16:18) And St. Paul called the Church: “The pillar and ground of the truth.” (1 Timothy 3:15) St. Irenaeus in the 2nd century pointed Christians to the Churches and bishops who could publicly trace their faith through apostolic succession. Not secret rediscoveries centuries later. The tragedy is that many people today imagine Christian history as though the Church vanished into darkness until America rediscovered it. But Christianity was already alive in Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, Armenia, Ethiopia, Constantinople, Rome, India, and beyond long before the restorationist movements were born. The Christian story did not restart in the 1800s.

@CristianoEncend @piratecapt16 @MiscreaRichard @Sacerdotus @ProIllustr3A777 Sounds big and important.

@pgwizzle @piratecapt16 @MiscreaRichard @Sacerdotus @ProIllustr3A777 ... and, yes it is officially part of the apostolic teaching the Church has been charged with handing down.

Jesus never told Peter he was the Rock of His Church. Why would Jesus even consider something so ridiculous when HE IS THE ROCK in other scriptures. In the Greek, Peter = Petros which means Stone. Rock = Petra which means Mountain / Bedrock. Peter's statement is the Rock. Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it."

@adelethelaptop We should always tell someone we wronged that we are sorry. Aside from being Biblical, it's just common decency.

I worded that previous tweet the way I did because it also applies to Protestants who confess directly to God. If we’re not confessing our sin to the one we sinned against, are we truly confessing, or just looking to get the feeling of guilt/conviction off our chest?

In the Bible, we are told to confess our sins one to another. It’s easy to tell a priest you sinned against someone. True repentance is much harder, and much more profitable—go directly to the person you sinned against and confess your sin against them. That’s Biblical.

@SpeelingBChamp @seaexplorer561 Must be. Goal posts often change when you just want to feel big.

@seaexplorer561 @pgwizzle Is it now heresy to read the Bible?

@seaexplorer561 @farmingandJesus That's how I felt about your personal judgement.

@pgwizzle @farmingandJesus What a bizarre thing to say.

I encourage Christians to pray for the families of both fallen soldiers and for the soldiers who came back physically and mentally scarred by war.

@farmingandJesus They like to look and feel important.

@seaexplorer561 @farmingandJesus You can't do that, but you sure sound big saying it.

@farmingandJesus You are a wicked and depraved heretic and will be cast into the eternal flames of Gehenna on the dreadful Day of the Lord.

@JennyWakefiel12 @farmingandJesus They fought tooth and nail to keep it out of the hands of common men and women. It really does tread in millstone territory.

@farmingandJesus I know! They literally gave people the death penalty for translating it so everyone could read it.

@God_winsforever I remember that nagging feeling that something was missing in my life. It was always there.

"The love of Jesus is the love you and I have been looking for all of our lives." - Tim Keller

@MiscreaRichard @piratecapt16 @Sacerdotus @ProIllustr3A777 Paul wasn't an original 12.

@piratecapt16 @pgwizzle @Sacerdotus @ProIllustr3A777 Was Paul given knowledge directly from Jesus?

@MiscreaRichard @piratecapt16 @Sacerdotus @ProIllustr3A777 I'd look at the apostolic succession more closely.

@pgwizzle @piratecapt16 @Sacerdotus @ProIllustr3A777 My authority is also scripture, but with the addition that scripture fully supports and instructs that the oral teachings of the apostles be passed down to trustworthy men by apostolic succession. I agree with you on the last sentence.

@piratecapt16 @MiscreaRichard @Sacerdotus @ProIllustr3A777 There's a few for me also. The biggest one is that salvation is only found in the Catholic Church - which I don't think is an official stance of the Church - but a lot of them have the cajones to declare it. Salvation is in Christ alone and it's not even found - it's given.

My argument with them is the division they cause. Whether I think the bread is symbolic or the “presence” as they say, we should be able to commune together in this ordinance. The Bible says not to be unequally yoked, it doesn’t say christians shouldn't marry just because one is a baptist and the other is a Catholic. We both agree Mary was a virgin, what difference does it make if she remained a virgin or had children after Jesus? Their dogmatic approach to Christianity especially with their idols and relics are the thing where I can’t go along with them.