EmmausHoppas המשיח הוא אדון

@BillArnoldTeach It’s a matter of language, not interpretation. It refers to the seed of the woman (aka the messiah). This “seed”, he הוא (hu) will crush. The pronoun grammatically agrees w/ “seed” (zeraʿ, a masculine noun) & can never mean “she,”היא (hee). LXX preserves this. Vulgate changes it.

@emmaus_e Septuagint: enmity between the serpent and the woman Vulgate: she crushes Church: both read in light of Christ For 2,000 years the Church has read this as a shared victory. Private interpretation didn’t settle this. The Church did.

The Woman of Genesis still crushes the serpent. Catholics call her blessed. Protestants call her too much. Guess who agrees with Scripture.

@PirroMolossiano @MrCasey62 Necromancy and ghost-magic in Rome appear in literature and practice, including rituals to raise or consult the dead (sometimes using professional evocators).

@emmaus_e @MrCasey62 They did in certain parts, but it matters which pagan. The romans, estrucan and Greeks saw necromancy as extremely taboo. No one should do it. Consulting the dead was seen as calling out dangers to a community and gruesome.

He demands evidence of “anyone praying to Mary in the first 500 years”. Done. ✅

@PirroMolossiano @MrCasey62 I’m confused. Are you disagreeing that pagans engaged in necromancy?

@emmaus_e @MrCasey62 It is the inverse. The accusation of necromancy was used against Christians.

@PirroMolossiano @MrCasey62 Maybe we’re disagreeing on terminology. Catholics have as a regularis pars religionis, the veneration of saints and requesting of them prayers to God for particular concerns, right?

@emmaus_e @MrCasey62 To

@PirroMolossiano @MrCasey62 Egypt, Greece, Rome, Etruscans, Mesopotamia, Canaanite, Phoenicians, etc. They all had some form necromancy with ancestor veneration as an accepted part of their religions. It was Jews & early Christians that were the weird ones, unless they became reprobate and broke God’s law

@emmaus_e @MrCasey62 Well, it matters, which pagan? Hellenism is quite fearful of the dead, believing this to be somewhat of a taboo.

@PirroMolossiano @MrCasey62 Let me make sure I understand you. Did you mean to say, “praying for a Saint “ or “praying to”?

@emmaus_e @MrCasey62 Also, neither are jews or catholics praying for a saint as a intermediate

@PirroMolossiano @MrCasey62 Are you saying pagans don’t contact the dead? I assure you they do (or ‘try to’ is more accurate). It’s kind of their thing.

@emmaus_e @MrCasey62 Paganism do not have this. Once again you are conflating issues and confusing different matters. Read my answer

@Memewhile321 It’s a beauty! From the 1950s.

@emmaus_e That's a great place to have it.

Suprising, I know

@PirroMolossiano @MrCasey62 Well, it developed somehow. Of course brings us back to the fact the scriptures don’t have endorsement of prayer to “not-God”. No record of praying to Moses & no instruction to do so. Even if you dismiss verse below, there is no positive case to be made. But paganism does this.

@emmaus_e @MrCasey62 Most likely, the miracles attributed to the apostles and no joke, jews, they have believed in intercession from favored individuals, in a similar manner to catholics. Both believe there aren't intermediaries, but intercession prayers.

@PirroMolossiano @MrCasey62 I didn’t see anything regarding this. You tried to make a case that RCC and paganism are oil and water, but that doesn’t answer the question of where it came from. So, where did the practice of patron saints come from?

@emmaus_e @MrCasey62 Read above. Or atleast read Julian views and the ones before him.

@calvinrobinson Catholics, even fake Catholics like Cal, are super-obsessed with blaming Jews. I’d ask what he meant by saying this, but he may not know except it’s edgy to declare ppl you disagree with “Jewish.”

Protestantism is Jewish.

@PetGorilla “But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7

From this guy! Would you like me to teach you the bible?

Praying to Mary IS NOT worshiping her.

@realmikolson @redeemed_zoomer If you want to have fun with Carrie Prejean, ask her what she thinks of the Jews, and look at her go!

The American Revolution has entered the chat.

@LighttheFireIAu The church needs to put some clothes on.

Don't need one. Church said so.

@BillArnoldTeach I acknowledge RCC goes back to the 1st century, but so does Protestantism. First, our connection goes through the Catholic Church (the reformers were priests). Moreover, we reach back to primitive, apostolic teaching, free of centuries of development; the later is more important.

You called Catholicism “man-made tradition” until you realized your church started last Tuesday.

@PirroMolossiano @MrCasey62 Being from a very pagan culture, I’m well aware that some elements survive conversion. In the case of patron saints, where did the practice come from, if not obviously paganism? There’s no scripture indicating the apostles taught it. Jews didn’t either. What’s your explanation?

@emmaus_e @MrCasey62 That does not work in Catholic teaching and neither in pagan. Both are distinct from what you say! Especially when you are forgetting how bad the pagans saw Christianity, and following what the Apostate emperor saw, their view of saints was alien to them.

@PirroMolossiano @MrCasey62 I’m not. See my example.

@emmaus_e @MrCasey62 Why are you lying,?