Who Said That?

Speaking of the "Celestial flesh" of Jesus, this person stated that "[Jesus] did not become flesh of Mary, but in Mary"

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Update on Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 06:53PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is a quote from Menno Simmons, while speaking of Jesus' "celestial flesh." (Cited in Horton, Lord and Servant, 167).

Who Said That?

"Furthermore, [we reject the error] that original sin is only an external impediment to man's good spiritual powers and not the complete deprivation or loss of the same, just as garlic juice, smeared on a magnet, impedes but does not remove the natural powers of the magnet."

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Update on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 05:16PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This one is for all my Lutheran friends.  As many of you guessed, this comes from the Formula of Concord, The Epitome, part one, antitheses (# 5).  It is found in the Book of Concord, Tappart ed, 468.

Who Said That?

"God is a superior trinity of Father, Son and Spirit.  Man is an inferior trinity of spirit, soul (mind) and body (flesh).  If a man's spirit is alive and uppermost, he has fellowship with God.  If a man's flesh is uppermost, his fellowship with God is broken, because God wants nothing to do with his sinful flesh.  Man can only meet God in the spirit."

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Update on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 10:52AM by Kim Riddlebarger

No, this is not from Plotinus.  It is from Chuck Smith's The Gospel According to Grace (1981), a brief commentary on Romans which was very influential in the early years of Calvary Chapel.

Who Said That?

"The atmosphere of our country is unquestionably charged with a threatening cloud of fanaticism, lighter in some parts, denser in others, but too heavy in all. I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it could have arisen to the height you describe. This must be owing to the growth of Presbyterianism. The blasphemy and absurdity of the five points of Calvin, and the impossibility of defending them, render their advocates impatient of reasoning, irritable, and prone to denunciation."

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Update on Thursday, February 26, 2009 at 03:14PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This comes from a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, dated November 2nd, 1822.  I always love watching the "historians" on TBN and in the Christian media trying to prove that Jefferson was either a believer or some sort of nominal Christian.

Who Said That?

When asked, "Would you ever be comfortable being a house husband?"

__________ answered.  "No, I have to go to work. I’m too much of a Calvinist.  If I don’t work every day, I get nervous."

This is an easy one!  Fill in the blank.  Leave your guess in the comments section below, and I'll post the answer next week.  Please, no google searches or cheating. 

Update on Monday, February 23, 2009 at 07:15AM by Kim Riddlebarger

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Who Said That?

"I am convinced: people with pure hearts live better lives!  Actually, one of the things I look for in a staff member is innocence.  I love it when a person is not full of malice or unforgiveness or is not wrestling with secret sin.  You can just tell by their countenance-they are wonderful people to be around."

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Update on Saturday, February 14, 2009 at 12:24PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This comes from Ted Haggard in September 2002.  It can be found in Simple Prayers for a Powerful Life, (Regal Books) p. 109.

Who Said That?

"I even have to confess that if I ever get to heaven, I would first of all seek out Mozart and only then inquire after Augustine, St. Thomas, Luther, Calvin and Schleiermacher."

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Update on Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 05:28PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This quip comes from Swiss Theologian, Karl Barth.  I love Mozart too, but not as much as Barth.  I may be presumptuous here, but Schleiermacher's presence in heavenly would be surprise me greatly.  The quote comes from:  Karl Barth, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Eerdmans, 1986), 16.

Who Said That?

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."

OK, who is responsible for this rant?  Leave your guess in the comments section below.  Please, no google searches or cheating.  I'll post the answer next week.

Update on Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 11:42AM by Kim Riddlebarger

As many of you correctly guessed, this quote comes from Richard Dawkin's God Hypothesis (2006), p. 31.

Who Said That?

"What then is obedience?"

"Under the Gospel it is this, that after being adopted by God for his sons, and endued with a filial spirit, we conduct ourselves as becomes obedient children, doing with our whole heart and with all our strength those things which we know that our heavenly Father requires us to perform, and giving all heed not to offend him in any thing.  That is, that we put off the old man with his works, and desist from all our former sins; that we walk not after the flesh, but by the spirit mortify the deeds of the body. In short, that we continue in the habitual practice of no sin, but be endued with every Christian virtue; so that, if a fault occur in our pious course, it may proceed not from any evil disposition or design, from any habit or custom, but from some weakness of human nature or from ignorance: all which indeed the Scripture is wont to comprise under the name of penitence: and as such an obedience is not servile, but filial and voluntary."

Update on Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 02:19PM by Kim Riddlebarger

This comes from chapter nine of the Racovian Catechism.  The catechism is Socinian and anti-Trinitarian in its theology.  Faustus Socinus and followers of Michael Servetus produced the document in Poland in 1580.

Who Said That?

"Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office."

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Update on Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 07:36AM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is from Beverly LaHaye, quoted from Watch the Right: The Amazing Rise of Beverly LaHaye by Connie Page Ms. magazine, (February 1987).