Posted on 04/22/2016 8:47:44 AM PDT by metmom
“Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand” (1 Corinthians 15:1).
The true church has consistently testified to the power of the Resurrection.
Kenneth Scott Latourette observed in his History of the Expansion of Christianity: “It was the conviction of the resurrection of Jesus which lifted his followers out of the despair into which his death had cast them and which led to the perpetuation of a movement begun by him.” This statement was true for the church at Corinth, even with its many problems.
The apostle Paul opens his well-known chapter on the Resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15 by implicitly affirming the Corinthians’ testimony to that doctrine. Simply by receiving the gospel and having their lives transformed, the believers at Corinth demonstrated the reality of Jesus’ resurrection. And that resurrection is what empowered the gospel. Paul did not need to explicitly remind the Corinthians of Christ’s rising to life until verse 4, “He was raised on the third day.” The apostle was confident at the outset that the Corinthians had already believed in the truth of the Lord’s resurrection.
The fact that the Corinthian church continued to exist, though beset with problems of immaturity and other weaknesses, was a solid witness to the power of the gospel of the risen Christ. Only a living Savior could have converted some of the hardened sinners of Corinth—extortioners, idolaters, the sexually immoral—into a community of the redeemed. Paul was concerned and distressed about many of the things that did and did not happen in the church at Corinth, but he did not hesitate to call the core group of members there “brethren.”
In spite of many challenges from skepticism, persecution, heresy, and unfaithfulness, the church through the centuries has continued to testify to the reality of Christ’s resurrection. The true church celebrates that truth often, not just on Easter Sunday. Actually, because the church gathers on Sunday, the Lord’s Day, the first day of the week (when Jesus rose), we remember the Resurrection every week. Praise the Lord for that reminder the next time you worship on the Lord’s Day.
Suggestions for Prayer
Thank God that His church was faithful in the past to testify to the truth of the Resurrection.
For Further Study
Read Acts 4, and list some things that suggest a testimony to the power of the Resurrection.
[64] The flesh profiteth nothing: Dead flesh separated from the spirit, in the gross manner they supposed they were to eat his flesh, would profit nothing. Neither doth man’s flesh, that is to say, man’s natural and carnal apprehension, (which refuses to be subject to the spirit, and words of Christ,) profit any thing. But it would be the height of blasphemy, to say the living flesh of Christ (which we receive in the blessed sacrament, with his spirit, that is, with his soul and divinity) profiteth nothing. For if Christ’s flesh had profited us nothing, he would never have taken flesh for us, nor died in the flesh for us.
The problem with Protestantism is those who have researched it, taught, and preached it for a lifetime have admitted it is false in all its forms. Having drive-by internet “theologians” cut and paste semi-literate stuff from notoriously anti—Catholic websites are of little use.
Famed English writer Hillaire Belloc put it best when he said that unlike other heresies “Protestantism spawned a cluster of heresies.” In short, they were like cancer cells that divides themselves.
2000 years of unbroken Church tradition dating back to the teachings and practice of the early disciples of Christ cannot be swept aside by puerile interpretations of scriptural text as if one were reading a book by Dr. Seuss on green eggs and ham.
These were written and translated from Aramaic, Hebrew to Greek, and underwent years of interpretation. One cannot make the serious claim that any Tom, Dick, and Harry can crack open the pages of the Bible and offer us “his” or “her” definitive integration of God’s Word. Christ gave an “authority” to Peter and his his successor to teach ONE truth. They wrote, believed and practiced “Eucharist” belief as the true Body and Blood of Chirst. This goes back to nearly 2000 years.
BEFORE, scripture the Catholic Church existed. This is what the theologians and scholars tells us. Even Luther himself acknowledged that weren’t it for the Catholic Church there would be no Bible.
This is emphatically not about belonging to ANY “denominational affiliation.”
You are either a Catholic or you are not.
This is about One Church with One truth. You can’t say it doesn’t matter if you affiliate with the vapid nonsense of Billy Graham or Joel Osteen or David Koresh or Jim Jones.
This is all about “authority” given to Peter and his successors to teach ONE truth. This is why there is a galaxy of minds from different constellations from atheists to Buddhists to Hindus to scientists from every denomination of Protestantism who have now come to embrace the Catholic Church.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_converts_to_Catholicism
All the rest of the stuff put out by Protestant writers and blogs makes for useless and irrelevant reading. Try doing some serious reading on the books by Benedict XVI that TIME called the “greatest living theologian” or Augustine or Aquinas. We have a litany of saints and martyrs.
Why would any sensible Catholic spend so much as a second on reading Protestant drivel that has been called so by leading Protestant theologians to Catholicism.
[26] And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke: and gave to his disciples, and said: Take ye, and eat. This is my body. [27] And taking the chalice, he gave thanks, and gave to them, saying: Drink ye all of this. [28] For this is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed for many unto remission of sins. Matthew; Chapter 26
Yes ya'll do. Let's look at all of the Gospel accounts and 1 Corinthians...in context.
The Gospel accounts on the Passover Supper Jesus shared with His disciples before He was crucified.
Key word in Matthew, Mark and Luke regarding His blood....it is poured out. This is what happened to blood in the OT sacrifices. It was never consumed.
Remembrance as used in Luke and 1 Cor
ἀνάμνησις,
anámnēsis (from 363 /anamimnḗskō, "bring to mind") – properly, deliberate recollection, done to better appreciate the effects (intended results) of what happened
1 Corinthians tells us why we are doing this....we are proclaiming His death until He comes.
| Matthew 26:26-29 | Mark 14:22-25 | Luke 22:14-20 | 1 Corinthians 10:23-26 |
| 26While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” 27And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; 28for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins. 29“But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.” . | 22While they were eating, He took some bread, and after a blessing He broke it, and gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is My body.” 23And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank from it. 24And He said to them, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. 25“Truly I say to you, I will never again drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God | 14When the hour had come, He reclined at the table, and the apostles with Him. 15And He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; 16for I say to you, I shall never again eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” 17And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He said, “Take this and share it among yourselves; 18for I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine from now on until the kingdom of God comes.” 19And when He had taken some bread and given thanks, He broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” 20And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood. | 23For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread; 24and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” 25In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” 26For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes. |
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NOT participating in it.
Christ's Blood was consumed at the Last Supper, and has been at every sacrifice of the Holy Mass, since.
P.S. I see you've called in your troops. Have at, all of you, attack the Bible.
We all have the same Holy Spirit. If you read the Word you might know that.
You are either a Catholic or you are not.
No...you either a Christian, that is a follower of Christ, or you are not.
It never ceases to amaze me that catholics so readily identify with the name Catholic (meaning Roman Catholic), and yet eschew the name Christian.
This is about One Church with One truth. You can’t say it doesn’t matter if you affiliate with the vapid nonsense of Billy Graham or Joel Osteen or David Koresh or Jim Jones.
You really need some new material. No one who claims to follow Christ acknowledges Osteen, Koresh or Jones as true believers.
Yet what can the catholic say about the current Pope? The vast majority of catholics I've seen post on this board hate the guy....and he's your pope. You cannot disavow him and say he's not roman catholic. Ya'll picked him!! Just as the popes on Elsie's naughty list and all of the priests that molest little boys. Ya'll screened 'em, ordained 'em, etc....in other words. Roman catholicism owns it.
This is why there is a galaxy of minds from different constellations from atheists to Buddhists to Hindus to scientists from every denomination of Protestantism who have now come to embrace the Catholic Church.
Yes...I've seen some of the minds at work on this board who've embraced catholicism. They are the first ones to start name calling.
Wow. Just. Wow.
Even when you have the verses in context you still don't get it.
The Gospels give us a complete account of what happened at the Passover Supper with Christ and His disciples. I suggest you read it closely.
Remember, you called it "your precious Bible" when you posted to me.
Trust me. No troops are needed when posting with you.
I posted for them so they could have for latter reference. It's called sharing. It's what friends do.
3. Among the many deplorable evils which disturb and afflict both ecclesiastical and civil society, two stand out in our day and are justly considered to be the cause of the others. In effect, you are aware of the innumerable and fatal damages which the hideous error of indifferentism causes to Christian and civil society. It causes us to forget out duties to God in whom we live and act and have our being. It causes us to slacken our concern for holy religion and shakes almost to destruction the very basis of all law, justice, and virtue. There is little difference between this hideous form of indifference and the devilish system of indifference between the different religions. This belief embraces people who have strayed from the truth, who are enemies of the true faith and forget their own salvation, and who teach contradictory beliefs without firm doctrine. They make no distinction between the different creeds, agree with everybody, and maintain that the haven of eternal salvation is open to sectarians of any religion. The diversity of their teachings does not concern them as long as they agree to combat that which alone is the truth.[1]
4. You see, dearly beloved sons and venerable brothers, how much vigilance is needed to keep the disease of this terrible evil from infecting and killing your flocks. Do not cease to diligently defend your people against these pernicious errors. Saturate them with the doctrine of Catholic truth more accurately each day. Teach them that just as there is only one God, one Christ, one Holy Spirit, so there is also only one truth which is divinely revealed. There is only one divine faith which is the beginning of salvation for mankind and the basis of all justification, the faith by which the just person lives and without which it is impossible to please God and to come to the community of His children.[2] There is only one true, holy, Catholic church, which is the Apostolic Roman Church. There is only one See founded in Peter by the word of the Lord,[3] outside of which we cannot find either true faith or eternal salvation. He who does not have the Church for a mother cannot have God for a father, and whoever abandons the See of Peter on which the Church is established trusts falsely that he is in the Church.[4] Thus, there can be no greater crime, no more hideous stain than to stand up against Christ, than to divide the Church engendered and purchased by His blood, than to forget evangelical love and to combat with the furor of hostile discord the harmony of the people of God.[5]
Pius XII stated unequivocally: “To be Christian one must be Roman. One must recognize the oneness of Christ’s Church that is governed by one successor of the Prince of the Apostles who is the Bishop of Rome, Christ’s Vicar on earth” (Allocution to the Irish pilgrims of October 8, 1957). How is it possible to be clearer than this about those who can be called Christian?
Leo XIII makes it plain that separated members cannot belong to the same body: “So long as the member was on the body, it lived; separated, it lost its life. Thus the man, so long as he lives on the body of the [Catholic] Church, he is a Christian; separated from her, he becomes a heretic” (Encyclical Satis cognitum of June 29, 1896).
Whoever leaves her [the Catholic Church] departs from the will and command of Our Lord Jesus Christ; leaving the path of salvation, he enters that of perdition. Whoever is separated from the Church is united to an adulteress” (ibid.). Certainly, they do not share with us the same title of Christian.
Pope Pius IX stated: “He who abandons the Chair of Peter on which the Church is founded, is falsely persuaded that he is in the Church of Christ” (Quartus supra of January 6 1873, n. 8).
In the Syllabus of Modern Errors, the proposition that Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion was specifically condemned (Pius IX, n. 18)(1).
Therefore, there is only one Christian Church, the Catholic Church, and only those who belong to it should rightfully be called Christians.
Yes, readers, catholiciism calls Jesus a their victim at their altars, and catholiciism claims to feed the real body, blood, soul and DIVINITY of GOD to their Mass attendees. A more pagan religion you would not find in all of antiquity.
Your “bible” is not the same as my Bible.
Jesus told the disciples to come follow Him. Nothing about being Roman. Me thinks your popes need to read the Word also.
I see you’ve adjusted your attitude a bit on this.
The following morning He went to the cross as the Perfect Lamb of God, without spot or blemish, offering Himself ONCE for ALL, for all time, never to be repeated. Catholiciism would have you believe Jesus violated the Levitical laws on Nisan 14 by having His followers drink blood and eat His flesh. This is blasphemy. Those pushing this demonic lie are blaspheming.
He was not a victim, He was the willing Savior, interceding for us and for our Salvation. He is not a victim, He is the One worthy to open the seals in Heaven. [see the Revelation of John]
He is not a continuous sacrifice to be eaten for getting god-life into someone. He is GOD with us. You cannot eat God. A catholic priest cannot feed God to you at a pagan catholic altar. Such priests can feed you blasphemy by claiming they serve you the real GOD in a wheat wafer. But if one wants to play at striving for salvation, it is easy to die int he catholic religion, for the deeper one goes in blasphemous behavior, the darker the spiritual cloud around them. eventually, the darkness becomes so thick that Truth is no longer recognized and the Bible can be made to support any catholic heresy and you must believe it in order to continue striving the sacramental trail to oblivion ... or catholic fantasy land called purgatory, where you can suffer your way to catholic heaven. Strive alive or in purgatory, it's the same works lie repackaged.
And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Matthew 16:18
Who built your "church"?
Nope. I have never believed in “bibles” issued by a protestant king or an apostate German monk.
An instiution is not going to get you salvation. Faithing in Jesus comes by hearing, and hearing by The Word of God. It does not come by eating god at a catholic pagan alatr, or reading your rosary beads to Mary the Mother of Jesus, or by wearing a Brown scalpula indulgence someone purchased, or by being baptized by a catholic priest, or by faith in sacraments.
The Bible records for all to read what the people listening to Peter's sermon on the day of Pentecost received IMMEDIATELY.
The Bible records for us that the Holy Spirit of God came into the believers in the house of Cornelius even before Peter finished his sermon there.
Salvation is not a yoyo with catholic priesthood holding the string.
The Bible tells us that more than three thousand WERE ADDED TO THE EKKLESIA the day of Pentecost. The EKKLESIA is the Body of Christ. The Catholic institution is not the body of Christ, though there are likely many members of His body struggling along in that religion.
Then why did Jesus say otherwise?
1 Matthew 16:18 And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
An institution is not going to get you salvation. Faithing in Jesus comes by hearing, and hearing by The Word of God. It does not come by eating god at a catholic pagan altar, or reading your rosary beads to Mary the Mother of Jesus, or by wearing a Brown scalpula indulgence someone purchased, or by being baptized by a catholic priest, or by faith in sacraments.
The Bible records, for all to read, what the people listening to Peter's sermon on the day of Pentecost received IMMEDIATELY.
The Bible records for us that the Holy Spirit of God came into the believers in the house of Cornelius even before Peter finished his sermon there.
Salvation is not a yoyo with catholic priesthood holding the string. When the Bible says three thousand were added to the EKKLESIA that day, that number did not drop to a lower number a day or two later. It is by God's Promise that these were added that day, and God does not break His promises.
The Bible tells us that more than three thousand WERE ADDED TO THE EKKLESIA the day of Pentecost. The EKKLESIA is the Body of Christ. The Catholic institution is not the body of Christ, though there are likely many members of His body struggling along in that religion.
If you were not so determined to believe the religion of Rome we could lead you through the many Bible passages where JESUS teaches that believing on the One Whom God has sent for your salvation is the basis of the profession which THE HOLY SPIRIT led Peter to make, as Jesus told you in that scene.
But you are unable to learn from the Bible and you are now a captive of the magisterium, so showing you what Jesus says will not be received, you will only twist verses to ignore them or make untruths of them.
Do you not believe in the Triune God???
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