[saradippity]

Jesus is God

Jesus lived 33years and died

God is dead.

Maybe thats how Nietzche got there.

Maybe it is very important to keep one's relationship with Jesus and the angels and the saints in heaven and Mary,the Mother of God and the Holy Spirit and Satan and God,the Father,in the context of the worlds we live in,both the natural and the supernatural lest we forget. And in forgetting,man loses sight of the fact that Jesus came to bring us to the Father. Maybe that is why Jesus gave Peter the name,the keys and the promise. Maybe the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth does guide the Church and leads Her in ways inexplicable to us. Ways that ensure the faithful,or sheep,do not stray too far from God. I am just developing this idea because its clear that the West(Christendom) is just about to become totally secularized and many are trying to introduce a "spirituality" that is not of God.

So what do you think about that?

[SoothingDave]

Pope John Paul II criticizes "Bible-only" thinking in his latest encyclical letter, "Faith and Reason" (Fides et Ratio). The Pope, a onetime philosophy professor, warns against "fideism," the idea that rational knowledge has little value for faith. He condemns "biblicism" as "one currently widespread" symptom of the problem. John Paul redefines biblicism as the tendency "to make the reading and exegesis of Scripture the sole criterion of truth." The rule of Christian faith, the Pope claims, is unity among three sources of truth: "Sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture, and the Magisterium [teaching authority] of the Church" (What in the World, Vol. 25, No. 3, 1999).

Don't preach to us you hypocrite!

Hello, Big Mack! Are you really that surprised that the Pope is a Catholic? Don't you think we Catholics here all take our marching orders from the Vatican? Then why does the Pope making the same arguments we make startle you?

SD

[SoothingDave]

No 808bass. No salvation for 808bass. Therefore I play a role in my own salvation.

YES YOU DO!

I know you meant that sarcasticly, but it is true. At the very least you need to accept the free gift of salvation. Then you have to cooperate with the Holy Spirit in building God's Kingdom. Yes. Yes. You play a role in your own salvation.

SD