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10"Finally, my brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having gird your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints--"
Originally posted by brohes
ok, I will be the first to admit that I'm not that into religion, but I do consider myself a Christian.
I thought I would share my favorite scripture with everyone here as my first post- I feel it fits well with the times we find ourselves facing:
Ephesians 6:10-18:
10"Finally, my brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.
11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having gird your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints--"
Ok, I've started my first thread.. now I'm off to get some much needed rest.
8All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
9They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
10Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
11For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
12I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
14Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
15By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
16By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
17I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
18Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
19My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
32Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
33Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
34Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
35For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
36But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Originally posted by JesusisTruth
Yea I love this passage.
Today is the age of arrogance and pride. This is the exact age before antichrist st Paul talked about. Pround boastfull arrogant, thinking they are the king of realness age that antichrist will be just like.
so this age will accpet him.
Now what it also might mean is that, I read a prophecy somewhere saying mans intellect will be doubled every couple years near the end, maybee because of possesion and satan who is the smartest angel.
So this technology age is from that, and so to put on Gods armor in todays age, we need ..
1. To stay in the stae of grace. go to confession
2. pray the rosary. (catholic speaking)
3. Read what the saints say about these times
4. Wear the scapular.
Satan is very tricky, very smart, yet stupid in his own lies. So this age many people will lose the faith. Satan goes out as I heard from the saints, I think he tries and gets people to commit suicide, despair, whatever ways he works on souls he does and you need all God you can get.
Originally posted by JesusisTruth
Oh I'm decieved and have a large demon.
why because I believe in the catholic faith which put your bible together and existed 1500 years before any protestant church?
The fact is that communion is biblical. Confession is and many other catholic doctrines. It is the church of christ predicted in the OT and has created tons of saints who raised the dead.
you are the one who I can tell by your post passing judgement.
When I said it's the age of pride, I'm going on st Pauls own words. Saying towards the end pride and arrogance will succeed any age prior to it. Kids at an all time high rebel against their parents, the culture has gotten worse even since the 90s.
again you call me ignorant for saying that technology and smarts is bad. Brother read the context.
Proverbs 8.
5O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
6Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
7For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
9They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
10Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
11For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
12I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
14Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
I meant that idol minds combined with the itellect satan gives people creates as the bible says a devils workshop.
I'm talking about mans intellect doubling for our own destruction, not wisdom.
Satan is not a christian either. Hypoicrasy is in all forms of life. In gov. In churches, in most men. But the teachings of truth stay the same. Nobody leaves church because of hypocrites. If so then they had no faith to begin with and look for a cop out.
And the things I mentioned, God will show you after death, the rosary is not pyhsical, it's a group of prayers formulated to the blessed mother for help.
and the scapular is a sign of the end times, just as saint paul used relics and the OT itseelf talked about creating a brazen serpent for a sign.
so you're dead wrong. She was allowed the scapular as a counter to the mark of the beast.
the armor of God is all spiritual, but the scapular while seems physical has a signifigant meaning behind it. God did the same thing in the OT by creating angels to place in the temple, statues, and brazen serpents.
peace.
Originally posted by JesusisTruth
It might be biblical but not of God. That's a contradiction.
Secondly the bible wasn't forced on anyone.
Thridly you say worked sin? Don't you understand that you sin and there are hypocrites in every church. But it also has produced millions of saints.
you saying all of us and all good Catholics are evil sinners? You're insane.
The Catholic church has not killed for no reasons. As I recall the crusades and so forth were from defense of the muslims. Infact God did this in the OT. he ordered whole cities to be wiped out because he reads hearts and know who is not his people.
and btw the same church also condemns murder, it's still a commandment. So are they blatantly contradicting themselves?
20Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
24Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Matthew 10
26Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
27What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
28And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Matthew 16
24Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
25For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
26For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
and again you're talking about the leaders of the church, not the saints. Who didn't harm a fly.
You did judge me, you said I have a devil. You do too. You think sin is off limits to you? I am Catholic and I wouldn't persicute you, so basically you just bunched all us Catholics into one category.
tat's not Christ like at all.
Luke 12
51Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
52For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
Matthew 10
33But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
34Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Originally posted by JesusisTruth
The word father means spiritual father as a advisor of the soul. I call my dad father, you think God will get mad at me? No. Padre Pio was a stigmatist and a father. Yet he said himself that he was worse then everybody he met. So is that putting yourself above others? No. That's your ignorance speaking. They put themselves over in the fact that they are the ones who distribute communion and advise souls but are full of humility.
20At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
21He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
22Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
23Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
24He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
25These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
26But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
27Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
1500 years of sins huh? Yea well no other Christian existed those years but Catholic and orthodox. it's the church of God. You forget to mention the 1500 years of saints like st Teresa who gave her life for others, her entire life.
leave those people out all you want.
I also find it amusing how you turn pride in the end times to a way to bash the church. Your comment was WAY out of context. i was speaking about the end times.
Matthew 7
1Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Yea but this is not what i meant. Those people who are of the flesh, me included because I am human, I struggle with lust and so forth. Their understanding is blinded by sin, but this is besides the point as I was talking about technology and the age of destruction.
This doesn't make sense since I already stated that those crusades were in defense of the church. Now those who did kill unjustly since killing is commanded in our church to be a major sin, then they would be hypocrites.
we have had 50 antipopes in our churches history you know. Condemned by the saints and the hiearchy and finnally removed.
And the word christian is nothing more then a believer in christ Catholic means universal. And Christ did prophecy the church throughout the NT, and the OT calls this church in the future the bride of Christ and it was predicted throughout the OT.
Matthew 7
24Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
Infact they also came together to break bread in that church on the first day of the week, which malachias said would spread throughout the whole world and Christ himself said he would create.
so if the church might be biblical according to you, then how is it false? this is truly more protestant, I hate Paul, garbage I see on the internet. pure lies.
paul was a saint. i cannot wait until detah when you sir meet Paul face to face and you see him standing next to Christ.
Originally posted by JesusisTruth
I agree! But this has nothing to do with my response. I didn't say he doesn't reward that stuff.
No brother I didn;t say the scapular will save you from the mark, I said it was a (sign) given by Mary. God commanded Moses to make a statue of a serpent in the OT for a healing. It's a sign just like that.
The mark of the beast might be the micro chip, so only spiritual help will save you and a supernatural strength.
I agree. I wasn't disagreeing. I said that part of the armor is the sign God allowed Mary to make with souls.
Originally posted by badmedia
The father rewards with wisdom and knowledge. This is the armor god gives you. As the quote says, it's not about flesh, so there is no need for such armor. But when fighting principles and such, wisdom and knowledge are the tools you need to do battle.
I wish I could quote this entire chapter. It's all great, but I'm going to highlight a few parts about the value of these things.
www.biblegateway.com...
8All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
9They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
10Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
11For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
12I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
14Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
15By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
16By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
17I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
18Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
19My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
Continues on down:
32Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
33Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
34Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
35For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
36But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Of course, this wisdom comes from the father. Thus, armor of God.
Not a fan of Paul, but that is probably my favorite quote from him. Just wonder who's side he is on.
[edit on 23-2-2009 by badmedia]
Originally posted by JesusisTruth
I see what you are now, one of those david coreshes. First of all I never knew the bible before I knew God, I'm not learned either. And you seem to think you are the only one with the holy spirit.
secondly you just went off on a tirade about mary when I wasn't even talking about that in that qoute. I was talking about why we call preist our father. You see let the readers learn from this. This is how false prophets work.
They say they have the holy ghost, yet noone else does, and they lead souls astray.
You see that's humility. that's good. It's in numbers 21. God commanded moses to make a statue of a serpent because the isrealites were being bitten by serpents in the wilderness and told them whoever looks on the statue will be cured.
God works this way by signs and statues he uses for rememberence. I am neither a biblical scholar and am an idiot, but I do my research.
Oh really not according to the NT new testamant. it says.
" Unto you this day the saviour born of a virgin "
Now mary was kept a virgin because she was the new covenant, the ark of. Like the old ark she wasn't touched. She never knew man her whole life, again after death God will show you this. False lies try and say otherwise, all I have to say to that, just wait and you will see.
look at my post about the trintiy on our human bodies and let me know what you think, it's in my profile somewhere. Every orginization including the law God set up in the OT had it's hypocrites, yet the law itself doesn't change.
Those fruits you are attributing to hypocrites. Yet how come bad fruits were in the Old law like the priest of the old law? Did the law itself die?
The fruits of our church are the saints, not the leaders. That's why few popes have become saints, even though they lead office.
15Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
and the fact is st Teresa had doubts, but did she forfeit the faith? No. Because all the faithful will have doubts sonner or later. it's a temptation from the devil.
Oh I'm the hypocrite? let me get this strait. You said I have a demon and that I am a hypocrite, yet you give me this passage?
How bout the passage that says.
" pray and love yourenemies "
You should be praying for me and not calling me that.
first of all I said that the age of technology is the sign of the final end. I didn't say satan has never been working which he has. Yet you say christianity is false and created by satan, yet the own scripture you use talks about a church jesus himself talks about all throughout the bible. Shall I get my passages?
what I'm saying is that God has allowed this technology to be created because of idolism and pride, it began around the early 1900s and is a sign of the final end
why?
Nukes for one thing because they can wipe the planet out in minutes. So think what you want.
Originally posted by JesusisTruth
Yea but God said that in the OT and he commanded in the OT to wipe cities out by killing. So there is a such thing as justification from God.
what he means when he says vengance is mine, he means killing on personal opinion and on their own accord, not from God.
Yes they did, it was after the antipopes got elected and then taught heresy in the seat of Peter, and then were cast out.
Like a wolf in sheeps clothing, you can tell them by their words. Like I said before every church and law had it's share of hypocrites. doesn't make the law itself invalid.
No this is not true. They literally talked about building they went in to preach and recieve the bread and drink. This is false. And he also said whatever (you) bind on earth and loose on earth you loose in heaven, meaning the doctrines founded by the apostles in the later years.
He also gave certain souls the ability to forgive sins and retain them in John.
The church is not founded on wisdom, because just like the OT law God founded a hierarchy and servants and servicemen. preist are talked about and the church with literal functions through the NT
1Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
2Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
3All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
4For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
5But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
6And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,
7And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
8But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
9And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
10Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
....
8 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
19Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
20Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.
21And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
22And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
and look at our churches fruits. No other church has produced saints from year 33 till now then the Catholic church, universal church, and those are the real fruits.
Originally posted by JesusisTruth
Listen God would not allow people to create a church, HUGE church and then let millions of saints be decieved. Those writings themselves are in line with the sacraments of our church.
The sacraments are biblical, not only from Pauls writings but way back to the old testament.
So basically it was successors who carried out what christ himself said and told them to spread it. This is why Peter and Paul went to rome and that's why it took 300 years for it to become the state religion, because Paul and Peter had to build the faith in rome and finally the church was born and had it's biggest success.
the fact is that the church is spiritual. All we do is go into a building. the building itslef isn't the church of God, it's a temple that hold the sacraments and preist which are the church of God.
But he did literally create a hiearchy and organization just like the OT and those buildings hold those people.