How do you know what the Christian faith is?

[MoreCoffee]

Catholic Christians often meet in small Christian-communities to pray, discuss the holy scriptures, and learn from one another how God works in and among his people and how the Spirit is influencing the Church. Catholic Christians also spend time with more mature members of the body of Christ to learn wisdom as well as to know themselves in proper humility before God. There is also the rich and varied spiritual life that is encouraged and fed by constant prayer through the days and seasons of the year.

Lord have mercy on your children.

 

[psalms 91]

Catholic Christians often meet in small Christian-communities to pray, discuss the holy scriptures, and learn from one another how God works in and among his people and how the Spirit is influencing the Church. Catholic Christians also spend time with more mature members of the body of Christ to learn wisdom as well as to know themselves in proper humility before God. There is also the rich and varied spiritual life that is encouraged and fed by constant prayer through the days and seasons of the year.

Lord have mercy on your children.

This is wonderful and what we all should be doing, I am sure that God speaks to you through these endeavors.

 

[visionary]

Catholic Christians often meet in small Christian-communities to pray, discuss the holy scriptures, and learn from one another how God works in and among his people and how the Spirit is influencing the Church. Catholic Christians also spend time with more mature members of the body of Christ to learn wisdom as well as to know themselves in proper humility before God. There is also the rich and varied spiritual life that is encouraged and fed by constant prayer through the days and seasons of the year.

Lord have mercy on your children.

All contained within church doctrines... no growth for the church or its people. Same old fodder.

 

[MoreCoffee]

The faithful proclaim no new revelations and seek no innovations in the Faith once for all delivered to the saints. (Jude 1:3)

 

[psalms 91]

The faithful proclaim no new revelations and seek no innovations in the Faith once for all delivered to the saints. (Jude 1:3)

In other words they are deaf to the voice of God

 

[MoreCoffee]

In other words they are deaf to the voice of God

Christ is God's final word.

 

[psalms 91]

No He isnt, there is Revelation that God imparts all the time. An example is Daniel that bnook was never understood till the late 19th century and then it began to open up. Even within your faith there is claimed to be devine revelations by the popes or do you disregard that

 

[MoreCoffee]

Christ is God's final word.

No He isnt, there is Revelation that God imparts all the time. An example is Daniel that bnook was never understood till the late 19th century and then it began to open up. Even within your faith there is claimed to be devine revelations by the popes or do you disregard that

Jesus Christ is God's last word on everything because Jesus is God made flesh. The Word made flesh. No clearer revelation of God is possible in creation.

 

[Lamb]

Christ is God's final word.

The bible from beginning to end proclaims the Savior. Amen. There is no new revelation humans need to know other than Jesus who died on the cross for the forgiveness of our sins. We who believe shall have eternal life.

 

[visionary]

The faithful proclaim no new revelations and seek no innovations in the Faith once for all delivered to the saints. (Jude 1:3)

BINGO

 

[MoreCoffee]

BINGO

Isn't bingo considered to be gambling by some? A sin of sorts according to a few.

 

[visionary]

Isn't bingo considered to be gambling by some? A sin of sorts according to a few.

You missed the tongue in cheek.

 

[psalms 91]

lol

 

[Pedrito]

In Post #104 on Page 11, MoreCoffee stated, apparently with respect to Roman Catholic adherents in line with his former posts:

The faithful proclaim no new revelations and seek no innovations in the Faith once for all delivered to the saints. (Jude 1:3)

MoreCoffee, whether or not he realises it, has just excluded the Roman Catholic leadership over the centuries, from the category “the faithful”.

Despite a recent statement of his somewhere, that the Roman Catholic Church does not change its doctrines, even a casual inspection reveals the progressive addition of doctrines and practices over the nearly two millennia since the apostles walked the Earth. (And it may even be possible to predict a likely change in the foreseeable future, may it not?)

The Faith once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3)?

I would suggest that there is almost no likeness between the doctrines and practices of the apostles and the apostolic church, and the doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic Church (renamed relatively recently “the Catholic Church” to make it more acceptable to the protestants it was attempting to court).

Similar dissimilarities can also be detected between much non-Catholic doctrine and practice, and that of the apostles. Is that not true? When viewed dispassionately?

My choice is to remain loyal to that “Faith once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 1:3) – that consolidated and internally consistent Faith that is revealed by God’s Entire Holy Revelation, when all of its statements are taken in their proper context – that internally consistent understanding that permits ready answers to the questions I have asked in various threads, but which have been avoided of necessity to date.


Didn't Jude exhort us to earnestly contend for that original faith – the faith that is sometimes derogatively described as “primitive”?

Jude 1:3:

...it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

That sounds important to me.