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681 | 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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682 | 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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683 | 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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684 | 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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685 | 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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686 | Disease or Bad Personal Choice?? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 87538 | ||
John, All is forgiven. Emmaus |
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687 | how to start reading the bible? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 87628 | ||
rouel, I am surprised there have not been many answers yet to your question.I expect you will get others in addition to mine. First I recommend you get a good bible with scriptural cross references and footnotes. For an overview reference book that is not too big or too technical I recommend: A Father Who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture by Scott Hahn. You can get it from Amazon of or order it from any of the major chain bookstores. Emmaus |
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688 | 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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689 | why use of the word father | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 87940 | ||
Twoboys, "The Father revealed by the Son 238 Many religions invoke God as "Father". The deity is often considered the "father of gods and of men". In Israel, God is called "Father" inasmuch as he is Creator of the world.[59] Even more, God is Father because of the covenant and the gift of the law to Israel, "his first-born son".[60] God is also called the Father of the king of Israel. Most especially he is "the Father of the poor", of the orphaned and the widowed, who are under his loving protection.[61] 239 By calling God "Father", the language of faith indicates two main things: that God is the first origin of everything and transcendent authority; and that he is at the same time goodness and loving care for all his children. God's parental tenderness can also be expressed by the image of motherhood,[62] which emphasizes God's immanence, the intimacy between Creator and creature. The language of faith thus draws on the human experience of parents, who are in a way the first representatives of God for man. But this experience also tells us that human parents are fallible and can disfigure the face of fatherhood and motherhood. We ought therefore to recall that God transcends the human distinction between the sexes. He is neither man nor woman: he is God. He also transcends human fatherhood and motherhood, although he is their origin and standard:[63] no one is father as God is Father. 240 Jesus revealed that God is Father in an unheard-of sense: he is Father not only in being Creator; he is eternally Father by his relationship to his only Son who, reciprocally, is Son only in relation to his Father: "No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him."[64] 241 For this reason the apostles confess Jesus to be the Word: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God"; as "the image of the invisible God"; as the "radiance of the glory of God and the very stamp of his nature".[65] 242 Following this apostolic tradition, the Church confessed at the first ecumenical council at Nicaea (325) that the Son is "consubstantial" with the Father, that is, one only God with him.[66] The second ecumenical council, held at Constantinople in 381, kept this expression in its formulation of the Nicene Creed and confessed "the only- begotten Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, light from light, true God from true God, begotten not made, consubstantial with the Father".[67] 59 Cf. Dt 32:6; Mal 2:10. 60 Ex 4:22 61 Cf. 2 Sam 7:14; Ps 68:6. 62 Cf. Is 66:13; Ps 131:2. 63 Cf. Ps 27:10; Eph 3:14; Is 49:15. 64 Mt 11-27. 65 Jn 1:1; Col 1:15; Heb 1:3. 66 The English phrases "of one being" and "one in being" translate the Greek word homoousios, which was rendered in Latin by consubstantialis. 67 Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; cf. DS 150. " The Catechism of the Catholic Church Here also is a link to another article titled: Why God is Father, Not Mother http://www.catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Faith/Jul-Aug99/God2.html Emmaus |
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690 | Hebrew Christian Community | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 87990 | ||
John, I hope the links below will be of som e help to you. Ebionites http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05242c.htm Cerenthius http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03539a.htm Diasphora http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04775c.htm Judaizers http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08537a.htm Emmaus |
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691 | Hebrew Christian Community | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 87992 | ||
John, Here is a link to the writings of the Early Church Fathers who are often cited in the articles at the other links I sent to you. you can confirm the reference or see them in context at the link below. http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/ Emmaus |
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692 | 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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693 | 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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694 | 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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695 | Can true Christians lose their faith? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 88261 | ||
Yampa78, A few thoughts for what they are worth. The Christian faith is not a 'religion of the BOOK'. Christianity is the religion of the "Word" of God, not a written and mute word, but incarnate and living. If the Scriptures are not to remain or become a dead letter, Christ, the eternal Word of the living God, must, through the Holy Spirit, open (our) minds to understand the Scriptures.. Lk 24:45 ff A narrow focus on the written word at the expense of a relationship with the Incarnate and still living Word, Jesus Christ, is doomed to frustration. Ultimately our primary faith and trust must be in the divine Person of Jesus Christ which the insopired written word is in service and to which the written word is secondary. Emmaus |
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696 | 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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697 | 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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698 | Vesre concerning premarital sex? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 88429 | ||
The bible calls it fornication. Go to the box at the right side of the screen that says "Get Bible Text" and in the Search word box type in fornication and hit search for references. Emmaus |
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699 | Regeneration proceeds Faith? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 88440 | ||
I don't think you will find any. May I ask what prompts your question? You must have a reason for asking. Emmaus |
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700 | Regeneration proceeds Faith? | Bible general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 88444 | ||
Dou you mean regenration preceeds faith or proceeds from faith? One letter in the spelling of the word changes the meaning 180 degrees. | ||||||
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