Posted on 06/27/2014 3:58:36 PM PDT by NYer
Well!
Ain't THAT special!!
Kinda...
Galatians 3:24
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
The Old Law is a preparation for the Gospel. "The Law is a pedagogy and a prophecy of things to come." It prophesies and presages the work of liberation from sin which will be fulfilled in Christ: it provides the New Testament with images, "types," and symbols for expressing the life according to the Spirit. Finally, the Law is completed by the teaching of the sapiential books and the prophets which set its course toward the New Covenant and the Kingdom of heaven.
There were . . . under the regimen of the Old Covenant, people who possessed the charity and grace of the Holy Spirit and longed above all for the spiritual and eternal promises by which they were associated with the New Law. Conversely, there exist carnal men under the New Covenant still distanced from the perfection of the New Law: the fear of punishment and certain temporal promises have been necessary, even under the New Covenant, to incite them to virtuous works. In any case, even though the Old Law prescribed charity, it did not give the Holy Spirit, through whom "God's charity has been poured into our hearts."
I'm sure you will recognize the excerpts above as taken from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
You left out Sacraments and Rituals!
--Catholic_Wannabe_Dude(Hail Mary!)
Elsie:
I see you got my response removed. Nevertheless, I stand by it 100%.
et: Never heard of that one. Do you have a source?
I'm not surprised. People like to teach that by keeping the Law we can be made right with God, but that was never the intent. It was God's way of dealing with sin until Christ came, in the fullness of time.
The Law revealed sin for what it was, foreshadowed Christ, and showed us our need for atonement
Galatians 3:24 Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.
http://biblehub.com/galatians/3-24.htm
All the book of Galatians deals with faith and the Law and the relationship. The problem is, one sin, and we're toast. So even if someone could keep all the Law perfectly except for ONE sin, they still wouldn't get into heaven.
James 2:10-11 10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
God's requirement is perfection. Be ye holy as I am holy. ANY sin is enough to condemn someone, just as it did with Adam and Eve.
I’m sure the RM is perfectly capable of reading the RF postings himself.
If your comment was removed, it wasn’t Elsie’s doing. He didn’t write it and I doubt anyone was holding a gun to your head when you typed it.
Man up and take responsibility instead of blame shifting.
metmom:
I agree, nobody held a gun to my head when I posted it. I freely posted it. You guys have insider information who the mods are, in fact, there was a theory than one of the active FR prots here was also the a mod.
I am not blaming anyone. I stand by the post I wrote. I had one of your fellow FR prots call me a “cultist” once and I responded to that person that he should go to his KKK rally. My post was removed his wasn’t. That is how the game is played here, I am well aware of it.
after reading the FR religion forum, doesn’t that sound like an absolutely FOREIGN concept? LOL!
Unfortunately..
it is a scandal.
Not sure what you’re referring to?
Application of any law requires discretion. For example, if 6 year old shoots his brother out of anger, the killing is objectively wrong. However, the wiggle room is the child is considered to lack full knowledge of right and wrong.
One can come up with other countless examples where there is an objective evil, but is mitigated by some circumstance (wiggle room).
The challenge regarding remarriage and Holy Communion is whether any discretion exists, and to what degree it should be exercised.
You think God sits there and looks at a clock? How long is a day in Heaven? For their to be time, there has to be location. Heaven is a spiritual dimension, not a physical location.
You can reason to the fact there is no time in Heaven.
Not necessarily. It could have been a simple meeting where both sides agree they are pro-life, pro-family, and desiring to help the poor.
Preach the Gospel daily, use words if necessary.
Trying to bring a person to a new way of thinking often requires several iterations of questioning. If this group of non-Catholics thought the Pope had horns and a tail, then the meeting would have demonstrated their preconceived notions were wrong. They would then be more willing to challenge other notions.
Not every conversion happens on the road to Damascus.
Where does Catholic teaching teach this?
OH?
Which one?
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