LAMSA TRANSLATION
THE ACTS 20:28
Take heed therefore to yourselves and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, to feed the church of Christ which he has purchased with his blood

I can almost see CD2000 say “Ah, church with a small C! That’s not your church because your churches name Church of Christ, with a capital C.” This would be ignorance number 1. But I’d rather not elaborate concerning this lest CD2000 benefit from the knowledge. I’ll let him stew in his own juices. And if I may add, katholikos is also not capitalized.

Here’s ignorance number 2! He would say that only in the Lamsa translation does it states church of Christ and while in many others it says church of God. If you read the verse carefully and understand it you would clearly see that the translation church of God does not make sense. Why am I sure? Simply because God is spirit, that is, God is without flesh and bones AND without blood! So God did not purchase the church with His own blood precisely because He does not have blood.

Here’s ignorance number 3, concerning the name Church of Christ, is it really important that the church built by Christ be called after his name. Common sense dictates that there’s is no better name to call Christ body but his own name thus Christ church or Church of Christ. Besides, how can you tell if a particular church belongs to Christ? The simplest way is by its name. Which bring me to a question: how can you tell if a church is Christ church?

Let me explain using very simple illustrations and common things we see everyday. When one is buying a product, any product, how can one make sure that what he is buying is the genuine article? By inspection, of course. Let’s say basketball shoes, Adidas in particular. The first thing you make sure is to go to a reputable store, preferably one which does not sell fakes! Normally one would see the big display of Adidas shoes. Once you’re in that reputable store and pick one of the Adidas, you inspect the shoes itself. Does it bear the name Adidas? Does it bear the seal of Adidas? Is the quality of work  the same as the previous Adidas you bought?

Do you now see the importance of a name? So, if the church you belong to is not named after the Lord Jesus Christ name, it cannot be Christ’s church.

Rotten fruit

I’ve posted this blog in May 2009 and I was talking about the gays in the Catholic hierarchy, in particular, Archbishop Rembert Weakland who came out and announced that he was gay. Weakland was the former head of the archdiocese of Milwaukee. I admit the article was a not so subtle jab at my admirer “Alias Losav” because firstly it was posted on a blog he once own which he abandoned. The blog was available to anybody for about two days until I grabbed it. The article was also about Catholics who are gay but have a hard time admitting they lost the battle and are still fighting it. Catholics like them are vehemently anti-gay but when they think no one else is looking they practice what they profess to be a sinful act. Thus the label closet-queen. That’s how I came up with the title of the blog drawing the similary of Archbishop Weakland and losav.

Anyway, in an article with the same title  on his anonymous blog losav, or Er in real life stated attacking the Iglesia again. He’s apparently a fan of a certain Cenon Bibi of the blog Tumbukin Natin, claiming that Bibe “exellently dealt” with issues brought against the RCC. I beg to differ. So far, I haven’t gotten any rebuttal of my articles from Mr Bibe, the priest Abe Arganiosa or anyone else. I guess, Er is dreaming again. Among others, he claims the the INC couldn’t disprove that supposedly Christ is God. He even says there is no verse in the bible that says “Jesus INS’T God”. I guess he wanted it written as such and the following verses won’t suffice:

For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God

for I am God and not man, the Holy One

That’s like saying one is not gay because he said he’s not, even if he practices gay acts. I digress.

He then went on accusing INC members of spamming Mr Bibe’s blog. My response to that is one, no one is even sure those spammers are INC. For all we know losav himself is spamming as he does in forums. Two, it is the blog owners responsibility to control what goes on with his blog. If he allows spam that’s his choice and he may use whatever the spam is to blame another group and accuse them of whatever to advance his plan. He then continued and went on and on about some nonsense that he himself didn’t understand. The thing with losav now Catholic Defender is that he doesn’t do any research. He just babbles on. For instance: he claims that the INC teaches that Christ is ONLY a man. Christ is man because Christ said so himself. But he is not ONLY, MERELY, JUST a man. Let’s make that clear.

One other funny thing is that Er thinks I am a minister of the INC and I know why they think so. None of them whether Mr Bibe, the priest Arganiosa or Er himself can refute my articles and my arguments. In fact, they’ve completely denied I had those articles that even a direct challenge couldn’t budge them from their hiding place.

By the way, Er is Ernesto Serna Vasol, AKA Catholic Defender, a Filipino national working in Doha, Qatar and a wanna-be Catholic Apologist.