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Notice that Msgr Pope focused on our personal relationship with Jesus and avoided the kabuki theater of doctrinal debates within Church hierarchy. This is a useful pattern to follow.


3 posted on 07/06/2016 7:47:09 AM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR!e)
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Notice that Msgr Pope focused on our personal relationship with Jesus and avoided the kabuki theater of doctrinal debates within Church hierarchy.

Read all four Gospels. You will find that they all tell the same story of the same Man in the same period of time... but they each tell it a different way. Matthew spoke to the Jews using deeply religious references meant for them. Mark spoke to the Romans and focused more on leadership. Luke was a Greek speaking to Greeks... he spoke of insights and truth. John wrote to everyone of the God Who became flesh for the redemption of man.

There is a time and place for doctrinal debates and for the style of Msgr Pope's message here. They are not at odds... only different methods for different audiences.

5 posted on 07/06/2016 8:02:16 AM PDT by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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>> “Notice that Msgr Pope focused on our personal relationship with Jesus and avoided the kabuki theater of doctrinal debates within Church hierarchy.” <<

The book of Hosea is not about matrimony in any way.

Hosea’s marriage to a harlot simply symbolizes Yehova’s relationship with his chosen people, The House of Israel, and how he divorces them for a time but comes for them in the end.

This is the basis foe the “mystery” of which Paul spoke in Romans 7, regarding how Yehova can re-marry his divorced wife without breaking his own Torah.

The answer lies in Yeshua’s death for his Bride, allowing her to re-marry.

This is one of the most significant prophecies in the entire Bible.


12 posted on 07/06/2016 9:07:43 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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