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481 | When did Christians start to use altars? | Ex 17:15 | Emmaus | 97935 | ||
John, Surely John you were not worshipping the painting on the dome andy more than the Hebrews worshipped the "graven images" of the angels on the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant. Tell me you have never seen a children's bible with pictures used by a Presbytertian teaching children. Is that idolatry? How about photographs of beloved family members? Are they "graven images" or do they call to mind the loved one? Spin? Who is spinning what here? Emmaus |
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482 | When did Christians start to use altars? | Ex 17:15 | Emmaus | 97956 | ||
John, "Members of my family are unlikely candidates for diefication, so I don't burn their pictures :-) Just kidding! But you are now stretching for an absurdity. The command is against idolotrous images not pics of the grand-kids." Tell that to the Amish. They are are just pushing your your logic along the same road. Emmaus |
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483 | When did Christians start to use altars? | Ex 17:15 | Emmaus | 97986 | ||
John, Sorry to have disappointed you. Perhaps this article on the history of Christian altars will be more satisfactory. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01362a.htm Emmaus |
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484 | ... | Ex 20:4 | Emmaus | 111483 | ||
Compudex, Well thanks for sucking me in. I You sure have taught me a thing or two. I did not know one of the things we on the forum for is to sucker in other participants. I guess you did not notice any of the scriptural references in the Catehcism which I always post. No different from reading your interpretation with scripture references as far as I am concerned. Can I assume you are keeping a file on everyone else who has cited or quoted from other apologetic websites or various commentaries or have I alone been singled out for this particular honor? I am sorry to be a burr under your saddle. Do you really beleieve Catholics worship statutes or was that just a conveinient stick with which to sucker me in and beat me? Get a life! Emmaus |
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485 | ... | Ex 20:4 | Emmaus | 111501 | ||
Justme, TommyS, Kalos, Hank, Thank you to all who have come to my defense. Compudex has made his point and I have made mine. I am inclined to just move on to other matters. Emmaus |
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486 | Must Christians keep the Sabbath today? | Ex 20:8 | Emmaus | 86034 | ||
kright, "The early fathers you mention were pagans. They introduced Sunday as a Christian institution to make it easier to convert their fellow pagans to "Christianity". By the way, do you think it was OK for the early fathers (who were mortal men)to change a commandment given by God? Do you think God is Ok with it? " Really? And here I was thinking that they were bisphops and martyrs of the Church like Ignatius, the third bishop of Antioch after St Peter. Funny too that St John in Revelation has his vison on the Lord's Day (Rev 1:10), Sunday, the day of worship for Christians even before the last Apostle died. What did he see in his vison? Why a worship service of the saints in heaven in chapters 4, 5. Strange he did not have this vision of worship on the Sabbath. Maybe it was just a coincidence? Nah, I don't think so! Matt 16:19. Did somebody say the Church had no authority in these matters? Talk to jesus about it! Emmaus |
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487 | Must Christians keep the Sabbath today? | Ex 20:8 | Emmaus | 86123 | ||
kright, How early do you believe the Church apostatized on the question Sabbath worship in favor of Sunday? Some say it all went down hill from the time of Constantine in 325 A.D. When do you believe the aposatsy regarding the Sabbath happened? Emmaus |
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488 | Why worship on resurrection day? | Ex 20:10 | Emmaus | 140448 | ||
Doc, Here are some sources for information on the Liturgical Calendar and its history. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03158a.htm http://www.ewtn.com/vlibrary/search2.asp Emmaus |
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489 | Why worship on resurrection day? | Ex 20:10 | Emmaus | 140455 | ||
Doc, Basically, the first half of the Mass (or Divine Liturgy as it is called in the Eastern Rites and Churches) was know as the Mass of the Catechumens. The prayers and Scripture readings along with the homiies were meant to be instructions in the Christian faith. The Catechumens were dismissed after the homily. The second half of the Mass was called the Mass of the Faithfull and only baptized Christians were allowed to stay and partake of the Eucharist. That is a very simiplified version. The details and uniformity of the Scripture readings for the particular seasons and feast days were worked out over cenbturies. But we still have many of the homilies of the ealry Church Fathers and can tell a lot about the feast days and the Scripture readings for those days from their homilies. Today the first half of the Mass is called the Liturgy of the Word and the Second half, the Liturgy of the Eucharist. In some parishes the Catechumens or those learing the Catholic faith, are disnmissed for further instruction and discussion of the Scripture readngs after the homily. In other parishes they are allowed to stay throutgh the Liturgy of the Eucharist and then go for further instruction, but are not allowed to receive Communion. Now that we live in a Neo-Pagan age were are reverting to the teaching styles of the Church in the original Pagan age. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Emmaus |
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490 | Why worship on resurrection day? | Ex 20:10 | Emmaus | 140456 | ||
Doc, Here are a few links about Liturgical Colors. All of these senosry elements to worship, what CVatholics refer to as "smells and bells" are designed to engage all the senses as well as the mind and heart in worship. It is an incarnational theology of the Liturgy. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04134a.htm http://www.medugorje.com/catholic/lit_color.html http://www.stcecilia.org/artenv/LitColors.htm Emmaus |
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491 | Why worship on resurrection day? | Ex 20:10 | Emmaus | 140457 | ||
Doc, A Christmas gift to you. This is the link to a site which has all the prayers of the daily liturgy: Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, Night Prayer and the Scripture readings ofd the day for Mass. The morning and evening prayers are built around the Psalms and over four weeks cover the whole of the Psalter, except for a few precatory Psalms which call for the death of enemies. I think you may find it interesting to follow for a while and see what you think. http://www.universalis.com/20041224/today.htm Emmaus |
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492 | Why worship on resurrection day? | Ex 20:10 | Emmaus | 140462 | ||
"Rhetorical PS: How come we have to edit out the "death of enemies" stuff?" Don't know. Probably seems inconsistent with loving your enemies as Christ did. This is not a recent, politiccally correct thing to my knowledge. I think it is rather ancient. I mentioned it only in the interest of full disclosure, rather than saying that "all" the Psalms are covered in the four week cycle. I was not even aware the were not covered until I read a not to that effect recently. I guess you have to pray those few personally, not in community. ;-) Emmaus |
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493 | Can one who commits suicide be saved? | Ex 20:13 | Emmaus | 53677 | ||
Andes, Some who commit suicide are mentally ill, not necessarily all. You are correct that God does not send a person to hell because they are sick. The particular circumstances may diminish the responsibility of the one committing suicide. The ancient Catholic custom of refusing Christian burial to those who committed suicide was not a judgement on whether or not they were saved or sane. It was a judgement on the sin of despair and the teaching that we do not give ourselves life nor are we allowed to take our own life. We commanded to love God and love our neighbor as ourself. Suicide may also involve the sin of giving scandal. The refusal of Christian burial also has a practical purpose, which is to deter people from committing suicide. It is often if not always an effective deterent. Studies indicate that clinically depressed people with suicidal ideation who have been taught that suicide is a mortal sin which leads to damnation often do not follow through on their thoughts for that very reason. As for the deminished resposibility of the menatlly ill: it is for this reason some are now granted a Christian burial. And that does not even touch on the current issues of assisted suicide and the ever more popular "mercy killing -suicide" and murder-suicide. Emmaus |
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494 | regarding sanctification | Ex 28:3 | Emmaus | 151725 | ||
Doc, One should expect only "Roman" concepts from a "Roman" Catholic Christian such as myself. One can even expect a lot of "Roman" concepts from Protestants, just bit fewer owing to the ones the Reformers rejected, while carrying others on with them when they left home. I am content to let heizlrd read Romans 6;16-23 for himself and draw his/her own conclusion on the matter. It is a peculiarly Protestant characteristic which requires the isolation of directly related concepts into separate boxes as if they do not touch on one another. So we have the oxymoronic "five solas". I find a more integrated approach to explaining the truths of the Christian faith more convincing and satisfactory. Our divergence of opinion is assumed. Emmaus |
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495 | regarding sanctification | Ex 28:3 | Emmaus | 151727 | ||
Doc, One should expect only "Roman" concepts from a "Roman" Catholic Christian such as myself. One can even expect a lot of "Roman" concepts from Protestants, just bit fewer owing to the ones the Reformers rejected, while carrying others on with them when they left home. I am content to let heizlrd read Romans 6;16-23 for himself and draw his/her own conclusion on the matter. It is a peculiarly Protestant characteristic which requires the isolation of directly related concepts into separate boxes as if they do not touch on one another. So we have the oxymoronic "five solas". I find a more integrated approach to explaining the truths of the Christian faith more convincing and satisfactory. Our divergence of opinion is assumed. Emmaus |
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496 | Homosexuality and Christianity? | Leviticus | Emmaus | 29293 | ||
Hank, This whole thread and the concept of homosexuality not being condemened in scripture or being being misinterpreted scripture is what I call a Tar Baby The conversation will go nowhere. The whole concept in in complete contradiction to the entire history of exegesis in Christian and Jewish history. We may as well talk about how adultery has been misinterpreted as sin and so on along the same line. It is absurd. The possibilities of this type of thinking are endless but they do lead to a bad end. Emmaus |
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497 | offering the children of Israel brought | Leviticus | Emmaus | 74185 | ||
mes, Depends on how you define the offering: the reason or the kind of offering. Burnt offering, partially burnt offering, cereal offering, wave offering, libation, is one way of categoizing. Or you might make a sin offering, a thank offering, a peace offering, a guilt offering. Some categories seem to overlap. Look in Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers and Dueteronomy for the various passages describing the requirments of various offerings. Emmaus |
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498 | Clean or unclean? | Lev 5:2 | Emmaus | 163563 | ||
DAW, In the Old Testament what was holy and set apart was contaiminated by contact with the unclean, hence the concept of ritual impurity. But in Jesus, under the New Covenant when the Holy comes into contact with the unclean, the unclean is made clean, as when Jesus touched lepers and the when the woman with the issue of blood touched the hem of His garment or when Jesus used His physical touch to raise a dead child or His voice to raise Lazarus back from the dead. This is what was so shocking to the Pharisees, that the pattern of corruption was reversed. It is possible to see ourselves as the man on the road, beaten and left for dead. The Law, represented by the Old Covenant priest and levite, cannot save. In fact they avoid the man who may be dead for fear of being contaminated and made ritually impure as they are going up to the Temple in Jersualem to perform their duties. Jesus is the Good Samaritan. He is not defiled by contact with the man, but rather saves him and restores him to life. He annoints him with oil, even as the baptized are anointed with oil as they enter into Christ and share in His priestly, prophetic and kingly mission. The Samaritan pays the price of of the man's recovery and restoration to health to the innkeeper.Whenever in the Gospels Jesus touches the unclean he is not contaminated as other men are by contact with sin. Instead sin is driven out by virtue and healing grace. There are a number of ways one can look at this parable. Emmaus |
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499 | Whats the law of attunement/orientation? | Lev 16:11 | Emmaus | 69204 | ||
Searcher, Ah! So many new ways and new ages, so little time. :-) Emmaus |
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500 | OT Laws - still apply today? | Lev 20:9 | Emmaus | 85708 | ||
Hank, "Grace saves us but it doesn't change us" sound to me a lot like the concept of extrinsic justification, which may be what is confusing Matt. On the other hand you seem to be championing intrinsic justification by grace. Should I expect you to pope anytime soon? ;-) Emmuas |
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