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1 posted on 04/10/2017 6:36:38 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

What leads to an increase in the number of Christians in the world is God’s beneficence.

Love is not an abstract, everyone knows when they feel it.


2 posted on 04/10/2017 6:46:00 PM PDT by Huebolt (The FBI used to be the untouchables.ous.)
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The implication is that since no electronic equipment existed then, that the New Testament might have it all wrong. Jesus may have been in favor of homosexual “marriage”, who knows? He might have said that Sodomy was just fine, and the Bible misinterpreted his meaning. He might not even be Jewish, in fact. He was probably just making it all up anyway.


3 posted on 04/10/2017 6:52:05 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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"“...no power in heaven or on earth, neither an angel nor a pope, neither a council nor a law of the bishops, has the ability to modify it.”

THAT kind of 'dogmatic' and fixed-in-stone-come-hell-or-high-water THINKING within the Catholic Church is what the Pope, and the Superior General of the worldwide Jesuit order are trying to fight against!

4 posted on 04/10/2017 6:57:50 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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How do this priest’s views differ from what the Vatican says about the entire context of the Bible? Everything has to be “interpreted” by the Catholic Church. Scripture by itself means nothing without their “interpretation”.


6 posted on 04/10/2017 7:06:31 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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Yes, they didn't have a tape recorder, they had something (actually, some One) infinitely superior: the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Holy Trinity, who inspired the human authors so that the books of Sacred Scripture "have God as their author and have been handed on as such to the Church herself".

"Since everything asserted by the inspired authors or sacred writers must be held to be asserted by the Holy Spirit, it follows that the books of Scripture must be acknowledged as teaching solidly, faithfully and without error that truth which God wanted put into sacred writings for the sake of salvation." (Dei Verbum 11)

8 posted on 04/10/2017 8:04:27 PM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: marshmallow
I always put Jesus' words in their proper context.

This context:


9 posted on 04/10/2017 8:23:12 PM PDT by John Locke
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High time for the Jesuit order to be dissolved, again...


13 posted on 04/10/2017 10:51:06 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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