Posted on 08/31/2007 4:49:24 PM PDT by xzins
You are welcome. It’s certainly one to remember for our life here on earth, isn’t it?
“Do we glorify Mother Theresa for her good works?” We celebrate her life, that she gave it in serving the Lord in others. Many are called etc. etc. But she DID it. Why wouldn’t we celebrate that? A mere human, rising to Christ’s true challenge. An amazing woman of courage and self-discipline.
Or is nothing worth celebrating?
“I don’t know how “Christians” get by on just telling themselves over and over again, “the scripture is true. the scripture is true.””
What’s you beef with the Scriptures?
“I’m standing back from the doubt crowd. Hope that doubt thing works out for you.”
Just don’t fall in with the Pharisee crowd.
“As Alex once observed, the West has a problem with accepting the reality of Evil.”
But apparently no problem enjoying it’s fruits.
Quite so. Once you deny the reality of Satan, every fruit looks angelic.
Uh, the Eucharist IS Jesus. The statements in the Bible about that are the most unequivocal that Jesus made, yet Protestants deny it, saying he was speaking figuratively.
Man made cures comes with a cost. A spiritual cost. And most likely a physical cost of which we are not fully aware. There is only one CURE for depression. It has nothing to do with an imbalance of chemicals. It has to do with faith in the Lord God Jesus Christ. He is the all time, permanent cure for depression. There is nothing new under the sun. People have been dealing with depression of loved ones since the death of Abel. Christ was the cure then, He is the cure now.
Oh ye of little faith. Christ Jesus is the "glue" that holds all things together, visible and invisible. And that includes the balance of chemicals, indeed, the atomic structure of all things. All things obey Him. So why do we put our trust in man-made things and not the Living God? It is so easy to do so. Instead, we are called to look to the Lord in all things. For in Him we live and have our being.
I don't think she suffers from a lack of faith, but from an inability to feel the presence of God. To me, that seems egotistical. I know that a Creator exists, but I don't expect to feel the Creator's presence. That would be presumptuous of me. Instead, I see the Creator's hand in everything. That's good enough for me.
Mother Teresa's spiritual problems stem from her egotism. She wants to see herself as Christlike, as someone who has the capacity to suffer as much as Jesus did on the cross, maybe even to out-suffer him. She seemed to be appeased when her spiritual emptiness was pointed out to her as being comparable to Jesus' desolation when he was on the cross and cried out to God (asking 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?'). This strikes me as egotistical. She wants to feel closer to God by suffering as much as Jesus did, or more. I knew that her whole mindset was one of suffering, but I didn't understand the reason why, until the letters were revealed.
Let me guess. Christian Scientist?
That is really the question here. WHO did the works?? If Teresa truly rested in God, knowing that the goal of the works was to point others to a faith in Christ Jesus, then it was God who did the works. If that was not her goal, but it was just to provide for the needy, without having a heart for their souls to turn to our blessed Redeemer and not their own idols or religion, then most likely, the works for hers. Many people have gone through many hardships doing "good deeds" for the wrong reason. If the deeds do not point to the Almighty God, the God who Saves us, the God who became man, then the deeds are not truly "good".
It isn't about whose "label" you put on the works, it is about in whose character you do the works. The sad thing is that there is mounting evidence that Teresa was NOT about the Father's business in pointing others to Christ Jesus. What is sadder is that many will become distressed when this is pointed out.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha..
No way!! You might want to feed your guessing machine some more fuel or something or perhaps in this heat it is dehydrated and delerious. ;)
I am just a sinner saved by the grace of our precious Lord Jesus. And you would be very suprised at how many believers feel the same way. Especially those who have been totally delivered from depression by Him. I know of several.
Actually, that makes some sense to me. I am not sure I would label it as egotistical. Perhaps the pride of self-righteousness? Whatever it can be labeled, I understand your point and see some validity to it.
LOL! “The Dwarves are for the Dwarves!”
Untrue.
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I am sorry. I really don’t understand what is funny about this. Nor do I have a clue what your statement about dwarves is all about. Did you mean dwarfs? Even then, it makes no sense to me.
Read C.S. Lewis. When you grow up, you’ll understand! ;-)
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