Need some help with a "Bible Alone" Christian

[desertwoman]

As a Protestant, tell him/her if he/she feels bad about practicing or celebrating  the birth of Jesus the Christ, then don't celebrate.  

When Easter comes around, tell him/her not to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ.

When Thanksgiving comes about, tell him/her not to give thanks for anything when the holiday (holy day) comes around.  Plain and simple.

If he/she goes off on a tangent, just remind him/her that this is clearly bothering her/him, and since these holidays are not in the Bible, and  you want to be a biblically accurate Christian, then leave all of the holidays out.

Peeps like this get on my nerves.  Everything is pagan or ungodly in their eyes.  I can't even give thanks to the birth of our Lord and Savior without it being ok'd in the Bible.  

Plus, a lot of the false answers that is given should rather be answered unknown: "for although perfectly possible that she rode upon a donkey, the Bible says nothing about how Mary entered Bethlehem and there are various other possibilities. The Bible only says that she came with Joseph."

  "There is no mention of either the apostles or the early Christians celebrating the birth of Jesus. There is no trace of Christmas until it was first mentioned by the Roman Church in 336 A.D."

Just because its not mentioned in the Bible, then its false.
 

[GrumpyTroll]

I am a little confused.

Q10. Mary, mother of Jesus, did not remain a virgin for the rest of her life?

True – Mary went on to have other children with her husband Joseph. (Mark 6 v 3, Matt 13 v 55 - 56)

"Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother's name Mary, and aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? Aren't all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?" (Matt 13:55–56)

“Confiteor … beatæ Mariæ semper Virgini”?

[Kenny]

Well if you can prove sola Scriptura from sola Scriptura, then we'll start talking.

[Kenny]

I know a Bible only Christian (a follower of William Marrion Branham, ever heard of him?). His sect teaches that the doctrine of the Trinity is a Catholic heresy!

Baptism should only be in the name of Jesus Christ, because, when Our Lord said to "Baptise in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" he meant "Baptise in the name Jesus Christ", because Jesus Christ is the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (so they reckon). And apparently, since Father, Son, and Holy Ghost aren't a name, we are supposed to baptise in a name, that name being Jesus Christ!

Sounds like the Oneness Pentecostals. I used to know someone who believed in all that, plus the belief that the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are one and the same Person.  

He's a Oneness Pentecostal, which I understand to be a modern variety of the Sabellians.

[Cyriacus]

It might be helpful to remind him that the Bible itself is a product of Sacred Tradition. Heresy flourished among the early Christians and there was debate over which texts were inspired. What comes down to us today (with the exception of wrongheaded excisions in Protestant Bibles) is the product of the great saints, thoroughly Catholic, who believed as we believe and continue to intercede on our behalf.

[Clare]

 

I know a Bible only Christian (a follower of William Marrion Branham, ever heard of him?). His sect teaches that the doctrine of the Trinity is a Catholic heresy!

Baptism should only be in the name of Jesus Christ, because, when Our Lord said to "Baptise in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" he meant "Baptise in the name Jesus Christ", because Jesus Christ is the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (so they reckon). And apparently, since Father, Son, and Holy Ghost aren't a name, we are supposed to baptise in a name, that name being Jesus Christ!

Sounds like the Oneness Pentecostals. I used to know someone who believed in all that, plus the belief that the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are one and the same Person.

He's a Oneness Pentecostal, which I understand to be a modern variety of the Sabellians.

William Marrion Branham reckoned he was Elias, or something.

 

He taught that all the damned are descended from Cain! I did ask my acquaintance who promotes Branham's message how that can be, since all Cain's descendents perished in the flood. But he said one of Noah's daughters-in-law had committed adultery and her child was a descendent of Cain! Now, where's that in the Bible?!  

 

He also reckons that Eve's sin was adultery with the serpent.

 

But, yeah, Sabellian is the heresy I thought of too!

 

Read about William Marrion Branham here:

http://www.bibleway.org/wmb/

 

Clare.

[Kenny]

Thanks for the link!

[GrumpyTroll]

Is anyone able to help with the following?

I am a little confused.

Q10. Mary, mother of Jesus, did not remain a virgin for the rest of her life?

True – Mary went on to have other children with her husband Joseph. (Mark 6 v 3, Matt 13 v 55 - 56)

"Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother's name Mary, and aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? Aren't all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?" (Matt 13:55–56)

“Confiteor … beatæ Mariæ semper Virgini”?

[Quo_Vadis_Petre]

"Sisters" and "brothers" mean his relations. "First-born son" does not mean that Mary bore children after Jesus (which those verses make reference to: Mark, Matthew, etc.), just like with God saying "until I make thine enemies thy footstool" (or some thing like that).

[GrumpyTroll]

Thank you very much, Quo_Vadis_Petre.