To: NYer
Where is the biblical warrant for lent?
14 posted on
02/25/2009 2:18:01 PM PST by
LiteKeeper
(Beware of socialism in America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
To: LiteKeeper
Matthew 6: 2-4, 16-18
Matthew 17: 20
15 posted on
02/25/2009 2:22:47 PM PST by
Pyro7480
(This Papist asks everyone to continue to pray the Rosary for our country!)
To: LiteKeeper; NYer; informavoracious; larose; RJR_fan; Prospero; Conservative Vermont Vet; ...
Why must there be a strict Biblical instruction for the specific Lenten acts of penance, prayers or for almsgiving? All three sets of pius practices and spiritual exercise are themselves clearly Biblical, no?
25 posted on
02/25/2009 5:25:14 PM PST by
narses
(http://www.theobamadisaster.com/)
To: LiteKeeper
A 40 day period of fasting and spiritual preparation was practiced by Moses (Ex 34:28), Elijah (1 Kgs 19:8), and the Lord Jesus (Matthew 4:2).
Do you seriously want to claim that something practiced by Moses, Elijah, and Jesus "isn't Biblical" because we call it "Lent"?
If we called it the "Moses-Elijah-Jesus 40-day fast," would that make it sufficiently "Biblical"?
33 posted on
02/25/2009 10:24:32 PM PST by
Campion
To: LiteKeeper; Campion
LitKeeper:
What part of this Gospel don't you understand? Christ's own words!
Lk 9:22-25
Jesus said to his disciples:
"The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected
by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed and on the third day be raised." Then he said to all,
"If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself
and take up his cross daily and follow me.
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it,
but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
What profit is there for one to gain the whole world
yet lose or forfeit himself?"
34 posted on
02/25/2009 10:44:57 PM PST by
Salvation
( †With God all things are possible.†)
To: LiteKeeper
Where can the words Bible, Trinity and Incarnation be found in Scripture?
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