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
Some of them got away - APPARENTLY.
And, NO, I will not lie to Metmom nor anyone else about Calvin and Servetus. If you had read the link I provided you would have seen that not only did Calvin NOT start the fire that burned Servetus, he counseled him to recant his false teachings about the Trinity, he plead for mercy for him and he was ignored since he had no official position in Geneva. It sounds like Servetus had only himself to blame for his end since he went to Geneva KNOWING he was a wanted man even there. Geneva only got him because the Catholic Church in France boggled his imprisonment else the Catholic Church would have been the ones to kill him like they had many before and after him.
But, I AM curious why you are hitting on this topic like this. Is your intent to smear all Calvinists by association because Calvin has been blamed (unrightly) for one man's death? All Protestants? That's a slippery slope in light of the multiple and verifiable times the Roman Catholic Church was guilty of far worse.
I apologize.
Many Catholics believe what they are told to believe and until one is able to break free of delusion he/she will not be able to understand my point. The pure faith in Jesus Christ is the truth as professed in Scripture and the Roman Catholic Church has perverted that truth. Salvation is found IN Christ and not through a religion. I will take Christ at His word over the boastings of mere man made religion. Jesus said, “All who come to me I will in no wise cast out.”, I trust HIM.
Moses,Abraham, Adam, Eve, Soloman, David, Etc Etc are not in Heaven because they didn't know Christ???
handy, isn't it, and infallible too....Christ is indeed amazing
they felt sorry for him and ley him go. Christian attitude!!
INFALLIBLE...read it, get used to it, realize what is truth....in matters of faith and morals the Catholic Church CANNOT err.
Catholic religion class, if it teaches what you claimed, is wrong. Metmom as well as many others here know what the word of God says about ALL having sinned and falling short of the perfection of God (Romans 3:23). Scripture also claims that there are NONE righteous, not even one (Rom. 3:10) and that without faith in Christ to take away our sins, we would ALL be condemned (John 3:18). So sin is not just a willful disobedience of God's law but the state of being at enmity with God and inheriting our sin nature from Adam (Rom. 8:7; I Cor. 15:22). We START OUT as sinners before we even know we are doing it. We sin because we are sinners, we aren't sinners because we sin. No one had to teach us to sin - we did it all by ourselves. The wages (cost) of sin is death (eternal separation from God) but the GIFT of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. 6:23)
On the subject of the "innocents" - those who are incapable of understanding their sin and need of a savior (i.e., babies, little kids, the mentally disabled) are covered by the grace of God and He will not hold their sinful condition against them. His grace is sufficient for them. But all those who can understand WILL be held responsible and must come to Jesus Christ by faith and receive Him to be saved. That is how propitiation (full payment) for sin is made - the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin (I John 1:7). It is through faith in Christ that we can KNOW we HAVE everlasting life (I John 5:13).
sure he is...if it weren't for Luther, you'd all still be catholic and MUCH closer to salvation
There are some things that CATHOLICS say on these threads that causes me to doubt the same thing about them!
I don't ignore or reject the gospel of Jesus Christ just the false and perverted version the Roman Catholic Church gradually came to teach - the version that Paul said would be recognized as accursed because it would not be the one HE preached. At one time, I have no doubt that many who identified as "Catholics" believed in the same gospel as taught in Scripture by Jesus and the Apostles. What is called the gospel today in Catholicism doesn't qualify. It will be those who follow that false gospel who will be sadly condemned on Judgment Day. THAT is a given! It is not too late - now is the accepted time, NOW is the day of salvation. Receive the gift of eternal life given by the grace of God to all through faith and not on the basis of works. Trusting in ones own righteousness and rejecting the righteousness of Christ imputed to us through faith is a false gospel and cannot save anyone.
So NOT the same thing! Nobody claims the U.S. president is infallible, was divinely-appointed and has the power to invent doctrine that is binding on earth AND heaven. I'm sure some of the presidents thought they were, but no proclamation was ever made that declared they would be in the Constitution. Do you understand the difference?
DSC: There is not and never has been a scintilla of anti-protestant bigotry on FR.
Does THIS qualify?
You are joking right? If that was "Christian attitude", how do you explain all the others that they didn't "let go"?
You're a riot tonight! You are aware that far more people than just Martin Luther were involved in the Reformation, aren't you? And, for further clarification, the Roman Catholic Church conducted a Counter-Reformation of her own that sought to CORRECT the many abuses and wrongs that she acknowledged she was guilty of because of the issues she was forced to face. So, the Reformation was actually a GOD thing. Kinda hard to stop God from doing His will.
That's why I KNOW that I have salvation instead of wishing and hoping I will if everything goes right and I jump through all the hoops the right way, and, and,.... There is a blessed assurance in trusting in Christ to do ALL that He has promised to do and my faith is in HIM not a religion. The only way I could be closer to heaven is if the Rapture happened or I died. I pray for the same assurance for all those who read these words. Trust in Jesus Christ, believe he died on the cross for your sins and receive the gift of eternal life given to you by the grace of God.
Where in Scripture is that quote from?
No kidding Jesus said that to the Pharisees.
And that has what to do with your disparaging remark to smvoice?
It’s interesting how Catholics throw out the Calvin card whenever the history of Roman Catholicism is discusses, as if the untrue accusation that Calvin burned Servetus at the stake negates the entire bloodbath initiated and perpetuated by the Catholic church in the name of God.
Calvin did not burn Servetus at the stake. On the contrary, it has been shown numerous times that he opposed it even though he did not oppose the death penalty.
And for those who take the moral high ground and condemn him for that, I would sure hope they’re not hypocrite enough to support the current death penalty themselves.
The Inquisition was not wrong? Really?
Peter himself says this....
Acts 4:11-12 This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
Salvation is not through a church, or a religious system, or works or deeds, or Christ died for nothing. We don't get to heaven because we earn our way there on a merit system.
Salvation is through a person, who FORGIVES sins.
True Christianity is a relationship not a religion.
It’s no wonder the guy never pursued his project after 17 years.
He probably started and found it to be as big a fail as you just demonstrated.
What you posted certainly is enough to debunk what he said and prove that there is no point continuing on with the comparisons.
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