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41 | Christians/Catholics same? | Rom 3:28 | Emmaus | 162178 | ||
Brenda, Yes I am Catholic. And I no more expected to be always spoon fed my faith by the Church than I expected my mother to spoon feed me the whole eighteen years I lived under her roof. I do not have "terrible" flashbacks of nuns and Catholic school. I have fond memories of both. And I did not stop learning about the Catholic faith when I left the 8th grade. I remember being taught a lot about grace: snctifying grace, sacramental grace, etc. Grace, grace, grace. What did we need all that grace for if we were able to work our way to heaven? ""Indeed He is THE LAMB of God as Catholics well know and profess each time they worship when they pray aloud in unison" "I don't ever remember a time saying it and actually understanding it or meaning it. We just said what we were suppose to say, at the right time." How sad. Emmaus |
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42 | What does it mean to kill flesh daily? | Gal 5:24 | Emmaus | 162139 | ||
Kalos, Then we are in happy agreement. Emmaus |
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43 | Christians/Catholics same? | Rom 3:28 | Emmaus | 162138 | ||
Brenda, "Catholics believe in God, yes...but they also believe people need to keep the commandments and do good works to 'get to Heaven'." I believe Prostestants call this the perseverence of the saints, that is, persevering in good works in Christ (Rom 2:2-8; Gal 5:4-6; Eph 2:8-10) and in the obedience of faith (Romans 1:5; 16:26). "Scripture cleary says that we (those who put their faith in Jesus) are 'justified by faith apart from observing the law'." The Catholic Church teaches in the Council of Trent: "CHAPTER I THE IMPOTENCY OF NATURE AND OF THE LAW TO JUSTIFY MAN "The holy council declares first, that for a correct and clear understanding of the doctrine of justification, it is necessary that each one recognize and confess that since all men had lost innocence in the prevarication of Adam, having become unclean, and, as the Apostle says, by nature children of wrath, as has been set forth in the decree on original sin, they were so far the servants of sin and under the power of the devil and of death, that not only the Gentiles by the force of nature, but not even the Jews by the very letter of the law of Moses, were able to be liberated or to rise therefrom, though free will, weakened as it was in its powers and downward bent, was by no means extinguished in them." and "CHAPTER VIII HOW THE GRATUITOUS JUSTIFICATION OF THE SINNER BY FAITH IS TO BE UNDERSTOOD "But when the Apostle says that man is justified by faith and freely, these words are to be understood in that sense in which the uninterrupted unanimity of the Catholic Church has held and expressed them, namely, that we are therefore said to be justified by faith, because faith is the beginning of human salvation, the foundation and root of all justification, without which it is impossible to please God and to come to the fellowship of His sons; and we are therefore said to be justified gratuitously, because none of those things that precede justification, whether faith or works, merit the grace of justification. "For, if by grace, it is not now by works, otherwise, as the Apostle says, grace is no more grace." http://www.ewtn.com/library/COUNCILS/TRENT6.HTM "Romans 3:21 starts off with "21. But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify." Earlier in Romans 1:5 Paul writes of the filial " obedience of faith" in contrast to the servile "works of the law" and writes of the same "obedience of faith" in wrapping up with Romans 16:26. The difference is in the relationship with God. Are we His free children or His slaves? Paul makes the same distinctions in Galatians 4:21-31. "In the Old Testament the blood of animals was needed...and it was only a temporary solution. They needed to sacrafice constantly. But Jesus Died on the cross, shed HIS BLOOD for our sins...canceling the Old Testament part where animal's blood was needed. And this he only needed to do once...not over and over again." And so the Catholic Church teaches in its Catechism: "1366 The Eucharist is thus a sacrifice because it re-presents (makes present) the sacrifice of the cross, because it is its memorial and because it applies its fruit: "[Christ], our Lord and God, was once and for all to offer himself to God the Father by his death on the altar of the cross, to accomplish there an everlasting redemption. But because his priesthood was not to end with his death, at the Last Supper "on the night when he was betrayed," [he wanted] to leave to his beloved spouse the Church a visible sacrifice (as the nature of man demands) by which the bloody sacrifice which he was to accomplish once for all on the cross would be re-presented, its memory perpetuated until the end of the world, and its salutary power be applied to the forgiveness of the sins we daily commit." http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p2s2c1a3.htm#V "Jesus is THE LAMB of God." Indeed He is THE LAMB of God as Catholics well know and profess each time they worship when they pray aloud in unison: "Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. "Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. "Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, grant us your peace." Emmaus |
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44 | What does it mean to kill flesh daily? | Gal 5:24 | Emmaus | 162136 | ||
Kalos, " I am merely saying that this is not the meaning of Galatians 5:24 or of 1 Corinthians 15:31, where Paul speaks of literal, physical death.'" I don't agree with you here on Galatians 5:24. I think there Paul is speaking of the physical death of Jesus but a spiritual application in our lives. I belive that Galatians 5:24 is properly cross-referenced to Galatians 2:19; Romans 6:6 and Romans 8:13. Emmaus |
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45 | What does it mean to kill flesh daily? | Gal 5:24 | Emmaus | 162038 | ||
Kalos, I think this part of your answer: ... "Paul writes: "I have been crucified with Christ." "Have been crucified" -- past tense. Paul here is not teaching that we are in a continual process of BEING crucified. He says, "I have been crucified." Have been. Past tense. Not will be, might be, should be, am in the process of being -- I have already BEEN crucified."... misses the point of the question. Jesus made it clear that we must on a daily basis in our daily spiritual struggle put to death the things of the flesh when He said: "And He was saying to them all, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me." Luke 9:23 I think the question was more a pastoral question living our daily lives in Christ than a theological question about Christ's salvific work on the cross. Emmaus |
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46 | "Flies" should read "given" | Eccl 10:1 | Emmaus | 158768 | ||
sid, "... wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. They belong in their fullness to Christ, Son of David. They complete and perfect the virtues of those who receive them. They make the faithful docile in readily obeying divine inspirations. " Are the seven listed above the "seven spirits of God"? Emmaus |
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47 | "Flies" should read "given" | Eccl 10:1 | Emmaus | 158766 | ||
Sid, I must say it will take me a while to absorb all that. What was the Resurrection in A.D. 1775 if I may ask? Emmaus |
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48 | "Flies" should read "given" | Eccl 10:1 | Emmaus | 158746 | ||
sid, It would seem to be a safe assumption from your post that you are not from the "conservative Protestant" school of exposition. What exactly is your point of reference within the Christian spectrum? I think we can safely rule out Catholic and Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, Reformed and Methodist. Can we assume that you have had some formative training from some specific perspective, like just about everyone else? Emmaus |
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49 | How many daze? How many confused? | Gen 1:1 | Emmaus | 158616 | ||
"Dead man walking!" | ||||||
50 | What happened to Israelites and why? | OT general | Emmaus | 158504 | ||
Nolan, I think he is asking about 1 Samuel 5 and 6 and 2 Samuel 6:1-10. Emmaus |
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51 | The dress code of the day? | Matt 22:11 | Emmaus | 156270 | ||
"Please remember, that Jesus is not telling of an event that occured. He is speaking a parable: A symbolic representation of something bigger than the words he used. There was no actual wedding. The wedding stands for something greater." Aquadisk I had exactly your point in mind when I answered and the references I gave, if looked at in context, address your point. Emmaus |
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52 | What is a patron saint? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 153112 | ||
terrib, Here is a link to an article about the meaning of "worship" and "honor" as it relates to saints as opposed to God. http://www.catholic.com/library/saint_worship.asp Here, from this Studybible site is a little on the Hebrew word for worship. 7812 shachah (1005b); a prim. root; to bow down:--bow(5), bow ourselves down(1), bow yourselves down(1), bow down(21), bowed(16), bowed in worship(1), bowed themselves down(2), bowed down(14), bowing(1), bowing down(1), bows down(1), did homage(1), down in homage(1), homage(1), lie down(1), paid homage(3), prostrate(2), prostrated(13), prostrating(1), weighs it down(1), worship(47), worshiped(31), worshiping(3), worships(2). You might want to look at the various verses and contexts in which it is used in the Old Testament. Search the word shachah here on the forum and you will get a few word study notes on it by Searcher and perhaps others. Emmaus |
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53 | What is a patron saint? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 153110 | ||
It means what I previously said about allowing the prayer to and veneration of a saint being part of the public litutgy of the Church. On a pactical level for public liturgy it means having a feast day for the saint on the Church calender. Worship is used in the archaic sense of honor not worship as of God but more worship as in honor of deference as in the old days when men holding certain public offices in England were referred to as "your worship" which is the antecednt of "your honor" here in the United States. Emmaus |
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54 | What is a patron saint? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 153101 | ||
terrib, The short article at the link belwo may be helful in answering your question. http://www.catholic-pages.com/saints/process.asp Emmaus |
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55 | What is a patron saint? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 153100 | ||
terrib, I don't think "exempt from purgatory" is how it is phrased, but a canonized saint is assumed to be in heaven. It is possible according to Catholic teaching that we can by the grace of God and our co-operation with that grace so sanctified as to avoid purgatory of the final cleansing before entering heaven. And yes there is an investiagtor and a requirement for two miracle attributed to the saint's intercession ( in and through Christ)for canonization. Cathoics can privately ask for the intecession in prayer of anyone they believe to be in Christ, whether in heaven or on earth. Canonoization formalizes and alllows that prayer to become a part of the public liturgy of the Church. In the investigation before canonization there is a also a party assigned to dispute the claim of those promoting the cause of canonization. In the past that person was called the Devil's Advocate and his job was to bring evidence to contradict the claims of sanctity, kind of like Satan in the book of Job. In fact there was a novel from the 1950's by that title, which I believe wa made into a movie. I will see if I can find a link on the subject for you. Emmaus |
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56 | What is a patron saint? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 153098 | ||
H Doc, This is not something I or any other Catholic I know spends a lot of time thinking about. It is all tied in to the Catholic understanding of the Communion of Saints in Christ. I will see if I can find a link for you with a more detailed answer. Emmaus |
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57 | Does a person who never hears about Jesu | Rom 2:14 | Emmaus | 152234 | ||
Searcher, Please e-mail Hank. He is trying to contact you. Emmaus |
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58 | How old was Abraham when he left Ur? | Gen 12:4 | Emmaus | 152024 | ||
timurray, Even as I answered your question I wondered if it was actually about UR rather than Haran. I looked at the context and in Genesis and could not see enough data to answer your question as it relates to Ur rather than Haran. Perhaps someone else will see something I did not. Emmaus |
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59 | Do this in remember of me | Luke 22:19 | Emmaus | 151983 | ||
compudex, I believe we have been down this road before. Emmaus |
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60 | Sprinkling vs. Immersion | Rom 6:1 | Emmaus | 151734 | ||
Nick, I may be the only other person on this site that agrees with you on baptismal regeneration. However, if you hope to be a part of the community here for any length of time, you will have to engage on matters other than baptism. Past members who could post on nothing but one topic have not lasted long. Take it from the only Catholic on this site: make your point and move to another topic that interests you. Hopefully there is more than one. Do not expect to convert everyone or even anyone to your point of view. That is the job of the Holy Spirit, if He is so inclined. Emmaus |
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