Posted on 08/19/2006 6:48:20 AM PDT by Rampolla
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
St. Augustine of Hippo Sermons?
St. Augustine is absolutely right. It's hard for us to take Scripture literally, especially modern Catholics who've been fed a steady diet of Darwinized drivel. Check out catholicfundamentalism.com for a theory that's actually new: God can program in three dimensions. He programmed the universe, exactly like Genesis said, in six days maybe ten thousand years ago. catholicfundamentalism.com develops that theory, and makes sense out of everything. Now, we can believe Scripture, and Augustine's telling us to believe it all.
The miricle of the water to wine in Cana has an oft overlooked sub-point.
God can make things 'old'. Good wine needs time, but it was created in an instant.
That is a GREAT point. He can program things that appear to be old (never thougt of Cana in that regard, THANK YOU!)( You sound almost like a Catholic Fundamentalist. On catholicfundamentalism.com the point is made that He programmed things so that people could be free to choose to believe if He made them or not. Without a universe that could look old, we wouldn't have free will.
That is a really good point. Thank you.
I don't reject any part of the Gospel. I just reject some folks' twisted interpretations.
It depends on whose interpretations. If every person is the final authority on the Gospel then the source of Gospel truth is themselves not Christ.
Yeah, maybe. It refers to starting Christianity over from scratch rather than trying to fit the new teaching into the cumbersome old legal system.
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