Posted on 02/07/2017 4:36:42 AM PST by BlessedBeGod
Grace of God Fist bump!
Do you ever look at another with lust?
2 Corinthians 5:17-21 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
The Catholic church puts the pharisees and the Talmud to shame.
Makes them looks like a bunch of pikers by comparison with their legalistic maneuvering.
Hey, but speaking of which, all Catholics have to do is get a handy, dandy, quick and easy (but not cheap) church approved dissolution of their marriage vows, in the form of an *annulment* and viola no more issues about enjoying sex and thinking they are sinning in their second marriage while they enjoy their church approved divorce and remarriage.
“Why wasn’t it limited to people who were divorced by the other party without their consent and they never remarried?”
You appeared to be asking why it(Amoris Laetitia) was not limited to divorced people who have not remarried. I explained why it didn’t need to be.
If you meant to ask a different question, please clarify.
Asking a question and then demanding people stop lecturing you when they answer is rude.
Love, O2
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Yes, that is a sin, and if mortal and not venial, should be confessed. What does my sinfulness have to do with the price of eggs in China?
Depends on your activities relative to the hen.
The point is we all sin. Daily in some form or another.
no no, I meant the article that was posted to FreeRepublic
I disagree with the premise/explanation that is trying to be invented in the article to explain what the Pope wrote.
No, I didn't know that and most people that go to confession don't know that either.
You mean like venial and mortal?
John chapter 4
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17 “I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”
27 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
33 Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”
34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”
39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41 And because of his words many more became believers.
42 They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”
Notice that Jesus never told the woman, "Go; and sin no more."?
Very good reading, the scripture tells us that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
And if we could be perfect we might be able to be resurrected with out dying but we can`t.
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
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