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Title: Catholic Internet poster -God raised a lizard and a mouse from the dead because I said please. Claims God healed his broken neck and spine. Also says Christ does not treat Christians' diabetes or cancer. He let's them bear that cross, die
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Published: Sep 17, 2017
Author: Vicomte13s words quoted by A K A Stone
Post Date: 2017-09-17 01:29:08 by A K A Stone
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Lets contrast the two different takes that this vic guy takes. On the one hand he claims God will answer his prayer to raise a lizard and a mouse from the dead. But god will not heal a sick christian. This is bizarre. This is very telling about Vic.
Here is the first quote taken from libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=38701
(1) When I was a boy, I dove off a dock into a shallow, rocky lake alone. I broke my neck and severed by spinal cord, and was completely paralyzed and drowning at the bottom of the like. I asked God "Please", and he healed me and allowed me to rise and walk away. I told no one until decades later.
(2) A very dead lizard was raised from the dead in my hand by God, when I asked him "Please".
(3) A dead mouse was raised from the dead in my hand by God, when I asked him "Please".
There, those are three true miracles, things that snap the laws of physics in half and that have no explanation. In all three cases a direct personal prayer to God consisting of one word persuaded God to grant the miracle. In all three cases I was alone: these were private theophanies and miracles, not public things. They revealed God to ME; they have no power to reveal him to anybody ELSE, because nobody would ever believe me if these were necessary to prove God to THEM. And in none of the cases did they PROVE God to me - I already knew God was. They were gifts, charisms, nothing more. They weren't FOR any of you, and they aren't for you to argue with me about.
Now here is his contradictory claim found right here
libertysflame.com/cgi-bin...? ArtNum=52686&Disp=14#C14
Christ does not treat Chrsitans' diabetes or cancer. He let's them bear that cross, die, and come to him.
Similarly for starvation. Christ lets hundreds of millions of Christans starve to death. They bear their cross to the end and have their reward in the next life.
Christ never promised health and happiness in this life - in fact, he promised that those things won't be found here.
So you're right - I have absolutely no belief at all that Christ will reach down from heaven and protect Christians from any diseases, or marauding enemies, or starvation, or natural disaster - because he DOESN'T protect us from any of things, and never said he would. Our reward for staying true to him is found on the other side, in the afterlife, not HERE.
If you have diabetes here, praying to Christ will keep you faithful to him to the end and win you the afterlife, but you're still going to lose your foot in THIS life, because Christ isn't going to lift a finger to protect you from the natural law, or from the marauding of other men. You have to help yourself in this life - Christ holds out the promise of happiness in the afterlife if, in the process of helping yourself in this one you don't do great evil, and you remember him and try to do what he said. That's the deal.
That Christ substitutes for human government in this life is impiety. It is ignoring what he really said, and adding nonsense to it that he never said.
Christ will not govern your country. He won't save you from malaria, or hurricanes, or earthquakes, or Nazis. He will have compassion on you, and receive your soul when they kill you, but he won't stop them from killing you, he won't drive off your diseases if you drink contaminated water, and he won't make hurricane Irma spare your life. He might on a one-off basis, but Christians at large get no pass, at all, from natural law.
Christ's deal is not about here.
Wow can anyone think of any possible way that Vic can reconcile these two mutually exclusive beliefs? I sure can't and I think he is nuts if he thinks he raised a lizard from the dead. Double nuts if he raised a mouse also.
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#65. To: hondo68 (#63)
You're a Catholic, and you think that the rosary and the papacy are in defiance of God?
you think that the rosary and the papacy are in defiance of God? Baptized, Confirmed, and survived the torture of Catholic Parochial Schools! I've done a few rosaries. I never said that, quit making stuff up. Lighten up, Torquemada. When has it actually happened on this website? All of the regular and irregular posters have known each other for many years, back at TOS and LP. I've rarely seen anyone change their minds about anything, least of all religion or politics.
You can't find it in the Bible yet you throw away Paul who is in the Bible. You haven't used one verse of scripture to make a single point. Because you cannot. You have to go outside the Holy Bible and say the Catholic church had some special secret revelation. Then you are vague about that. Then you say adios. Then you come back asking for fellow Catholics to join you. Then you still cannot answer to this thread or the rosary thread or any other thread or text that refutes the Catholic church as a bible believing church. Yes you believe parts of it but not all of it. Then you botch and cry when someone points out that the Catholic church is acting contrary to the words god gave us in the Bible. I'm not saying that there aren't Catholics who are in fact saved.
I'm more concerned with what people do to each outher in this life than what fools and con men tell me I'm going to get in the next life. People think life on this tiny planet have a unique relationship with god. There are billions of stars out there with millions of planets whirling around them. What makes you believe god is primarily concerned with matters on earth? There is no evidence for concern at all.
God, if he exists, would find human beings a juvenile annoyance tucked far off in the distant corner of the universe.
Is there a single Catholic on this site who disagrees with anything I have just said? I agree with you. "I'm being attacked, as a Catholic, on two fronts " Why do you care about what any of these malcontents have to say? Splitters! "we are tartets from evil doers!!!" [ and ] U looked up birfer on the dcitionary. It isn't a movie. "Listen piece of shit. Call me anti American again and your're banned. I don't like you." - aka stoned -
Vic wasn't up to it. Perhaps you can explain why God will raise a lizard and a mouse from the dead for vic. But vic said god will not help a sick person with cancer. It is a bizarre and silly statement. Come on over to the Rosary thread if you care to defend that practice that Jesus forbade. Maybe you are more up to it than Vic was. He had no answers.
I sincerely hope that you find God. I really do.
Is that just the current Roman lingo for "Stop trying to divide the body of Christ!"? We've heard it before. So has everyone else.
Perhaps not a mission field but this chit chat tends to find opinions not normally brought up in person.
Also, some people do engage their minds. This is true. The apostles used Roman empire roads to bring the Gospel. The new "roads" is the interweb. Just think of the charity work that is funded and reported on the net.
How one conducts oneself in this life is the witness of having the next life.
That while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. The above can be found in over 25,000 ancient manuscripts in Koine Greek, Syriac, Latin and other languages. And of course add to the above Christ left His ekklesia, His called out ones (Church) to be a witness for Him. You have the objective evidence of the New Testament and the subjective proof of Christ's followers. However, Robert you do make some valid points. Christianity does not lay its truth in the material world. God has provided examples of His Power in miracles which validate the words spoken. There's a miracle which happens daily on earth. God removes hearts of stone with loving hearts of flesh (Ezekiel 36) and converts the souls of countless many. It is His act to do so. The question is do we have the proper "soil" to accept the blessings of the Sower.
That may be true but I've found it quite rare that anyone changes their opinions on religion substantially as a result of online persuasion or debate. I won't say it doesn't happen but it is rare.
I've seen new or immature Christians come to Christian type forums to grow. Through all the sewage we see online, there have been diamonds among the muck.
Proving that there are fools speaking various languages in various cultures that can be influenced by drivel.
Is that just the current Roman lingo for "Stop trying to divide the body of Christ!"? We've heard it before. So has everyone else. Scene #8, Life of Brian. "we are tartets from evil doers!!!" [ and ] U looked up birfer on the dcitionary. It isn't a movie. "Listen piece of shit. Call me anti American again and your're banned. I don't like you." - aka stoned -
I made a mistake. I thought you would actually put some intellectual power into examining theology.
Mythology?
It was no mistake. You just weren't prepared do deal with it when it came.
Absolutely. Basically ALL of us have been exposed to countless opinion, theory, and facts that otherwise would have NEVER been contemplated - never mind heard in the first place.
But...aren't they all one and the same "fools and con men"?? What makes you or I any different? What makes one group of "con men" more legit or honest then the others? EVERY group is "selling" their respective way on how to best live (notice I didn't say how best to live "honorably," "ethically," or "morally.")
One issue at a time... Let's accept your theory for a moment: "There are BILLIONS of stars out there with millions of planets whirling around them." Who or what manufactured them? Something obviously set all these planetary spheres on their respective orderly paths or revolutions around their respective suns/stars. None of these planets or stars are moving willy-nilly and random like ping-pong balls to our knowledge -- same of our own solar system. What we see is ORDER, not chaos. That indicates some kind of material law is in effect. Q: Doesn't ALL laws or order necessarily require a force to create such "law and order"?
HA! (Many WILL indeed be "tucked away in a distant corner" -- but of exactly what manner of isolation, one needs to contemplate a Way -- THE Way to avoid it.)
Yup. The force is called gravity.
For the answers and mountains of "evidence" you'd have to first open your heart, then begin reading Genesis ("And God said, Let us make man in our image...Genesis 1:26). Then work your way through the rest of "The Owners Instruction Manual.") Additional Bible Study or Commentary will be helpful. In case you reject this notion because "Man Wrote It," please be reminded that the same Creator who set those millions and billions and gazillions of planets and stars in an orderly fashion -- as well as the trillions of cells that work autonomously to keep us alive -- is the creation of the same God who can easily inspire and impart His EXACT will into the heart and mind and hand of man. (No "FEE-FI-FO-FUM" required.) Can we agree that ALL of our orderly universe, our life, our cellular systems are indeed a miracle? That it transcends the notion of coincidental total and complete systematic order out of chaos? ( But no...not everything will make sense in this life as you already note. Once our planet and original occupants were once perfect like all of Creation, but soon became a fallen place that requires redemption...[see Genesis again.]) One of the gifts of our Creator, aka God, is that He has left our spiritual destiny to our own personal free will. Whether we shall seek and find Him and our mission is entirely up to us. There is no better time to seek and find than...yesterday. Though our Creator can easily impose His will upon you, upon me, there is no coercion. Just a simple test of "discovery" and humility. Ergo, we are all responsible for our own soul....which shall transition from the physical, deteriorating BioShell into the Spirit -- and brand new spiritual "body." As it is written.
Gravity is still a "law" of the material world of mass that requires a "law-maker," a manufacturer.
No. Elements such as gravity,inertia and isotopic processes are are eternal and inherent in the real physical world. It is up to us to accept and use them.
Who wrote it? Many people write different things. This invites many questions that can not ansered here in less than a volume. I hace other interests such as clinical psychology and nuclear physics. I haven't time to waste the rest of my life arguing with an impulsive juvenile addicted to fantasy and believing he can wear me down with inanity.
Looks to me like rlk and sneakypete are handing you your ass. : ) They're hardnosed opponents.
Lemme guess: Alfalfa? I'm not letting other people's addiction to emotional reactions childish fantasy and feel-good make beleive over-rule my logical thought processes. Odd that you characterize as "Fantasy" or "Fairy Tales" beliefs in a Creator (a belief the vast majority of people in history inherently and instinctively believe in); Faith in an "Owners Manual" underwritten by man-through-God Himself, actual ancient prophecies from SEVERAL authors having FACTUALLY come true; and belief that after the material existence the soul sheds its BioShell for a metaphysical body... Yet SOMEHOW, "Bushido" and its "Codes" is *your* "Gospel." Soehow IT is not "fantasy," wishful thinking, or a Fairy Tale. To whom do you cite as your Authority for Bushido's validity and Truth? Part of your problem is a superiority-complex which convicts you into believing any concession of thought or opinion is regarded as a character or intellectual sign of weakness. "Logic" doesn't even come into play here; Only your own vanity and obstinate child-like position -- regardless of proof or possibility. It is weak to lock-into a default "I'm-Always-Right, You-Are-Always-Wrong mode -- especially without a sufficient or thorough examination. You can't possibly disprove the existence of a Creator of all things, aka God. But it CAN be proven ALL things indeed have a Creator. That's called "Math."
"Elements" are by definition "creations." "Inherent"?? Definition of "inherent" (according to Merriam-Websters): involved in the constitution or essential character of something :belonging by nature or habit "Inherent" necessarily requires a Creator who grants "inherent" qualities. "Nature" or "habits" necessarily presumes laws are already in place. "Processes" necessarily require programming. Moreover, exactly how and why would one presume "gravity,inertia and isotopic processes" ARE "eternal"? Science cannot prove it anymore than it can prove that time's measurements have been exactly the same over the course of this material universe.
Yes, many people do write different things. But some write as you know about the SAME SUBJECT, reinforcing it at different junctures. Depending on your specificity, your questions about authority and respective authorship of the transition of the material/physical identity to the metaphysical body can be addressed. This invites many questions that can not ansered here in less than a volume. This is true. However, as an ardent reader I'm sure you can investigate, scrutinize, and peruse links that address specific subject matter at your convenience. I haven't time to waste the rest of my life arguing with an impulsive juvenile addicted to fantasy and believing he can wear me down with. inanity. It's your prerogative of course to mis-characterize my motives (speaking of which *I* have much better things to do with MY time, frankly.) Yes, and again -- it is your prerogative to prioritize your time as well as prying apart a sliver of open mind which at this point of "the rest of" your "life" is critical. You can continue regarding our exchange as an "argument," but an investment in your post-BioShell transition and soul WHICH SHALL SURVIVE PHYSICAL DEATH into the spiritual realm is hardly a "waste of time." Re-hashing the same old human behavior observations -- psychiatry, psychology and sociology -- IS a waste of time for you at his point, is it not? What more would you care to learn, to what personal benefit?
Vic do you remember this one?
Protestants believe the Bible. Well Christian ones like myself do. Catholics ignore a lot of stuff and add things like purgatory and praying to a dead woman and calling a man God's title of holy father. Their leaders is loaded with gold and prescious stones.
The thread? Didn't bother to go through it. Of course I remember my neck being healed by God, saving me from drowning a paralytic at the bottom of a lake. Of course I remember a mouse raised from the dead by God in my hand. Of course I remember the lizard, similarly raised. Of course I remember, in great detail, every time God spoke to me, and every word he said aloud. Of course I remember the other miracles and acts of God's grace that have moved me through life. I remember all of those manifestations of God's power just as would any other real human being. It's why I am devoted to God. He is, and he is very good to me. And I note that I have been a Catholic since my infant baptism, so whatever YOU happen to think of my Catholicism, it obviously does not bother HIM. And that's what matters, to me.
Purgatory is in the Bible. The Aramaic word for it is "Gehenna".
#66. To: Vicomte13 (#65)
You're a Catholic
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#67. To: Vicomte13 (#64)
Typical nasty projection. Are all Christians like you?
That CAN happen on a site like this. And rarely, it does.
#68. To: Vicomte13 (#65)
#69. To: Liberator (#36)
You (like others here) rage against an entity you believe doesn't exist, yet you believe He cheats us out of Eternal Life.
#70. To: All (#69)
#71. To: Vicomte13 (#60)
In all of my experience, we Catholics are pretty uniform around the world in our basic outlook on things like God, family and the beliefs of the Church. We're not Protestants who each believes what he wants to believe. We're Catholics precisely BECAUSE we all adhere to a pretty long list of common beliefs. This is all the more true because the Catholic Church kinda sucks, really, with all of the scandals and bad history and abuse and problems. We're still here because we believe it is true at the heart, that this is God's Church, peopled in every age by very flawed humans who do flawed human things. We know that, and we know we can leave at any time and believe what we want. We stay - often with a lot of anger at the wrongdoing - because we ultimately believe in fundamental truths of the religion.
#72. To: Jameson (#71)
#73. To: rlk (#69)
There is no evidence for concern at all.
#74. To: Jameson (#71)
Splitters!
#75. To: Tooconservative (#59)
Why people think that somehow the internet is a mission field is beyond me. It is not and never has been. Chitchatting religious doctrine or experiences is still just chitchat.
#76. To: Vicomte13 (#64)
It does not always stay anonymous. Sometimes human connections are made, and sometimes that is to the benefit of each.
#77. To: rlk (#69)
I'm more concerned with what people do to each outher in this life than what fools and con men tell me I'm going to get in the next life.
#78. To: rlk (#69)
What makes you believe god is primarily concerned with matters on earth? There is no evidence for concern at all.
#79. To: redleghunter (#75)
Perhaps not a mission field but this chit chat tends to find opinions not normally brought up in person.
#80. To: Tooconservative (#79)
That may be true but I've found it quite rare that anyone changes their opinions on religion substantially as a result of online persuasion or debate. I won't say it doesn't happen but it is rare.
#81. To: redleghunter (#78)
The above can be found in over 25,000 ancient manuscripts in Koine Greek, Syriac, Latin and other languages.
#82. To: Tooconservative (#74)
Splitters!
#83. To: rlk (#81)
#84. To: redleghunter, rlk (#83)
... put some intellectual power into examining theology.
#85. To: redleghunter (#83)
I made a mistake. I thought you would actually put some intellectual power into examining theology.
#86. To: redleghunter (#75)
...This chit chat tends to find opinions not normally brought up in person.
#87. To: rlk (#69)
I'm more concerned with what people do to each outher in this life than what fools and con men tell me I'm going to get in the next life.
#88. To: rlk (#69)
People think life on this tiny planet have a unique relationship with god. There are billions of stars out there with millions of planets whirling around them. What makes you believe god is primarily concerned with matters on earth? There is no evidence for concern at all.
#89. To: rlk (#70)
God, if he exists, would find human beings a juvenile annoyance tucked far off in the distant corner of the universe.
#90. To: Liberator (#88)
Doesn't ALL laws or order necessarily require a force to create such "law and order"?
#91. To: rlk (#69)
People think life on this tiny planet have a unique relationship with god....There is no evidence for concern at all.
#92. To: rlk (#90)
Yup. The force is called gravity.
#93. To: Liberator (#91)
For the answers and mountains of "evidence" you'd have to first open your heart...
An open heart is the shortest path to a childish empty head.
I'm not letting other people's addiction to emotional reactions childish fantasy and feel-good make beleive over-rule my logical thought processes.
#94. To: Liberator (#92)
Gravity is still a "law" of the material world of mass that requires a "law-maker," a manufacturer.
#95. To: Liberator (#91)
Though our Creator can easily impose His will upon you, upon me, there is no coercion. Just a simple test of "discovery" and humility. Ergo, we are all responsible for our own soul....which shall transition from the physical, deteriorating BioShell into the Spirit -- and brand new spiritual "body." As it is written.
#96. To: Liberator, rlk, sneakypete (#92)
#97. To: rlk (#93)
"An open heart is the shortest path to a childish empty head."
#98. To: rlk (#94)
Elements such as gravity,inertia and isotopic processes are are eternal and inherent in the real physical world.
#99. To: rlk (#95)
Who wrote it? Many people write different things.
#100. To: All (#0)
#101. To: A K A Stone (#0)
#102. To: Jameson, vicomte13 (#71)
We're not Protestants who each believes what he wants to believe. We're Catholics precisely BECAUSE we all adhere to a pretty long list of common beliefs.
#103. To: A K A Stone (#100)
#104. To: A K A Stone (#102)
Catholics ... add things like purgatory
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