Posted on 09/30/2013 11:30:08 AM PDT by NYer
How do you read the Bible? Today is the feast day of Saint Jerome, who once quipped, “Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.”
It’s a running joke that if you want to find a Bible verse, you ought to ask a Protestant and not a Catholic. Protestants read the Bible. Catholics not so much.
This raises the question:
I think the answer lies in the fact that we Catholics go to Mass. The Holy Mass has at least two Bible readings every time. If you pray the Breviary or Liturgy of Hours, multiply that several times.
Joe Catholic says to himself, “Why should I study the Bible? I go to Mass. I hear it there. Check and check.”
There is something beautiful in this. For Catholics, Bible reading is liturgical. Hence, Bible reading remains chiefly a community experience.
It’s good to listen to the readings from the Bible at Holy Mass. However, we also need a personal (even private) encounter with God in the pages of Sacred Scripture. All of the saints breathed Sacred Scripture. Scripture served as the grammar for their souls. They couldn’t communicate without it.
Here are some basic spiritual needs that you have every single day of your life:
So when you wake up tomorrow, do the following:
What? You’re too busy. Sorry, you just got served a yellow card:
Doing these three readings will take you only 3-5 minutes. That’s the time of a commercial break. It will change your life for good. I promise. It takes 21 days to make a habit, so give it 21 days and see if you aren’t hooked. Put the Bible on your night stand and read it in the mornings. Start fresh.
“Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.” – Saint Jerome, Doctor of the Church
I would be livid let alone embarrassed to have put my faith in some organization that claimed that the only way to salvation is to belong to that organization then be told that even those who not only arent part of that organization but even those who dont know Jesus can be saved. That alone should indicate that the RCC is a phony.
Why would you say that? According to the RCC you dont even need to know Jesus to be saved.
Thank you for further proof that protestants on this forum are incapable of intelligent discussion.
So let me get this straight. A guy in some remote island, or anywhere for that matter, never heard of Jesus but is a really nice guy and is going to heaven. So here comes the Catholic missionary and tells him all about Jesus, as we are told to do in scripture, and the guy thinks its some kind of nonsense that this guy just came back to life all by himself and says hooey. Now the guy is going to hell!!!! So if the Catholic missionary guy had just kept his mouth shut the guy would have gone to heaven but because the Catholic missionary guy showed up hes now going to hell?
So Catholics believe that Jesus told them to go tell the guy who was going to heaven about him so he has a chance to not believe and is now going to hell!!!
Is that pretty much what Catholics believe? Its what Im getting from the Catholic explanations here.
Unless you dont.
847 Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience - those too may achieve eternal salvation.
You Catholics are real hoot now!!!
"Leave me alone! I was going to heaven before you showed up!!!"
See Aristophanes. Perhaps you will recognize the double entendre. : )
A fact is a fact no matter how many times you deny it.
We were told that would happen.
Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
The Catholic signs and wonders do deceive many.
>> “Thank you for further proof that protestants on this forum are incapable of intelligent discussion.” <<
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“Intelligent” meaning in full agreement with Satan’s Earthly representative: the pope?
BTW, has he followed Yeshua’s commandment, and sold off all the vatican’s earthly goods to follow Yeshua?
You know, I’m curious about something here. If Judas partook of the Last Supper and drank Jesus’ blood and ate His body, what happened to that consecrated blood and body in HIS BODY? According to Catholics, that bread and wine was part of Judas’ salvation. That bread and wine would have made Christ a part of Judas’ body. Now if Judas hanged himself BEFORE the daily human operation we all perform, that means Christ was STILL in him. Is it possible he could actually be saved right now?? Maybe we’ve been going about this all wrong.
Some discussion regarding electing the wrong man as pope in this thread.
www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3073621/posts
Here’s an interesting summary of papal infallibility. It appears to be a fairly recent doctrine, which is a change from the previous doctrine.
So, are you saying that the church can never elect the wrong man as pope?
>> “You know, Im curious about something here. If Judas partook of the Last Supper and drank Jesus blood and ate His body...” <<
The term “hanged” at that time meant either that he was impaled on a pointed pole driven up through his torso, or that he fell on his own sword, so maybe all the blood and flesh of Yeshua leaked out?
Hmmmm...I don’t know...maybe one of the early Catholic church fathers knew what happened...all I know is if they can make a doctrine, tradition, or saint out of something...
Yeah! And Jesus command to go into all the world was only to mess up a good thing for those who would have gone to heaven. Catholics are a hoot Im telling ya!
>> “ And Jesus command to go into all the world was only to mess up a good thing for those who would have gone to heaven.” <<
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By Jove, I think you’ve got it!
You must be the True Pope, else how would you have been able to discern that!
Il Pappa Bear! We KNEW you could do it!
LOL How they are not embarrassed making the comments they make and following that apostate organization I will never know. I had someone tell me that it was only in my fantasy world when I said the RCC believes you dont need to know Jesus to go to heaven. I havent heard from them after I posted proof that they do believe that. I can only imagine the thoughts. We believe what?
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