Posted on 07/10/2023 12:38:23 PM PDT by ebb tide
To his own state of what? I'm not catching your drift here.
His emphasis is that he has given up just about everything, far more than most.
While Peter certainly started off with a wife, he does seem rather emphatic just before they hit Jerusalem that he has left her behind.
While Paul contrasts himself with “super apostles” living the life of Riley, he doesn’t name any names, and certaily doesn’t single out Peter in this instance.
I'm sorry, I don't read it that way. In fact it seems he's saying he is continuing to take along a believing wife. I know that goes against what Catholics are taught but I'm just reading the words as they appear.
And you dont know farm animals.
Well, if you said get as far away as possible from the antichrist-pope I could accept that as good advice, because that’s certainly not where Catholicism resides.
European and American priests are suspicious. African and Asian priests are not.
Well you certainly like reminding me. Thanks for your comments. You seem smart.
A boat where an effort is made at sanitation (which I believe was the case with the ark) will be better off than a boat where no such effort is made.
You are right in the Corinthians passage that Paul is pushing forward a specific type of equity with Peter in some degree and not an inferior apostle—my bad for going from memory. And the Greek of first Corinthians does speak of being accompanied by a female companion (9:5).
I was thinking specifically of the passage built around Peter’s comment of Mark 10:28 where he speaks of having left everything, —with parallels in Matthew 19:27 and Luke 18:28, The Lukan passage in Christ’s response uses the same term in Greek that Paul does, which is often translated wife, but it means woman generically and wife depends on context.
In Matthew specifically the passage follows fairly shortly upon becoming Eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven, and that is the heart of the Catholic tradition—embracing celibacy on a permanent basis (as opposed to the temporary basis required for service in the Jewish priesthood). The Eunuch state is most easily conceived of, and in some ways lived, as being far apart from women, but through the Church’s history the relations have been more varied.
Pope Benedict had a group of four consecrated laywoman who lived in the Vatican who took care of his needs and the needs of his immediate “household.”
Life is complex and how people get through it varies. From Paul’s account, most of the apostles to some degree at some time led lives that were somewhat more complicated than what was done on the road to Jerusalem.
Paul does claim to employ a smaller support staff (or arguably no support staff that was not also self supporting).
That the other apostles are no longer as unsupported as they were when travelling with Christ is not per se a problem, but does set up a world that has details to get bogged down in it one wants to know all the minutiae about everyone.
Having the support staff also requires more self-discipline and/or structure if one is to live as a consecrated eunuch.
Gonna totally disagree, so you might not even want to continue.
NOTHING “existed” before ANY Prophetic Word came. God Himself spoke prophecy when he talked about the “seed of the woman” crushing the seed of the serpent.
Jesus spoke prophecy, both about Jerusalem 40 years later and about the end times.
So you can’t pull that. The Catholic Church is I think without any doubt the Great Whore.
When Revelation was written, on about 95 AD, the center of the church was Jerusalem.Pella, and its region, called by the Romans, Decapolis, to where Christians fled during the destruction of Jerusalem, remained a more important Christian center, even after the return of Christians to Jerusalem in 135 AD. During the late 1st and 2nd centuries, the entire region was subordinate to the Bishop of Caesarea, who in turn was subordinate to the bishop of Antioch. Jerusalem only regained Christian prominence under Constantine, but never again as a larger Church seat.
To find the truth, look for who or what is attacked the hardest by evil.
The gates of hell will not prevail.
May all of us, Catholic or not, follow God’s will for us and love each other.
This creep is only repeating what fake pope Bergoglio has said many times. He has also it’s a sin to try and convert anyone to Catholicism because all faiths are the same. It’s called a one world religion and fake pope Frank is a big proponent of it.
Yes you are. And you know what they say about fans. They're always stirring and blowing things up.
jk
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