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241 | Should we submit to Paul or anyone? | 1 Cor 3:5 | Emmaus | 148990 | ||
Tim, The teaching authority of the Apostles still resides in their successors. That is the whole point of the Apostolic succesion of bishops and their teaching and governing office in the Church. At least that is how we view it where I come from. Emmaus |
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242 | can we be sure the Bible is valid? | 2 Tim 3:16 | Emmaus | 148846 | ||
Joe, The Christian faith is not a "religion of the book. Christianity is the religion of the "Word" of God, "not a written or mute word, but incarnate and living." The Holy Spirit working in and through the Body of Christ, the Church, inspired the writers of Sacred Scripture and led the Church to recognize what was inspired and what was not. The Church and Scripture are intricatley bond up in and to one another. The Church, the People of God, Old Testanment and New, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit brought forth the Sacred Scripture and recognizes her own. Emmaus |
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243 | romans chapter 14 verse 5 | Rom 12:2 | Emmaus | 148687 | ||
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244 | romans chapter 14 verse 5 | Rom 12:2 | Emmaus | 148684 | ||
monica 1, "help me understand please romans chapter 14 verse 5" Romas 14:5 is connected to Romans 1:28 and Romans 12:2 and following. The problem of fallen human nature that needs to be overcome is the perverted mind and judgement of man (Romans 1:28). Paul indicates the Christian mind can now now finction with appropriate discrimination or judgement. (Romans 12:2 and following). Emmaus |
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245 | St. Malachy predictions | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 148628 | ||
Doc, If only some dissenting Catholics were as sharp a prognosticator as you. So many of them have nurtured the delusional hope that a "liberal" would be elected who would undo 2,000 years of doctrine. As if truth and doctrine is something that is voted on every so many years and holds a limited term of office. "Let's all believe in the Trinity until the next election." The news media and even some Catholic do not seem to understand the differnce between dicipline and doctrine. Celebacy in the priesthood is a Church discipline which can be changed. In fact in some of the Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church there are married priests, unlike in the predominant Latin Rite. Men as priests, on the other hand, is a doctrine, which can not and will not change. I am told one of those who hoped for a dramatic change had a vison in which afew questions were allowed. The first question was: "Will there ever be married priests?" God's answer: "Not in your lifetime. The second question: "Will there ever be women priests?" God's answer: " Not in my lifetime." No if those Cardinals could just learn how to do smoke signals correctly. Emmaus |
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246 | please explain Matt 5:1-12 | Matt 5:1 | Emmaus | 148487 | ||
L.C.E., "IN BRIEF "The Beatitudes take up and fulfill God's promises from Abraham on by ordering them to the Kingdom of heaven. They respond to the desire for happiness that God has placed in the human heart. "The Beatitudes teach us the final end to which God calls us: the Kingdom, the vision of God, participation in the divine nature, eternal life, filiation, rest in God. "The beatitude of eternal life is a gratuitous gift of God. It is supernatural, as is the grace that leads us there. "The Beatitudes confront us with decisive choices concerning earthly goods; they purify our hearts in order to teach us to love God above all things. "The beatitude of heaven sets the standards for discernment in the use of earthly goods in keeping with the law of God. " from The Catechism http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s1c1a2.htm#1716 Emmaus |
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247 | can you please explain Matt 5:1-12 | Matt 5:1 | Emmaus | 148486 | ||
joche, "IN BRIEF "The Beatitudes take up and fulfill God's promises from Abraham on by ordering them to the Kingdom of heaven. They respond to the desire for happiness that God has placed in the human heart. "The Beatitudes teach us the final end to which God calls us: the Kingdom, the vision of God, participation in the divine nature, eternal life, filiation, rest in God. "The beatitude of eternal life is a gratuitous gift of God. It is supernatural, as is the grace that leads us there. "The Beatitudes confront us with decisive choices concerning earthly goods; they purify our hearts in order to teach us to love God above all things. "The beatitude of heaven sets the standards for discernment in the use of earthly goods in keeping with the law of God. " from The Catechism http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s1c1a2.htm#1716 Emmaus |
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248 | can you please explain Matt 5:1-12 | Matt 5:1 | Emmaus | 148485 | ||
joche, You should find this link helpful in exolaining the beatitudes of Matt 5:1-12: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s1c1a2.htm#1716 Emmaus |
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249 | please explain Matt 5:1-12 | Matt 5:1 | Emmaus | 148483 | ||
L.C.E., You should find this link helpful: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s1c1a2.htm#1716 Emmaus |
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250 | What does this mean and how does it fit. | Eph 1:5 | Emmaus | 148358 | ||
shael, You may find footnote number three on Ephesians 1:3-14 at the following linik helpful. http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/ephesians/ephesians1.htm Emmaus |
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251 | Is the Temple destruction yet to come? | Matt 24:2 | Emmaus | 148354 | ||
The wailing wall was not a part of the temple itself, but part of a retaining wall for part of the gound upon which the Temple was built. It was not part of an actual building. | ||||||
252 | Why does Paul take such a broad view? | Eph 1:1 | Emmaus | 148352 | ||
shael, "I am reading Ephesians and in 1:1-14 this passage expresses Gods salvation in terms of the past, present and future 3-6a election, 6b-11 redemption, inheritance 12-14. Why does Paul take such a broad view? " Because he was inspired by the Holy Spirit to take such a broad view. And Ephesians is consistent with the rest of Paul's epistles. If Paul were asked, "Are you saved?", he might well respond with the following "I am already saved (Rom. 8:24, Eph. 2:5–8 ), but I’m also being saved (1 Cor. 1:8, 2 Cor. 2:15, Phil. 2:12), and I have the hope that I will be saved (Rom. 5:9–10, 1 Cor. 3:12–15). I am working out my salvation in fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12), with hopeful confidence in the promises of Christ (Rom. 5:2, 2 Tim. 2:11–13)." Paul was definitely not a one dimensional person. Emmaus |
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253 | Who we are in Christ. | Eph 1:5 | Emmaus | 148200 | ||
"I'm looking for scripture refrences that tell who we are in Christ.Any help would be appreciated." We are children of God by adoption in Christ. Rom 8:15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!" Rom 8:23 And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. Rom 9:4 who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises, Gal 4:5 so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. Eph 1:5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, Emmaus |
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254 | Why should a child be baptized? | Acts 2:38 | Emmaus | 148075 | ||
Acts 2:36 "Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ--this Jesus whom you crucified." Acts 2:37 Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brethren, what shall we do?" Acts 2:38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:39 "For the promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God will call to Himself." |
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255 | Is Rahab's home still standing? | Josh 2:15 | Emmaus | 148014 | ||
No. Rahab's house was in the wall of Jericho, which fell down. | ||||||
256 | What is so wrong with Catholics | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 147998 | ||
Rev T, If I may, I would like to clarify a few points about the Catholic belief of the Ral Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Since I recently had an e-mail exchange with someone else on the subject I will use that material. The Real Presence in the Eucharist is a mystery of faith akin to the mystery of the Holy Trinity and the Incarnation. Of course all in the end all of these mysteries can only be grasped by faith in God's Revelation. I fear my efforts to address the Real Presence in the Eucharist may fall short, but I will make the effort nonetheless. On the question of the "locality" of Christ in the Eucharist under the appearance of bread and wine while He is in heaven in His resurrected body and while he also is "with us always" in a spiritual sense. Your example was Christ at the Last Supper. (not your example, Rev. T, but my other friend's) Let me address that moment with the disciples in Emmaus only three evenings after the Last Supper. Jesus was with them at table, yet they only recognized His Real Presence in "the breaking of the bread" at which instant He disappeared. This is worth meditating upon. Fr. John Hardon in his catechism made a graphic comparison. He said: "there is as much difference between Christ's presence in the Blessed Sacrament and His presence elsewhere on earth as there was between His presence among the disciples when He appeared to them on Easter Sunday night and His presence in their midst before and after His appearance." In other words Christ was present among them both before and after he appeared, as He is present "whenever two or more are gathered in my name" but His appearance to them was more substantial. It is interesting that this example in Luke's Gospel also follows immediately upon the recognition of Christ in "the breaking of the bread" at Emmaus. C.S. Lewis speaking about the Incarnation made a point that is equally applicable to the Real presence in the Eucharist. "The world which did not know Him as present everywhere was saved by His becoming local." The Incarnation is a stone that makes men stumble as is the doctrine of the Eucharist as seen in John 6, and especially verse 61. The Incarnation is not God's prison it is our salvation. So too, the Eucharist is not God's prison. Again see John 6. The presence is called real--by which is not meant in any way to exclude all other types of presence as if they could not be "real" too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense. It is a substantial presence by which Christ, the God-man is wholly and entirely present." Paul VI in Mysterium Fidei. The Catholic Church also recognizes the presence of Christ in the gathered community and in the word of God found in the Scriptures. So, rather than excluding other presences of Christ, the Eucharistic presence ratifies them because in the Church's understanding is centered in the very heart of the Christian faith-- in the Incarnation, Death and Resurrection of Jesus. John 6 is the key. Jesus is very blunt and as the people become more and more disconcerted He actually becomes stronger in the language He uses to describe the eating of His body and the drinking of His blood. He does not even explain it to His disciples as He does elsewhere when He is speaking in parables or merely figuratively. Mark tells us He always explained what he meant to His disciples. (Mark 4:34 )But no explanation is forthcoming in John 6. Jesus just asks if this teaching causes them to stumble and if they too will leave Him. Jesus makes it clear that this teaching can only be grasped by the faith (the spirit) and cannot be understood in the carnal understanding (the flesh) when He says: "my words are spirit and truth, the spirit gives life, the flesh availeth not. But some of you do not believe." Indeed it is there that Judas turns away in his heart. This was a teaching of Jesus like His teaching about the Resurrection and Ascension, which he also mentions here, understood only after the fact. Paul in 1 Corinthians warns of the fate of those who "fail to recognized the body." It is the same as Judas' fate, death. Lutherans of course hold to the Real Presence under their doctrine of Consubstantiation. Emmaus |
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257 | What is so wrong with Catholics | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 147980 | ||
4thetruth, Welcome. Nothing is wrong with Catholics that isn't wrong with anybody else, New Creature's opinions notwithstanding. I happen to be Catholic and I do not recognize myself in his description. I wonder how his Catholic friends would describe him and his Protestant faith and if he would recognize himself in their description. You can check out my past posts in the archives and see my profile. Emmaus |
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258 | Gatekeeper's charge to warn of danger | Ezek 3:18 | Emmaus | 147955 | ||
Ezek 3:17 "Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman to the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from My mouth, warn them from Me. Ezek 3:18 "When I say to the wicked, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. Ezek 3:19 "Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself. |
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259 | absent from the body | Rom 8:23 | Emmaus | 147951 | ||
Because the fullness of our redemption is in the resurrection of the body even as Jesus was resurrected. God created us not as pure spirits but as an integrated whole of body and spirit. We are men, not angels. The Holy Spirit within us, which gived us spiritual live in Christ is a pledge or downpayment on the fullness of our redemptioj in the resurrection of the body. 2 Cor 5:5-9 "Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge. Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord--for we walk by faith, not by sight-- we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him " Romans 8:23- "And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body." 1 Cor 15:12-17 "Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. Moreover we are even found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that He raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins." Emmaus |
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260 | One Way NOT to Study the Bible | 1 Sam 17:49 | Emmaus | 147947 | ||
"I think that Ed is simply trying to say that one does not have to choose between the two." (faith or obedience) Heb. 11 is not 'either or', but 'both and'!"Tim, Precisely. And on the subject of God's glory: God's saints do not steal or diminish His glory. God is glorified in His saints. As Mary says in Luke 1:46-47 "My soul doth magnify the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior." 2 Thess 1:10 "when He comes to be glorified in His saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed--for our testimony to you was believed. " 2 Thess 1:12 "so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. " God Himself glorifies His saints. Rom 8:17 "and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him." Rom 8:30 "and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified." Emmaus |
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