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1 | Explanations of difficult verses | NT general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 65207 | ||
FTima, I was not expecting you to agree with my post. I was only showing you what I believe on the questions you had raised in your post. It is well known on this forum that I am Catholic, maybe the only one here at this point. And it is well known that Catholics rely on Scripture and Sacred Tradition and not Scripture alone. Fear not! I haven't made any converts here yet that I am aware of, nor have I drowned anyone by dragging them across the Tiber for an involuntary baptism by immersion into Rome. :-) The Pascal Mystery is the whole the mystery of salvation by the death and resurrection of Christ the Pascal (Passover) Lamb of God (1 Cor 5:7; John 1:29)who died for us. Emmaus |
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2 | Explanations of difficult verses | NT general Archive 1 | FTimA | 65228 | ||
Why is the death and resurrection of Christ considered a mystery? | ||||||
3 | Explanations of difficult verses | NT general Archive 1 | Emmaus | 65266 | ||
FTima, Who can fathom the mind of God in it's fullness? Paul calls it a mystery into which he has some insight, but he also says elsewhere that what insight he has is only as seeing "through a glass darkly." "He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will," Ephesians 1:9-11 "By referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit; to be specific, that the Gentiles are fellow heirs and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel, of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of God's grace which was given to me according to the working of His power. To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ, and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for..." Ephesians 3:4-9 Emmaus |
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