Posted on 06/11/2017 10:27:59 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
The point of origin of the Christian faith is Jesus Christ.
This page reviews the transmission of the Christian faith from Jesus Christ and the Apostles through the Traditions of the early Christian Church and the formation of the Canon of the New Testament of the Bible.
God has revealed himself to man through Divine Revelation, by sending us his beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. God chose to reveal himself to us so that we may become partakers of his divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). God first made himself known by creating our first parents, Adam and Eve, in his image and likeness (Genesis 1:26-28). Following the Fall of Adam and Eve through original sin, God's promise of Redemption gave them the hope of salvation (Genesis 3:15). In preparing for the redemption of the human race, God made covenants with Noah, Abraham, Moses and the people and prophets of Israel. Salvation history is fulfilled through the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Word made Flesh.
Our appropriate personal response in our relationship with Christ Jesus is what St. Paul calls "the obedience of faith" (Romans 1:5, 16:26)!
There were three stages in the formation of the Gospels: the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ, the Oral Tradition of the Apostles, and the Written Word.
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And the reason that *brother* and *sister* means actual brother and sister is precisely because they did not think Jesus was anything more than the son of the carpenter and Mary.
They had no idea who He was, didn’t believe His claims, could not even begin to figure it out. Their puzzlement was plain.
In their eyes, He was just an ordinary guy from an ordinary family. There was n o reason for them to fudge meanings.
It depends.
As long as you ask the next pair of freshly washed faces of Mormon Missionairies who visit your abode if THEY have read it; you may pass GO-> and collect $200.
Other wise; that purgatory you do not believe in will confirm your reservation for a certai, unknown period of time.
That still does not give us license to try to contact them in violation of God’s commands to not contact those who have passed from this life.
St. John tells us in St. John 21:25:..."But there are also many other things which Jesus did; which, if they were written every one, the world itself, I think, would not be able to contain the books that should be written."
This indicates (to me at least) that there were many things that Jesus said and did that did NOT pertain to the Saving of souls and the Cleansing of sin.
Of WHAT?
Mindreading an entire group of people.
Really?
That worked well for these guys: Esau and Jacob
Thank you for your keen and instructive deliberations. I am better informed by them, and will keep them for future reference. Your work, unappreciated by some, is not wasted on me.
And are the Catholics really against Mary having more than one child or are they taking their hatred of the protestant Churchs out on anyone that claims Mary has done wrong?
Is the following still in force?
"One indeed is the universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved, in which the priest himself is the sacrifice, Jesus Christ, whose body and blood are truly contained in the sacrament of the altar under the species of bread and wine; the bread (changed) into His body by the divine power of transubstantiation, and the wine into the blood, so that to accomplish the mystery of unity we ourselves receive from His (nature) what He Himself received from ours."
--Pope Innocent III and Lateran Council IV (A.D. 1215)
There is the Mary of the bible, and there is Rome’s Mary.
Quite different individuals.
Well, yeah. Bro. Paul tends to go on and on, and I did not want to insert more citation that only hammered in the point being made. But for me, I do love the context. Nice of you to do the extra hammering!
Yeah, I did. Post #43 was my reply. I just think MDO was getting confused about who was discussing what, and for which purpose . . .
You've got me. When I'm wrong, I'm wrong. And not to proud to admit it. Nah, I meant half-brothers and sisters. Remember the manger scene? No step brothers or step-sisters. Jesus is referred to as her firstborn (Luke 2:7). And they were blood kin through Mary of course.
Thanks again for taking up on this second issue, and for bringing these resources into view. Please accept my appreciation for your labors.
That is a good point. I realize that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but if Joseph had other children at the time of Jesus’ birth, why were they not mentioned in Luke? It seems that Joseph’s entire household should have been with him.
For the census, it was a requirement.
Agreed.
For example, let's say that two people are arguing about taxation. One takes the view that there ought be a reduced, 10% tax on all income from whatever source, the same for everyone (flat tax). The second person says, "So! You want to shrink our defense budget and disarm the USA!"
If the first person objects that that's neither what he said nor what he meant, but the second person continues along those lines, the second person is making a strawman argument: "refuting" something that person #1 never said to begin with.
The way to avoid inadvertently setting a strawman, is to ask, "Please clarify something for me. Is this what you meant?"
I failed to distribute one of my middles? I beg your forgiveness. Please indicate the neglected middle and I will distribute it as well as I can.
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