Posted on 09/08/2018 9:06:50 AM PDT by Salvation
Scripture shares how Jesus ministry was among sinners; the same is true today in the Church
Question: I have a friend who says she is leaving the Catholic Church because of the new sexual abuse scandals. What can I say to convince her to stay? — Name withheld
Answer: Begin with empathizing with her anger and grief at the latest revelations of clerical misbehavior. It is the worst sort of betrayal when a priest or bishop sexually harass and abuse their own people. The faithful are right to be especially angry and hurt since they entrust to the clergy’s care the thing they most need to be saved: their faith.
Having acknowledged this, nothing would please the Evil One more than to see a Catholic walk away from the sacraments and thereby be deprived of these graces. This is especially true if the devil can sever your friend from the Sacrament of Holy Communion, which is Jesus himself.
There is an old saying: “Don’t leave Jesus because of Judas.” In his earthly ministry, Jesus was among sinners, and many of the puritanical Pharisees took scandal. Indeed, Jesus was often found in strange company.
The same is true today; Jesus is found among sinners. One image for the Church in the Scriptures is Christ crucified between two thieves. To find Jesus, we must often look past many sinners and unpleasant realities.
Jesus said, “And blessed is the one who takes no offense at me” (Mt 11:6). So encourage your friend not to block her blessings on account of the scandals that Jesus said would inevitably arise (see Luke 17:1). Remind her that Satan will be delighted if she leaves and that she will become one more victim of these horrible abuses.
ACCORDING to The Bible, GOD has given us teachers, so ignoring everyone when you get stuck on a passage is
1 John 2:27
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Raven, John wrote that they did not need someone to teach them THAT THE ANOINTING they received from GOD abides in them.
Looking up a word to read where it is used is a good start on studying, but use a good text and read passages IN CONTEXT to get the full and true meaning.
Your text left out the ‘this’, referring to the truth that the anointing abides and need not be taught to them ‘again’.
Yours has, in the past, and I’m sure other religions did too, at the time.
Now, your church embraces islam, from the church that never changes..
Your text left out the this, referring to the truth that the anointing abides and need not be taught to them again.
but how about this.
Hebrews 5:12
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
The writer is talking to people who thought of them selves as teachers but who has need of being taught again.
You seem to have lost the crux of your post, that no teachers are needed. But the passage you quote from Hebrews contradicts your silly notion. Can you perceive that?
You seem to have lost the crux of your post, that no teachers are needed.
The holy spirit will teach those believers who want to know in most cases, that aside we are warned to beware of false teachers, those preachers for hire are false teachers and sell books to these silly people who want to believe anything but the truth.
And just what; exactly; would those be??
John 5:24
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