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In Matthew it says that Jesus was born in Bethlehem. And Herod (who lived in Jerusalem) wanted to kill baby Jesus. So an angel warned Joseph in a dream, and he fled as far away from Jerusalem as possible, and went to Egypt.
But in Luke, it says that after Jesus was born, instead of Joseph...
And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
-Matthew 21:13
Then He taught, saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’...
Mark 10:
Now as He was going out on the road, one came running, knelt before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what shall I (O)do that I may inherit eternal life?”
18 So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, (P)God. 19 You know the commandments: (Q)‘Do...
Have you heard of Lanomax?
https://www.lanomax.com/
Lanomax is an eye drop invented by medical professionals and scientists. It is being tested out on animals such as dogs and rabbits. It clears away cataracts in their eyes. Cataracts are like a white film that covers their eye and prevents...
People say that Tobit teaches a works salvation. Then they quote Ephesians which says that we're "saved by faith and not by works lest any man should boast."
However, when Paul said "Not by works" he was talking about the Old Testament Jewish ceremonial laws, like circumcision, dietary laws...
Or was Elijah taken down into the lower parts of the Earth in Abraham’s bosom, where he was kept in prisons with the disobedient in Noah’s day, and didn’t escape until Jesus preached the gospel to the spirits in prison?
“And it came to pass, when the Lord was about to take up Elijah into...
“But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars —they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”
-Revelation 21:8 (NIV)...
“just as it is proper for the first book (of Maccabees) to be included among the sacred Scriptures, so it is proper that this second book should be thrown out,”
-Martin Luther - Preface to the Second Book of Maccabees (1534)
The Apocrypha & Luther via Catholic Answers
If you look up the Council of Nicaea on Wikipedia, it says that one of the things discussed was when to celebrate Easter.
But that’s actually not true.
The early church fathers who spoke Greek used the word “Pascha”. That word is used 29 times in our New Testament and is translated as...
Have you ever played the telephone game?
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We played it in church youth groups a lot. The way it goes is:
One person whispers a sentence or phrase into another’s ear. Then that person whispers it in the next person’s ear, then the next and the next on down the line. Finally, it...
What is the deeper meaning behind WHY they are wrong?
“You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the Lord.”
-Leviticus 19:28
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage?search=Leviticus%2019:28&version=NKJV
A side question: Do you think it’s wrong...
Like, does Maccabees say that money can save dead relatives from purgatory?
Does Tobit endorse the use of magical potions? So like, you’re not allowed to use ingredients from plants and animals for anything because they’re all magical potions?
Like, what are some doctrinal errors?