Posted on 12/12/2014 9:41:27 PM PST by NKP_Vet
A small group of men and women once set its principles of charity and temperance against the prevailing values of the age—and in so doing altered the course of civilization. Because the early Christians’ belief had a specific content of truth and morality based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, they could not simply go with the flow. Jesus was both God and man. They could not worship, or pretend to worship, a mere human being who claimed to be God because he was Caesar. And this seemed to non-Christians to be an unpardonable stubbornness and perversity.
Marriage and Family Matter
This "stubbornness" was not simply confined to matters of worship. The Christians’ family customs were an affront to their pagan neighbors. They would not practice artificial birth control or abortion (the Greeks and Romans had primitive forms of these) since they believed in both the sanctity of life and the life-giving process. Christian couples did not divorce or have sex before marriage because they believed that sexual intercourse was for marriage only, and that the unity of man and woman in marriage was sacred and indissoluble: It was a reflection of Christ’s own unity with his bride the Church (cf. Eph. 5:25). In an age when any father could command the death of his newborn child, Christians accepted all children, including those who were weak or handicapped. In the words of an early Christian testimony, probably written in the second century:
Christians . . . marry like all others, and beget children; but they do not expose their offspring. Their board they spread for all, but not their bed. They find themselves in the flesh, but do not live according to the flesh. They spend their days on earth, but hold citizenship in heaven.
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That’s nice......
I said it once before and I’ll tell you again.
Do not PM me.
If you have anything to me that needs to be said, it can be said on the forum. If it can’t be said in public, it shouldn’t be said in private.
PM is not an out for violation of the forum rules.
“First Christians were Catholic, deal with it, it’s fact.”
Apparently, brainwashing has worked better for some than others. Instead of parroting what you’ve heard mortals tell you in mass, try learning what GOD has to say by going directly to The Source and studying the Bible. And here’s a clue: You won’t find “Catholic”.
Most of the R.C. razzle-dazzle was created as revenue generating measures so the R.C. leaders could live in luxury. The Catholic influx began long after New Testament times. It’s a fact; deal with it.
I don’t think you understand the power of receiving Christ in the Eucharist during Mass. That’s where the quote comes from.
Until Luther defected, everyone was Catholic. Check the facts, please.
Jesus lives in our hearts by faith, not our gut by ingestion.
“Sad that his “strength” wasn’t from a personal relationship with God. It’s good to attend church and it’s good to observe the ordinance of Communion”
You don’t get any more personal with God that Holy Communion. But of course a protestant would have no idea.
That is as wrong as two left shoes.
YAWN.
Did you get a degree in dietetics or are you a Medical Doctor?
Christ, Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity is consumed into our entire body, mind, heart and as you say (vulgarly) intestinal system.
The Holy Eucharist is much more than just food, although some saints have survived years on just the Eucharist and water.
You’ve been reported.
Hey, Metmom...are ya skeered??? ;o)
I’z REELLLYYYYY skeered now.....
Likewise since you seem to know how the host is absorbed into the body. Christ, Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity is consumed into our entire body, mind, heart and as you say (vulgarly) intestinal system.
The Holy Eucharist is much more than just food, although some saints have survived years on just the Eucharist and water.
Sure they have......
Did you get a degree in dietetics or are you a Medical Doctor? Christ, Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity is consumed into our entire body, mind, heart and as you say (vulgarly) intestinal system.
Likewise since you seem to know how the host is absorbed into the body.
The Holy Eucharist is much more than just food, although some saints have survived years on just the Eucharist and water.
Sure they have......
Where did you earn your degree and what is it in?
No word Trinity either. It is still a fact, deal with it.
Where is your degree from and what did you earn it in?
NO, because Sola Scriptura is a man made Construct. Jesus began the Catholic Church.
Or any direct questions on the FR forum apparently.
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