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I don't think God expects us to understand everything, but He expects us to accept things in faith. John 3:6 – Jesus often used the comparison of “spirit versus flesh” to teach about the necessity of possessing supernatural faith versus a natural understanding. In Mark 14:38 Jesus also uses the...

John 19:29; cf. Matt. 27:48; Mark 15:36; – Jesus is provided wine (the Fourth Cup) on a hyssop branch which was used to sprinkle the lambs’ blood in Exodus 12:22. This ties Jesus’ sacrifice to the Passover lambs which had to be consumed in the seder meal which was ceremonially completed by...

I don't think Jesus meant emotionalism and sentimentalism to be the real thing over and above His Body and Blood, although I'm sure they have their place.

Purgatory is not a second chance at salvation, they are all saved. You have been misinformed. I Corinthians 3:10-15 is not a presupposition. There is no verse saying the rich man went to hell. There is no explaining how the rich man could have compassion on his brothers, because compassion...

Luke 22:19; 1 Cor. 11:24-25 – the translation of Jesus’ words of consecration is “touto poieite tan eman anamnasin.” Jesus literally said “offer this as my memorial sacrifice.” The word “poiein” (do) refers to offering a sacrifice (see, e.g., Exodus 29:38-39, where God uses the same word –...

You are hung up on what you can see. The bread and wine are called "accidents". The substance, after consecration, changes, but the accidents appear to be the same. The "substance" of the wine is Blood. Heb. 5:6,10; 6:20; 7:15,17 – these verses show that Jesus restores the father-son...

The elect are those who keep the commandments and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Rev. 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Genesis 3:20 And Adam called...

You just did.

I know you partake of bread an wine and it' nothing more than a memorial. The Eucharist is one and the same sacrifice as the Crucifixion, as indicated by the Fourth Cup. Baptism is a ritual. Wen you sit down to eat or prepare for bed you are performing mundane rituals. They are normal to human...

I had the Eucharist in mind. The Church is an extension of the Incarnation united by the Eucharist, they are inseparable.

No Protestant can deny an organic relationship to Luther, any more than a Catholic can disavow all ties to the historic papacy, the Crusades and Inquisition, etc. If the Catholic must be constantly subjected to taunts about the "baggage" and "skeletons in the closet" of Catholicism, then the...

The moral deficiencies of the original Protestant so-called "reformers" were the MOTIVE, for their apostasy. It was not merely that they were sinners. They were sinners who apostatized BECAUSE of their sins. If Henry VIII did not want to divorce his sacramentally married wife, marry his chippie...

Since appeals to the admins to shut down this bash fest have gone ignored, I think I'll have my own bash fest. In Massachusetts, for successive convictions, a Quaker would suffer the loss of one ear and then the other, the boring of the tongue with a hot iron, and sometimes eventually death...

You have no documented evidence. The Myth of Multiple "Millions" Supposedly Killed in the Catholic Inquisitions, Revisited (Anti-Catholic John Bugay's Historically Groundless Claims) Your quote is based on a book over 100 years old and used outdated information. No historian buys exaggerated...

The law has been fulfilled, not abolished. Jesus didn't abolish ritual, He perfected them. We are still bound to the moral laws in the 10 Commandments.

Sorry, but paradise is NOT heaven. It's important to reconcile Jewish and Christian understanding, and it can't be done with "Bible alone" theology. "Paradise of the Fathers" is Jewish oral tradition which is where the Thief on the Cross went that day. I don't mean to stir up controversy here...

I know the hate you are implying. First, you give no year the "mortal wound" occurred. Then, you give no indication of what or when this revived wound took place. We have God's promises, indicated in many places in scripture, that the Church could never fall away or go astray. God is not a...

A mystery is something we can know something about (like the Trinity) but we can't know everything about it. The Church gets her holiness from Christ, not from sinful members. I think the Holy Spirit works in all Christian churches, as the catechism explains (CCC 817-820). We need to forget our...

Catholics agree with Protestants that Scripture is a "standard of truth" — even the preeminent one — but not in a sense that rules out the binding authority of authentic apostolic Tradition and the Church. The Bible doesn't teach that. Catholics agree that Scripture is materially sufficient. In...

Thank you. The Crusades were defensive wars, Muslims had occupied the Holy Land. What we have here is self-proclaimed historians.