Senator Kennedy Reads the New Testament

SeaMax News ^ | 3/6/2005 | Fr. Michael Reilly

[fortheDeclaration]

I read the New Testament too

Something wrong with the Old Testament?

[Libloather]

Senator Kennedy says "I uh, admired the Lords ability to turn water into wine. That's uh, my kind of messiah."

How much gin has Unca Teddy turned back into water?

[LexBaird]

I can just see ol' Uncle Teddy, flipping through the pages in a drunken haze, muttering under his breath, "There's gotta be a loophole somewhere in here..."

[litehaus]

Well.....Ol'Teddy couldn't get "10 things" right in the first place.....LOL...............

[Stand Watch Listen]

Simply amazing.

I believe the Democrats found 'religion' about, as I recall, 2:10 AM Nov 3, 2004.

That is when FOX NEWS called Ohio for President Bush.

[NYer]

“My father made nine First Fridays for twenty-six years,” he said as he praised his mother’s devotion.

IOW, because his father was a devout catholic, one must conclude that he is too. Actions speak louder than words, Senator.

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[NYer]

It's important for conservatives to take the high ground on moral issues, and not let Democrats get away with pretending to be concerned for the poor and the oppressed. They are not.

Good insight and excellent point!

[It's me]

His father? A devout Catholic?

HA!!!

[capecodderathome]

What a laugh...his concern for the poor.
Here on Cape Cod, everyone knows the the family doesn't give a rat's @ss about the poor. They're
always slow to pay the bills of "working stiffs" who might have done work for them.

[hispanichoosier]

"My father made nine First Fridays for twenty-six years," he said as he praised his mother's devotion.

The First Friday devotion is excellent and efficacious, but I would think the Lord would also have liked Joe Kennedy to avoid adultery (Exodus 20:14; Leviticus 18:20; St. Mark 10:19).

[rcocean]

Nothing wrong at all. In fact Dean's favorite part of the Bible (New Testement) is the story of Jonah and the whale. I think Gov. Dean's Jewish wife thinks so too.

Teddy loves the part about turning water into wine.

[RocketWolf]

On this man and this subject, recall Ambrose Bierce's biblical parody about an earlier senator... " A clod by day and a pillar of firewater by night "

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

John Kerry taking a leap of faith in another modernist and experimental theological direction.
"Hey, I learned this at Yale in the Skull&Bones classes..."

[Rocky]

You're right. Bush is crucified by the press if he says anything about his faith. Kennedy gets away with it because the Libs know he doesn't really mean it. They understand the game he is playing.

[GSlob]

Yep. He read it, got deeply inspired, and started trying to turn water into whiskey. So far, with no success without yeast and sugary substances.

[franky]

Our Lord did speak about the poor but not the mateialistic poor. He spoke many times of the poor in spirit.

[franky]

I guess his Father Joe needed those 9 first Fridays to atone for the stock market manipulation he was involved in before becoming head of the SEC.

His cornering of the Scotch liquor market surely had some questionable dealings also.

I suppose the money he made from these deals helped him buy Chicago for his son's election victory.

[eccentric]

the way we treat the poor and marginalized

maginalized? My concordance doesn't have a verse for that word...

Anyway, back to the point. So did the spiritually renewed Senator open his house to the homeless? Set up a food kitchen with his own money? List his pocessions on ebay so he could give the money to the poor?

Or is he reviewing government programs to see which ones should get more taxpayer (someone else's) funding?

hhmmm oh, pooh! I'll write and ask him myself!!

[gentlestrength]

"The just treatment of the poor is central to both Judaism and Christianity."

No, our sin, and need for a Savior, provided for us only in the Messiah, is central.

Anyone can feed the poor. Only Christians do it because Jesus promised to live inside them and work through them, so that their works are actually God's works, and He gets the glory.

Trying to act "justly" is meaningless outside of understanding what justice is. Would it be "just" of God to favor you because you feed the poor and do certain things? HE says no, because the price has been paid by Christ alone. He says we can never do enough in His holy sight, because our hearts are evil. And yet in His love and grace He provides a way for us to have His favor: His spotless Lamb of God, His Only Son, taking our punishment, dying in our place, so that we are no longer under His condemnation if we believe in Jesus.

We can't understand justice, until we understand right and wrong. Feeding the poor by someone who rejects Christ, earns no favor in God's sight. Someone who trusts in Jesus' death for them, does not gain favor with God by feeding the poor. They have favor only because of Christ. They feed the poor out of gratitude to Him and a new love for others. Feeding the poor, but not doing it from faith, defined by God as believing in Christ alone for salvation, is sin. "Whatever is not of faith, is sin."

Jesus Christ and His reconciling us with the Father is what is "central" to the teachings of the Bible. Until we understand that, all other views we have get skewed wrongly.

[RedBeaconNY]

Something wrong with the Old Testament? given the choice, i'd rather read the new testament... I do this program called seminary through the LDS church, where we study each of the 4 standard works... I studied the OT last year, and I'm studying the NT this year. The new testament is a lot easier to follow and understand. Due in part to the lack of the book of Isaiah. The OT is good, just much harder... probably more rewarding, i'd suppose...