I was delighted with these pictures of Jesus sent me by a friend in my parish, and looking for a pretext to put them on a FReeper thread. I hope you don't mind that I chose yours!
Posted on 10/03/2011 9:24:36 AM PDT by jesus4life
Amen
Grace and peace to all of you. I am very new to this site. The holy spirit brought me hear tonight to look over many answers here. To learn and to share.
I have questions here if anyone would be kind to take the time out to answer:
1. If we want evil to stop, why do speak of where it is, how to see it, where to see it, and when it may happen?
2. Do we really believe GOD sees all things and will handle all things?
3. If we revere Mary as the mother of GOD, why do we not copy her obedience??
4. If we believe in CHRIST as the son of GOD, who killed no one, loved everyone, and died for all. Why do we worry about dying?? Why do we want to kill others?? Why do we hate others? Why do we want to own land, take over other countries? Why do we want to judge others faith, walk, and lives before they die, knowing that GOD has power to save and can save anyone?
5. Do we believe heaven exists?? If so, where is it for all of you??
The holy spirit brought me to some passages for all of us to think about:
The love of Christ that we should live and show the world LUKE 6:27-36
27 'But I say this to you who are listening: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who treat you badly. 29 To anyone who slaps you on one cheek, present the other cheek as well; to anyone who takes your cloak from you, do not refuse your tunic. 30 Give to everyone who asks you, and do not ask for your property back from someone who takes it. 31 Treat others as you would like people to treat you. 32 If you love those who love you, what credit can you expect? Even sinners love those who love them. 33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit can you expect? For even sinners do that much. 34 And if you lend to those from whom you hope to get money back, what credit can you expect? Even sinners lend to sinners to get back the same amount. 35 Instead, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend without any hope of return. You will have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. 36 'Be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate.
Mary's love, obedience, and acceptance that we should all follow in situations that GOD can handle that we cant
Luke 1:29-39
29 She was deeply disturbed by these words and asked herself what this greeting could mean, 30 but the angel said to her, 'Mary, do not be afraid; you have won God's favour. 31 Look! You are to conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David; 33 he will rule over the House of Jacob for ever and his reign will have no end.' 34 Mary said to the angel, 'But how can this come about, since I have no knowledge of man?' 35 The angel answered, 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be holy and will be called Son of God. 36 And I tell you this too: your cousin Elizabeth also, in her old age, has conceived a son, and she whom people called barren is now in her sixth month, 37 for nothing is impossible to God.' 38 Mary said, 'You see before you the Lord's servant, let it happen to me as you have said.' And the angel left her. 39 Mary set out at that time and went as quickly as she could into the hill country to a town in Judah.
OUR LIVES HERE MARK 8:29-38
27 Jesus and his disciples left for the villages round Caesarea Philippi. On the way he put this question to his disciples, 'Who do people say I am?' 28 And they told him, 'John the Baptist, others Elijah, others again, one of the prophets.' 29 'But you,' he asked them, 'who do you say I am?' Peter spoke up and said to him, 'You are the Christ.' 30 And he gave them strict orders not to tell anyone about him. 31 Then he began to teach them that the Son of man was destined to suffer grievously, and to be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and to be put to death, and after three days to rise again; 32 and he said all this quite openly. Then, taking him aside, Peter tried to rebuke him. 33 But, turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said to him, 'Get behind me, Satan! You are thinking not as God thinks, but as human beings do.' 34 He called the people and his disciples to him and said, 'If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me. 35 Anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. 36 What gain, then, is it for anyone to win the whole world and forfeit his life? 37 And indeed what can anyone offer in exchange for his life? 38 For if anyone in this sinful and adulterous generation is ashamed of me and of my words, the Son of man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.'
OUR REAL HOME Revelations 21:1-8 1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride dressed for her husband. 3 Then I heard a loud voice call from the throne, 'Look, here God lives among human beings. He will make his home among them; they will be his people, and he will be their God, God-with-them. 4 He will wipe away all tears from their eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness or pain. The world of the past has gone.' 5 Then the One sitting on the throne spoke. 'Look, I am making the whole of creation new. Write this, "What I am saying is trustworthy and will come true." 6 Then he said to me, 'It has already happened. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give water from the well of life free to anybody who is thirsty; 7 anyone who proves victorious will inherit these things; and I will be his God and he will be my son. 8 But the legacy for cowards, for those who break their word, or worship obscenities, for murderers and the sexually immoral, and for sorcerers, worshippers of false gods or any other sort of liars, is the second death in the burning lake of sulphur.'
Wonderful news! Praise Jesus! Converts make the best Catholics, truthfully.
I was delighted with these pictures of Jesus sent me by a friend in my parish, and looking for a pretext to put them on a FReeper thread. I hope you don't mind that I chose yours!
Why won’t you answer my question? The answer is in the Bible you claim as the FINAL AUTHORITY.
Grace and peace to all of you. I am very new to this site. The holy spirit brought me hear tonight to look over many answers here. To learn and to share.
Learn first.
What is your only comfort, in life and in death?
Why would you need to do that? Our Creed, the Nicene Creed, begins with the declaration that God created the Heavens and the Earth, of all that is seen and unseen. The Church does not teach evolution, it only states that Theistic Evolution, as a process created and used by God, is not incompatible with Genesis.
I have explained this to you before.
Six day young earth creationism is not one bit more "impossible" than a "virgin birth." Anyone who can believe in a "virgin birth" has no excuse whatsoever to reject six day young earth creationism other than a purely non-theological reason . . . such as, for example not wanting to believe something associated with "trailer trash."
Now . . . when do you suppose I will have to explain it to you again?
The Church does not discount either ex nihilio creation nor a Virgin birth. What you haven't explained is why you believe those and yet reject the Real Presence.
Nice twisting of my words there. I didn't say one word about "ex nihilo creation." I said six day young earth creationism. Anyone who can believe that a woman can magically give birth to a child without the participation of a human father can certainly believe the literal truth of everything written in the first eleven chapters of Genesis. The only reason for the discrepancy is that the "virgin birth" is "respectable" and Genesis isn't. That's all there is to it. Scientific theories about origins are based on the assumption that the processes that are gradually bringing about stars, galaxies, volcanoes, islands, etc. today are identical to the processes that brought the heavens and earth into existence in the first place. By this same logic, since all babies require the presence of a mother and a father, the "virgin birth" must also be rejected. But Catholics accept the "virgin birth" and reject Genesis because they are social snobs who look down on "trailer trash."
You knew every bit of this beforehand. Your feigning ignorance makes me wonder about your sincerity.
What you haven't explained is why you believe those and yet reject the Real Presence.
Since I don't believe in chr*stianity in the first place, it's a little unreasonable of you to demand that I believe in the "real presence," isn't it? I also find it difficult to believe that you didn't know this either.
If you really want to be a martyr there are more effective ways than crying about being a poor misunderstood redneck picked on by better educated Catholics. The Catholic Church does not reject Genesis, but Salvation does not depend on an absolute acceptance of the literalist view of it. Some individual Catholics believe that Genesis is a poetic description of Creation and rejoice in the knowledge THAT God created the universe ex nihilio (from nothing) and not HOW He did it.
Your rejection of Christianity is your loss. Isaiah 5:1-7 identifies Israel as God's vineyard that will be leased to others (Matthew 12:9). The Catholic Church is the New Israel.
1)I am not concerned with "salvation," which (as you understand it) does not exist. 2)Those Catholics who interpret Genesis as "poetry" had better also believe the "virgin birth" is a "poem" as well. If define only Genesis as "poetry" and interpret the verses about the "virgin birth" literally they are inconsistent and hypocrites.
Your rejection of Christianity is your loss. Isaiah 5:1-7 identifies Israel as God's vineyard that will be leased to others (Matthew 12:9). The Catholic Church is the New Israel.
That's hilarious.
Sorry for pinging you so much on this thread widey. I won't do it any more (beli neder, of course).
The contention that Dr E is in the process of becoming a devotee of the Vatican Ashteroth-Mary-goddess org headquartered in the Vatican and known as the RCC is
at least many multi-verses distant from well beyond
ABSURD TO THE MAX.
She has pressing complex matters that require more of her attention than her usual here would allow.
Folks are welcome to pray that God anoints her tasks and labors.
Seriously?
INDEED. What can be more pressing and complex that her Salvation?
FINALLY, you get us out of the Twilight Zone by giving us the TRUTH! Who would start such a ridiculous rumor. And WHY?
Yes, you are correct. I logged on a while ago. But, I am not very good at computers and just came back now. So, wording it correctly would say that I registered about 1 year ago and this is my first time posting something on this site.
There is no point I am making. Just wanted to see answers. Answers tell where a person is at the moment. Just interested.
There is no point I am making. Just wanted to see answers. Answers tell where a person is at the moment. Just interested.
What is weird to some, make sense to others. What is odd to some is normal to others. For some it’s too many questions to some it’s not enough. We are all different with different capacities, and thats why we are individuals. Would be great to read your answers to the questions you did understand. And if something was worded oddly for you, then be so kind to tell me which question, and I will re-word it for you. This would handle that issue.
There is no point I am making. Just wanted to see answers. Answers tell where a person is at the moment. Just interested.
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