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This is not my blog, I just thought he way the author danced around the answer was pretty amazing
1 posted on 08/15/2015 1:47:29 PM PDT by verga
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Catholic ping.

Non-Catholic ping

2 posted on 08/15/2015 1:52:06 PM PDT by verga (I might as well be playng chess with pigeons.)
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To: verga

Yes


3 posted on 08/15/2015 1:53:21 PM PDT by Dan(9698)
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To: verga

Jesus himself asked his diciples who they thought he was and if you wish tou can hear their answer in Matthew 16:13-20. They were sure and so am I so YES, Jesus is the Son of the Living God.


4 posted on 08/15/2015 1:54:11 PM PDT by teletech
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“Do you believe that Jesus is the Son of God?”

Yes.

Next question.


7 posted on 08/15/2015 1:55:55 PM PDT by TheRobb7 ("Patriots don't negotiate the terms of their enslavement"--JimRob)
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Yashua Hamaschiach.


8 posted on 08/15/2015 1:56:14 PM PDT by tflabo (Psalm 1)
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To: verga
I'll go with John 1:1

appreciate the ping.

9 posted on 08/15/2015 1:56:14 PM PDT by ealgeone
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YES. Was & Is.


11 posted on 08/15/2015 1:59:04 PM PDT by mulligan (I)
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Yes, I do. Apparently, the author does not.


13 posted on 08/15/2015 2:02:55 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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Yes.

Thank you for asking.

I hope you are filled with the Holy Spirit.

14 posted on 08/15/2015 2:03:53 PM PDT by A Cyrenian (Don't worry about stuffing the bus or filling the fridge. Try filling the Church.)
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Yes he is the Son of God.


15 posted on 08/15/2015 2:04:10 PM PDT by Goreknowshowtocheat
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Of course.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

praying to anyone but Jesus is un-Christian (and pointless)


16 posted on 08/15/2015 2:05:05 PM PDT by GeronL (Cruz is for real, 100%)
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Evan Satan is (was) a son of God, as are the rest of us...


17 posted on 08/15/2015 2:11:26 PM PDT by 1_Of_We
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History is full of men who have claimed that they came from God, or that they were gods, or that they bore messages from God - Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius, Christ, Lao-tze, and thousands of others, right down to the person who founded a new religion this very day. Each of them has a right to be heard and considered. But as a yardstick external to and outside of whatever is to be measured is needed, so there must be some permanent tests available to all men, all civilizations, and all ages, by which they can decide whether any of these claimants, or all of them, are justified in their claims. These tests are of two kinds: reason and history. Reason, because everyone has it, even those without faith; history, because everyone lives in it and should know something about it.

Reason dictates that if any one of these men actually came from God, the least thing that God could do to support His claim would be to pre-announce His coming. Automobile manufacturers tell their customers when to expect a new model. If God sent anyone from Himself, or if He came Himself with a vitally important message for all men, it would seem reasonable that He would first let men know when His messenger was coming, where He would be born, where He would live, the doctrine He would teach, the enemies He would make, the program He would adopt for the future, and the manner of His death. By the extent to which the messenger conformed with these announcements, one could judge the validity of his claims.

Reason further assures us that if God did not do this, then there would be nothing to prevent any impostor from appearing in history and saying, "I come from God," or "An angel appeared to me in the desert and gave me this message." In such cases there would be no objective, historical way of testing the messenger. We would have only his word for it, and of course he could be wrong.

If a visitor came from a foreign country to Washington and said he was a diplomat, the government would ask him for his passport and other documents testifying that he represented a certain government. His papers would have to antedate his coming. If such proofs of identity are asked from delegates of other countries, reason certainly ought to do so with messengers who claim to have come from God. To each claimant reason says, "What record was there before you were born that you were coming?"

With this test one can evaluate the claimants. Socrates had no one to foretell his birth. Buddha had no one to pre-announce him and his message or tell the day when he would sit under the tree. Confucius did not have the name of his mother and his birthplace recorded, nor were they given to men centuries before he arrived so that when he did come, men would know he was a messenger from God. But, with Christ, it was different. Because of the OT prophecies, His coming was not unexpected. There were no predictions about Buddha, Confucius, Lao-tze, Mohammed , or anyone else; but there were predictions about Christ. Others just came and said, "Here I am, believe me". Christ alone stepped out of that line saying, "Search the writings of the Jewish people and the related history of the Babylonians, Persians, and Romans." Even the pagan, Tacitus, speaking for the ancient Romans, says, "People were generally persuaded in the faith of the ancient prophecies, that the East was to prevail, and that from Judea was to come the Master and Ruler of the world." China had the same expectations, as did the Greeks.

Another distinguishing fact is that once He appeared, He struck history with such impact that He split it in two, dividing it into two periods: one before His coming, the other after it. Buddha did not do this, nor any of the great Indian philosophers. Even those who deny God must date their attacks upon Him, A.D. so and so, or so many years after His coming.

The story of every human life begins with birth and ends with death. In the Person of Christ, however, it was His death that was first and His life that was last. It was not so much that His birth cast a shadow on His life and thus led to His death; it was rather that the Cross was first, and cast its shadow back to His birth. His has been the only life in the world that was ever lived backward.

Widely proclaimed a classic work of Christian faith, Life of Christ has been hailed as the most eloquent of Fulton J. Sheen’s many books. The fruit of many years of reflection, prayer, and research, it is a dramatic and moving recounting of the birth, life, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Christ, and a passionate portrait of the God-Man, the teacher, the healer, and most of all the Savior, whose promise has sustained humanity for two millennia.


Catholic ping!

18 posted on 08/15/2015 2:17:22 PM PDT by NYer (Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
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Do you believe that Jesus is the Son of God?”

YES I DO.


19 posted on 08/15/2015 2:18:29 PM PDT by EXCH54FE (Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet !!)
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To: verga

Yes, I also believe he is God!

That blog guy tho.


21 posted on 08/15/2015 2:20:43 PM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood
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Yes I believe Jesus Christ is the Son Of GOD. I’m thankful that by faith I can accept it. I’m thankful I don’t have to fully understand it. And I can imagine how perplexed the ones he chose as Disciples must have been.


22 posted on 08/15/2015 2:28:35 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only-begotten, begotten of the Father before all ages; Light of Light: true God of true God; begotten, not made; of one essence with the Father, by Whom all things were made; Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from the heavens, and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and became man; And was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered, and was buried; And arose again on the third day according to the Scriptures; And ascended into the heavens, and sitteth at the right hand of the Father; And shall come again, with glory, to judge both the living and the dead; Whose kingdom shall have no end. And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of Life; Who proceedeth from the Father; Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; Who spake by the prophets. In One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the remission of sins. I look for the resurrection of the dead, And the life of the age to come. Amen.


23 posted on 08/15/2015 2:30:31 PM PDT by NRx (An unrepentant champion of the old order and determined foe of damnable Whiggery in all its forms.)
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YES


24 posted on 08/15/2015 2:30:54 PM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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Jesus taught us to pray: OUR Father...
25 posted on 08/15/2015 2:34:21 PM PDT by 1_Of_We
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You either believe Holy Scripture is the inerrant Word of God or you don’t. I do, he does not. Pretty simple. When people make things complex and convoluted with big words it is either because they don’t know what they are talking about or they don’t want you to know what they are talking about or both. You pick.


27 posted on 08/15/2015 2:41:48 PM PDT by Rodentking (There is no God but Yahweh and Moses is his prophet - http://www.airpower.blogspot.com/)
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