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1041 | imuvhim, What is His baptism? | Acts 2:38 | Emmaus | 79686 | ||
imuvhim You may find these two articles of interest. http://www.catholic.com/library/Baptism_Immersion_Only.asp http://www.catholic.com/library/Born_Again_in_Baptism.asp Emmaus |
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1042 | imuvhim, What is His baptism? | Acts 2:38 | Emmaus | 79688 | ||
imuvhim, Here is something else on baptism. It covers what I believe about it. http://198.62.75.1/www1/CDHN/baptism.html#BAPTISM Emmaus |
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1043 | imuvhim, What is His baptism? | Acts 2:38 | Emmaus | 79941 | ||
imuvhim, I did not necessarily expect you to agree with me, I was just making it clear what I believed. As for your question: " do not think this: "Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua),[4] and the door which gives access to the other sacraments." Access to other sacraments? Does that mean no marriage if not baptized?" Yes, but why would one even consider matrimony a sacrament and want to be a party to it if they do not even believe in the sacrament of baptism? There is always the Justice of the Peace or plenty of others who would be willing to perform the ceremony. |
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1044 | whole household rejoiced? even kids? | Acts 2:38 | Emmaus | 81722 | ||
Stephanie, I too am familiar with the "born again" experience in a Catholic context. Catholic spiritual writers through the centuries call it a conversion or second conversion experience. It is the essence of an adult deepening and maturing in the faith, which sadly many seem not to reach although it is difficult to speculate about those we do not know intimately. You will see these conversion or spiritual awakening stories again and again in the lives of the saints. The lectionary readings do follow a distinct pattern with a specific goal in mind. The three years cover in order Matthew, Mark and Luke, with John read every years at various times but especially during Lent, Holy week and the Easter season. Generally speaking, during most of the cycles, on Sundays you will find a study in typology where the Old Testament reading and the Psalm are tied together thematically with the Gospel reading, often showing foreshadowings of events in Christ's life or characteristics of Christ prefigured in Old Testament characters. The epsitles are read sequentially and may or may not be related to the Gospel theme. In the Easter season a reading from Acts often takes the place of one of the other readings. You are correct that we do get a better big picture and sense of continuity reading entire books and the Church encourages that kind of devotional and prayer reading of scripture at home. Below are two documents encouraging the study of scripture. The first is the document on Scripure produced by the Second Vatican Council in the 1960's, which is found in the front od many catholic Bibles. The other was a papal Encylcial written in 1943. You may find them interesting. Have a blessed celebration of the Resurrection of the Lord. Chirst is risen, Alleluia! He is risen indeed, Alleluia! http://www.ewtn.com/library/COUNCILS/V2REVEL.HTM http://www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/P12DIVIN.HTM Emmaus |
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1045 | whole household rejoiced? even kids? | Acts 2:38 | Emmaus | 81723 | ||
Stephanie, You may find an excellent Bible Study on the Gospel of John interesting. So far ir has sixteen lessons posted with a new lesson every week. You can donload them all for free in Acrobat pdf format. These sell as books for up to twenty dollars later. Go to www.catholicexchange.com and scroll down on the right to Scripture Study and the lesson for this week. Click on that and follow the instruction to download. I posted a section from the lesson on the Samaritan woman at the well here on the forum and it was well received. Emmaus |
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1046 | Jesus' name baptism? | Acts 2:38 | Emmaus | 85640 | ||
Matt, We are baptized into Jesus not into his name. We are baptized "in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit". When we do something in someone's name we do it with their authority, like a Police Officer saying "stop in the name of the Law." He is claiming to exercise the authority of the Law which has been delegated to him by a higher authority. So the Church and the minister who is batizing "in the name of the Father,Son and Holy Spirit" is doing so with the authority of the Holy Trinity that Jesus delegated to his deisciples when He gave them the great commisision to go forth and baptize in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Emmaus |
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1047 | Acts 2:38, why people delay baptism | Acts 2:38 | Emmaus | 113384 | ||
srbaegon, Steve, "3. After Constantine came to power and Christianity became popular, theologians shifted to infant baptism. It was safe to do. 4. During the middle ages, baptismal regeneration came into vogue. By the 1300's,baptism was considered the beginning step of a seven-step process to get to heaven. Roman Catholics still abide by these today." The above is not quite accurate. Augustine (354-386 A.D.), who was not baptized as an infant, but as an adult becasue his father was a pagan, while his mother was a Chritian, stated that the doctrine of infant baptism was handed down from the Apostles. He said this in the context of settleing a dispute brought to him about whether parents had to wait until the eight day to baptize because "baptism is the circumcsion of Christ" or if they could baptize their children sooner. He sided with those who did not want to wait. The dispute in Christian families was not about infant baptism itself, that was agreed upon but rather about whetehr it could be done before the eight day. It is true that Catholic theology did not fully develope and limit the exact numeber of sacrament to seven until the 1300's, but they were all practiced from Apostolic times and the earliest Church Fathers allowed only the baptized to receive the other sacraments and in particular the Eucharist. The seven sacrament are not a "seven step process to get into heaven." However, baptism is necessary before the other sacraments can be received. The vast majority of Catholics never receive all seven sacrament if for no other reason than the fact that those who receive Holy Orders, do not, except in unusual circumstances, receive the sacrament of Matrimony and vice versa. What the Church actually teaches is this: "1129 The Church affirms that for believers the sacraments of the New Covenant are necessary for salvation. "Sacramental grace" is the grace of the Holy Spirit, given by Christ and proper to each sacrament. The Spirit heals and transforms those who receive him by conforming them to the Son of God. The fruit of the sacramental life is that the Spirit of adoption makes the faithful partakers in the divine nature [Cf. 2 Pet 1:4] by uniting them in a living union with the only Son, the Savior." This teaching must see in its fuller context of the Church's teaching on grace. It is not a mechanical process by any means. Emmaus |
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1048 | Water baptism unnecessary for conversion | Acts 2:38 | Emmaus | 113941 | ||
arrow1, You have made fiftyfive posts over six days on one subject. I think you've made your point. Got any arrows in your quiver marked with some topic other than baptism? Or does the 1 in your screen name refer to a one track mind? Emmaus |
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1049 | Water baptism unnecessary for conversion | Acts 2:38 | Emmaus | 114359 | ||
arrow1. "1)Catholics adhere to baptismal regeneration 2)Evangelicals have the sinners prayer and faith alone 3)and then there is adult repentance and baptism into Christ." Actually Catholics believe in all of the above except "faith alone." We have lots of sinners prayers, adult repentence and baptism. The reason we believe in baptismal regeneration is because we believe we are baptized into Christ who "renews all things." Emmaus |
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1050 | Which sacrifices have ended? | Acts 2:46 | Emmaus | 174673 | ||
Luke, "This is as crazy and ignorant an approach to Scripture as the guy who asked for divine guidance and accidentally fingered the verse about how Judas "went and hanged himself" (Mt 27:5) and then fingered "Go, and do likewise" (Lk 10:37). "A Classic Misreading "the first thing we have to do in reading Scripture is realize that we are listening in on a conversation between the authors and an audience that is not us. That doesn't mean it doesn't apply to us. Rather it means that we can only apply it to ourselves once we realize how it was intended to be applied by the writer in the context of the lives of his audience. "A classic example of this is the shocking remark of the crowd at the crucifixion which is recorded in Matthew 27:25: "His blood be on us and on our children!" Matthew records this remark, not to declare the Jews "accursed," but to point out a sort of divine pun. "The irony of these words is, of course, that this is precisely the prayer of every Christian for himself. The mob is not calling down a curse on Jews in Matthew. It is unconsciously speaking prophetically, like Caiaphas when he says, "It is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish" (Jn 11:50). Matthew and his readers likewise get the divine pun. They see that what the mob intended for evil, God has turned to good. Every time we approach the cup we ask for His blood to be upon us. Every time we baptize our babies, we pray His blood will be upon our children. "But if we are not familiar with the way Matthew and his audience think, we can easily begin to make the error of so many Christians who did not see the divine pun and who therefore committed the heinous sin of pretending that "Jesus died because of Those Jews Over There, not because of me." In doing so, we effectively deny that Jesus died for our sins, a rather serious thing for a Christian to deny — and far more culpable than the average non-Christian who knows nothing of Jesus and comes no closer to knowing thanks to witless anti-Semites who heap the blame on Jews while forgetting that it was their own sins that put Jesus on the Cross." http://www.catholicexchange.com Mark P. Shea, Hearing Scripture on Its Own Terms Emmaus |
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1051 | I have a related question for anyone... | Acts 8:13 | Emmaus | 69609 | ||
Tim, I don't see any tension in Paul either. He makes it very clear elsewhere that the saving faith which he preaches is a "faith working in love" and one that incorporates with "faith," "hope and love. And the greatest of these is love." So Paul agrees with James that "faith without works is dead" and dead faith is not saving faith at all because it does not incorporate "the obedience of faith." Emmaus |
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1052 | Is this vision Jesus Christ? | Acts 10:26 | Emmaus | 63273 | ||
John Mosby, The fact that a few verses later (v.10-13 this person who was "sent" says he was held back by the Prince (fallen angel aligned withn Satan) of Persia, and needed a greater angel's (Michael's) help would indicate this is not Jesus Christ, but an angel or messenger of God. Christ, however can be seen in Daniel 7:13-14. Emmaus |
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1053 | Difference between Rhema and Logos. | Acts 10:44 | Emmaus | 63848 | ||
Ray, I agree that scripture is the word of God but not in the same sense that Jesus is the Word (Logos) of God as in John 1:1. One Word is God and the other is of God, but not God in Person. I believe there must be that distinction. Otherwise we have what some call Bibliolatry. Emmaus |
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1054 | Difference between Rhema and Logos. | Acts 10:44 | Emmaus | 63854 | ||
Hank, "This is the third time in a row that a Baptist has agreed with a Catholic. What's going on?" :-) Hank :-) It must be the Holy Spirit. Beyond that I will not speculate but only give thanks. Emmaus |
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1055 | difference Christian and catholic | Acts 11:26 | Emmaus | 50916 | ||
Jesusman, Here is a link to The Catechism of the Catholic Church. Please read it in it's entirety before you give your next lesson on Catholic doctrine. You seem to be somewhat misinformed. http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/ccc.html Emmaus |
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1056 | difference Christian and catholic | Acts 11:26 | Emmaus | 50938 | ||
Jesusman, As I pointed out in my previous post, an accurate and contextual presentation of what the Catholic Church teaches is available from the Catehchism. http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/ccc.html You are not an accurate or reliable source on the broad subject. I would not presume to tell you or others what you believe as Baptists. Although I may have a limited knowledge of the subject, what I know may be flawed or inaccurate and from unreliable and inaccurate secondary sources. Or I might misinterpret, through misunderstnding or faulty information, some aspect of Baptist doctrine or belief. I believe that is exactly the case in your postings about Catholic teaching and beliefs, your protestation of an infallible knowledge ("So, am I misinformed? Nope. ") of the subject notwithstanding. Emmaus |
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1057 | difference Christian and catholic | Acts 11:26 | Emmaus | 50962 | ||
Jesusman, Next time, just quote the primary sources directly. They seem to loose some details and add others in the translation. I would paticularly like to see the quote on the Catholic belief in a sinless pope. Even the pope would be surprised to hear about his condition.That is one only heard from people who are not Catholic and who seem to confuse infallability with inpeccability. Emmaus |
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1058 | difference Christian and catholic | Acts 11:26 | Emmaus | 51080 | ||
danieln, "Still i would like to know the reason the pope is considered infallible, surely the bible is our infallible guide to the christain faith and morals" A reasonable question and statement. Surely the bible is the innerent and inspired word of God. But an infallible book that is subject only to fallible interpretations among many readers and belivers can be a source of problems as well as a blessing. In response to your question: I addressed this issue before a few months ago at the request of another forum member. You can view those four posts by scrolling down to the highlighted thread line and clicking on my name, then at my profile click on Total Posts and all my postings will be listed. Go to page #23 and scroll down to entry # 458 then follow the thread through # 455. Or for a another article on the question go to this link: http://www.cin.org/users/james/files/papacy.htm Emmaus |
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1059 | Where did Peter go? | Acts 12:17 | Emmaus | 97484 | ||
Makarios, Thank you. I also posted a few links to answers on the question about where Peter went, specifically his residing in Rome, in two three additonal responses. Emmaus |
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1060 | Where did Peter go? | Acts 12:17 | Emmaus | 97493 | ||
Makarios, A letter from Ignatius to Mary? I am not familiar with that. Emmaus |
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