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    Walking away.

    John 6:60-69 After hearing his doctrine many of the followers of Jesus said, ‘This is intolerable language. How could anyone accept it?’ Jesus was aware that his followers were complaining about it and said, ‘Does this upset you? What if you should see the Son of Man ascend to...
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    The tree of life.

    Genesis 2:9 And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Revelation of John 2:7 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit...
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    Biblical meaning - literal, allegory, or...?

    Are you thinking that the story of the donkey that talked to Baalam is like a fable?
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    The Lord's supper; For Jews only?

    People like to believe things despite what the evidence says. When they have a firm enough conviction about what they believe - for example, that the Lord's supper is a seder meal - then the evidence will be denied when it contradicts the conviction. The passages from the Gospel according to...
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    "Reclaimed and recycled" or "new creatures"?

    Alas, all that managed to do was find new packaging, a pretty white snow cover, but the dung remained dung, unchanged.
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    Mocking.

    There is more than one gospel in the holy scriptures look further afield and see what you can find. Matthew 27:27-31 27 Then the soldiers of the procurator, taking Jesus up to the praetorium, gathered the entire cohort around him. 28 And stripping him, they put a scarlet cloak around him. 29...
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    Careful to preserve ...

    Anem and amen. Careful to preserve the gospel of Jesus Christ. Never shrinking from it, never editing it, never removing from it nor adding to it. Careful to do the good works that God calls the faithful to do. Never shying away from them.
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    Frequency of Communion?

    I presume that seminarians were available only in towns and cities where there was a seminary. The Catechism of the Council of Trent was written to provide material for homilies and instruction for both the parish priests and the faithful in the parishes. In the 16th century mass always included...
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    Why don't you door knock evangelise?

    I don't see preaching the gospel as a matter of selling wares of any kind including church association and theology. An evangelist will tell the gospel according to the teaching they have received themselves and believe themselves but that doesn't turn the gospel that they preach into merchandise.
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    Frequency of Communion?

    I do not know what 16th century Catholic clerics thought about sermons but homilies were always part of the mass and usually short and to the point except in a few cases. Where did you get information about 16th century Catholic clerics' thinking about sermons?
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    Frequency of Communion?

    Communion is available at every mass for Catholics. My parish has daily masses and four masses for Sunday. I do not know why some denominations have the Lord's supper infrequently. Maybe it is to keep costs down or reduce the amount of washing up after each service?
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    (No Debate) Guarding the tongue (and one's fingers)

    The holy scriptures instruct faithful Christians to guard what they say and to avoid calumny, gossip, and slanders as well as many other ungodly uses of spoken and written words. It is wise to take that message to heart. Guard your tongues and when typing guard your fingers. That is the advice...
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    Salvation

    Jesus and his apostles were reviled by the religious authorities of his times. Caiaphas mocked Jesus, and you mock the authors of the Catechism of the Council of Trent. That is to be expected. It shows what motivates your posts. But the authors of the Catechism of Pius V were men of noted...
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    Be ye goats or sheep?

    I led a bible study in my parish on the book The Acts of the Apostles and we used a study guide but unlike the study guide you mention this one aimed to get participants to delve as deep into holy scripture as they were able. The study questions didn't ask "what is you opinion ...?" they asked...
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    Salvation

    What you say would be true if the Catechism that pope Pius V commissioned (he did not write it himself) presented a new good news like the one you mentioned. "The good news of the reformation", as you called it, is new. It is a novel set of doctrines that arose 1,500 years after the resurrection...
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    Why don't you door knock evangelise?

    The gospel is good news that is not sold but given away because it is not property owned by somebody it is a gift from God given to all human kind.
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    Salvation

    "The good news of the reformation" is another "good news"; it came 1,500 years too late to be the Good News of the Lord Jesus Christ. If you dislike the Catechism of Pius V and seek to denigrate it then that is yet another sign that the "good news of the reformation" is accursed.
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    Be ye goats or sheep?

    People are neither sheep nor goats but the scene in the last judgement that our Lord Jesus Christ taught in Matthew 25:310-46 says that the nations are separated as a shepherd separated his sheep from the goats. That little word "as" is important. It signifies that what follows is a comparison...
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    Salvation

    Since the Catechism of pope Pius V is teaching what the holy scriptures teach it follows that it is relevant. The Bitterness Of Christ's Passion The next subject of the pastor's instruction is the bitterness of the Redeemer's Passion. If we bear m mind that his sweat became as drops of blood...
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    Salvation

    This thread is about salvation and what is written in the Apostles Creed and the Catechism's explanation of the Apostles Creed is about salvation. That is more than sufficient explanation for why a person may benefit from reading what is in the Catechism of Pope Pius V. ARTICLE IV : "SUFFERED...
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