Unfortunately you are not always right and furthermore you exalt Tex Mars as though he were some god or something.

I think you need a little balance in your life and I know you use many an alias because Post tribber and many others sound the same....they all like Tex Mars. I think you would do more justice for what you believe by being truthful and not dissimulating. There should be no reason to use many an alias.

I have nothing against you or anyone here, obviously not all of us will agree and that is ok and I would agree with you that news today is biased but so is the BBC and you gave that as a credible news source.

By the way, God told Gideon to go smite (kill) the Midianites with only 300 people and they all turned their swords on each other because God sent confusion in their camps.

God rained down fire and brimestone on Soddom and Gomorrah. God did, not Satan. God controls the elements, not man or Satan.

God is in control of all things....no need to panic.

"We used to be the most loved nation of the planet."

Whatever....and the whole world loves the Jews.

Iran does have nuclear weapons, because Russia helps aide them and supplies weapons for them. They have been allies for many years, against Israel. Just like we have supplied nuclear weapons to Israel because they are our allies.

You are right, it is the wrath of God, not Satan.

Over and over scripture resonates with God and everytime God has judged the world (in the days of Noah and Lot), it has been God who sent the judgement.

to share Christ with as many people as we can in hopes that they will turn their lives over to Him. Our lives and everybody else's life is a fleeting vapor....so quickly is vanishes from this earth.

Just remember what II John says in verses 10 and 11....."If there come any unto you and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed (peace be with you);
For he that biddeth him God speed, is partaker of his evil deeds.

You become a partaker of the Catholic church's evil deeds by spreading heresy and all that does is weaken your faith and growth in the Truth.

It's people like you and people like many of our Christian leaders, (Billy Graham, Jack Van Impe, James Dobson, James Kennedy, J.I.Packer, John Stott, Chuck Colson, Richard Land and former Bill Bright and many others), that make many unsuspecting believers think that Catholicism is OK and that Catholics are saved because they're pretty close to Biblical teaching (so what's the big deal "they say"). Well so are mormons and Jehova Witnesses except one glaring problem....they are lost and on their way to Hell!

I repeat it again and again and again and again.....
There is nothing scriptural about the Catholic Church's rituals that justify your standing before God......Absolutely nothing and scripture refutes every single ritual in the Catholic Church as Anathama or cursed. There is nothing to condone about false teaching or false rituals period.

So yes,there is a difference between the Church and Israel.

There are many more scriptures to back up the progression on the nation of Israel from it's destruction in 70 A.D. to it's regathering of present day times.

But Israel must return to her land in unbelief because it is there that they come to faith when the Messiah rescues His people in the midst of Armageddon (Zech. 14:1-4). Every Jew alive will "look on Him whom they have pierced and there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David....for sin and for uncleanness" (Zech. 12:10-13:1) and "all Israel shall be saved" (Romans 11:26).

If the Church is Israel, then "All the church shall be saved" when Christians look upon the One "they have pierced". Paul was willing to go to Hell if that would save Israel his "kinsmen according to the flesh" (Rom. 9:3). None of this describes the church.

Paul's prayer to God for Israel was, that they might be saved (Rom. 10:1). Those in the True Church are not yet saved?

Some say "Israel was always cut off....the kingdom has always been the blessing given to another nation (composed of believing Jews and Gentiles)......was this Davidic kingdom, therefore, really the church, living for centuries in that land "from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates?"

The Church never was promised a land, never occupied a land, never was cast out of a land for her sin, never was promised that she would be brought back into it.

You said, "isn't there a difference between Israel and the Church?

Yes there is and scripture is clear on that.

There were no promises of possession of a particular land on this earth given to the church. It was given to Israel to possess. How could the church, whose has an inheritance in heaven, replace Israel on earth?

Here is what Dave Hunt said in his Jan. 07 newsletter........

many people will do in this world.....even your own so called brothers and sisters in Christ.

Probally the reason why people don't take a bold stand anymore is because it's easier to just get along instead of obeying the "hard sayings" of Jesus.

We live in world where politics are more important and having relationships that benefit us and having alliances so we can feel like we "fit in" are more important than our loyalty to our Savior and our home in heaven. We betray not only our Lord when we allow compromise (with other religious groups, i.e. catholics, mormons, jw's, etc.), but we deny the reality that this world is not our home and we are just strangers and aliens passing through.....at least to those of us who are truly saved.

righteousness did not come from observing the Jewish Laws but simply by faith in Christ. And finally, building on the test case of circumcision, he urged Christians to reject all such requirements and to stand fast in the freedom of Christ (5:1,2).

or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man, (or the traditions thereof), for I neither received it of man neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ".

Paul is very lucid here and so is God....there is no debate about it. In fact Paul says it twice to reiterate the point that if any man preach unsound doctrine, let him be accursed. That's a strong enough rebuke to take very seriously...if indeed you truly love the Lord Jesus and want to follow and obey Him.

The interesting background of the letter that Paul wrote to the church in Galatia is that Galatia was occasioned by the growing influence of the Judaizers: people who insisted that Gentile Christians must observe Jewish Laws in addition to believing in Christ. These Judaizers were making headway among the Galatians by challenging the adequacy of Paul's teaching. Paul, they said, was not an apostle like the Twelve and hence had been preaching only part of the truth about salvation.

You said, "what is so unscriptural about giving some sort of sign of peace to individuals? (you said that in reference to catholics participating in the mass).......

It is unscriptural to give a false sense of assurance and peace to someone who is in outright rebellion and disobedience to God's Word.

In I John verses 10 and 11 it says, "If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed (peace be with you); for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds".

And also in Romans 16 verse 17 it says, "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them".

And then in Galatians chapter 1 verses 6-12 it says, "I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel; which is not another, but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that whcih we have preached unto you, let him be ACCURSED. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. (N

I am fully aware of all the E.D. drugs on the market....I work in the medical field myself and I come from a medical family; my dad a retired M.D. and my mother an R.N.

Perhaps it is like Abraham and Sarah having a child way past their child baring age....so yes, "all things are possible with God".

And Chris it's not just Americans who think sex is the only consideration for marriage, it's demographic is all over the globe.....depending upon the individual.

a muslim man believing to get 700 virgins if he becomes a martyr.

WOW!!

I often wonder why God created man and woman in such a way that they are never on the same page sexually.....in other words, the man reaches his sexual peak at 20 and the woman at 35.

Men lose their desire the older they get due to a gradual decline of testosterone and can not perform sexually due to medical complications. So obviously this 30 yr. woman did not factor sex into their marriage contract.

But I am sure this 107 yr. man feels he still has it going on!!!!!!!

The popes through the centuries since the catholic church began have added these traditions that have nothing to do with the apostles and scriptures at all. No where in scripture is there reference to purgatory or purchasing one's salvation when salvation has been purchased by Christ Jesus's blood.

My "tradition" or "logic" is not mine but only what scripture teaches. Scripture is clear and lucid and IS the final authority. Anything that sets itself up against the knowledge of God revealed in scripture must be cast down.....every imagination conceived by man must be brought down and repudiated.

And no "traditions of men", I haven't spoken to John Yurich yet, so I know nothing of his theology and where he stands biblically or doctrinally.

In any event, the fact that neither of you agreed with God concerning His Truth revealed in scripture, is enough to let me know that it is pointless for me to involve myself with your sophistry or rather I should say Satan's sophistry.

but broad is the road that leads to death and many will find that road.

God graciously has saved many catholics through the centuries but when He has saved them, they have left that church of lies and darkness and have been brought into the light and the Truth through the power of the Holy Spirit and are now walking on the "path of righteousness for His name's sake".

You said, "A great many Catholics do repent and believe the Gospel. That is what their church teaches them that they are supposed to do."

If the Catholic church truly taught the Gospel, they would do away with the "traditions of men", i.e. indulgences, penance, purgatory, praying to dead saints, asking mary to intercede for them, etc.

This is a dead church and is very deceitful and crafty because it is Satan's masterful counterfeit religion. Paul said in Galations chapter 1 verse 11 and 12, "But I certify you, brethren, that the Gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

The Bible says in Colossians chapter 2 verse 10, "And ye are complete in Him, which is the head of all principality and power".

You are complete in Him. No more sacrifices are needed, no more indulgences, no such thing as purgatory.....there is no scripture that corraborates
that nor is their any scripture that says Mary intercedes for any human being nor do the saints. Only Jesus Christ does.

You either believe the Lord Jesus Christ and the revelation of His Word or you don't. It's that simple