Image and Likeness ?

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I made a single comment, you are now changing the direction of this thread by quoting another thread, which BTW is against the rules. It's called cross posting. Jesus was indeed celibate, and supported such in Matthew 19:12. It is commonly held that Paul was married, being in the Sanhedrin he had to be, and that his wife left him when he converted. I'm sure it was a very sore point for Paul. I Cor 7 may also indicate his wife was dead at the time he wrote it.​

When exactly did God tell you about this concern he has about COMMUNIST FEMINISM???​

I think you are developing a couple of noids kepha. You know what is said about assuming aye kepha?​

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Yes it is kepha, so please try to stay on topic and not bring up this anti-protestant rhetoric all the time. It would be better if YOU actually had something pertinent to say yourself, instead of quoting from books that actually build on your dogmas for you. Calling me a bigot does NOTHING to give you ANY credibility on these forums. Pontification comes from your side my friend, we don't have a Pope, which you seem to follow in a very cultist manner.​

If the 'family' is of such importance to the RCC, why does it not contribute to it practically by having wives and children, legally that is.​

I am commending you over to the care of ST. IGNORA!!! Good bye.

how our society is anti-Trinitarian (anti-man made in the image and likeness) continued...

******* NO MENTION OF WIDESPREAD ABORTION *******​

They seem to be unaware that the breakdown of procreation and sexual instincts will ultimately undermine all forms of sexual pleasure.
However, we already see the change in behavioral pattern in men and women that is causing suicidal disintegration. When sex is no longer associated with the affirmation of a durable relationship, the natural male sexual instinct is un-moderated and the male will gravitate towards a series of sexual conquests of the next available female. The incentive to commitment is lost.

The man will emerge as sexually impulsive and an opportunistic hedonist who pursues pornography, drugs, and crime. Women are faced with a cruel dilemma, they can either respond to the increasing abdication of men from civilized social and sexual pattern by playing both key roles of job commitment and familial responsibility, or they can choose career alone without the prospect of a family, or they subject themselves to male sexual impulse, abandoning their procreative horizons and attempt to enjoy themselves with whoever is around.

This is already evident in the state of marriages today - a high rate of divorce and increasing number of fatherless families. Even more tragic are the poor in the ghetto where a state sponsored fatherless child rearing system is in place. We see an increasing crime rate, illegitimate children and the abuse of women and children, which no amount of social spending can resolve.
We must conclude that sex, love between the spouses, love for children, and the family unit are indispensably integrated:

“Marriage is not simply a ratification of an existing love. It is the conversion of that love into a biological and social continuity surpassing any two individuals. The very essence of such continuity is children.”​

There are inequalities between the genders but they are complimentary to each other, and the ultimate power lies with the woman who teaches the man to become a full member of the family as a social entity.

“These inequities, pertaining to the core of marriage, can only be overcome by diminishing the woman and her maternal sexuality, reducing her to the lowest form of male eroticism, leaving her a man without the male physiology: a veritable female eunuch.”​

We are on the road to sexual suicide because our acceptance of sex liberation further causes us to accept certain social anomalies as a result of sexual liberation. This includes the concept of “open marriage” that all responsibilities are split equally between the spouses; the high rate of divorce; the large number of fatherless children in broken homes, and women forced to compete in the job market while retaining family responsibilities. Not understanding the cause of these anomalies will cause us as a society to seek solutions that would put us further down the slippery slope of sexual suicide.

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All men, because of the Fall are alienated from God and are now in the image and likeness of Satan, being a slave to sin. It is God's intention to conform us to the image of Christ set us free from sin to be "slaves of righteousness". He will do this, if we turn away from self and Satan and turn to Him with ALL OF OUR HEART.

Image and Likeness of Satan

Image and Likeness of Christ

Axehead

Amen Axehead

Good post!!!

 

[JPPT1974]

Due to Christ dying and rising, before He did that. We fail short of God's glory due to sin. And Satan was tempting people. But due to Christ now risen from the dead and sitting at the right hand throne of the Father. We can be made in God's image and glory. When we accept His one and only Son into our hearts and have our names written in the Lambs Book of Life!

 

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How to Stop Sexual Suicide

There is only one remedy for sexual suicide. It is the reverse of its cause. At root, the cause of sexual suicide is the rejection of the basic moral principles taught by Christ and proclaimed by Christianity for two thousand years.

Sexual pleasure is not an end in itself. Its divinely ordained purpose is to foster the procreation of children and to sustain the mutual selfless love of husband and wife. If you separate sexual pleasure from this two-fold purpose, you are opening the door to what we are now calling sexual suicide.

We get some idea of how deeply infected otherwise professed Catholics have become with the mania of sexual indulgence from what happened when Pope Paul VI published Humane Vitae in 1968. One conference of bishops after another stood in judgment of the Vicar of Christ. Fully one half of the Church’s hierarchy decided that the Pope’s teaching was out of date. The grounds for rejecting the Church’s Magesterium were the familiar ones, appealing to each person’s subjective conscience. This is what Pope John Paul II identified as the core problem in the modern world.

He answers the question, “what is one basic error among those who are exalting human freedom?” His answer is a devastating appraisal of the modern world, which has redefined the meaning of human freedom. The Pope declares that the most basic moral error in the world today divorces human freedom from dependence on God. It is frankly atheistic. Each person’s conscience is given the status of a supreme tribunal of moral judgment.

Here the subjective conscience becomes ruler in moral matters apart from the mind and will of God.
What happened to conscience? The Vicar of Christ declares that conscience then becomes the final judge for each person of what is right or wrong, independent of the objective laws of god. Does this mean that we do not have any true freedom? Ironically many who exalt human freedom at the expense of obedience to God’s laws are the very ones who deny human freedom altogether. This is not surprising when you realize that true freedom resides in the human will. Anyone who denies this freedom actually denies that we are ever truly free in anything we choose to do.

Sexual suicide has introduced the culture of death in the modern world. The most terrifying symptom of this culture is its massive murder of millions of unborn children, which is now fully legalized in most of the nations of our day. Once again Pope John Paul II raises the question “what is the most devastating form of this conspiracy against life?” His answer is clear. It is the spread of abortion.
Enormous sums of money are being invested to produce pharmaceutical products to ensure the killing of unborn children in their mother’s wombs. So true is this that scientific research seems to be exclusively preoccupied with developing weapons of death against innocent children awaiting birth.

Our closing question at this conference is how sexual suicide can be over come. It can be over come only by a re-Christianization of society. This re-Christianization is not as obvious as may seem. The wide spread sexual self-destruction so prevalent in once Christian countries is the result of millions abandoning their Christian faith. What happened? The result was inevitable. Marriage as a life long union of one man and one woman became a relic of past history. The family as a loving community of father, mother and children became a relic of a forgotten age.

Women as devoted wives and mothers were mesmerized into becoming feminist leaders in the liberation from domination by an alleged male patriarchy. Children as the precious treasure whom husband and wife loved to bring into this world as the preparation for the eternal home to which families are destined became a burden which the state took into protective custody. The aged who were respected for their wisdom and rich experience became a liability.

All these monumental changes in society took place for the most obvious reasons. There can be no authentic family life, no true marital commitment, no loving propagation of children, no selfless care of the aged and the infirmed, except where there are believers in Jesus Christ who live up to their faith. We should have no illusions about the price that we Catholics have to pay to re-Christianize a widely de-Christianized society. So many forces are at work in the world to separate and divide the family in the name of individuality. The exaltation of individuality is camouflaged as personality.

Only a deep faith in Jesus Christ and trust in his power can make the humanly impossible divinely possible with the help of his grace.

Selfishness, as the saints tell us, is cunning.

It pushes and insinuates itself into everything, while making us believe it is not there at all. This is the root cause of sexual suicide and its consequent break down of family life in so many materially over-developed countries in our day. Only the God who became a child and lived on earth as a member of a family could have inspired the selfless love that brought the Christian family into being. This same Jesus, we are confident, will reform the Christian family where it has weakened and even bring it back, where need be.

After all, has that not been the story ever since Good Friday and Easter Sunday? The Church, we may say, has died many times and risen again for the best of reasons. Her founder is God, who was crucified and rose from the dead. The future of the Christian family is most promising, but only for those who really believe that Christianity is the religion of civilization.

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[John_8:32]

Two part creation...

Man in the flesh is the image of God. At the resurrection...

1Co 15:46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

Spirit which is the likeness of God.

 

[Rex]

Two part creation...

Man in the flesh is the image of God. At the resurrection...

1Co 15:46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

Spirit which is the likeness of God.

Well said John and welcome to the board.

47 kThe first man was from the earth, la man of dust; mthe second man is from heaven. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, nso also are those who are of heaven. 49 Just oas we have borne the image of the man of dust, pwe shall6 also bear the image of the man of heaven.