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41 | Adam and Eve, eternal security? | Gen 2:16 | Emmaus | 31331 | ||
Do you think Adam and Eve believed in eternal security before the fall? |
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42 | Can a "saved" man be cast into hell? | Matt 22:11 | Emmaus | 29600 | ||
Eagle One Can a "saved" man be cast into hell? Perhaps you could define what you mean by "saved." If he was "saved" and cast into hell, what was he "saved" from? Emmaus |
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43 | Who is the Lord of Time? | Rev 1:8 | Emmaus | 28679 | ||
Who is the Lord of Time in this Year of Our Lord, 2002 Anno Domini? "Christ yesterday and today the beginning and the end Alpha and Omega all time belongs to him and all the ages to him be glory and power through ever age for ever. Amen" "By his holy and glorious wounds may Christ our Lord guard us and keep us. Amen" "May the light of Christ , rising in Glory, dispel the darkness of our hearts and minds. Christ our light!" From the Service of Light at the Easter Vigil |
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44 | How about the other kind of tongues? | James 3:5 | Emmaus | 28131 | ||
How about the other kind of tongues? Does anyone else here ever pray for the gift of ears or the gift of silence? James 3 may descibes the source of more problems in most peoples lives, including my own, than almost any other common fault. As one man said: "God gave you two ears and one tongue. So you should listen twice as much as you speak." We know that "faith comes by hearing", not by talking. On the other hand we don't want the forum to grind to a halt. :-) |
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45 | "am I wrong in thinking that you pray to | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 26328 | ||
You ask: "am I wrong in thinking that you pray to Mary and if you do, what confidence do you have, or faith or whatever it is that you want to call it, that she hears you and where in the Bible do you get this assurance? Catholics pray "to" Mary and the saints only in the same sense that we would ask a friend or family member to pray for us or with us about any matter. Catholics believe in the "communion of saints." That is we believe that God is the God of the living (Matt 22:32), and that all those who are in Christ are alive in him even after physical death. In a sense after they die they are with Him in an even deeper and intimate sense than we are here on earth. But still Jesus, is the vine and we are all the branches on earth heaven that trust in Him and obey (John 15:1-10). St. Paul in his epistles often asks for the prayers of his congregations and assures them of his prayers for them. He also speaks of being physically absent from them but with them in the spirit (1 Cor. 5:3, Col. 2:5). Although he was alive on the earth at the time he wrote, the same principle applies after death if God is the God of the living, not of the dead. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are dead in the physical sense, but counted among the living by Jesus in Matt 22:32. And so to live in Christ is to transcend the separation of death by faith, hope and charity (1 Cor. 13:13). In the Book of Revelation we see the Church in heaven praising God (Rev 4) and praying before God for the Church on earth (Rev 6:9-11 and 7:9-8:5). See also Hebrews 11 especially 11:40 through 12-4 that speaks of how those who have gone before us are bound together with us in salvation and are a great cloud of witnesses as we continue in our struggle against sin. So we ask them to pray with us and for us before the throne of God, starting with Mary, God's own chosen vessel, and all the saints throughout the ages as well as those struggling here with us. |
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