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2121 | Immaculate Conception, mary, how? | 1 John 1:8 | Emmaus | 67387 | ||
finalife, There is more than one answer to this question. For a more balanced discuusion of this subject, which consists of a rather fierce exchange between Reformer Joe and myself, go to the Quick Search box on the right and type in the ID# 26035. That will take you to a long thread starting under the heading "Where did the catholic Church go wrong?" Scroll down to my entry dated 12-13-01, 11:18 pm and you can follow the argument on both sides,with no holds barred. :-) Emmaus |
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2122 | Immaculate Conception, mary, how? | 1 John 1:8 | Emmaus | 67408 | ||
finalife, Perhaps a better number to enter in the Quick Search box is 26887. It will take you to the first post in a thread dealing with the Immaculate Conception. Emmaus |
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2123 | Jehonadab, Why C.E. and B.C.E.? | 1 John 2:2 | Emmaus | 100791 | ||
Hank, Could be connected to the fact that some find it difficult to say Jesus is (Domini) Lord. Emmaus |
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2124 | Is it possible to sin in heaven? | 1 John 3:2 | Emmaus | 118733 | ||
No. Once in heaven you do have etetrnal security and have been purified of all sin. We will be like our Savior who is sinless. 1 John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. 1 John 3:3 And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. 1 Cor 3:15 If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. 1 Pet 1:7 so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ; Emmaus |
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2125 | Is it possible to sin in heaven? | 1 John 3:2 | Emmaus | 118734 | ||
deadjenny, No. Rev 21:27 and nothing unclean, and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life. Emmaus |
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2126 | sin is the absence of right behavior? | 1 John 3:4 | Emmaus | 60355 | ||
inheavenseyes, In Romans Paul uses the term "sin" in a variety of ways. There is the "behavioral" kind of sin of ommission or commission, but there is also the "sin that is in me," what in Catholic theology is called concupiscence or the tendency in man to gravitate toward sin and evil as a result of Adam's "original sin" which deprived man of his supernatural relationship with God. So in a sense to be "in sin" is to be without the grace or life of God in us. Emmaus |
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2127 | making it to heaven after you get saved | 1 John 3:9 | Emmaus | 118066 | ||
"After you get saved, can you make it to heaven if you live the life you want to live?" Yes, if the life you want to live is a life for Christ. Romans 8:1-15 Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? Rom 6:2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Rom 6:3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Rom 6:4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. Rom 6:5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, Rom 6:6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; Rom 6:7 for he who has died is freed from sin. Rom 6:8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, Rom 6:9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. Rom 6:10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Rom 6:11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Rom 6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, Rom 6:13 and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. Rom 6:14 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. Rom 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!" Emmaus |
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2128 | How to love others as commanded | 1 John 3:11 | Emmaus | 108884 | ||
j8, I read your profile. I too had a background in law enforcement and understand how it can effect one's thinking about the world and how one relates to others. I understand selfishness, even at 40 and beyond. One thing I have found helpful is this. I have a crucifix on the wall of my living room near the center of my house. I can see it from the front door when I enter and I have to pass by it to go to the kitchen the bedrooms or the basement. Occassionaly people ask me why I have it there. I tell them I put it there to remind me that being married is about sacrificing yourself for those you love and that it is often painful. But the only way to the joy of the Resurrection is through the cross. My marriage and family life have been much better since I put that crucifix there to remind me what Jesus did for me and what I am expected to do for my wife and daughter: lay down my life for them, sacrifice myself for them, suffer for them, even as they sometime suffer for me or because of me. "Husbands, love your wives even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her..." Gal 5:25. So, my advice is that charity or love begins at home. Start at home and work outward to the larger community. If one can learn to be less selfish and more self sacrificing at home, it is a lot easier to then take that attitude outside the home. Conversely, if one can't be charitable at home it is not likely one will be charitible anywhere else either. I found trying to do things my way to make me happy always left me and those around me miserable. Once I learned to enbrace the concept of doing things God's way by accepting sacrifice and suffering, I was happier. Go figure! Isn't it interesting how God teaches us compassion and charity by suffering, especially when we are doing everything we can to avoid suffering and trying to be happy while not trying to make anyone else happy and often making everyone else who comes into contact with us miserable? We have to take up our cross and follow Him. If we try to save our life we will loose it, but if we are willing to loose our life for his sake we will find it. Matt 16:25-27. Emmaus |
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2129 | John10:14-18 | 1 John 3:16 | Emmaus | 71892 | ||
sweet, Think of the sheep of the other flock as the Gentiles and see also John 11:52. Jesus died willingly on the cross for us. "Not my will, but Thy will be done." That is, He gave up or "laid down" his life willingly and took it up again in the resurrection. Emmaus |
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2130 | Any biblical answers to Mormon beliefs? | 1 John 4:1 | Emmaus | 30962 | ||
Shelley, Start first by considering Galatians 1:7-9. The problem with Mormon belief is that it is a belief in a totally different God than what Christians believe. It is a different gospel. The Book of Mormon is different Gospel. I prefer the Gospel of the men who walked with Jesus to the gospel of a man who walked by himself in a farm field in upstate New York. There is a lot of good material on the web on your question. You might want to start at www.equip.org. Emmaus |
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2131 | i am looking for a biblical foundation | 1 John 4:8 | Emmaus | 93024 | ||
Because God is love and God surpasses all understanding. 1 John 4:8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. |
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2132 | Propitiation vs Expiation | 1 John 4:10 | Emmaus | 168806 | ||
Robin, For an intersting discussion of this topic go to the link below and scroll down about 3/4 of the page until you get to: "And Speaking of Greek . . . (Hilasterion)" http://www.jimmyakin.org/greek/index.html Emmaus |
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2133 | 1 John 5:16-17 | 1 John 5:16 | Emmaus | 86069 | ||
Elijahprophet, Here is one explanation. 1854. "Sins are rightly evaluated according to their gravity. The distinction between MORTAL and venial SIN, already evident in Scripture,[Cf. 1Jn 16-17 .] became part of the tradition of the Church. It is corroborated by human experience." The Catechism of the Catholic Church To view the context, please visit http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/gravity.html#GRAVITY 1855. "MORTAL SIN destroys charity in the heart of man by a grave violation of God's law; it turns man away from God, who is his ultimate end and his beatitude, by preferring an inferior good to him. Venial SIN allows charity to subsist, even though it offends and wounds it. " To view the context, please visit http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/gravity.html#GRAVITY 1856. "MORTAL SIN, by attacking the vital principle within us - that is, charity - necessitates a new initiative of God's mercy and a conversion of heart which is normally accomplished within the setting of the sacrament of reconciliation: When the will sets itself upon something that is of its nature incompatible with the charity that orients man toward his ultimate end, then the SIN is MORTAL by its very object . . . whether it contradicts the love of God, such as blasphemy or perjury, or the love of neighbor, such as homicide or adultery.... But when the sinner's will is set upon something that of its nature involves a disorder, but is not opposed to the love of God and neighbor, such as thoughtless chatter or immoderate laughter and the like, such sins are venial.[St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I-II, 88, 2, corp. art.] " To view the context, please visit http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/gravity.html#GRAVITY 1857. "For a SIN to be MORTAL, three conditions must together be met: 'MORTAL SIN is SIN whose object is grave matter and which is also committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent.'[RP 17 # 12.]" To view the context, please visit http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/gravity.html#GRAVITY 1859. "MORTAL SIN requires full knowledge and complete consent. It presupposes knowledge of the sinful character of the act, of its opposition to God's law. It also implies a consent sufficiently deliberate to be a personal choice. Feigned ignorance and hardness of heart[Cf. Mk 3:5-6 ; Lk 16:19-31 .] do not diminish, but rather increase, the voluntary character of a SIN. " To view the context, please visit http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/gravity.html#GRAVITY 1861. "MORTAL SIN is a radical possibility of human freedom, as is love itself. It results in the loss of charity and the privation of sanctifying grace, that is, of the state of grace. If it is not redeemed by repentance and God's forgiveness, it causes exclusion from Christ's kingdom and the eternal death of hell, for our freedom has the power to make choices for ever, with no turning back. However, although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God. " To view the context, please visit http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/gravity.html#GRAVITY 1863. "Venial SIN weakens charity; it manifests a disordered affection for created goods; it impedes the soul's progress in the exercise of the virtues and the practice of the moral good; it merits temporal punishment. Deliberate and unrepented venial SIN disposes us little by little to commit MORTAL SIN. However venial SIN does not set us in direct opposition to the will and friendship of God; it does not break the covenant with God. With God's grace it is humanly reparable. 'Venial SIN does not deprive the sinner of sanctifying grace, friendship with God, charity, and consequently eternal happiness.'[John Paul II, RP 17 # 9.] While he is in the flesh, man cannot help but have at least some light sins. But do not despise these sins which we call 'light': if you take them for light when you weigh them, tremble when you count them. A number of light objects makes a great mass; a number of drops fills a river; a number of grains makes a heap. What then is our hope? Above all, confession.[St. Augustine, In ep. Jo. 1, 6: PL 35, 1982.]" |
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2134 | What do we believe? | Jude 1:3 | Emmaus | 116983 | ||
Axien, Your question points ou the importance of Creed. Anyone who visits my CHurch on a Sunday will hear the profession of what we believe. There is an intersting book still in print by Dorothy Sayer, titled: Creed or Chaos. We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation, he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered died and was buried. On the third day he rose again in fulfillment of the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen. Emmaus |
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2135 | Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood | Jude 1:4 | Emmaus | 52673 | ||
Jesusfreak, No one seems to have addressed the question you asked: "What do you think of the sermon?" It is awful blend of the awful truth, awful halftruth, and awful fantasy. I had a much higher opinion of John McAuthur before I read this sermon. There is no defense for the scandalous actions of some members of the Catholic clergy, so I will present none. What is happening must happen and is probably not over yet. On the other hand McArthur's "sermon" is not worthy of the name. He should have left it to the tabloids, they do it better. Emmaus |
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2136 | My mom is praying to saints for | Jude 1:9 | Emmaus | 30617 | ||
kel, We are told in scripture to pray for one another. When I ask you to pray with me on a particular matter does that violate the principal that Jesus is the one mediator? The saints here or in heaven, just like us are "in Christ". So we and they pray "through him, with him and in him." Hebrews 12:1-2, Rev 5:8;Rev 8:3-5. I think your mother is in good company with the saints. Emmaus |
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2137 | is the archangel bad? | Jude 1:9 | Emmaus | 140795 | ||
"Am I mistaken in thinking the archangel is bad?" Yes. "I was always under the assumption that the archangel was like the devil. " No. The archangel is "like" the devil only in that the devil was an angel before he fell, but not "like" in that the Archangel did not fall, but continued to serve God. In Jude 9, the archangel is simply not usurping God's perogative of judgement, but leaving that to the Lord. See Act 12:7. Emmaus |
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2138 | Any good books written on Revelation? | Revelation | Emmaus | 38212 | ||
Liz, If you decided to take Searcher's advice and read on both sides of this issues you may wish to consder these two resources from a Catholic perspective.Both are available from Amazon.com. The Second Coming: Meditations and Commentary on the Book of Revelation by Alfred McBride and The Rapture Trap by Paul Thigpen. There are so many resources available on the Dispensational side of the question that they are too numerous to mention. Emmaus |
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2139 | Which of the seven vials of the beasts? | Revelation | Emmaus | 57597 | ||
angelface, Is it possible the purpose of your homework questions is to get you to do some reading in the bible and find out the answers on your own? Try reading in the book of Revelation starting in chapter 15. Emmaus Emmaus |
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2140 | What's sky rolling up like scroll mean? | Revelation | Emmaus | 65488 | ||
Chusarcik, The ancients kept time by the moon, stars and sun. For that matter so do we. But the symbolic imagery of the sky rolling up like a scroll is that the end of time or the end of an age has come and time is being rolled up and put away like a scroll. Emmaus |
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