Posted on 09/06/2009 3:50:15 PM PDT by NYer
We believe in communion but we do it in memory of Jesus, which we believe is what He meant. We don’t deny ourselves anything, NYer. Our love for Him stems from our personal relationship with Him. Trust me, NYer, we aren’t missing anything.
Good morning. That's an easy question. You can believe in your heaart that Jesus lived, died, and was resurrected, according to Scripture...
Paul can explain it for those with eyes and hearts open!
Romans 3: ... 13 It was not through law that Abraham and his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of the world, but through the righteousness that comes by faith. 14 For if those who live by law are heirs, faith has no value and the promise is worthless, 15 because law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression.
16 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may be by grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham's offspringnot only to those who are of the law but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all. 17 As it is written: "I have made you a father of many nations." He is our father in the sight of God, in whom he believedthe God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were.
18 Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, "So shall your offspring be." 19 Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as deadsince he was about a hundred years oldand that Sarah's womb was also dead. 20 Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, 21 being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. 22 This is why "it was credited to him as righteousness." 23 The words "it was credited to him" were written not for him alone, 24 but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousnessfor us who believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. 25 He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.
Justification: noun
1. a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
2. an act of justifying: The painter's justification of his failure to finish on time didn't impress me.
3. the state of being justified.
4. Also called justification by faith. Theology. the act of God whereby humankind is made or accounted just, or free from guilt or penalty of sin.
He is Risen...
I’ve always loved that graphic.
Mark.
Home is where the priest has his back to the people and isn’t any alphabet soup sect such as the NO, SSPX, SSPV, CMRI, FSSP; nor does it pay allegiance to 5 bogus men who’ve usurped the papacy since Pope Pius XII was assassinated in 1958; nor does it pay allegiance to the Antichrist’s Vatican “II” council.
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