Catholic scholar dismantles May 21 Judgment Day claims

cna ^ | May 20, 2011 | Marianne Medlin

[surroundedbyblue]

You’re in need of serious prayers that you will have your eyes opened to the real “bibletruth”

[Mad Dawg]

try and deny it that it is God who DOES NOT define and declare who is a SAINT...

Do you mean "Try and deny that is it God who DOES define and declare who is a saint..."?

In any event, no Catholic thinks that the Church makes saints. We do think that sometimes we can tell.

This is why I said what I did about peopole who claim to know more than we do about what we believe. That Catholic Church does not teach that Mary is a God or that the Church makes saints.

[LearsFool]

Try reading God's Word on the word "Saint" - it is not reserved only for Catholics - but ALL Christian sons of God, Children of God. God's Word defines and declares who is a Saint, not men.

Excellent point.

[starlifter]

When you are ready we welcome you back with open arms!

[SuziQ]

Mary is the woman of the promise. All Jews understood that the Messiah would be born of a woman, because that is what the prophets said. Just because Mary isn't mentioned by name in Revelation doesn't mean that she isn't important and worthy of veneration. Jesus respected, loved and venerated His Mother. Who are we to reject that, or to do otherwise?

The Catholic Church does not teach that Mary was God, or even LIKE God, but we believe that she was created to be the spotless vessel which would hold God's Son, the Redeemer of Mankind. In that, she cooperated with God in our Redemption, and through her, we received the means of our Redemption, Jesus Christ. Why wouldn't we consider her very special in our religious life?

[Salvation]

I am currently reading this book. A much different story than Camping's

BTW, this book was written in 1881; you wouldn't believe how accurate it is!

 

Reading this book was one of the greatest graces of my life!"
— St. Thérèse of Lisieux

In the late nineteenth century, Father Charles Arminjon, a priest from the mountains of southeastern France, assembled his flock in the town cathedral to preach a series of conferences to help them turn their thoughts away from this life’s mean material affairs—and toward the next life’s glorious spiritual reward. His wise and uncompromising words deepened in them the spirit of recollection that all Christians must have: the abiding conviction that heavenly aims, not temporal enthusiasms, must guide everything we think, say, and do.

When Father Arminjon’s conferences were later published in a book, many others were able to reap the same benefit—including fourteen-year-old Thérèse Martin, then on the cusp of entering the Carmelite convent in Lisieux. Reading it, she says, “plunged my soul into a happiness not of this earth.” Young Thérèse, filled with a sense of “what God reserves for those who love him, and seeing that the eternal rewards had no proportion to the light sacrifices of life,” copied out numerous passages and memorized them, “repeating unceasingly the words of love burning in my heart.”

Now the very book that so inspired the Little Flower is available for the first time in English.

Let the pages of The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life fill you with the same burning words of love, with the same ardent desire to know God above all created things, that St. Thérèse gained from them. Let them also enrich your understanding of certain teachings of the Faith that can often seem so mysterious, even frightening:

• The signs that will precede the world’s end
• The coming of the Antichrist, and how to recognize him
• The Judgment and where it may send us: heaven, hell, and purgatory
• Biblical end-times prophecy: how to read it and not be deceived

  Jesus commands us to be ever-watchful for his return, and ever-mindful that we have no lasting city on earth. The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life is an invaluable aid to inculcating in your spirit that heavenly orientation, without which true human happiness cannot be found—in this world or the next.

[Salvation]

"Never apologize for the

Blessed Virgin Mary!"

~~Mother Angelica

 

[Not gonna take it anymore]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUdYeYy3NQA

Watch and learn.

[Not gonna take it anymore]

live link:

http://scripturecatholic.com/

[Not gonna take it anymore]

Of course only a fool would deny that it was not that very Jewish women named Mary, who was given the privilege to give birth to the humanity of Jesus. I do not deny it.

That is heresy. http://www.catholic.com/library/Mary_Mother_of_God.asp

To avoid this conclusion, Fundamentalists often assert that Mary did not carry God in her womb, but only carried Christ’s human nature. This assertion reinvents a heresy from the fifth century known as Nestorianism, which runs aground on the fact that a mother does not merely carry the human nature of her child in her womb. Rather, she carries the person of her child. Women do not give birth to human natures; they give birth to persons. Mary thus carried and gave birth to the person of Jesus Christ, and the person she gave birth to was God.

The Nestorian claim that Mary did not give birth to the unified person of Jesus Christ attempts to separate Christ’s human nature from his divine nature, creating two separate and distinct persons—one divine and one human—united in a loose affiliation. It is therefore a Christological heresy, which even the Protestant Reformers recognized. Both Martin Luther and John Calvin insisted on Mary’s divine maternity. In fact, it even appears that Nestorius himself may not have believed the heresy named after him. Further, the “Nestorian” church has now signed a joint declaration on Christology with the Catholic Church and recognizes Mary’s divine maternity, just as other Christians do.

Since denying that Mary is God’s mother implies doubt about Jesus’ divinity, it is clear why Christians (until recent times) have been unanimous in proclaiming Mary as Mother of God.

[Cronos]

Bibtut: FOR I am DECLARED a son of God

But yet don't you say that the Gospels and the Book of Hebrews etc. was written for the Jews only?

[Cronos]

bibtut: I am in the true Church: I have never fallen away: my name is written in the book of life

But is the book written in KJV english?