Better to KNOW you don't have to be scared because you know you have eternal life like Jesus promised!
Posted on 08/02/2017 2:07:44 PM PDT by detective
The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CEV) has publicly invoked the intercession of the Virgin Mary to free the nation “from the claws of communism,” in a clear reference to the regime of President Nicolás Maduro.
“Blessed Virgin, Mother of Coromoto, heavenly Patron of Venezuela, free our country from the claws of communism and socialism,” the CEV posted on Twitter this Sunday, complete with an image of Santa Maria and a Venezuelan flag.
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Did you mean this:?
http://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_pi09id.htm
THE DEFINITION
Wherefore, in humility and fasting, we unceasingly offered our private prayers as well as the public prayers of the Church to God the Father through his Son, that he would deign to direct and strengthen our mind by the power of the Holy Spirit. In like manner did we implore the help of the entire heavenly host as we ardently invoked the Paraclete. Accordingly, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, for the honor of the Holy and undivided Trinity, for the glory and adornment of the Virgin Mother of God, for the exaltation of the Catholic Faith, and for the furtherance of the Catholic religion, by the authority of Jesus Christ our Lord, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own:
We declare, pronounce, and define that the doctrine which holds that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin, is a doctrine revealed by God and therefore to be believed firmly and constantly by all the faithful.
[Declaramus, pronuntiamus et definimus doctrinam quae tenet beatissimam Virginem Mariam in primo instanti suae conceptionis fuisse singulari Omnipotentis Dei gratia et privilegio, intuitu meritorum Christi Jesu Salvatoris humani generis, ab omni originalis culpae labe praeservatam immunem, esse a Deo revelatam, atque idcirco ab omnibus fidelibus firmiter constanterque credendam.]
Hence, if anyone shall dare — which God forbid! — to think otherwise than as has been defined by us, let him know and understand that he is condemned by his own judgment; that he has suffered shipwreck in the faith; that he has separated from the unity of the Church; and that, furthermore, by his own action he incurs the penalties established by law if he should dare to express in words or writing or by any other outward means the errors he thinks in his heart.
HOPED-FOR RESULTS
Our soul overflows with joy and our tongue with exultation. We give, and we shall continue to give, the humblest and deepest thanks to Jesus Christ, our Lord, because through his singular grace he has granted to us, unworthy though we be, to decree and offer this honor and glory and praise to his most holy Mother. All our hope do we repose in the most Blessed Virgin — in the all fair and immaculate one who has crushed the poisonous head of the most cruel serpent and brought salvation to the world: in her who is the glory of the prophets and apostles, the honor of the martyrs, the crown and joy of all the saints; in her who is the safest refuge and the most trustworthy helper of all who are in danger; in her who, with her only-begotten Son, is the most powerful Mediatrix and Conciliatrix in the whole world; in her who is the most excellent glory, ornament, and impregnable stronghold of the holy Church; in her who has destroyed all heresies and snatched the faithful people and nations from all kinds of direst calamities; in her do we hope who has delivered us from so many threatening dangers. We have, therefore, a very certain hope and complete confidence that the most Blessed Virgin will ensure by her most powerful patronage that all difficulties be removed and all errors dissipated, so that our Holy Mother the Catholic Church may flourish daily more and more throughout all the nations and countries, and may reign “from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth,” and may enjoy genuine peace, tranquility and liberty. We are firm in our confidence that she will obtain pardon for the sinner, health for the sick, strength of heart for the weak, consolation for the afflicted, help for those in danger; that she will remove spiritual blindness from all who are in error, so that they may return to the path of truth and justice, and that here may be one flock and one shepherd.
Let all the children of the Catholic Church, who are so very dear to us, hear these words of ours. With a still more ardent zeal for piety, religion and love, let them continue to venerate, invoke and pray to the most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, conceived without original sin. Let them fly with utter confidence to this most sweet Mother of mercy and grace in all dangers, difficulties, needs, doubts and fears. Under her guidance, under her patronage, under her kindness and protection, nothing is to be feared; nothing is hopeless. Because, while bearing toward us a truly motherly affection and having in her care the work of our salvation, she is solicitous about the whole human race. And since she has been appointed by God to be the Queen of heaven and earth, and is exalted above all the choirs of angels and saints, and even stands at the right hand of her only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, she presents our petitions in a most efficacious manner. What she asks, she obtains. Her pleas can never be unheard.
Given at St. Peter’s in Rome, the eighth day of December, 1854, in the eighth year of our pontificate.
Pius IX
Not only do we receive Him body blood soul divinity at every communion, but He feeds us directly on the tongue, like feeding a beloved. Nothing we have done or that we are can explain His love for us and His desire to be with us.
“Drink of it all of you, for this is my Blood of the covenant, which will be shed on behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins.”
Sacrifice.
Yes...it’s already done. Not to be repeated again.
Agreed. It’s never repeated.
It’s the same sacrifice.
That’s the point. The RCC keeps putting Him on the altar again and again, etc in contradiction of what revealed in the NT.
The prohibition against blood was in place for animals and false gods because it was a pagan way of trying to obtain power/life/attributes of animals or false gods. It was a repetition of Adam’s sin of trying to become as powerful as God outside of God’s plan.
Jesus did not violate it by requiring His disciples to drink His blood because He is not an animal or a false god. He is the Only One from whom we can actually get life by consuming His Holy Flesh and Blood..
Saying we cannot consume Jesus’ blood because of this prohibition is like saying we cannot worship God because we are prohibited from worshiping false gods. It is not the action that is prohibited, it is the object of the action.
It appears to me that Our Lord could not have been more clear about this.
“Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you.” [John 6:54]
“If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world.”[John 6:52]
What did Jesus give for the life of the world? He gave us His body, on the cross.
Love,
O2
So what do you measure someone’s theological position against to determine if it is true?
Can it be proven by the Divinely-inspired Scriptures! Seriously, it's not like the Bible is written in some secret undecipherable code. It is plainly enough written so that anyone who is diligently seeking to know the truth WILL be rewarded by God.
Paul, for example, spoke about what he preached:
Read the writings of many of the early Christian leaders. They often assert that NOTHING they teach should be received if it cannot be shown from the Scriptures. That is our rule of faith, our measuring rod to know the things of God. What HE has revealed to us and preserved for all time in HIS word.
Better to KNOW you don't have to be scared because you know you have eternal life like Jesus promised!
The key words, being "diligently seeking." I would guess not many are diligently seeking anything. Many are called, few are chosen.
It is estimated, that two people in the world, die every second. That is about 170,000 a day. The vast majority of them, go to Hell. There are many Bible verses, that are not easy to understand. There are many that I DO understand, but fall short of living up to.
On the other hand, there are Bible verses, concerning Heaven and Hell, how to go to the first, and avoid the second. These salvation verses, are so simple, a three year old can understand, and no way, on God's green earth, can they be misinterpreted. If these salvation verses are misinterpreted, I believe it is deliberate, and will put them in deep kimchi. You are right, it's best to KNOW right now, that we are saved, even if it means committing the sin of presumption 😀 No need to be skeered. If some are, that's on them.
Why didn't they literally drink His blood?
Where two or three are gathered in my name...
I think you know the rest
no blood no flesh
Paul was speaking to the Corinthians who were not Jews
who did not know the symbolism of the Passover meal
She does tend to leave things out
...for the glory and adornment of the Virgin Mother of GOD...
I thought God would not share his glory with anyone.
Will be
done. over
it is finished
Because they had learned better than that at the last supper. Jesus did not tear off His flesh or cut Himself to supply blood. He took bread and said, “This is my body,” and He meant it. Same with the wine.
When we “Do this in memory of Me,” at the celebration of the Eucharist, He does exactly the same thing.
Love,
O2
It was always "poured out".
for this is My blood of the covenant, which is "poured out" for many for forgiveness of sins. Matt 26:28 NASB
It is not another continual sacrifice of Christ as taught by Roman Catholicism.
That’s what heaven is. All of the angels and saints will be wrapt in the glory of God. He wants to share His glory with us. Or am I not understanding your comment?
We can be edified by The Word of God by letting The Word amplify itself, as in: we know the Council letter refers to the admonition against blood, ALL BLOOD (there were no exceptions in the Levitical commands because the blood of the sacrificed animal was sprinkled upon the Mercy Seat for atonement). The ritual harkened to the Blood of Jesus that would be sprinkled upon The Mercy Seat in Heaven as the perfect atonement for our sin.
We also know that the HOLY SPIRIT deemed it good to refer to the Law of Moses meaning, because that is what The Word of God declares to us in the Council letter! So, there seems to be a contradiction or duplicitous conundrum if we look at what Jesus said in John 6. But really, there is no conflict. Jesus was referring to SPIRITUAL food and drink. HE knew the hearts of those HE wanted to separate themselves from HIS entourage. And they did edit themselves from HIS company. But He did not leave the true believers in conflict between what the Levitical Law commanded and what they had just heard: Jesus ended that teaching lesson as HE began it in John 6:26-29, by clarifying the flesh does not convey the spiritual for it is the words He spoke that give LIFE (John 6:60-63).
Before you dismiss this offering, notice that it is JESUS Who says, 56 "The person who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will also live because of me.[Was Jesus eating GOD The Father to obtain HIS LIFE in HIM? NO! He was continuously infused with HIS Divine Life by HIS 'pistus', His Faith in the Father's Presence!] 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not the kind that your ancestors ate. They died, but the one who eats this bread will live forever.” 59 He said this while teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.
In context, the teaching happened in Capernaum, where the cliffs were potted with grottoes and caves dedicated to idols and the remains of the dead, where food was often left for the idols and the dead.
On the one hand, eating a piece of bread causes the bread to be in you. BUT only by a spiritual sense can you 'remain in the bread'; Jesus said that those who feed on HIM, SPIRITUALLY, remain in HIM. The carnal perspective inherent in the Catholic Mass cannot by ingesting bread and wine have you remaining in HIM unless it is a spiritual alignment. Note carefully how JESUS clarifies the teaching for those who remained with HIM. And He re-emphasized the spiritual on the night in which He was betrayed, and even then HE clarified it as not a physical reality but a spiritual REMEMBRANCE using bred and wine, which aligns us to remain in HIM via spiritual direction of our will, showing the death of OUR Savior every time we do the ritual of remembrance using simple bread and wine. HE remains in the believer by HIS WILL not our behaviors/ritual fealty. As we remain in HIM we are living LIFE more abundantly.
In conclusion, we may know that the admonition against blood refers to not just the ritual sacrifice of animals but to all cannibalism and blood, because Paul warns those who partake of the remembrance 'unworthily' that they would be violating the Levitical admonitions and be guilty of the body and blood if they do not rightly discern the body of Christ ... and believers are the body of Christ now on the Earth and in the Earth! We individually remain 'in HIM' by partaking of the spiritual feeding in the remembrance ritual. HIS LIFE remains in the individual because of HIS Promise, not our works.
So here is the 'problem' with the Catholicism assertion (and that of all the isms which have branched off of the catholiciism) in the bread and wine: JESUS answers your query in the very same lesson given in John 6. He refers to the carnal bread which came from the skies each night as manna, and then transcends that carnal by asserting that HE is the Real Manna from Heaven. Could the Israelites 'remain in the manna' by eating the manna? The manna could remain in them as it imparted nourishment, but they could not remain in the manna for it rotted when the sun hit it! JESUS taught that The Manna come fown from The Heaven, not the skies, when spiritually ingested remains in the believer (by GOD's Promise) and THE BELIEVER remains in the Real nourishment by focusing the will upon what HE has done for us, humbly partaking of the bread and wine IN REMEMBRANCE.
The Catholicism perspective teaches physically eating the flesh and blood, SOUL AND DIVINITY of Jesus, of GOD, to 're-up' the LIFE of God in you. BUT God teaches in HIS Word that when you believe, HE puts HIS LIFE Spark in your dead human spirit, like putting water in a canvas bucket (that's an analogy, just like Jesus used bread and wine for analogizing HIS SPIRITUAL nature conveyed to the believer).
HE puts His LIFE in you; you cannot put it there or re-put it there. We remain in Him for our living, not to get and keep eternal life, as Paul emphasized in 1 Corinthians concerning 'for this reason some are sickly and some fallen asleep' (believers sick and some dead)!
The problem in a nut shell is the assertion of what the Catholic Eucharist conveys. It carnalizes, beckoning folks to believe THEY are keeping God in them by their works of fealty work to the Eucharist allowed only through the Catholicism institution. Spiritual food must be ingested by the spirit not the alimentary tract. By remaining in HIM, we have life more abundantly ... in essence, we have HIS LIFE in our human spirit when we believe He is our Savior and Lord; we continue in abundant life by remaining in HIM, for the Words He speaks (through His Word) they are spirit and they are life. GOD did not leave the continuance of HIS Life in the individual believer up to the individual believer, for satan is more crafty and insidious than any believer in Christ, as evidenced by the ways we sin daily while in this body. But we remain IN HIM by confessing our sin to HIM. We do not remain saved by confessing, for that responsibility is in GOD's purview, not man's.
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