To: Natural Law; Dr. Eckleburg; RnMomof7
What you claim as doubt and disbelief I see only as despair. For the people she ministered to she carried the weight of the world. She literally felt their pain and forsakeness. Her confessions were not unlike the cry of "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabach-thani?" She lost her faith to the same extent Jesus lost His. Well Jesus never *lost his faith* so that is no comparison. Now if Mother Theresa had read the words of Christ, and believed them like He told her to, she would have known that *the poor you always have with you* and *let the dead bury the dead.* then she could have been concerned with the living, and perhaps done some real good spreading the Gospel to those perishing spiritually
7,541 posted on
09/29/2010 9:39:51 AM PDT by
1000 silverlings
(everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
To: 1000 silverlings
"and perhaps done some real good" First, Mother Teresa never lost her faith which is why the comparison to Jesus and his moments of despair are applicable.
As for doing "real good" do you people realize how completely foolish and ridiculous you appear? Do you think spreading the Gospel is limited to word games and debating tricks in which you trick or browbeat the sick and dying? Mother Teresa's example of Christian beatitude speaks far louder than all of the words generated by all of the Reformists combined. Mother Teresa embodied the new Decalogue, the Two Greatest Commandments plus the eight Beatitudes. For in these Salvation is found.
7,555 posted on
09/29/2010 11:17:26 AM PDT by
Natural Law
(A lie is a known untruth expressed as truth. A liar is the one who tells it.)
To: 1000 silverlings
Jesus never *lost his faith* so that is no comparison. Now if Mother Theresa had read the words of Christ, and believed them like He told her to, she would have known that *the poor you always have with you* and *let the dead bury the dead.* then she could have been concerned with the living, and perhaps done some real good spreading the Gospel to those perishing spiritually AMEN!
" For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" -- Matthew 16:26
When Jesus speaks of "good works" He always adds the caveat that those works must be done "in my name."
7,557 posted on
09/29/2010 11:23:57 AM PDT by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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