Posted on 01/05/2015 3:27:43 AM PST by NYer
Freedom of speech is a great thing. Unfortunately, it comes at an unavoidable price: When citizens are free to say what they want, theyll sometimes use that freedom to say some pretty silly things. And thats the case with the 12 claims were about to cover.
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Some of them are made over and over, others are rare. Either way, while the proponents of these errors are free to promote them, we as Catholics have a duty to respond.
2. "Christianity is no better than any other faith. All religions lead to God."
If you haven't heard this one a dozen times, you don't get out much. Sadly enough, the person making this claim is often himself a Christian (at least, in name).
The problems with this view are pretty straightforward. Christianity makes a series of claims about God and man: That Jesus of Nazareth was God Himself, and that he died and was resurrected — all so that we might be free from our sins. Every other religion in the world denies each of these points. So, if Christianity is correct, then it speaks a vital truth to the world — a truth that all other religions reject.
This alone makes Christianity unique.
But it doesn't end there. Recall Jesus' statement in John's Gospel:
"I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me." In Christianity, we have God's full revelation to humanity. It's true that all religions contain some measure of truth — the amount varying with the religion. Nevertheless, if we earnestly want to follow and worship God, shouldn't we do it in the way He prescribed?
If Jesus is indeed God, then only Christianity contains the fullness of this truth.
Mary was NOT a virgin her entire life.
Thank you for mentioning that; do you type it in manually, or is there a way of linking in the name?
It would also be a help if the post were answered by the person to whom it was directed. My questions regarding the picture were not directed at you, you chose to respond. "Just for a giggle"?
Peace be with you, Bear!
Not any way to link that I know of. I just type it in if it's an easy name or copy and past.
So you go by the interpretation in Strong’s Concordance.
Why is it so important to Catholics to think that Mary was always a virgin, that she never had sex with Joseph and that Jesus didn’t have any brothers or sisters?
Is there something wrong with the sexual relationship between a husband and wife?
The Perpetual Virginity of Mary - Brothers and Sisters of Christ?
Virgin Birth—or Prophetic Slip?
The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary
Aeiparthenos (An Anglo-Catholic Priest on Mary's Perpetual Virginity)
[Why I Am Catholic]: Because of the Protestant Reformers Beliefs On Mary
Catholic Biblical Apologetics: Mary: Virgin and Ever Virgin
Luther, Calvin, and Other Early Protestants on the Perpetual Virginity of Mary
Luther, Calvin, and Other Early Protestants on the Perpetual Virginity of Mary
The Protestant Reformers on the Virgin Mary
Zwingli’s’ Mariology: On Mary “Full of Grace”
Where there is hatred,
Let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is error, truth;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, Joy.
O Divine Master grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled
As to console;
To be understood,as to understand;
To be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Done for the day! God bless you, FReepers, ONE AND ALL! You can call me names, dislike me and my Church, we can disagree, but we are still brothers and sisters created in the Image and Likeness of God!
The Greatest Commandments are these: you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart; with all your soul; with all your mind and with all your strength: and you shall LOVE YOU NEIGHBOR as yourself!
Until next time, may God be with you!
Thank you! I came here to learn what our other Christian bretheren think. With understanding comes peace! We, in our times need to embrace our common ground and respect our differences. God bless you!
No, not at all! It's a wonderful thing, given us by God! But the womb where Jesus was concieved by the Power of the Holy Spirit, was a place meant for Jesus alone.
God bless you, Metmom, and thank you for asking.
God bless!
Have added you to my daily prayer list. May the Peace of our Lord be with you!
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A man goes to confession for the first time in 30 years. The priest ask what his sins are and the man tells him that he has worked in a lumber yard for 30 years and that every single day for that 30 years he would steal a piece of lumber. The priest says for your penance I want you to make a novena, do you know how to make a novena. The man thinks for a second and says “Not really, but if you got the plans I sure got the lumber.”
Chapter and verse?
;^)
Official video version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pxRXP3w-sQ no written lyrics, but interesting visuals.
Not that I'm recommending this as good theology, or anything much along those lines.
Wiki for Regina Spektor
Amazing voice and song. He voice reminds me of Janis Joplin, without the baggage. Does she have an CD’s out?
Never mind I just downloaded her playlist on my Amazon Prime music.
Never mind I just downloaded her playlist on my Amazon Prime music.
The wiki link mentioned that her first release was self-published.
And I guess there have been more than a few CD's come out over a span of years.
The youtube info indicates the one song was published in 2009.
I guess she's done some movie work, like the ending song in Chronicles of Narnia? (which I have not seen) and songs in a couple of other movies?
I know little of her, to tell the truth.
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