Posted on 10/08/2015 8:02:23 AM PDT by Salvation
13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
Raised? or Lowered?
What IS ludicrous is to come up with stuff that is NOT found in the precious book the Catholics compiled.
At least by SOME Catholics.
If the others do NOT worship her; let them try to go a week without mentioning her name.
Assuming gets me in trouble; why doesn't it do the same for Rome?
And one of His select women is sinless.
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I see you were moved to leave Mary out of your statement.
If Catholics spent as much time focusing on Jesus as they do Mary, it would revolutionize their spiritual lives.
I have yet to have one Catholic tell me they would take me up on the challenge for one month, to take all the time they give to Mary in whatever form, and spend it on Jesus and not mention Mary even once.
STA will now appear with his “...if they won’t listen to the church...”
The following is NOT 'dogma'!!
"One indeed is the universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved, in which the priest himself is the sacrifice, Jesus Christ, whose body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the species of bread and wine; the bread (changed) into His body by the divine power of transubstantiation, and the wine into the blood, so that to accomplish the mystery of unity we ourselves receive from His (nature) what He Himself received from ours." — Pope Innocent III and Lateran Council IV (A.D. 1215)
Therefore, if anyone says that it is not by the institution of Christ the lord himself (that is to say, by divine law) that blessed Peter should have perpetual successors in the primacy over the whole Church; or that the Roman Pontiff is not the successor of blessed Peter in this primacy: let him be anathema. — Vatican 1, Ses. 4, Cp. 1
and thanks to the Catholic Church for writing and organizing the bible, who do you think put in the chapters, verses, etc. There were no born agains or protestants back then, it was the Catholic Church who wrote, transcribed and translated the bible.
I don’t get your point. Is this Greek grammar?
Please, not this again.
If not, I understand.
the Catholic Church wrote and organized the bible. There were no born agains or Protestants back then. So, the one and true church of Jesus, you know, the church one joins and born into when they are baptized, wrote the bible.
Please, not this again. >>
Mary most Holy, Mary most Pure, the Immaculate Conception.
O Mary Conceived Without Sin, Pray For Us Who Have Recourse to Thee.
Big deal.
It would have been done at some point in time or another anyway.
It’s nothing to brag on nor does it confer ownership, rights, ability to *correctly* interpret it, or any other special privileges someone may think they deserve for doing so.
Exactly what is she supposed to be praying for you about?
I see no request there for specifics.
Catholics sure don't know the very book they claimed to have "given" us.
Recommend you read John 3 for context.
Catholics instinctively turn to mary and not her Son. Never ceases to amaze me.
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