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To: presently no screen name; RnMomof7
In Christ's Church, the One Holy Apostolic Catholic Church we teach and learn God's Word. We don't believe that Jesus was a container for God (as some of you seem to), but that Jesus WAS God.

The details for this is found in the Catechism

Our beliefs with respect to Jesus is as below:
believes in

We Believe in One Lord Jesus Christ
The Only Son of God
Eternally Begotten of the Father
God from God, Light from Light
True God from True God
Begotten, Not Made
One in Being (homoousia) with the Father
Through Him All Things Were Made


You can see the Catechism repeating this in
290 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth":128 three things are affirmed in these first words of Scripture: the eternal God gave a beginning to all that exists outside of himself; he alone is Creator (the verb "create" - Hebrew bara - always has God for its subject). The totality of what exists (expressed by the formula "the heavens and the earth") depends on the One who gives it being.

291 "In the beginning was the Word. . . and the Word was God. . . all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made."129 The New Testament reveals that God created everything by the eternal Word, his beloved Son. In him "all things were created, in heaven and on earth.. . all things were created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together."130 The Church's faith likewise confesses the creative action of the Holy Spirit, the "giver of life", "the Creator Spirit" (Veni, Creator Spiritus), the "source of every good".131

292 The Old Testament suggests and the New Covenant reveals the creative action of the Son and the Spirit,132 inseparably one with that of the Father. This creative co-operation is clearly affirmed in the Church's rule of faith: "There exists but one God. . . he is the Father, God, the Creator, the author, the giver of order. He made all things by himself, that is, by his Word and by his Wisdom", "by the Son and the Spirit" who, so to speak, are "his hands".133 Creation is the common work of the Holy Trinity.
And Christ's nature is elaborated in
102 Through all the words of Sacred Scripture, God speaks only one single Word, his one Utterance in whom he expresses himself completely:64
And
65 "In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son."26 Christ, the Son of God made man, is the Father's one, perfect and unsurpassable Word. In him he has said everything; there will be no other word than this one. St. John of the Cross, among others, commented strikingly on Hebrews 1:1-2:
The Catechism celebrates and describes God's Word which is what is treasured and learnt and read and re-read in The CHurch.
Church teaching is clear: There is ONLY ONE TRUTH - God's Word, Who is JESUS, THE WAY, THE TRUTH, THE LIFE.

if your group rejects Jesus the Word by embracing man-made doctrine like claiming the Apostles were not blessed, or other wierdness

460 posted on 12/17/2010 12:15:47 AM PST by Cronos (Et Verbum caro factum est et habitavit in nobis (W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie))
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To: Cronos
The details for this is found in the Catechism

I know what's in the Catechism and I burned mine awhile ago.

THANK YOU, JESUS, The Living Word. Who the Son sets free is free indeed!
463 posted on 12/17/2010 12:18:38 AM PST by presently no screen name
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