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761 | justme | Gen 1:1 | Emmaus | 126384 | ||
It has been 17 days since justme last posted after asking for prayer related to his serious medical situation.Does anyone know anything else at this point? | ||||||
762 | being baptised and not a member | Rom 6:3 | Emmaus | 126383 | ||
LSmith, Because there are no Lone Rangers in Christianity. Because the Church is the Body of Christ and we enter into Christ and his Mystical Body through baptism. 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? "For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot says, "Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body," it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body. And if the ear says, "Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body," it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired. If they were all one member, where would the body be? But now there are many members, but one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you"; or again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary; and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable, whereas our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked, so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. Now you are Christ's body, and individually members of it." 1 Cor 12:13-27 Emmaus |
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763 | God the Son as a confession of faith | John 17:22 | Emmaus | 126380 | ||
Prima Scriptura anyone? The Spirit and Forms of Protetstantism by Fr. Louis Bouyer, a French priest and Professor, 1st English edition in 1956 and currently in print from Scepter Press, has a preface written by Fr. G. De Broglie, S.J. and an appendix article also by De Broglie titled: On the Primacy of Argument from Scripture in Theology. Allow me to quote the opening paragraphs. "This brief note is far from being a complete tretment of the complex problem of the relationship between Scripture and Tradion. Still less does it question the fact that the argument from Tradition has a certain logical priority to the argument from Scripture--insofar as our belief in the inspiration of the Scripture rests on the authority of the Church. Nor does it maintain that every dogma can be proved by argument from Scripture, without recourse to Tradition. It does not call into question the infallibility of the Magesterium or its indeispensable role in the interpretation of Scripture. Neither does it ignore the fact that the theological argument drawn from ecclesiastical documents is, in a number of cases the most clear and cogent that could be imagined. All it aims at is to emphasize the classic recognition of the argument from Scripture as holding an inalienable primacy of importance and value among all the arguments used in theology. The reason for this is easy to understand. Even in cases where in the Catholic view the teaching of the Magesterium satisfies all the conditions for infallibility, the Church is obliged by her own teaching to acknowledge that an eccelsiastical document of the sort is an entirely different thing from a text of the Scripture. True, the Church's teaching is divinely guarenteed to be free from error; nonetheless, it remains, in the various acts that constitute it, an aggregate of testimonies that are merely human, bearing on past revelation made by God to men; whereas the sacred text presents us with a formal and direct testimony from God himself, in the very form in which it originally appeared. Consequently, Scripture has always had a place apart in the teaching of the Church. " He goes on to quote The Encyclical Providentissimus Deus, by Leo XII which states about the doctrines of all the Church Fathers: "They set out to establish and confirm, primarily by the sacred books, all the truths of the faith as well as those which flow from them." I highy recommend this book. But it is not light reading. Emmaus |
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764 | should I avoid the appearance of evil? | Matt 18:6 | Emmaus | 126377 | ||
Lillian, Why would any Christian at any stage want to even appear evil, let alone act evil? We should all avoid the appearance of evil and the doing of evil in order not to give scandal and do harm to the Gospel that we preach. Matt 18:6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. What verse are you referring to in Matt 16? I could not find it. Emmaus |
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765 | WHAT DOES GOD SAY ABOUT DIVORCE. | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 126375 | ||
TLKPCONFUSSED, welcome to the forum. just a friendly piece of information. in internet etiquette, using all capital letters is considered shouting. better to us all lower case letters like i am now if you find using the shift key difficult as some of us do. i for one am a pathetic typist. Emmaus |
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766 | Christ Sometimes Taught in Greek | Mark 12:30 | Emmaus | 126369 | ||
Doc, "While I am pontificating (I wonder if anyone ever really reads this stuff?) I might as well add that I find it odd that people assume that primitive technology automatically assumes ignorance or -- perhaps worse -- a primitive mind set. If Moses or Paul or even Peter were alive today, I could well imagine them reasoning circles around today's intellectually elite." Amen! I don't know who has time to read everything posted here, but some of us read a lot and we develop a sense for what to skip over. I wonder how many lurkers there are who just like to read and prefer not to do any input. Emmaus |
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767 | HOW MANY DISCOURSES ARE IN MATTHEW? | Matthew | Emmaus | 126366 | ||
Rupooh, Here is a link to an excellent online Bible Study of Matthew. Below the link is the Outline of Matthew given in the study. http://www.salvationhistory.com/Online/Advanced/OTinNTMatt.cfm Outline of the Gospel According to Matthew Prologue: The Birth of Jesus Matthew 1-2 Book I: John the Baptist / Early Ministry of Jesus Narrative: 3:1-4:25 Discourse: 5:1-7:27 (Sermon on the Mount) Formula: 7:28-29: "When Jesus finished...." Book II: Miracles and Commissioning of Apostles Narrative: 8:1-9:35 Discourse: 9:36-10:42 (Missionary Sermon for Apostles) Formula: 11:1: "When Jesus had finished...." Book III: Controversy and the New Kingdom Narrative: 11:2-12:50 Discourse: 13:1-52 (Teaching on the Kingdom of Heaven) Formula: 13:53: "When Jesus finished...." Book IV: Teaching the Church Narrative: 13:54-17:21 Discourse: 17:22-18:35 (On Life in the Church) Formula: 19:1: "When Jesus finished..." Book V: Jesus Enters Jerusalem Narrative: 19:2-22:46 Discourse: 23:1-25:46 (On End Times, Farewell) Formula: 26:1: "When Jesus finished all these words..." Epilogue: Passion and Resurrection of Jesus Matthew 26:3-28:20 Emmaus |
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768 | HOW MANY DISCOURSES ARE IN MATTHEW? | Matthew | Emmaus | 126364 | ||
Rupooh, There are seven parables in Matthew 13, if that is what you mean by mysteries. Emmaus |
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769 | HOW MANY DISCOURSES ARE IN MATTHEW? | Matthew | Emmaus | 126363 | ||
Rupooh, Matthew has an Introduction, five discourses, each preceded by a narrative section, and a Conclusion. What do you mean by mysteries? Emmaus |
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770 | 12 tribes of Isreal | Josh 24:30 | Emmaus | 126360 | ||
Num 13:8 from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun; Num 13:16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land; but Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua. |
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771 | 12 tribes of Isreal | Josh 24:30 | Emmaus | 126358 | ||
Joshua was a member of the half tribe of Ephraim, one of the two sons of Jospeh. Josh 24:29 It came about after these things that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred and ten years old. Josh 24:30 And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of Mount Gaash. |
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772 | what is predestination? | Rom 9:17 | Emmaus | 126354 | ||
orie, Perhaps this will be of assitance to you in answering your question. "381 Man is predestined to reproduce the image of God's Son made man, the "image of the invisible God" (Col 1:15), so that Christ shall be the first-born of a multitude of brothers and sisters (cf. Eph 1:3-6; Rom 8:29). 600 To God, all moments of time are present in their immediacy. When therefore he establishes his eternal plan of "predestination", he includes in it each person's free response to his gace: "In this city, in fact, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place."(Acts 4:27-28; cf. Ps 2:1-2) For the sake of accomplishing his plan of salvation, God permitted the acts that flowed from their blindness.(Cf. Mt 26:54; Jn 18:36; 19:11; Acts 3:17-18) 1037 God predestines no one to go to hell; for this, a willful turning away from God ... is necessary, and persistence in it until the end. In the Eucharistic liturgy and in the daily prayers of her faithful, the Church implores the mercy of God, who does not want "any to perish, but all to come to repentance":(2 Pet 3:9) Father, accept this offering from your whole family. Grant us your peace in this life, save us from final damnation, and count us among those you have chosen. 2012 "We know that in everything God works for good with those who love him . . . For those whom he fore knew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the first-born among many brethren. And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified."(Rom 8:28-30)" http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/ccc_toc2.htm Emmaus |
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773 | ok to sin because of the flesh | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 126352 | ||
Interesting screen name. Saint N Says (Satan Says). How did you come to choose the name? Emmaus |
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774 | Why do good things happen to bad people? | Matt 5:45 | Emmaus | 126351 | ||
Saint N Says, You may be able to relate to Psalm 73. "Surely God is good to Israel, To those who are pure in heart! But as for me, my feet came close to stumbling, My steps had almost slipped. For I was envious of the arrogant As I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For there are no pains in their death, And their body is fat. They are not in trouble as other men, Nor are they plagued like mankind. Therefore pride is their necklace; The garment of violence covers them. Their eye bulges from fatness; The imaginations of their heart run riot. They mock and wickedly speak of oppression; They speak from on high. They have set their mouth against the heavens, And their tongue parades through the earth. Therefore his people return to this place, And waters of abundance are drunk by them. They say, "How does God know? And is there knowledge with the Most High?" Behold, these are the wicked; And always at ease, they have increased in wealth. Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure And washed my hands in innocence; For I have been stricken all day long And chastened every morning. If I had said, "I will speak thus," Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children. When I pondered to understand this, It was troublesome in my sight Until I came into the sanctuary of God; Then I perceived their end. Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction. How they are destroyed in a moment! They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors! Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form. When my heart was embittered And I was pierced within, Then I was senseless and ignorant; I was like a beast before You. Nevertheless I am continually with You; You have taken hold of my right hand. With Your counsel You will guide me, And afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but You? And besides You, I desire nothing on earth. My flesh and my heart may fail, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. For, behold, those who are far from You will perish; You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You. But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, That I may tell of all Your works." Emmaus |
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775 | Why do good things happen to bad people? | Matt 5:45 | Emmaus | 126350 | ||
Saint N Says, Welcome to the forum. "Why do good things happen to bad people? Or can they? " Because God send certain natural blessing to all his creatures. Matt 5:45 "so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." And because even the wicked can have wisdom in the ways of the world and how to obtain its natural goods. Emmaus |
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776 | Do Ghost's exist? | Luke 24:39 | Emmaus | 126344 | ||
Phil J, Welcome to the forum. The resurrected Jesus was not a ghost. He body was resurrected in a glorified state with properties and capabilities beyond our bodies now, but He ate and spoke to his disciples and even asked Thomas to put his finger into the nail wounds and his hand into the wound in his side. What disembodied spirit can do that. We will have the same kind of fglorified bodies at the resurrection of the dead. We are told in scripture not to call up the dead, since we can be easily deceived by evil spirits and we are not to attempt to know the future by necromancy por fortune tellers, but rather to truet in the Lord and obey his commands. On the other hand, the spirits or souls of the dead do exist until the resurrection of the body at the Second Coming when we will receive glorified bodies. "Scripture calls the abode of the dead, to which the dead Christ went down, "hell" - Sheol in Hebrew or Hades in Greek - because those who are there are deprived of the vision of God.(Cf. Phil 2:10; Acts 2:24; Rev 1:18; Eph 4:9; Pss 6:6; 88:11-13.) Such is the case for all the dead, whether evil or righteous, while they await the Redeemer: which does not mean that their lot is identical, as Jesus shows through the parable of the poor man Lazarus who was received into "Abraham's bosom":(Cf. Ps 89:49; 1 Sam 28:19; Ezek 32:17-32; Lk 16:22-26) "It is precisely these holy souls, who awaited their Savior in Abraham's bosom, whom Christ the Lord delivered when he descended into hell." Jesus did not descend into hell to deliver the damned, nor to destroy the hell of damnation, but to free the just who had gone before him.(Mt 27:52-53)" Emmaus |
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777 | Whose Name is on #12 | Rev 21:14 | Emmaus | 126312 | ||
Paul is an Apostle in that he is "one who is sent" by Jesus, who called him in an unusual and special way on the road to Damascus. But he did not meet the definition given in Acts 1:21-26, which says in verse 24 that the Lord would show which one He had chosen. Acts 1:21 "Therefore it is necessary that of the men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us-- Acts 1:22 beginning with the baptism of John until the day that He was taken up from us--one of these must become a witness with us of His resurrection." Acts 1:23 So they put forward two men, Joseph called Barsabbas (who was also called Justus), and Matthias. Acts 1:24 And they prayed and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two You have chosen Acts 1:25 to occupy this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place." Acts 1:26 And they drew lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles. See also Peters authority in Matth 18:19 Matt 16:19 "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven." Paul is not a lesser Apostle, he simply was not on who had been with Jesus from the beginning of his ministry and so one who could give an eye witness account of what he had "seen and heard." Look for Matthias' name on the stone. Paul will not be upset. He understands. Emmaus |
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778 | God the Son as a confession of faith | John 17:22 | Emmaus | 126307 | ||
Leslie N, I am the only regularly participating Catholic on this iste as far as I know. But I am planning a Traiathalon for all the members who will be required to swim the Tiber, cycle around the Vatican and run the road to Rome. (Just kidding). Here is what I believe about the Trinity. "The dogma of the Holy Trinity 253 The Trinity is One. We do not confess three Gods, but one God in three persons, the "consubstantial Trinity". The divine persons do not share the one divinity among themselves but each of them is God whole and entire: "The Father is that which the Son is, the Son that which the Father is, the Father and the Son that which the Holy Spirit is, i.e. by nature one God." In the words of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), "Each of the persons is that supreme reality, viz., the divine substance, essence or nature." 254 The divine persons are really distinct from one another. "God is one but not solitary." "Father", "Son", "Holy Spirit" are not simply names designating modalities of the divine being, for they are really distinct from one another: "He is not the Father who is the Son, nor is the Son he who is the Father, nor is the Holy Spirit he who is the Father or the Son." They are distinct from one another in their relations of origin: "It is the Father who generates, the Son who is begotten, and the Holy Spirit who proceeds." The divine Unity is Triune. 255 The divine persons are relative to one another. Because it does not divide the divine unity, the real distinction of the persons from one another resides solely in the relationships which relate them to one another: "In the relational names of the persons the Father is related to the Son, the Son to the Father, and the Holy Spirit to both. While they are called three persons in view of their relations, we believe in one nature or substance." Indeed "everything (in them) is one where there is no opposition of relationship." "Because of that unity the Father is wholly in the Son and wholly in the Holy Spirit; the Son is wholly in the Father and wholly in the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit is wholly in the Father and wholly in the Son." 256 St. Gregory of Nazianzus, also called "the Theologian", entrusts this summary of Trinitarian faith to the catechumens of Constantinople: Above all guard for me this great deposit of faith for which I live and fight, which I want to take with me as a companion, and which makes me bear all evils and despise all pleasures: I mean the profession of faith in the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. I entrust it to you today. By it I am soon going to plunge you into water and raise you up from it. I give it to you as the companion and patron of your whole life. I give you but one divinity and power, existing one in three, and containing the three in a distinct way. Divinity without disparity of substance or nature, without superior degree that raises up or inferior degree that casts down. . . the infinite co-naturality of three infinites. Each person considered in himself is entirely God. . . the three considered together. . . I have not even begun to think of unity when the Trinity bathes me in its splendor. I have not even begun to think of the Trinity when unity grasps me. . ." You can read it here in a larger context. http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s2c1p2.htm#III Welcome to the forum Emmaus |
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779 | Do you believe in being chosen? | Gen 2:9 | Emmaus | 126284 | ||
Bruce, The Bible speaks of being chosen by God so Christians must believe in being chosen. God also uses in Scripture the imagery of marriage to illustrate His relationship with his chosen ones. In a marriage the choosing is mutual. If we are chosen, we do not marry unless we consent and choose to marry. God chooses us and we hopefully respond in kind to His love and choose Him also. Some lovers are rejected by those they love and have chosen. Is it in the true nature of Love to force itself on another? Emmaus |
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780 | WHAT DOES HYSSOP MEAN IN PSALMS 51:7? | Acts 17:11 | Emmaus | 126283 | ||
"WHAT DOES HYSSOP MEAN IN PSALMS 51:7?" It looks back to the first Passover in Exodus and the cleansing rituals of the Levitical system of sacrifice and it looks forward to the cross of Christ and his blood which purifies us which is prefigured along with our baptism into his death and resurrection in those Old Testament rites and that first Passover. See the verses below. 1 Ex 12:22 "You shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the door of his house until morning. 2 Lev 14:4 then the priest shall give orders to take two live clean birds and cedar wood and a scarlet string and hyssop for the one who is to be cleansed. 3 Lev 14:6 "As for the live bird, he shall take it together with the cedar wood and the scarlet string and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was slain over the running water. 4 Lev 14:49 "To cleanse the house then, he shall take two birds and cedar wood and a scarlet string and hyssop, 5 Lev 14:51 "Then he shall take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet string, with the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird as well as in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. 6 Lev 14:52 "He shall thus cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the running water, along with the live bird and with the cedar wood and with the hyssop and with the scarlet string. 7 Num 19:6 'The priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet material and cast it into the midst of the burning heifer. 8 Num 19:18 'A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there, and on the one who touched the bone or the one slain or the one dying naturally or the grave. 9 1 Kin 4:33 He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he spoke also of animals and birds and creeping things and fish. 10 Ps 51:7 Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 11 John 19:29 A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth. 12 Heb 9:19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, Emmaus |
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