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NASB | Matthew 22:32 'I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, AND THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB'? He is not the God of the dead but of the living." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 22:32 'I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, AND THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB'? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living." [Ex 3:6] |
Subject: purgatory is it true? |
Bible Note: Dylan, I think you misunderstand the true meaning of Jesus' saying in Matt 23:1-12 to call no man father on earth. Jesus was warning us not to look at any man as father in the same sense that God alone is our father and the father of us all, so that through Jesus we can become children of God our Father. Please note that Jesus himself says "your father Abraham" in John 8:56. Stephen refers to "fathers" in Acts 7:2, 38-39,44-45, 51-53. Paul refers to "our father Abraham" in Romans 4:1,12,16 and James refers to "father Abraham" in James 2:21. See also 1 Cor 4:14-15 when Paul calls himself a spiritual father to the Corinthians "I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel." Other verses worth review in this matter are 1 Thess 2:11; 1 Timothy 1:2; Philemon 1:9-10 and 1 John 2:13-14. Regarding you points about Mary. She does not forgive sins, nor do Catholics believe she does. If you know the Hail Mary you know that it starts quoting Luke 1:28,42 and ends in a request that she pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. In other words we are asking her to pray for us as we would any other friend. We believe that all the saints, here and in heaven, are bound up in the body of Christ and because we are together in Him, not even death separates us from on another in the bonds of love and prayer for one another. Emmaus |