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The whole passage and where St. Elizabeth calls Him "Lord" here.

Yes. It's parallel to various OT passages concerning the Ark of the Covenant. For instance the Greek word used for St. Elizabeth's rejoicing being the same as the one in the OT which only referred to rejoicing before the Ark, and so on.

Graces given to others, at least in the Christian worldview. Every grace won helps the whole body, every sin harms the whole as well. It's the same reason why the prayers of one holy monk are better than the many acts of millions of people. If you're not in the faith (which you in particular are...

IIRC there are many who are called "lord" in the Scripture. There is a passage in the prophets where God Himself makes a point of this and says "I will even remove the name 'lord' [referring to others] from your mouth in how devoted you will be to me as the Lord." And did not Rachel call her...

I am really getting into eschatology of late, it is fascinating to behold. For full prets that may be, but partials that I know (categorized into Modern Preterists, for some older partial preterists may see Matthew 24 as partially fulfilled, most modern ones see it as entirely) just do not see...

Mariology is the study of Mary. For the two questions above: all generations will call her blessed, and the model of praising righteous believers in the Scriptures would allow me to answer "yes." See Sirach 44 and on and the "Hall of Fame" for faith in Hebrews. Christ also tells us what sort of...

All know this, but no one thinks they are doing it, so ultimately the standard alone is unhelpful to discriminate between positions. We can know truth is one, we can know it's with God, but whether or not an individual is aligned with that is another question, and whether or not we ourselves...

Jesus discussed and taught the Trinity a multitude of times. I agree, what is true is revealed for it is God Himself that gives truth to things, even in the depths of our conscience He speaks His truth, and day to day His speech is poured forth and night to night His knowledge is made manifest...

In order to have or keep faith with something you have to know to one degree or another the object of your faith. Indeed love is greatest and we live by faith but that is not contrary at all to definitely holding to things God revealed to us, such as the Trinity, that things were made out of...

As Chesterton said the point of an open mind is to close it again on something solid. The Lord God did not say to converse and learn from those wanting Israel to go to other gods they had not known, but instead said Deuteronomy 13:6-11.

Yes, by colloquial terms at least. The "second coming" in Matthew 24 was a coming in judgment ending the Mosaic Age finally and not the Second Coming people usually mean. The only things I believe are in the future are the things mentioned as being in the future by the historic Creeds, I'll take...

Amen. I need to become more disciplined in my daily study of it, for a lot of things had to be exactly right in the world for me to have access to it and God gave me and all of us this blessing, neglect of it is a shame.

How is that an anti-Trinitarian statement? Does not the Nicene Creed recited every Sunday say "I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of Heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible"? Surely you think that the Creed is Trinitarian though.

Very interesting historical info, thank you for sharing! An Evangelistic tattoo sounds like it can be a good idea to me, also it reminds you of many things such as "you were bought with a price" and so on.

I do not often see those but I do know of people with them. I would never get one but I don't think it's a sin to have one. I am aware of certain historic practices where Christians have gotten tattoos, some of the most interesting I learned about recently was Bosnian Christian tattooing under...

Thank you. My favorite changes a lot but currently might be Psalms 1-3. The reason being they speak of Christ and it's beautiful to read it like that. As a Church Father said (and many others have said) the Psalms show the life of Christ. Psalm 1: "Blessed is the Man," that is the Incarnate Man...

You do not have the full doctrine of the Trinity and I'd recommend reading some Fathers on the matter. 1) Different Person is speaking, the Father. 2) Explain why he wouldn't know as a being who has known of God far before you were born, moreover in the former chapter the Father just stated...

There are different sorts of partial preterists, the kind I am learning about and will likely align myself with holds all of Matthew 24 is fulfilled.

May God be honored.