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Apparently, you don't fully believe the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Here's #1511 for you - 1511 The Church believes and confesses that among the seven sacraments there is one especially intended to strengthen those who are being tried by illness, the Anointing of the Sick: This sacred...

It is Paul alone that separates Law from Grace. Those who don't fully accept and believe Pauls' writings are effectively and willingly placing themselves under the law...the Mosaic law...all 613 of them, starting with the 10 Commandments. Starting with Moses, Israel was placed under Gods' law...

Why is it so hard to simply take the Bible at what it says rather than trying to add to it? Yes, throughout the Bible, it refers to brother(s), etc as physical brothers with the same parents as well as brother(s) referring to aunts, uncles, cousins, and Israelites in general. Look at the next...

If one is not a truly born again believer as Jesus related in John 3:3-7, all the confession in the world won't save someone from the lake of fire. Joh 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Joh 3:4...

WOW! It would appear that the Catholic Dictionary can take something so simple to understand as Grace - The unmerited gifts from God - and make it so very hard to understand. It seems that the Catholic Church is exceptionally proficient in obfuscation and double-speak. Now I know where the...

Obviously, as a Catholic, you're saying that no one is allowed/permitted to say ANYTHING that opposes Catholic doctrine. WOW. You seem to be unabashedly opposed to anything anti-Catholic. Now I clearly understand your point of view.

I have no idea why you inserted that Jesus is at the right hand of God the Father. That was not part of my post you quoted and I decline to mix that with this discussion of grace and Mary. Let me start by reporting what I found with a quick Google of the Wycliffe Bible. According to...

Mark 6:3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him. (KJV) Mark 6:3 clearly states that Jesus had half brothers and sisters. The contention that Mary was a perpetual...

YUP! If, while in the bunker in his final hours, Hitler became a believer in Christs' shed blood for ALL his sins, Hitler would be saved! Believing in anything less than 100% remission of our sins by Jesus' shed blood end with a one way trip to hell.

The Mosaic law STARTS with the 10 commandments. God gave Moses 603 more while Israel spent 40 years in the wilderness. It's interesting to note that in the years between Moses and Jesus, that Pharisees came into being the 'elite' of the Jews, and created oral laws (none written, as I'm given...

Regarding 'thirst', 'drink' and 'water' in your post, putting them all together in my mind I immediately think of the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4:7-15 - Joh 4:7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. Joh 4:8 (For his disciples were...

I'll start with the need to read more than the Romans 2:9-11 to the context of where those verses are leading - Romans 2:5-15 Rom 2:5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; Rom 2:6...

To get the reasoning behind Acts 15:28-29, one needs some background on the Jerusalem council. It was held sometime after Paul had received direct teaching by Jesus while 3 years in the desert about his (Paul) going to the gentiles. I've read/heard that it likely happened sometime after 50 AD...

If Mary and Joseph didn't produce the half-brothers and half-sisters of Jesus, then Joseph was an adulterer! If that were true, then the Bible would clearly record where he got stoned to death for adultery, as demanded by Mosaic law!

Thank you for pointing me to #1858 in the Catechism. I finally downloaded all 1425 pages of the Catechism and scrolled down to read it. I find it interesting that both Jesus and the Catechism omit 5 of the 10 commandments: No other Gods, Don't make graven images, Don't take the Lords' name in...

I noted in my post that I was merely nit-picking terminology. Death, deadly, etc, are presumably various forms of 'mortal', when used alone. However, reading your reply, I decided to use Google on the word: 'mortal' and got this definition: 1 : causing or having caused death : fatal a mortal...

I just checked the 8 bible translations I listed above: KJV, ESV, NLT, NASB, NIV, ISV, NRSV-CE and DRB. None of them use the term 'mortal' in those verses. Perhaps it is simply the Catholic Church used the world 'mortal' instead of 'death' as the versions use...the Catechism, perhaps? 16 If...

I'm going to jump in on a couple of things. The first is Mary's being full of grace. For starters, it would seem the Catholic Church 'invented' that Mary was 'full of grace'. In particular, except for the DRB, eg, Douay-Rheims (I think the Catholic Church stopped using that translation not...

One of the things that the disciples and all of Israel expected was that the promised Messiah would set up the promised earthly Kingdom upon His FIRST coming, right after the 7 years tribulation prophesied by Daniel 9:24-27. Israel is still waiting for what they perceive is the first appearance...

It would seem you’ve mixed the Gospels (written to Israel) and Pauls writings to believers (Romans-Philemon) together and got confused. In Luke, it’s apparent that the disciples were no different from any group of people, then or now. Remember that at the time of Jesus, Israel was under direct...