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    Who is Jesus for you?

    Last Sunday the liturgy of the Word was about the Sixth Chapter of the Gospel of John which concludes with the discourse on the Bread of Life. The great enthusiasm of the previous day of the multiplication of the loaves and fish had dissipated, for Jesus said that he was the Bread which...
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    There shall arise.

    The method is clear enough, false teachings and false examples coupled with false miracles are the means of misleading I think. I think that is what Jesus meant. The destination is not the same thing as the means of getting there.
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    Theosis and humanity.

    In the holy scriptures there is one passage that explicitly mentions that Christians will come to share the nature of Christ. There's another passage that says Christians have the mind of Christ. These are hints, not a lot more than hints, that true humanity is found only in Jesus Christ and...
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    There shall arise.

    You are right, I was not thinking of a place. I was thinking of a state. The 'where' is a state of mind and being rather than a location in space and time.
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    Goodness is not enough.

    There may be a few good people in history and possibly some are with us today. Goodness is - in essence - absence of sin. Jesus was good, absolutely so, men like Enoch were good but not absolutely so or at least so it seems to me. Job was good, Blessed Mary too, but neither absolutely so because...
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    There shall arise.

    Yes, you are right. The Vatican City and every other place can be a place to mislead.
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    Salvation

    Brother psalms 91 I think mainly of salvation from sin and the gift of eternal life in communion with Jesus Christ. There are other meanings, but they are secondary I think. Salvation from the consequences of sin which include all the hardships of nature and some of the wickedness in human...
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    There shall arise.

    You are right. Many have arisen and tried to introduce 'damnable heresies' as the KJV says. Brother Albion astutely observed that the Vatican City may be one (perhaps the only?) place to which they tried to lead the elect. I agree that sometimes that was so, it may still be so. There appears to...
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    There shall arise.

    It's a few hectares of land with a lot of buildings and art works in them, I think about 1,800 people live in it. Did you have some particular person in mind for the title Antichrist.
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    There shall arise.

    In the ages following the Lord's crucifixion and resurrection it was predicted that there would be false Christs and false prophets. People who would offer miracles and would, if it were possible, mislead the elect of God. For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall shew...
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    Salvation

    Salvation is a big topic. I wonder how wide ranging this thread will be. I hope that we can discuss it without rancour.
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    (No Debate) Letter from Francis.

    I ought to add that I hope that the guilty are arrested, tried, and imprisoned as their crimes deserve. I also hope that repentance comes to them, true repentance, and grace and eternal life. May God have mercy on us all.
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    The CH Challenge (Team 1 wins)

    Please be patient with me, many of my threads are open and intended for good conversation but a few are slightly provocative and a little naughty of me to raise, but some controversy, if handled with maturity, can teach good lessons and even naughty posts can be turned to good - it is my prayer...
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    (No Debate) Letter from Francis.

    No, I have only the letter that he wrote - an electronic copy - which I shared here. I imagine that turning around a church of 1.2 or more billion adherents and hundreds of thousands of priests and religious will be no easy tasks especially when the holy scriptures teach that Christians ought to...
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    The Lord's supper; For Jews only?

    I am more confused now because I have no idea what 21 days and Torah has to do with anything I wrote.
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    "Reclaimed and recycled" or "new creatures"?

    The change of subject in brother TurtleHare's post - a change from the person (dung) covered by snow (Christ's righteousness) to doctrines (dung) covered by snow (unspecified doctrines from the 'reformers') went off topic, in my opinion, since doctrines can neither be "new creatures" nor...
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    Innocence.

    What would it be like to meet a truly innocent man, one who tells no lies, uses not deceit, is not subtle or sneaky, speaks truth without admixture. A man who does not know what evil is, cannot even begin to act wickedly, will always keep his promises. A man who will give generously because he...
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    Chosen by God.

    Predestination is a word for a concept - or maybe a set of concepts - about being chosen by God for some purpose or purposes. Most of the time people us the word to discuss being chosen by God for eternal life by the saving work of Jesus Christ the Lord. The discussions about predestination are...
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    An old road to life.

    God gave Moses Laws for the people of God and the Laws contained a way, an old way from our perspective, of life that leads to eternal life. Moses said to the people: ‘Now, Israel, take notice of the laws and customs that I teach you today, and observe them, that you may have life and may enter...
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    Simile and Spirit.

    A simile is a comparison used to make an unfamiliar (or a strange) concept easier to understand by comparing the concept to something that is commonplace and readily grasped. The parables that the Lord Jesus Christ spoke to the crowds were similes that offered commonplace acts and objects as a...
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