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
Oh but it does. It shows the RCC and whoever wrote that list is trying to dupe those gullible enough to follow the RCC or attempt to get people to take them seriously.
Heres that Hebrews verse.
Hebrews 11:35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
The Old Testament reference.
1 Kings 17:21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again. 22 And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. 23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said, See, thy son liveth. Then I will illustrate with a couple of others so people get the drift of what is happening.
Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Old Testament reference.
Deu 8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
The RCC lies.
And that, after claiming Mary is the mother of God...It is the Roman religion's claim that Mary is the wife of God and Mary is the mother of God...
After that, any whacky claim is legitimate...
In fact, I don't see how one would recognize intelligent discussion after a statement like that...It would certainly be impossible to recognize intelligent biblical discussion after that...
Who first had him arrested and imprisoned for heresy in France from which he escaped?
I can sympathize. Blue Bell Pecan Praline is my particular weakness. ;o)
Placemarker
Hey, Rashputin, why not do a little work and pick out your favorite top five in that list and quote them both showing they do what you are claiming they do?
Here is a great place to see ALL the hundreds and hundreds of places in the New Testament that validate the divine authority of the Old Testament Scriptures http://www.blueletterbible.org/study/misc/quotes.cfm. Couldn't find any that do that for those Apocryphals.
>> “It shows the RCC and whoever wrote that list is trying to dupe those gullible enough to follow the RCC or attempt to get people to take them seriously.” <<
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Precisely!
There are thousands of websites set up just to explain away all of the contra-scriptural catholic mumbo-jumbo.
No doubt about it...St. Judas...(unless you're not a Catholic)
>> “No doubt about it...St. Judas...(unless you’re not a Catholic)” <<
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Judas will be going to catholic heaven (the warm sulfur-smelling place)
I don't think so...If you are a Catholic, the flesh and blood that you eat and drink, and I suppose the sauerkraut and chicken livers, 'mystically' travels out of your large intestine into your soul...
Could be Catholics never have a need to use the facilities...
Not at all.
Scripture certainly does interpret Scripture.
What I put no credence in is a 17 year old blog by a guy who admits that all he did is copy and paste, did not follow through with any work of his own, and asked others to do his work for him by requesting others to let him know if they found anything.
A massive fail if I ever saw one.
So far more people would be going to heaven if Jesus had never shown up...
So you are retracting that they would have executed him, since you offered no proof.
Thank you.
The sub-nitwit types are left to droll and stare at their navel or whatever portion of their anatomy they spend their time focused on.
Catholics keep it so classy dont they?
lol! How they can spit tobacco while wearing white gloves amazes me!
As usual.....
Nothing new there as someone raised in a Catholic community can attest to.
I don’t suppose that you’d be interested in trying again to actually provide some evidence to support you contention that the NT actually validates the deuterocanonical books?
Something that is not a massive fail, that you can actually defend instead of attacking those who expose its lack of content.
So now Jesus Christ has no class because he called a spade a spade? Wow, even for the Self and Self Alone crowd thats amazing.
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