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1061 | Where did Peter go? | Acts 12:17 | Emmaus | 97513 | ||
Makarios, Go to the link below and scroll down to paragraph heading "Collections" and look at the list of spurious letters. Emmaus |
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1062 | Where did Peter go? | Acts 12:17 | Emmaus | 97515 | ||
Makarios, Go to the link below and scroll down to paragraph heading "Collections" and look at the list of spurious letters. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07644a.htm Emmaus |
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1063 | Where did Peter go? | Acts 12:17 | Emmaus | 97519 | ||
Markarios, I presume the reason I hads not heard of the letters in question is because they are considered spurious and not included in the print versions I have nor in the electronic links to the collections of the Church Fathers that I also use. Emmaus |
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1064 | What is the Bible's take on sacriments? | Acts 13:38 | Emmaus | 68410 | ||
Joe, "How else could He have saved us?" I am shocked that an adherent of God's absolute soverignty would ask such a question. God did not have to save us at all and could have saved us in any manner He willed. Are you saying that He did it by means of the Incarnation because He had to do it in then manner? Emmaus |
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1065 | What is the Bible's take on sacriments? | Acts 13:38 | Emmaus | 68418 | ||
Joe, "So I repeat my question again: how else could He have saved us?" And I repeat my answer: any way He willed. For me to suggest any other particular manner would in itself be a pointless attempt to limit God. We know what He willed, but that does not mean God could not have willed another manner that would have satisfied Himself in all His attributes. He is the absolute arbiter of that and we do not need to understand or agree. How He willed it to happen is a moot point. I think it is presumptuous to pretend that we understand God's options and their limitations because of our understanding by revelation of how He chose to act in relation to us. There is a lot more we do not know about God than we do know. Emmaus |
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1066 | What is the Bible's take on sacriments? | Acts 13:38 | Emmaus | 68476 | ||
retxar, Example: "I take as aspirin “for a headache”, not to obtain a headache, but “because of” the headache." I take asprin because of the headache for the relief from the headache. I need grace because of sin for the forgiveness of sin. Sacraments, for those who believe in them, are about God's grace. Naaman needed God's grace for healing. He received it by bathing in the Jordan. It was God's grace that saved Naaman from his leprosy, but God chose the water of the Jordan as the means by which to transmit that grace. It is in this way that those who believe in baptismal regeneration see the sacrament of baptism. Emmaus |
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1067 | What is the Bible's take on sacriments? | Acts 13:38 | Emmaus | 68493 | ||
Joe, "I think it may be somewhat of a stretch to connect the story of Naaman to baptism." I like to stay limber. I never know when I might have to wrestle with Joe! :-) Emmaus |
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1068 | What is the Bible's take on sacriments? | Acts 13:38 | Emmaus | 68504 | ||
" But you seem to forget that Emmaus believes that INFANT baptism regenerates the recipient... " Talk about completely gratuitous grace! Emmaus |
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1069 | What is the Bible's take on sacriments? | Acts 13:38 | Emmaus | 68507 | ||
... no more dependent than the spread of the Gospel is. God moves men to achieve His purposes. But then we get back to election. Emmaus |
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1070 | Was Peter ever in the city of rome? | Acts 15:7 | Emmaus | 42305 | ||
cmgindi, part 1 of 2 Here is just a brief sampling of the writings of some of the earliers post apostolic Church Fathers, all dated while the Church was still under the persecution of Rome. In his first epistle, Peter tells his readers that he is writing from "Babylon" (1 Pet. 5:13), which was a first-century code word for the city of pagan Rome. Further, the Fathers are unanimous in declaring that he went to Rome and was martyred there under the pagan emperor Nero. Ignatius of Antioch "Not as Peter and Paul did, do I command you [Romans]. They were apostles, and I am a convict" (Letter to the Romans 4:3 [A.D. 110]). Dionysius of Corinth "You [Pope Soter] have also, by your very admonition, brought together the planting that was made by Peter and Paul at Rome and at Corinth; for both of them alike planted in our Corinth and taught us; and both alike, teaching similarly in Italy, suffered martyrdom at the same time" (Letter to Pope Soter [A.D. 170], in Eusebius, History of the Church 2:25:8). Irenaeus "Matthew also issued among the Hebrews a written Gospel in their own language, while Peter and Paul were evangelizing in Rome and laying the foundation of the Church" (Against Heresies, 3, 1:1 [A.D. 189]). "But since it would be too long to enumerate in such a volume as this the succession of all the churches, we shall confound all those who, in whatever manner, whether through self-satisfaction or vainglory, or through blindness and wicked opinion, assemble other than where it is proper, by pointing out here the succession of the bishops of the greatest and most ancient church known to all, founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul, that church which has the tradition and the faith which comes down to us after having been announced to men by the apostles. With that church [of Rome], because of its superior origin, all the churches must agree, that is, all the faithful in the whole world, and it is in her that the faithful everywhere have maintained the apostolic tradition" (ibid., 3, 3, 2). "The blessed apostles [Peter and Paul], having founded and built up the church [of Rome], they handed over the office of the episcopate to Linus. Paul makes mention of this Linus in the letter to Timothy [2 Tim. 4:21]. To him succeeded Anacletus, and after him, in the third place from the apostles, Clement was chosen for the episcopate. He had seen the blessed apostles and was acquainted with them. It might be said that he still heard the echoes of the preaching of the apostles and had their traditions before his eyes. And not only he, for there were many still remaining who had been instructed by the apostles. In the time of Clement, no small dissension having arisen among the brethren in Corinth, the church in Rome sent a very strong letter to the Corinthians, exhorting them to peace and renewing their faith. . . . To this Clement, Evaristus succeeded . . . and now, in the twelfth place after the apostles, the lot of the episcopate [of Rome] has fallen to Eleutherius. In this order, and by the teaching of the apostles handed down in the Church, the preaching of the truth has come down to us" (ibid., 3, 3, 3). Gaius "It is recorded that Paul was beheaded in Rome itself, and Peter, likewise, was crucified, during the reign [of the Emperor Nero]. The account is confirmed by the names of Peter and Paul over the cemeteries there, which remain to the present time. And it is confirmed also by a stalwart man of the Church, Gaius by name, who lived in the time of Zephyrinus, bishop of Rome. This Gaius, in a written disputation with Proclus, the leader of the sect of Cataphrygians, says this of the places in which the remains of the aforementioned apostles were deposited: ‘I can point out the trophies of the apostles. For if you are willing to go to the Vatican or to the Ostian Way, you will find the trophies of those who founded this Church’" (Disputation with Proclus [A.D. 198] in Eusebius, Church History 2:25:5). Clement of Alexandria "The circumstances which occasioned . . . [the writing] of Mark were these: When Peter preached the Word publicly at Rome and declared the gospel by the Spirit, many who were present requested that Mark, who had been a long time his follower and who remembered his sayings, should write down what had been proclaimed" (Sketches [A.D. 200], in a fragment from Eusebius, History of the Church, 6, 14:1). Emmaus |
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1071 | Was Peter ever in the city of rome? | Acts 15:7 | Emmaus | 42326 | ||
Searcher, That the Bible does not explicitly say Peter went to Rome does not exclude rest of the historical record from shedding light on the historical question which was posed. I don't think the Bible explicity says Paul was there either, although he says he is imprisioned in several epistles. The same extra-Biblical sources attest to Paul's presence in Rome. Strange that the question of Paul was ever in Rome is never raised. The writings of the early Fathers are also useful for learning how the early Church and those men who were instructed by the Apostles interpreted the scriptures and the Gospel handed down to them. Emmaus |
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1072 | Was Peter ever in the city of rome? | Acts 15:7 | Emmaus | 42395 | ||
Thanks, I thought I might be missing it. |
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1073 | Why do some denominations Baptise babies | Acts 16:33 | Emmaus | 122186 | ||
kangulo, Sorry, My first post had one incorrect link. Here are the two correct links to answer your question. http://www.catholic.com/library/Infant_Baptism.asp http://www.catholic.com/library/Early_Teachings_of_Infant_Baptism.asp Emmaus |
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1074 | Geography of the Forum! | Acts 21:39 | Emmaus | 34736 | ||
Norrie, I grew up in Washington, but went to Towson for college and stayed in Baltimore. Lived in north Baltimore, Govan's area for eight years and have been in Woodlawn on the western edge for the past 26 years. I work in Towson now. Became familiar with just about every area of Baltimore City while I was in the Police Department. Patterson Park Avenue, Butcher's Hill area has some great views. They just recently renovated the Patterson Park Pagoda which had been getting pretty run down.Many years ago I had a friend who belonged to Curt's church in Towson and lived only about a block away from it. You gotta miss the crabs. Emmaus |
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1075 | Geography of the Forum! | Acts 21:39 | Emmaus | 34745 | ||
Norrie, St. Wensaslaus, that parish founded by Bohemian immigrants, is still there, but the neigborhod is really rough. It is so bad off that sisters from Mother Theresa's order work there with the poor and AIDs patients. Eventually though Johns Hopkins Hospital is going to gobble up that whole section of town. Emmaus |
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1076 | Can someone be baptized again? | Acts 22:16 | Emmaus | 79044 | ||
Ephesians 4:5 "one Lord, one faith, one baptism," | ||||||
1077 | The Reformation | Rom 1:17 | Emmaus | 122958 | ||
Kalos, Blame it on that Catholic guy, Guttenberg, who invented the printing press and produced the first printed book, the Bible, in Latin which was the international language of the day as much as English is today. It should also be noted that before Luther's German translation, there were at least eight prior German translations of the Bible, although Luther's mastery of German is uncontested and his translation considered a masterpiece of German language. Also before Luther there were vernacular versions of the Bible (all Catholic)in Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, Italian, French, Norweigian and Bohemian(Caech). Emmaus |
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1078 | Why does Jesus have 2 genealogies? | Rom 1:18 | Emmaus | 67583 | ||
ateo, Surely, having read the bible more than a few times and the NT in the Greek and having participated in "countless Bible studies," you must be aware of the various theories about the geneologies other than the simple Mary / Jospeh theory. Not to mention the whole concept of the literary conventions and structure of geneologies in general in the Bible. Perhaps you could elaborate on them a little for the uninitiated and give us your analysis and critique? But isn't is all an exercise in futility if the whole point of the bible and especially the New Testament is null and void if there is no God? Surely then there must be better things to occupy one's valuable limited time. For if you believe there is no God you are not saving any one here from anything but ignorance and how can that help them if there is no God, but believeing in one makes us happy? And what good does it do for you other than providing intellectual exercise on an empty subject? Certainly your limited time would be more profitably spent with more enlightened people on subjects or material that you believe really exists for the limited time you have? Are you here to convince us of something or to reassure yourself about the conclusion you have reached? "It is hard for you to kick against the goad!" Are you really sure you are ateo? Emmaus |
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1079 | Why does Jesus have 2 genealogies? | Rom 1:18 | Emmaus | 67588 | ||
ateo, My questions were not just facetious, but go to the heart of the matter of why you and we are here on this forum and on this earth. They are the really hard questions when compared to questions about geneologies and mathematics of the circumference of the sea in the temople. Emmaus |
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1080 | Why does Jesus have 2 genealogies? | Rom 1:18 | Emmaus | 67591 | ||
ateo, If you are not familiar with him, may I recommend to you Blaise Pascal, a great mathematician and Christian religious philosopher. You may find him more amenable to your personal bent and interests. I would especially recommned his Pensees. Emmaus |
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