Why make those exhortations? There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. Jesus did not institute any form of symbolism or rituals.
BTW, since Paul was the last appointed apostle, the last mention of baptism in his epistles occurs in Ephesians , and guess what?? Symbolism is terrible if the source is satanic.
Satan also manifests himself through symbolism. No its not troubling to me because I believe God as it was told me. They were not established in the faith Acts once delivered the saints Jude Syncretism could be another possibilty for James exhoeting his readers as such practice was common them. The book of colosians Paul is concerned about such practices because Christ has lost his pre-eminence in the Colossian church.
You shall know them by their fruits Mat What do you see as the different between an ordinance and a ritual? Sounds like Baptism and Eucharist to me…. Scripture says otherwise Romans , 1 Corinthians , …. There are more apostles in the New Testament than Paul and the Twelve. Barnabas Acts 2.
Silas 1 Thessalonians 3. Timothy 1 Thessalonians 4. Epaphroditus Philippians 5. Apollos 1 Corinthians What is the consequence of your assertion that Paul is the last appointed apostle?
Are you trying to say that Paul was the last person to speak authoritatively on the matter of baptism? Colossians is another candidate for that. I see nothing in the text to suggest that. Satan also manifests himself through symbolism…. Is that logic well-constructed? By the same formulation one would have to condemn everything! Just as there can be symbols which represent something evil, there are also other symbols which represent something good.
As the adage goes: abuse does not deny legitimate use. Also, why have all the last what, five popes advocated a new world order? Benedict saying the U.
The U. You can explain it all away, but it all adds up to an overwhelming conclusion that the RCC is the Harlot of Babylon in Rev. Then there are the obelisks, all-seeing eyes, calling the day Jesus was resurrected by the name of a goddess, allowing and even encouraging all the fertility symbolism: rabbits, eggs, etc.
But oh, wait — why would the Pope allow a woman to trace a symbol on his head — a commenter in the video says this:. Thomas Aquinas, teaching that heresy is conveyed externally not only by written or spoken words, but by actions like kissing a Koran. Your comment was rather rambling and in no way related to my article, but here are a few thoughts…. You realize that most of those pictures were photoshopped, right?
Why do you reject that interpretation? Are you talking about Easter? Since others mistakenly took that title does it mean that nobody is the Son of God including Jesus? The others, you conveniently ignored. Photos — prove they were photoshopped. I saw the many pics of Benedict long before, and was rather shocked to recently see Francis blatantly doing the same. You could say anything is photoshopped. Prove it. Theosophists are or were heavily tied in with the U.
You never did explain why all the politicians, celebs, clergy, sports figures, etc, etc are ALL flashing the sign. Do you think Francis is naive? Just to give the many people like me who see through all your BS rationalizations ammunition? You want a citation? And he calls for a new economic order, to be overseen by the U. If he does, then why is he and all the Popes in bed with the U.
Answer this — did the Apostles speak like this, always advising world leaders on how to save the world? Or did they speak of the present evil world, which is passing away, and the evil rulers of it? Did Peter or Paul waste their time telling the pagan emperors about their responsibility to the environment? Tell the truth for once, instead of the same old evasive tactics! Of course Jerusalem as the Harlot makes more sense to you — and I know Jesus and Revelation refer to it as the city which killed the prophets, etc.
But the criterion of Rev. When did Jerusalem wear scarlet and purple, and hold a golden cup in her hand? And the whore is riding the beast at the time of the END, when the events described ultimately are fulfilled. The beast and false prophet are thrown in the lake of fire at the END, at the 2nd coming, not in 70 AD or some earlier time! And indeed, people are already having chips implanted. Ever heard of double meanings?
Because Nero and other emperors fulfilled some of the prophecies, that means that the Antichrist will not still come in the future or maybe even NOW and fulfill all of them?
Rome fulfills ALL of the criterion of Rev. I suppose to someone like you, they would be. And much of what he said has been borne out; also, some of his speculations did not pan out. Obelisk — the inscription…. Christus ab omni malo plebem suam defendat. Entirely in keeping with the historical Catholic practice of mixing Christianity with pagan idolatry. As Nathaniel tried in vain to tell you, God ordered the Israelites to utterly destroy ALL the objects of pagan worship, and to not learn the way of the heathen.
But Holy Mother Church instead baptizes them all and incorporates them, mixing the doctrine of Jesus with the doctrines of devils. This is merely further proof to me that she is the Harlot of Rev 17; somehow you instead see proof of her authenticity, I suppose….
The same applies to your lame Queen of Heaven defense — ad nauseum! So an apologist only has to come up with an explanation, and that settles the question? The other names for Easter all being some form of Pasch? I love the real Mary, I feel a sense of honor toward her. II kneeling in front of a statue of Jesus, it was the Queen of Heaven. And this nit-picking concerning etymology.
Be honest! Jesus said not to do it! Paul calling himself a father is not the same as telling the people to call him their father! All these titles, Reverend, Father, Your Worship, Your Eminence, etc, etc are absolutely vain and make the clergy feel like an elite.
They seem to me and a lot of people to be absolutely Pharisaical, watching them in their endless, pompous processions. Do you really think the Apostles had people kissing their rings and bowing before them?
Maybe my assumption that the inverted cross is satanic is based on a few things…. Two, because J. I get these popes mixed up! And also, Peter asking to be crucified upside down is a legend, that may or may not be true. Should popes appear in front of the whole world, sitting on a throne with a symbol the whole world recognizes as satanic, to honor an unverifiable legend? What about what Nathaniel quoted as the directive to avoid anything that even hints of evil, I seem to remember something like that in one of his earlier posts.
Finally, why did I use a reference from a Sedevacantist? Because they pointed out something that I considered true about the errors of the modern RCC! I think I answered all your points, at least to the best of my knowledge.
I believe God said not to do those things. Have a nice day, God bless you. The vast majority of your comment was about other conspiracy theories. You just dismissed this question, when the question demands an answer! Consider how a court of law works.
The Prosecution first makes its case. After the jury has heard the Prosecution, should they then immediately pass judgement prior to hearing the Defense? The Prosecution certainly gave a lot of arguments and a lot of evidence.
Clearly the person is guilty! Oh course! Why does this seem so unreasonable? Have you never heard an Atheist argue against the existence of God? Have you ever heard an Agnostic argue that Christianity is simply a Pagan derivative? They will use rhetoric, they will use argument, they will use what they regard as evidence. No, you look at each argument and each piece of evidence in turn and see if it stands up to scrutiny. How exactly would I do that?
Having done YouTube videos I can certainly attest that when you see a thumbnail drawn from a random frame I find myself pulling the strangest faces and giving the oddest of gestures. Because, in context, in makes total sense. Moments before he had been speaking about the love of God. I did sign language back in England and immediately recognized the sign.
You saw the meaning to the sign that you wanted to see. In the Protestant-Catholic conflict, the issue is authority and the place of the Bible. I would invite you to respond to my canon questions post since I believe it gets to the heart of the issue. I have invited a lot of people such as yourself to attempt to answer the questions in that post, but I have yet to have someone attempt it.
Did you see the length of your comment?! I have drive-by apologists come by my site all the time, copy and paste vast amounts of stuff they have prepared, and then never appear again when I try and engage their comments.
Says who? Can you point me to any reputable source? Because the sign means different things to different people. Not all times and cultures are the same. You can see the range of meanings it has and has had over time over at Wikipedia. Times and cultures change the meaning of things. Perhaps I should have been more specific, can you give me a quotation from this document which you feel backs up your case?
He is a Christian leader speaking to moral issues. Please give me a quotation which gives you this impression. He also cites the UN charter concerning the need for a unity between morality, society, politics and economics. Do you not think that these things should be in accord?
However, we can look at the other ways that they did speak to regular people. They exhorted them to holy lives and moral living, caring for the poor and the widow they even instituted the order of the deaconate for that purpose.
This seems like a misapplication of 1 Thessalonians 5. These are all signs of prosperity and decadence. Scarlet and purple dyes were expensive.
Golden cups were used in feasting. Jesus criticized the religious leaders for undermining the Word of God and for corrupt practices. Did the bride carry a bouquet down the aisle?
These are all Pagan traditions. Are you against them as well? Tell me, who is the bride of Christ Ephesians ? Not at all, there are lots of other ways that it can be explained and, moreover, in the historical context of the document.
No, not the past. He was, however, alluding to Antiochus as a type. When read in its historical context particularly with the records of Josephus , the immediate meaning of the text is very quickly seen to be fulfilled in the First Century. In fact, I would argue that the destruction of the Temple was a microcosm, a template for the destruction on the world.
However, what you appear to do is to ignore the literal sense of the text and immediately project it onto the Catholic Church in the 20th Century as though that is an obvious choice. Or that both Pontifexes, as well as all the previous pagan rulers of each empire were all dedicated to a Queen of Heaven? No, he was wildly off! Not only that, everybody has their own contradictory interpretation of Revelation. The point is that, with sufficient bias, you can project onto Revelation anything you want.
The structure of St. Well, you have to answer the question. In my article, what did I say Easter was in Latin? What did I say Easter was in Italian? What are the historic languages of Rome? Latin and Italian. How does this prove your point? Pascal Candle, Pascal Sacrifice, Pascal celebration etc. In fact, if you want to do that, you end up not being able to call anyone anything! They have to be good sources too. I think those are the far better questions to ask.
You begin with modern satanists and then work backwards. Why not the other way? To pick a different example, all over the Vatican you see pictures of keys. The typically anti-Catholic side GotQuestions. It depends on the context. When the symbol is used in a church setting, it is most likely a reference to Peter and the manner of his death. In other contexts the inverted cross is often an anti-Christian symbol. Having said that, I would say that the historical case for this is extremely strong.
What makes it evil? So you will quote someone simply because you believe one particular point, despite the fact that their world view is in complete contradiction to yours? I will be interested to see what you have to say to my earlier question about wedding bouquets and wedding rings. What else do you call a woman in Heaven wearing a crown?
So your interpretation of Scripture can trump all others? So you are willing to declare that millennia of Christians were heretics? Are you saying that you, however, over two thousand years later, thousands of miles away and in a radically different culture and language, see things more clearly? Aside from yourself, who else understands the Faith properly? If faith automatically results in works as you appear to have asserted , this statement is strange.
Why does James have to tell people who have faith to produce fruit if fruit is a natural consequence of faith? If that is the case then he should be exhorting them to believe!
Have faith! Will that save them? No, of course not! Coming at the text with your presuppositions seems to me to render the text incomprehensible. However, under Catholic theology, James exhortation makes perfect sense. However, their faith is incomplete, barren and dead. What will take their faith and make it alive, fruitful and complete? James gives us a very simple answer: works. What does Syncretism have to do with faith and works?
Again, to reiterate, at no point does James criticize his readers for the faith that they have. He criticizes them for what is lacking: works. Without acts of charity, their faith cannot save them. Wait, I thought that, according to your theology, that sin had no effect any more? Were these people not even Christians?! No, please enlighten me. Thank you for being honest. And daily we pick up to read the bible, we sin against GOD for disobeying His commandment to read the books of the Bible how he intended.
Majority of Christianity rejects the command, just like what Paul wrote in Romans 10 concerning the nation Israel and their stumbling, though they were zealous, they went about establishing their own righteousness instead of submitting to the righteousness of God Romans I wish you tbe best.
And sin is the transgression of the Law. Paul wrote scripture which are commandments of the Lord 1 Cor to be obeyed. These are 3 verses that must be treated as one and cannot be isolated individually. Note the 3-level edification of the believer. I will highlight the part of the verse in bold so you can see it. Here it is below notice carefully the punctuation marks, commas etc,.
Romans 25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel , and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began , 26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets , according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:.
Now let us understand individually, what are those 3-level edification, God does to a believer to establish him in the faith, which is a command of the everlasting God, which i call it the Establishment commandment Romans The gospel God uniquely gave it to him. Those who follow it diligently will fulfill the will of God and his eternal purpose to conform to the image of his Son Romans , and will know how to function correctly under the doctrines of Grace, walk in Holiness, know the Mystery of Godliness 1 Timothy , and most important how to stop sinning in their members applying the first 16 verses of Romans 6 to the details of their lives.
It depends on the desire to know the truth keeping in mind the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
You will need two bookmarks — place one starting from the Book of Romans and the other one starting at Genesis. Now you must for the rest of your life, spend at least an hour, the more is better for bible reading.
Then you can first read Romans to Revelation for 30 mins followed by the other 30 mins starting from Genesis to Romans, looping continuously. This is exactly how Paul established the Churches in Acts For some more excellent explanation on the establishment commandment, I strongly suggest you devote some time listening to the following audio lessons.
There are a lot of assumptions and presuppositions here…. Firstly, are you saying that you think that when Paul authored those last few verses of Romans he was telling the Romans that all Christians should read him first, then the Gospels, then the Old Testament?
Do you think that was his intention? Please demonstrate that from Scripture. I would argue that one of the primary purposes that Acts of the Apostles is to show that Peter and Paul were not in competition, but in unity, both in doctrine and practice.
Both raised the dead, cast out demons etc. Both preached the same Gospel and both invited Gentiles into the New Covenant in fact, Peter did it first. I said earlier God revelation in the Bible is progressive revelation. Paul was the last apostle 1 Corinthians to be raised by Jesus on the Road to Damascus. So what is Mystery Truth? Look a Ephesians In short, Mystery truth encompasses with many things but the core of it is that, the Jews and Gentiles are now co-heirs, fellow heirs and joint-heirs with Christ called by the gospel and not through Israel..
Earlier when Jesus showed up in his 3-year earthly ministry, he came to fufill the Abrahamic covenant to confirm the promises made unto the fathers. What was the Abrahamic covenant? But that Programme God suspended because of the un-believing Jew who had two problems to this day i believing that Jesus was the promised messiah and ii that he was raised from the dead. Because of their disobedience and un-belief they were cast off Romans So God suspended that program with Israel temporarily, and ushered a new Program the dispensation of the grace of God in light of mystery kept secret in times past, but first revealed to the Apostle Paul and later the 12 got it by the Spirit.
Points to note during Jesus earthly ministry in Mathew, Mark, Luke and John with the Abrahamic covenant in effect: i He shall save HIS people from his sins mathhew ii Jesus said to the 12 … go not to houses of the gentiles but go into house of the lost sheep of israel.
So its so wonderful to do a carefully study of these events as it proves how people get messed up by not obeying God establishment commandment Romans I believe the epistles should be interpreted in their historical context, but of course they are applicable to us as well today.
However, this is hardly something exclusive to Paul! It was Peter who commanded they be baptised and it was Peter to defended these actions to the others in Jerusalem. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations , baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.
All the previous major covenants Adamic, Noaic, Abrahamic, Mosaic and Davidic were fulfilled and recapitulated in Christ. I disagree with most of your analysis on this. It was therefore proper that He should go to His people first and it was foretold that salvation would come from them. In my previous response I asked three questions and you only answered one of them. See Galatians , the rendition in the KJV will differ with other translations. Prayer for this morning. Daily meditation.
Prayer for this evening. Top Get Aleteia delivered to your inbox. Subscribe here. Jesus, Father of the Poor,. Jesus, Treasure of the Faithful,. Jesus, good Shepherd,. Jesus, true Light,. Jesus, eternal Wisdom,. Jesus, infinite Goodness,. Jesus, our Way and our Life,. Jesus, joy of the Angels,. Jesus, King of the Patriarchs,. Jesus, Master of the Apostles,. Jesus, Teacher of the Evangelists,. Jesus, Strength of Martyrs,.
Jesus, Light of Confessors,. Jesus, Purity of Virgins,. Jesus, Crown of all Saints,. Be merciful unto us, spare us, O Jesus! Be merciful unto us, graciously hear us, O Jesus! From all evil, deliver us, O Jesus! From all sin, deliver us, O Jesus! From Thy wrath, deliver us, O Jesus! From the snares of the devil,. From the spirit of fornication,. From everlasting death,. From the neglect of Thine inspirations,. Through the mystery of Thy holy Incarnation,. Through Thy Nativity,.
Through Thine Infancy,. Through Thy most divine Life,. Through Thy Labors,. Through Thy Agony and Passion,. Through Thy Cross and Dereliction,. Through Thy Sufferings,. Through Thy Death and Burial,. Through Thy Resurrection,. Through Thine Ascension,. Through Thy Joys,. Through Thy Glory,. Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world, spare us, O Jesus!
Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world, graciously hear us, O Jesus! Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us, O Jesus! Jesus, hear us, Jesus, graciously hear us. Let us pray. These Greek monograms continued to be used in Latin during the Middle Ages. Eventually the right meaning was lost, and erroneous interpretation of IHS led to the faulty orthography "Jhesus". The monogram became more popular after the twelfth century when St.
Bernard insisted much on devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus , and the fourteenth, when the founder of the Jesuati, Blessed John Colombini d. Sometimes above the H appears a cross and underneath three nails, while the whole figure is surrounded by rays. IHS became the accepted iconographical characteristic of St. Vincent Ferrer d.
0コメント