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261 | Lent. Why don't Catholics eat meat? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 85397 | ||
New Creature, This subject of this dicipline(not a doctrine) has a long and varied history in the Church. The short answer to why fish is not considered meat is that meat is defined as coming from warm blooded animals in the current context. But some parts of the Church, certains religious orders and Eastern Rite Churches abstain even from fish, butter and eggs. The folowing is a brief extract from a much larger article on abstenance in the Catholic Encyclopedia. The link to the complete article is also below. if you are interested in the full history. "Throughout the Latin Church the law of abstinence prohibits all responsible subjects from indulging in meat diet on duly appointed days. Meat diet comprises the flesh, blood, or marrow of such animals and birds as constitute flesh meat according to the appreciation of intelligent and law-abiding Christians For this reason the use of fish, vegetables, mollusks, crabs, turtles, frogs, and such-like cold-blooded creatures is not at variance with the law of abstinence. " http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01067a.htm Emmaus |
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262 | Lent. Why don't Catholics eat meat? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 85431 | ||
New Creature, Why is making your point so important that you would ignore the even the Webster's definition that says "the flesh of animals, especially of mammals", which are as I described warm blood animals? And why did you leave out Websters inclusion of the edible part of a nut in its hird desciption of meat? A you say, it is certainly your interpretation of Websters's definition, not Webster's definition of meat that matters most to you. Emmaus |
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263 | Lent. Why don't Catholics eat meat? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 85527 | ||
Reilly, Your explanation of the Friday abstinance from meat ("keep Jesus and his ultimate sacrifice of Good Friday in the hearts and minds of His followers") is exactly right to the point. Emmaus |
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264 | what verse in the bible has a 33 yr gap | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 86529 | ||
jap Try John 1:14 which starts with the Incarnation (the Word became flesh)and jumps to seeing Jesus glorified, which did not happen untill after the Resurrection. Emmaus |
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265 | what verse in the bible has a 33 yr gap | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 86531 | ||
jap Try John 1:14 which starts with the Incarnation (the Word became flesh)and jumps to seeing Jesus glorified, which did not happen untill after the Resurrection. John 1:14 "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth." Emmaus |
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266 | what verse in the bible has a 33 yr gap | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 86550 | ||
It's a trivia question! For crying out loud! | ||||||
267 | Disease or Bad Personal Choice?? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 86942 | ||
angellightboy, You are right about one thing; "The way to God, I dont believe is being straight." It isn't being "gay" either. It is being holy. And chastity is part of being holy. Chastity applies to everyone, whether married or single, widowed or divorced, male or female, tempted by members of the opposite sex the same sex or another specie. Have you considered the possibilty of a chaste life? Yes, I know it is a hard teaching and hard to accept. We all are called to a chaste life. The single person who was never offered a marriage proposal, the handicapped who cannot marry or will not be asked for in marriage, the widow and widower, the married man or woman whose spouse has grown cold, is ill or who has abandoned them. Being heterosexual, married or single, is no guarantee of joy and fulfillment in the sexual or even the emotional realm. Identifying oneself as "gay" is even less of a guarantee. We are all called to and held to the same standard and it is not easy for any. "The gate is narrow and few there are that enter in." Only God's grace makes it possible for anyone. Take up your cross and folow Him. Believe me, it is the cross you refuse or lay down because you think it is too heavy that is lighter than the one you will have to pick up later. Been there, done that. People are not ganging up on you here. We all face similar temptations if not the same ones and they last a lifetime too. No special standard is being applied to you, just the same one as applied to everyone else, the Biblical standard, not what we wished was the Biblical standard so life would be a little easier. Emmaus |
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268 | Disease or Bad Personal Choice?? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 87472 | ||
John, "Honey coated poison" ? "Too much to bear"? You must have skipped over the section where I said it was possible only by the grace of God. Here it is again, since you missed it the first time. "We are all called to and held to the same standard and it is not easy for any. "The gate is narrow and few there are that enter in." Only God's grace makes it possible for anyone. Take up your cross and folow Him. Believe me, it is the cross you refuse or lay down because you think it is too heavy that is lighter than the one you will have to pick up later. Been there, done that." It is too much for you to bear Jesus saying that we must "be perfect as your father in heaven is perfect"? Or St Paul who uses that word holy in Romans 12:1, "present yourselves a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; 1 Cor 3:17 then temple of God, which you are, is holy". You need to go to a Concordance and do a word study on the word holy my friend. You may consider youself "a snow covered dung heap", but God has a better plan in store for you and Scripture says you are by grace a new creation in Christ, not a snow covered dung heap. See also Ephesians 2:10 and 4:24. Emmaus |
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269 | Disease or Bad Personal Choice?? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 87485 | ||
John, Celebacy is to remain unmarried. Chastity applies to all, single or married, whatever their temptation may be. Celebacy and chastity are not synonymous. I presume you have no problem with Angelightboy or anyone else relying on God's grace to live a chaste life, assuming they are repentent. I do not consider what I said about grace a "nod." Your characterization of it as such seems rather condescending to me. I am sorry that your did not pursue your Catholic studies of grace and the sacraments beyond the grade school level. If you had, you would have learned that the grace obtained in Confession comes from the merits obtained by Jesus whom we encounter there and not from the confession of the sins themselves. As you well know Scripture does speak of the confession of sins to others and their forgivenss in John 20:21-23; James 5:14-16. It goes without saying that if someone is not in the state of grace they cannot attain to it by their own works. But if they repent and confess God is quick to forgive. And it is only serious sin that leaves outside the state of grace that must be confessed sacramentaly to the priest who stands in for the Jesus and his Body the Church. All other sin can and should be confessed just as you would on a daily basis. We just confess sacramentaly in a different context than you. Scripture does not say that if you confess to a priest you are not confessing and being forgiven. In fact John 20:21-23 and James 5:14-16 among other scripture would indicate the exact opposite conclusion. Read the Council of Trent if you think this is not Ctholic teaching. May I suggest you stick with Reformed theology upon which you seem have a better grasp. Forgive me if I take offense at having someone who left the Catholic Church at the eigth grade level lecture me on its teachings. You apparently have never studied Catholic teaching from Catholic sources at an adult level, but have accepted the caricature of it fed to you by others. I don't lecture you on Reformed theology. Please extend the same curtesy to me by not lecturing me on Catholic theology. Emmaus |
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270 | Disease or Bad Personal Choice?? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 87506 | ||
John, Is that the best you can do? Luther has been dead for five hundred years and so have the Medici and Borgia popes. Have you bought any indulgences lately or has anyone since the 16th century? Come on John, did any of those Dominicans Sisters try to sell you an indulgence? I think that point on selling indulgences was conceded long ago. And from where do you think Catholic teaching says all those merits of the saints come? Surprise it's Jesus, because they are in Him! I guess you are conceding all other points to me in the present since you have not refuted anything in my previous post and have not cited a single scripture passage in your current post. And John, guess what the biggest indulgence of all is. It's salvation by grace through the merits of Jesus Christ. No, we don't sell that either. John, You have the mentality of a school yard bully. Grow up! Emmaus |
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271 | Disease or Bad Personal Choice?? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 87532 | ||
John, The problem here is that you are not listening. You only hear what you want to hear or expect to hear. I say "grace", you hear "works" because that is what you expect or because you refuse to hear grace from me because you think you have me pigeoned holed theologically. I object to this and you then proceed to tell me that either I did not really say grace but works and if I did say grace I really meant works because by golly that's what Catholics always mean even if they don't say it. A conversation like this is doomed to failure, primarily because it is not a conversation between me and you but rather a coversation between you and a preconcieved notion of me and what you think I should be saying. There is nothing more for us to talk about as far as I am concerned. You can just post both sides of the conversation and it will save me a lot of time and energy. Emmaus |
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272 | Disease or Bad Personal Choice?? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 87538 | ||
John, All is forgiven. Emmaus |
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273 | how to start reading the bible? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 87745 | ||
Goodnewsminister, "The Bible does not teach that we exist away from our bodies once we die, Plato taught this, and he was a pagan." "When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and the witness they had borne; they cried out with a loud voice, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before thou wilt judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth." Rev 6:9-10. Ooops! St John promoting a pagan idea in the word of God? Seems unlikely to me. Of course it just may be that sometimes even pagans are right on some points. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Or maybe those souls of the martyrs just had a Platonic relatioship with God. Maybe not. It usually requires more passion to give up your life for for the sake of witnessing to Jesus Christ and the Gospel. Emmaus |
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274 | Did the Gospel writers write in Greek | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 88003 | ||
Asis, There is at least some evidence from the Early Church Fathers that the Gospel of Matthew was originally written in Aramaic or Hebrew. See the brief excerpt and links below. On another track: I once attended a talk on the Book of Revelation. The speaker made an interesting point in passing about Revelation and the disputes about its authorship. He said that many scholars complain that Revelation is written in a style of Greek that is much more crude than that of John's Gospel, although the themes are common. He went on to comment that when Revelation is tranliterated from Greek to Hebrew it is very good Hebrew compared to the rather rough Greek, indicating that it may have first been written in Hebrew. He felt this argued in favor of John the Apostle being the author. He did not make a big deal about this, but it really caught my attention for some reason. "FRAGMENTS OF PAPIAS FROM THE EXPOSITION OF THE ORACLES OF THE LORD. I. [THE writings of Papias in common circulation are five in number, and these are called an Exposition of the Oracles of the Lord. Irenaeus makes mention of these as the only works written by him, in the following words: "Now testimony is borne to these things in writing by Papias, an ancient man, who was a hearer of John, and a friend of Polycarp, in the fourth of his books; for five books were composed by him." Thus wrote Irenaeus. Moreover, Papias himself, in the introduction to his books, makes it manifest that he was not himself a hearer and eye-witness of the holy apostles; but he tells us that he received the truths of our religion from those who were aquainted with them [the apostles] in the following words:] ....... [This is what is related by Papias regarding Mark; but with regard to Matthew he has made the following statements]: Matthew put together the oracles [of the Lord] in the Hebrew language, and each one interpreted them as best he could" http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0125.htm http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11457c.htm Emmaus |
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275 | how to start reading the bible? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 88045 | ||
Justme and Radioman, Taize is not a cult. It is an Ecumenical community of monks: Protestant and Catholic in France. Nothing secret or cult like about it. There is alot you can learn about its history on the web. Start here: http://www.taize.fr/ Emmaus |
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276 | how to start reading the bible? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 88047 | ||
Jutme, About Taize,in France, which has nothing to do with Charles Taze Russell, see the link below. Note the difference in spelling. See the link below for the history of the beginning of the Taize Community. http://www.taize.fr/en/encomtop.htm Emmaus Emmaus |
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277 | What about the Temple, Veil after Jesus | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 88289 | ||
Tim, "Apparently they continued the sacrifices knowing full well it was a sham!" Paul too? Acts 21 18: On the following day Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were present. ... And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed; they are all zealous for the law, 21: and they have been told about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe the customs. 22:.. They will certainly hear that you have come. 23: Do therefore what we tell you. We have four men who are under a vow; 24: take these men and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may shave their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you but that you yourself live in observance of the law. 25: But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from unchastity." 26: Then Paul took the men, and the next day he purified himself with them and went into the temple, to give notice when the days of purification would be fulfilled and the offering presented for every one of them. Numbers 6 1: And the LORD said to Moses, 2: "Say to the people of Israel, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD, 3: he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried. 4: All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins. 5: "All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come upon his head; until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the LORD, he shall be holy; he shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long. 6: "All the days that he separates himself to the LORD he shall not go near a dead body. 7: Neither for his father nor for his mother, nor for brother or sister, if they die, shall he make himself unclean; because his separation to God is upon his head. 8: All the days of his separation he is holy to the LORD. 9: "And if any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles his consecrated head, then he shall shave his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he shall shave it. 10: On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest to the door of the tent of meeting, 11: and the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him, because he sinned by reason of the dead body. And he shall consecrate his head that same day, 12: and separate himself to the LORD for the days of his separation, and bring a male lamb a year old for a guilt offering; but the former time shall be void, because his separation was defiled. 13: "And this is the law for the Nazirite, when the time of his separation has been completed: he shall be brought to the door of the tent of meeting, 14: and he shall offer his gift to the LORD, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish as a sin offering, and one ram without blemish as a peace offering, 15: and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, and their cereal offering and their drink offerings. 16: And the priest shall present them before the LORD and offer his sin offering and his burnt offering, 17: and he shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of peace offering to the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread; the priest shall offer also its cereal offering and its drink offering. 18: And the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the door of the tent of meeting, and shall take the hair from his consecrated head and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of the peace offering. 19: And the priest shall take the shoulder of the ram, when it is boiled, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazirite, after he has shaven the hair of his consecration, 20: and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD; they are a holy portion for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered; and after that the Nazirite may drink wine. 21: "This is the law for the Nazirite who takes a vow. His offering to the LORD shall be according to his vow as a Nazirite, apart from what else he can afford; in accordance with the vow which he takes, so shall he do according to the law for his separation as a Nazirite." Emmaus |
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278 | What about the Temple, Veil after Jesus | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 88314 | ||
Tim, The Ark of the Covenant had not been seen since the time of Jeremiah. There was no Ark of the Covenant in the Second Temple or in the Temple of Herod, but the sacrifices continued. Check your history. Emmaus |
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279 | Thank you Tim Moran for the welcomw | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 89960 | ||
Fran, When I read your post below it had an almost poetic rythym to it. "If it had not been for the Lord who is on my side, where would I be. I love the Lord, He heard my cry, and hastened to every one. Long as I live and trouble rise, I hasten to his throne. HE is my source, He is my strenght. He is my shelter in the time of storm. God is the source of all things. with out him we and I meam we as a whole would be or could do nothing." |
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280 | Does Heb 6 support "always saved"? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 90039 | ||
New Creture, If you can't don't. I can and do. Christ is the light of the world and yes He is spiritual enlightenment, but we obviously have a different understanding of the sacrament of baptism. And obviously early Christians understood it similarly to me as you will find by cehcking out the reference I gave. It may be extra biblical but it does shed light on how the early Christians understood baptism. Emmaus |
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