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This thread is intended as an experiment to see if we can create a discussion in CH that is less composed to quotes from authority sources and more composed of what each contributor thinks themselves even if their thought has been formed by an authority such as a bible (66 book or 73 book or...
Atheists.
I posted some video clips from YouTube produced by an atheist chap from Australia.
They are interesting. Suggestive of how a knowledgeable atheist might see various passages in the bible.
And one must admit that some passages in the bible are scary :scared:
Some recommend horrible...
One frequent poster in Ch urges me to read things in context. So here's another chap urging contextual reading too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK7P7uZFf5o
:smirk:
SACRED SCRIPTURE
Christ - The Unique Word of Sacred Scripture
101 In order to reveal himself to men, in the condescension of his goodness God speaks to them in human words: "Indeed the words of God, expressed in the words of men, are in every way like human language, just as the Word of the...
THE FALL
385 God is infinitely good and all his works are good. Yet no one can escape the experience of suffering or the evils in nature which seem to be linked to the limitations proper to creatures: and above all to the question of moral evil. Where does evil come from? "I sought whence evil...
Jesus
430 Jesus means in Hebrew: "God saves." At the annunciation, the angel Gabriel gave him the name Jesus as his proper name, which expresses both his identity and his mission.18 Since God alone can forgive sins, it is God who, in Jesus his eternal Son made man, "will save his people from...
406 The Church's teaching on the transmission of original sin was articulated more precisely in the fifth century, especially under the impulse of St. Augustine's reflections against Pelagianism, and in the sixteenth century, in opposition to the Protestant Reformation. Pelagius held that man...
If we love Jesus, we sense a growing desire within ourselves to
know the life-giving experience contained in his words. The life-
giving experience comes, in part, through our service to others,
in imitation of Jesus. But what kind of service can there be
without a recollected...
The first two years of Donald's presidency is nearly over and the house of representatives is changing hands from a Republican majority to a Democrat majority while the Senate remains Republican. What we've seen in two years of Donald is corruption, incompetence, support for wicked dictators and...
THE HERESIES OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
– ARTICLE I. –
OF THE HERESIES OF LUTHER. – I-
THE BEGINNING AND PROGRESS OF THE LUTHERAN HERESY.
1. -Erasmus of Rotterdam, called by some the Precursor of Luther; his Literature. 2.-His Doctrine was not sound, nor could it be called heretical...
FIRST REASON
HOLY WRIT
Of the many signs that tell of the adversaries’ mistrust of their own cause, none declares it so loudly as the shameful outrage they put upon the majesty of the Holy Bible. After they have dismissed with scorn the utterances and suffrages of the rest of the witnesses, they...
If you look for Me at Christmas,
you won’t need a special star -
I’m no longer just in Bethlehem,
I’m right there where you are.
You may not be aware of Me
amid the celebrations -
You’ll have to look beyond the stores
and all the decorations.
But if you take a moment
from your list of things to...
Alleluia, alleluia!
A holy day has dawned upon us.
Come, you nations and adore the Lord,
Today a great light has come upon the earth.
Alleluia!
GOSPEL
John 1:1-18
In the beginning was the Word:
and the Word was with God
and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all...
This is from a local parish priest, the parish nearest to my home.
Christmas is all about the incarnation. The incarnation means that God's Son came down on earth, took on our human nature in order to confer on us the dignity of children of God. The mystery of the incarnation is a mystery of...