'The Nativity Story' Movie Problematic for Catholics, "Unsuitable" for Young Children

LifeSiteNews.com ^ | 12/4/2006 | John-Henry Westen

[Blogger]

Nor are all Orthodox I imagine. Most churches are full of the biblically/historically illiterate.

[Blogger]

Bedtime. Goodnight all.

[annalex]

The Church is a communion of faithful, united to Christ in the sacrament of baptism and obedient to His apostles. It is most certainly not a club in any sense -- that would be donatism.

Three typologies exist for the Church: the mystical body of Christ, the mystical bride of Christ, and the Blessed Virgin our mother. All three are complementary.

[kawaii]

The Orthodox were persecuted and probably by some of the same folks.

Try having all your Churches seized by a foreign king. and being arrested or killed if you didn't add 'and from the son' to your recitation of the creed.

Still the Ukrainians got off easy, at least they could still write in their language, unlike the Belarussians when they underwent similar persecution.

Frankly lookup Costantinople in 1250, and Zara some months earlier. Pretty much the first Christian on Christian persecution in history, and the Orthodox were on the receiving end.

To say nothing of what the athiests did, sending more Orthodox to death in workcamps than the Nazis did Jews.

[kawaii]

I'd challange you to have pascha dinner with an Orthodox US family of your choice and see whether any of them find the Da Vinci Code plausible, or the ressurection unlikely.

[xzins]

Heresu

I had some of that in my entree, chap chae and bulgoki. Tiramisu for dessert.

:>)

[kosta50]

In other words, the Baptist Church has always existed and that is proved by its LACK of evidence

Oh, they show evidence, dear friend, by listing every heresy that popped up, as 'evidence" of the "Baptist church" all the way to Anabpatists, the people even Lutherans did their best to exterminate as heretics (imagine)! Some pedegree to boast about.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for the rusty pipe analogy! It reminds me of one of my personal favorites:

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. - Jer 2:13

[kosta50]

[Heresu] I had some of that in my entree, chap chae and bulgoki. Tiramisu for dessert

it's 'hellenized' (y'know, "y" is a "u"), or something like that.... :)

I guess I should have spell-checked before I hit the "send" key. It's late...enjoy your chap hae and bulgoki...

[kawaii]

a curcive i in russian looks like a lower case u... not sure about greek script though...

[Alamo-Girl]

Jeepers, blue-duncan. You give me waaay too much credit, but I thank you, dear brother in Christ. Hugs!!!

[kosta50]

I don't and won't believe in a works earned salvation

Yet what we do will be used for our judgment, to each man accoridng to what he has done. The parable about talents leaves no doubt that God is not indifferent to what we do.

In other words, talk is cheap. Show me your faith, says the Apostle, by works.

[xzins]

Probably not.

:>)

[kawaii]

Jam 2:14 ¶ What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

[kawaii]

More protestant captiuatltion to the practices of men who contradict scripture.

These churches twist scripture to support their invented traditions.

[Alamo-Girl]

Yet that subject matter is not the jist of what Alamo-Girl and I have been concerned about recently. There is an "objective" church, which has a history (i.e., it has a "past.") There is also a (forward-looking) "subjective," or inner church, which is inspired and drawn by the Holy Spirit in "real time," the cultivation of which is of particular interest to my dear sister and me.

Well said and very true.

[Alamo-Girl]

There is a danger in cultivating your own temple though.

The leading I have in the Spirit is that we are temples for the Spirit's indwelling (John 3, etc.)

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are. - I Cor 3:16-17

[kosta50]

The 'ypsilon' looks like u. It is transliterated into English as "y."

[kawaii]

you see! You weren't mispelling, just mixing languages. happens at our house all too often.

poor cat must be very very confused.

[Alamo-Girl]

many organizations call themselves churchs when they are really clubs wholly and completely

So very true. Then again, some people need that while others don't.