Society & Culture - 7 August 2007

I'm going to go with "self-righteous."

2007-08-07 03:22:43 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Luther on Zwingli and His Followers
Zwingli was greedy of honour . . . he had learnt nothing from me . . . Oecolampadius thought himself too learned to listen to me or to learn from me.
(Grisar, IV, 309; in Table Talk, 1540)
Zwinglians . . . are fighting against God and the sacraments as the most inveterate enemies of the Divine Word.
(Janssen, V, 220-221; LL, III, 454-456)
It would be better to announce eternal damnation than salvation after the style of Zwingli or Oecolampadius.
(Daniel-Rops, 85)
The Zwinglians believed that the Eucharist was wholly symbolic (perhaps the majority position of Protestants today). Hence, whoever believes the same would have had the foregoing said about them by Dr. Luther, who firmly held to consubstantiation, i.e., the actual Body and Blood of Christ is present in the communion along with the bread and wine.


3. Luther on Bucer
They think much of themselves, which, indeed, is the cause and wellspring of all heresies . . . Thus Zwingli and Bucer now put forward a new doctrine . . . So dangerous a thing is pride in the clergy.
A gossip . . . a miscreant through and through . . . I trust him not at all, for Paul says [Titus 3:10] 'A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, avoid.



Calvin on Luther and Lutherans
What to think of Luther I know not . . . with his firmness there is mixed up a good deal of obstinacy . . . Nothing can be safe as long as that rage for contention shall agitate us . . . Luther . . . will never be able to join along with us in . . . the pure truth of God. For he has sinned against it not only from vainglory . . . but also from ignorance and the grossest extravagance. For what absurdities he pawned upon us . . . when he said the bread is the very body! . . . a very foul error. What can I say of the partisans of that cause? Do they not romance more wildly than Marcion respecting the body of Christ? . . . Wherefore if you have an influence or authority over Martin, use it . . . that he himself submit to the truth which he is now manifestly attacking . . . Contrive that Luther . . . cease to bear himself so imperiously


I am carefully on the watch that Lutheranism gain no ground, nor be introduced into France. The best means . . . for checking the evil would be that the confession written by me . . . should be published.


5. Melanchthon on Zwingli
The timid Melanchthon launched at least one salvo against Zwingli:
Zwingli says almost nothing about Christian sanctity. He simply follows the Pelagians, the Papists and the philosophers.


6. Luther on Protestant "Heretics"
Heresiarchs . . . remain obdurate in their own conceit. They allow none to find fault with them and brook no opposition. This is the sin against the Holy Ghost for which there is no forgiveness.
(Grisar, VI, 282; WA, vol. 19, 609 ff.)
Those are heretics and apostates who follow their own ideas rather than the common tradition of Christendom, who . . . out of pure wantonness, invent new ways and methods.
(Grisar, VI, 282-283; WA, VII, 394)
Grisar adds:
In his frame of mind it became at last an impossibility for him to realise that his hostility and intolerance towards 'heretics' within his fold could redound on himself.
(Grisar, VI, 283)
We must needs decry the fanatics as damned . . . They actually dare to pick holes in our doctrine; ah, the scoundrelly rabble do a great injury to our Evangel.
(Grisar, VI, 289; EA, vol. 61, 8 ff.)
I am on the heels of the Sacramentaries and the Anabaptists; . . . I shall challenge them to fight; and I shall trample them all underfoot.
(Daniel-Rops, 86)
"Sacramentarians" or "Sacramentaries " were those who denied the Real Presence in the Eucharist (e.g., Zwingli).
Needless to say, Scripture condemns conceit: Romans 12:16: . . . "condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits." (See also Prov 3:7, Rom 11:20, 12:3, 1 Cor 3:18, 8:2, Eph 2:9).

2007-08-07 03:22:04 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

in christianity, if you get married to your partner and take on the vowel "In sickness and in health" and your partner sonn aftrer becomes ill with alcolholisim, is it acceptable all of a sudden to go back on your word ?

2007-08-07 03:21:40 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

do you ever think about if the situation were reversed, would these people have donated money to help you out?

2007-08-07 03:21:24 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

If fortunate events are proof of God, are tradegies evidence against him?

If order is proof of God, is chaos evidence against him?

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Why isn't the reverse considered to be evidence of the opposite conclusion?

2007-08-07 03:20:58 · 11 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Religion & Spirituality

This is a quotation from Norberto Bobbio that I got from an Umberto Eco book.
(Any error in translation is mine, please forgive or correct if you know the original)

I posted it originally on "education" but I think that I´ll get a better audience here....

2007-08-07 03:20:39 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Exodus 23
1-3 "Don't pass on malicious gossip. "Don't link up with a wicked person and give corrupt testimony. Don't go along with the crowd in doing evil and don't fudge your testimony in a case just to please the crowd. And just because someone is poor, don't show favoritism in a dispute.
4-5 "If you find your enemy's ox or donkey loose, take it back to him. If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying helpless under its load, don't walk off and leave it. Help it up.
6 "When there is a dispute concerning your poor, don't tamper with the justice due them.
7 "Stay clear of false accusations. Don't contribute to the death of innocent and good people. I don't let the wicked off the hook.
8 "Don't take bribes. Bribes blind perfectly good eyes and twist the speech of good people.
9 "Don't take advantage of a stranger. You know what it's like to be a stranger; you were strangers in Egypt.
13 "Listen carefully to everything I tell you. Don't pay attention to other gods—don't so much as mention their names
20-24 "Now get yourselves ready. I'm sending my Angel ahead of you to guard you in your travels, to lead you to the place that I've prepared. Pay close attention to him. Obey him. Don't go against him. He won't put up with your rebellions because he's acting on my authority. But if you obey him and do everything I tell you, I'll be an enemy to your enemies, I'll fight those who fight you. 25-26 "But you—you serve your God and he'll bless your food and your water27 "I'll send my Terror on ahead of you and throw those peoples you're approaching into a panic. All you'll see of your enemies is the backs of their necks.

2007-08-07 03:19:11 · 9 answers · asked by I Love Jesus 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-07 03:18:05 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

pain that goes with living on earth? Or don't they believe deep-down that there really is a Heaven, which would be a logical reason for not cutting short a life on earth.

2007-08-07 03:17:03 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

As a gay man who's been exposed to many religions in his life, but doesn't have one of his own, I thought I'd ask you guys what path you have chosen spiritually. Christian/Non-christian, atheism/don't-care-ism, other spiritual fulfillments such as philanthropy: what made you choose it and why? How does it mesh with your homosexuality? Thanks, guys!

2007-08-07 03:16:31 · 29 answers · asked by gochefs (Geo) 5 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-08-07 03:16:07 · 12 answers · asked by Cindy L 1 in Languages

this verse has a very very very important message for each and everyone of us humans today, would you like to expound upon it, I'd like to hear.

2007-08-07 03:15:08 · 18 answers · asked by I Love Jesus 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-07 03:14:50 · 14 answers · asked by Bruce Aurora 3 in Religion & Spirituality

When it is written in the Bible that God spoke to someone, most Christians accept that as qualified, undebateable truth.

Yet, when someone today says the same thing, it is scrutinized by all walks of life, including Christians themselves.

2007-08-07 03:14:35 · 11 answers · asked by Deke 5 in Religion & Spirituality

are women different?

2007-08-07 03:14:04 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-08-07 03:12:22 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-07 03:11:53 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Languages

I don't beleive the environment has anything to do with who you are or how you behave. It is all biological.

2007-08-07 03:10:00 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-08-07 03:08:33 · 11 answers · asked by 유리 애기씨 1 in Other - Holidays

or flat like the way you walk with God? DEAD?

2007-08-07 03:07:44 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I saw this on the BYU channel, but missed the part on why people did this to him.

2007-08-07 03:07:23 · 9 answers · asked by Unknown 3 in Religion & Spirituality

I went to this website, www.indigointentions.com
I took the indigo child quiz and answered 20 out of the 22 quiestions yes. Does this mean I really am an indigo child?
Please no funny stuff. I'm really freaking out.

2007-08-07 03:07:17 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289137,00.html

2007-08-07 03:06:29 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I was at the hospital yesterday and my husband, my mother-in-law and I were sitting on the observation ward chatting and having a giggle about something, then this young nurse comes storming over and says "confused old ladies a novelty in your area are they? Yeah, must be!" Then storms out! We were like huh? And I was so incensed that I marched out after her and had a go at her. So she stormed off again and I come back and it turns out there's a senile old lady shouting strange stuff but we weren't even paying any attention to her! So I ask the doctor if I can make a complaint and she went and fetched the ward manager, who said I was right to get angry and she'd have a word with her and although she hoped it wouldn't come to it, I could make an official complaint in writing. I told her it may have been out of character so I didn't but now I'm not so sure. My husband thinks I shouldn't have complained at all... I'm wondering if I did the right thing?

2007-08-07 03:05:20 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Etiquette

God commanded, "Though shall not commit murder"!

and don't give me the argument that it's not a baby yet because it can't survive outside the mother's womb, because that's just an invalid rationalization.

how is it possible that you can neglect that commandment whenever it suits you?

NOTE: this question is strictly for people who claim they are Christians yet are pro-abortion.

I ask this question because I am shocked in how some people claiming to be Christians condone abortion here in this question that someone posted: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjC3FBzQY6Zh6PAI2z8EEcPsy6IX?qid=20070807063042AAzeAyS&show=7#profile-info-zcDBGVXzaa

atheists, please don't answer, or people from different faith. as I have said, this question is STRICTLY for people claiming to be Christians who are pro-abortion.

2007-08-07 03:04:19 · 32 answers · asked by Perceptive 5 in Religion & Spirituality

I have faced this problem more than once in my family. Sometimes, people are forced to make a choice about letting someone linger with the aid of machines which keep them alive. Many people have a living will which states they don't won't to be kept alive. Usually, it's the family that has to make this decision. Is it murder when people have to make this choice for a family member?

2007-08-07 03:04:09 · 18 answers · asked by Soul Shaper 5 in Religion & Spirituality

If Saint Peter was never in Rome, then the claim of authority from Peter peters out, so to say. Therefore, it is necessary for apostolic succession to be true that Peter have visited Rome.

2007-08-07 03:04:08 · 11 answers · asked by lundstroms2004 6 in Religion & Spirituality

i choose to believe , but with so many fakes about its hard to find a decent 1. and should their "answers" influence the dessisions we make ?! . im going to see someone in november that had a 12month waiting list and has a good rep , i'm just hoping that the wait is worth while and that i dont forget all my questions ! thenwhat do i do with the answers ? and why are they so expensive???

2007-08-07 03:03:56 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-07 03:01:33 · 18 answers · asked by Saved by Grace 3 in Religion & Spirituality

.. well if you do you probably believe in the freedom of others to do their thing too. I mean I havn't met a single Muslim who wants the Western way of life, and when I stay in Arab countries which I have done several times, not only the men express a strong distaste for the Western way of life but the women are even more disparaging.
So why not leave all this talk about the poor downtrodden women in that part of the world, and the poor badly educated children in that part of the world, and let them decide for themselves in their own countries what kind of life they want .. that includes genital mutilation too .. if that's what they want. That's freedom.

2007-08-07 03:01:33 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups