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. Many of the Catholics I've known personally, and those with whom I've dialogued online, place far more faith in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (a.k.a. CCC) than they do the Bible; which is not an uncommon error. For example: when Christ was here, he condemned elements of Judaism that...

. • John 11:25 . . I am the resurrection. People who make the cut for a bodily Christian resurrection will be immortal. (1Cor 15:51-54) However; at the time Jesus made that statement, he wasn't yet risen from the dead, i.e. Jesus wasn't immortal. We can be sure of that because had he been...

. Mind if I chime in? The grammatical tense of the verb "has" in the verse below is present tense, indicating the Jesus' believing followers all possess eternal life now, in this life, before they pass on. • John 5:24 . . I tell you the truth: whoever hears my word, and believes him who sent...

. Below is a controversial passage. • 1Cor 15:45 . .The first man, Adam, became a living soul. The last Adam: a life-giving spirit. The Jehovah's Witnesses claim the passage above proves Jesus' resurrection wasn't physical. Instead, they insist that his crucified body is still dead and its...

. If true that Jesus Christ is one person with two natures, then it should be true that the Word is one person with two natures because Christ is the Word; and if so then God should be one person with two natures because the Word is God. By extension, the Holy Spirit would be one person with...

. • John 1:1 . . In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. God, as presented in the Bible, is an eternal person, i.e. He always was, He always is, and He always will be. In other words God cannot die nor be removed from existence because He is immune to death. Those characteristics...

. Classical Christianity attests that God consists of three distinct persons in one. The Bible goes a step further by parsing the Son. According to John 1:1 and John 1:14, the Son consists of two distinct persons, but here the persons are markedly dissimilar. Whereas all three of God's...

. • John 14:6 . . I am the way The Greek word translated "way" is somewhat ambiguous. It can not only indicate a route-- a path, a road, or a trail --but also progress. For example, it takes roughly five months for people afoot to complete the entire route of the Pacific Coast Trail from Campo...

. Of all the comments I've ever composed about Hell over the years, this one is perhaps the most disturbing; so if there are impressionable young children present, you might want to shoo them out of the room before continuing. Lorena Bobbitt made news in 1993 by amputating her husband's manhood...

. Continuing from post No.1 • 1John 1:1-2 . .That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life-- for the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto...

. Before coming into the world as a creature, God's son was a divine being known as the Word (John 1:1a) The Word is translated from the Greek noun logos (log'-os) which basically refers to something spoken as opposed to something written, viz; logos refers to voice, i.e. speech. God's spoken...

. The two gravest threats to global safety are both man-made: nuclear weapons and robust diseases. _

. The real Christians start without slates of any kind; blank or otherwise. • 2Cor 5:19 . . God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them NOTE: 1John 1:5-10 is often appropriated by unbelievers to substantiate their claim that the sins of real...

. Quite a few of the Christians that I encounter online will readily attest that Christ is fully God and fully Man; when in reality they only believe he is fully God. In other words; many of them cannot discern the difference between the Word of John 1:1 and the flesh of John 1:14. The fact...

. Christianity is sometimes criticized as a license to steal because when people come to faith in Christ, the file that God was accumulating against them gets demolished and from thence He does not begin compiling a new file. • 2Cor 5:19 . . God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself...

. Since Mary was already engaged to Joseph prior to Gabriel's announcement; the logical conclusion is that she was marrying a Jewish guy for the usual reasons that Jewish girls wanted a Jewish husband-- to settle down, cohabit with a Jewish man, and raise a Jewish family. And since Joseph was...

. Well; I see nothing in that passage precluding the possibility that the girl would need to remain a virgin only until that one son was born; and then after he was born, she could begin sleeping with a man because any boys she might conceive after her first wouldn't have to be...

. Christianity is sometimes criticized as a license to steal because when people come to faith in Christ, the file that God was accumulating against them gets demolished and from thence He does not begin compiling a new file. • 2Cor 5:19 . . God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself...

. My mother was Catholic. My aunt and uncle were Catholics, their son is a Catholic, my now-deceased eldest brother was a Friar. My father-in-law was a Catholic, as was my mother-in-law. Everybody alive on my wife's side are Catholics; her aunts and uncles, and her cousins. My sister-in-law was...

. The Greek word translated "lord" is somewhat ambiguous. It refers to just about anybody and/or anything regarded as one's superior. For example; the very same word is used at 1Pet 3:6 where Sarah is said to have spoken of Abraham as her lord. And also at Matt 6:24 where two lords are spoken...