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    The fall

    I've been posting in CH for several years. I do not think you have read all 17,000 + posts that I've written. The truth is that I have written similar things numerous times in numerous posts. Not everyone reads them nor remembers them but I remember them.
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    Jesus

    The Only Son of God The Only Son of God 441 In the Old Testament, "son of God" is a title given to the angels, the Chosen People, the children of Israel, and their kings.44 It signifies an adoptive sonship that establishes a relationship of particular intimacy between God and his creature...
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    SACRED SCRIPTURE

    Inspiration and Truth of Sacred Scripture Inspiration and Truth of Sacred Scripture 105 God is the author of Sacred Scripture. "The divinely revealed realities, which are contained and presented in the text of Sacred Scripture, have been written down under the inspiration of the Holy...
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    The fall

    I am not ignoring any of the abuses that priests and bishops or lay people perpetrated. Nor am I ignoring indulgences - which still can be obtained - or purgatory or any sinful things that people did and some do today. And even though many Catholics are admirable people it is not for their sake...
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    The fall

    Psalms 91, Protestantism did get its start with Martin Luther's private interpretations of holy scripture. That is a fact. Martin Luther's private interpretations opposed what your religious experiences tell you; he rejected people in his times who claimed spiritual gifts from God. Gifts like...
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    The fall

    Luther's opinions may be okay or they may not I haven't investigated his views on the Holy Scriptures beyond some often repeated claims about his dislike for some books on the bible.
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    SACRED SCRIPTURE

    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...
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    The fall

    Inviting people to offer their private interpretations of holy scripture will lead to trouble. That's how Protestantism got started.
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    The fall

    THE FALL OF THE ANGELS 391 Behind the disobedient choice of our first parents lurks a seductive voice, opposed to God, which makes them fall into death out of envy.266 Scripture and the Church's Tradition see in this being a fallen angel, called "Satan" or the "devil".267 The Church teaches...
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    concupiscentia

    Quoting bible verses is not original thought.
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    Jesus

    That is true but I do not think that first century Jews had family names. Bar Joseph means "son of Joseph" so it is not a family name like ours just your father's name.
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    The fall

    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...
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    concupiscentia

    I finished the section on the fall as far as original sin and its associated consequences is concerned. No need for me to post much more in this thread.
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    Jesus

    I do not think so. The angel Gabriel told Blessed Mary that her son was to be called Jesus. In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary...
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    Jesus

    Christ 436 The word "Christ" comes from the Greek translation of the Hebrew Messiah, which means "anointed". It became the name proper to Jesus only because he accomplished perfectly the divine mission that "Christ" signifies. In effect, in Israel those consecrated to God for a mission that he...
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    Jesus

    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...
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    concupiscentia

    Proverbs has advice about handling your posts.
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    concupiscentia

    IN BRIEF 413 "God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living. . . It was through the devil's envy that death entered the world" (⇒ Wis 1:13; ⇒Wis 2:24). 414 Satan or the devil and the other demons are fallen angels who have freely refused to serve God and his plan...
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    concupiscentia

    But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, Where are you? And he said, I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself. He said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat? The man...
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    concupiscentia

    "YOU DID NOT ABANDON HIM TO THE POWER OF DEATH" 410 After his fall, man was not abandoned by God. On the contrary, God calls him and in a mysterious way heralds the coming victory over evil and his restoration from his fall.304 This passage in Genesis is called the Protoevangelium ("first...
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