Posted on 08/27/2010 11:45:13 AM PDT by Hank Kerchief
Then God deliberately "confused".
The author of confusion, like sin, is Satan and his willing accomplices here on earth.
Stop with the inane questions. It would seem you are not legitimately asking questions to which you don't know the answer but are you trying to play some sort of dumb Catholic gotcha trick? You don't seem honest enough for the former or clever enough for the later.
One commonality I find among the Calvinists I know personally and it seems true of the ones that I know here is that they exalt in their own self-appointed salvation and wallow in the belief that all others are lesser beings and are all headed straight for hellfire everlasting.
We Catholics on the other hand, believe Paul when he says in: 1 Thessalonians 5: 8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love and the helmet that is hope for salvation.
Galatians 5: 5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we await the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love. 4
We hope for ourselves and for all men that all men are saved, as Paul told Timothy.
So I am to understand you are in favor of castration whether natural, self imposed, or imposed by others?
No, it's because I enjoy conversing with you.
It took 200 years after the reign of Calvinist terror for the good burghers of Geneva to learn how to smile again in public.
Am I to understand you expect me to answer a question of yours about my beliefs?
Thank you for these great quotes from St. Paul and for our “reasons for hope” that they give us as we journey to the Promised Land.
They are worth repeating again and again.
SCRIPTURE! I realize that is irrevelant to you especialy when compared to man-made Tradition..
2 Kings is considered Apocrypha by your bunch? Interesting. I suspect that you've been hanging out a little too much with those more closely connected to the Reformation. What version of the Bible do you use, incidentally?
In any event these men preceded Jesus on this earth. There is no record of any person, with the exception of Jesus, being raised during His time on this earth nor yet raised because He has not yet returned!
Raised, or annunciated? Remember that Jesus, Peter and Paul all raised men from the dead.
Yes; when I was young, Marv Levy moved from the Montreal Alouettes to the Buffalo Bills and things got rather interesting...
I saw an interview on TV(EWTN), and she explained what she was going through spiritually. She still had faith in Christ. However, she did not feel his presence anymore. Yet she still dedicated everything she did to Jesus. It was a very, very painful time for her. She never did lose her faith. Mother Theresa had a deep love for our Lord. How can you say that you love someone if you don't have any faith in them? She expressed her love of Christ all the time.
I saw an interview on TV(EWTN), and she explained what she was going through spiritually. She still had faith in Christ. However, she did not feel his presence anymore. Yet she still dedicated everything she did to Jesus. It was a very, very painful time for her. She never did lose her faith. Mother Theresa had a deep love for our Lord. How can you say that you love someone if you don't have any faith in them? She expressed her love of Christ all the time.
Read the scriptures in context, you will be amazed.. This was a teaching to the saved..it was not a teaching on HOW TO BE SAVED
Read through to the end of Chapter 7. It was the crowds that Jesus was speaking to. Luke 7 (the finish of the sermon on the plain) is even more explicit.
Luke 7: 1 1 2 When he had finished all his words to the people, he entered Capernaum.
The crowds were astonished in Matthew and Luke 7 says that Jesus spoke to all the people. Your interpretation is wrong. However, since you have posted that you believe that the Gospels are OT anyway, does it make a difference to you?
Funny, I hadn’t pictured you as Mr. Creosote...
They are worth repeating again and again.
St. Paul is not the Jovian wrathful monster god that the Reformed believe that he is. Paul speaks at length of the love of God and the hope of all Christians that they might be with God forever in Heaven.
My error. If your wiseguy response makes you happy I am also happy for you.
However, do you have a response to my major point?
"In any event these men preceded Jesus on this earth. There is no record of any person, with the exception of Jesus, being raised during His time on this earth nor yet raised because He has not yet returned!"
Only if applied to anti-Catholics.
List them and end my confusion.
"As Teresa's experience in prayer deepens in the years following her illness, she begins to receive various "divine favors." First, entering the third and fourth degrees of prayer-the prayer of union and the prayer of divine union-is itself counted as a supernatural gift.
Second, Teresa begins to experience visions and voices which instruct her in, among other things, the processes of her deepening spirituality.
A third favor Teresa calls by several names: rapture, elevation, flight, or transport of the spirit. In these experiences she leaves her body in some type of spirit-form and is taken usually to "heaven," where various theological and spiritual truths are revealed to her. However problematic Teresa's narratives of out-of-body experiences are to the Western intellect, she insists that they happened just as she describes them."
[In Chapter XXII of her Autobiography Teresa goes into great detail in explaining the superior grace and benefits of raptures or transports to higher levels, apparently outside the bodily domain, and how much more humility they produce in the soul than the earlier stages of prayer, including what she terms the prayer of union
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This IS EASTERN MYSTICISM ..it is not from the God of the Bible
Mysticism attempts to gain ultimate knowledge of God by a direct experience that bypasses the mind.The problem of course is the evil one is active in this realm and the deceiver can build one a god they like and will want to spend time with.
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