The Catechism is the authoritative Statement of Faith of the Catholic Church. And it has not been revised.So there is no confusion - Catholic Doctrine no longer accepts every word in the Bible as the Literal Word of God.
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The Catechism is the authoritative Statement of Faith of the Catholic Church. And it has not been revised.So there is no confusion - Catholic Doctrine no longer accepts every word in the Bible as the Literal Word of God.
While this question is not addressed to me, it should be clear that since Jesus Himself is Eternal Life, believing on Him = Eternal Security.The question is whether you think OSAS is a necessary belief for salvation?
but this is just one example .. would you like 50 others ? .. it is not for nothing that the Vast and Overwhelming Majority of Christianity - and the overwhelming consensus of Biblical Scholarship - does not view the entire Bible as the Literal word of God.
This is an interesting discussion in what is unbelief. Highest position thought of is unbelief is the unforgivable sin which dooms all to hell. Jesus says you are saved because you believe. Like a magic twinkler, saved eternally in the moment with no give backs, like being chosen and forced into prison, imprisoned in heaven for all eternity.The question is whether you think OSAS is a necessary belief for salvation?
It may be necessary at some point...as it might be the only way that you can keep your helmet (of salvation) firmly placed on your head in the time of battle...which may be a critical aspect for your victory in the battle.The question is whether you think OSAS is a necessary belief for salvation?
The debate is if you do not follow you have not believed.While this question is not addressed to me, it should be clear that since Jesus Himself is Eternal Life, believing on Him = Eternal Security.
Jesus said unto her, I am The Resurrection, and The Life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? (John 11:25,26)
There are numerous passages in the NT which speak of the eternal security of the believer. It should not even be debatable, but it is.
Once again your isolation from the rest of scripture is a strawman. An argument from silence.
But hey by all means you will be judged by how you judge others.
Matthew 7:2
"For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you
You miss the entire point on Matthew 5-7 as one cannot live up to it by religion/works but only by a new heart. Jesus goes straight to the issue, mans heart not by outward appearances. Keep reading His teachings as you are just like those he opposed in Matthew 23 who on the outside appear righteous but inside full of dead mans bones. Only with a new heart can one live by Matthew 5-7.
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The Catechism is the authoritative Statement of Faith of the Catholic Church. And it has not been revised.
Paul knew the man who was also God but obviously you have never met Him.1_ that is neither a strawman - nor an argument from silence .. you have no clue what the terms you are using mean. Further I am not in isolation from the rest of scripture ... you are projecting your issues onto me.
I do not ignore the other scripture .. you are the one ignoring the Teachings of Jesus in Mark/Matt .. in a desperate attempt to prop up a doctrine that the majority of Christianity disagrees with.
What is this nonsense ? Jesus says what he says .. either you can accept his teachings .. your you can not.
What is "The will of the Father" according to Jesus from the Sermon he has just given ..
Hint .. perhaps you want to look in the Sermon .. rather than to Paul .. a dude who writes nothing of the life of Jesus . because he never knew the man.
We cannot do the works specified in the Sermon on the Mount apart from being saved by
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Yes...and the reason is that the majority of biblical scholarship comes from an unbelieving base of people.
Those who believe in Christ...those who are born again....those that we can define as truly "Christian"...believe that all of scripture is inspired of the Lord and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness (2 Timothy 3:16)
Further .. what part of - the vast majority of Christianity does not believe "faith alone" doctrine - do you not understand .. are all these folks "unbelieving".
Right .. you are the "True Christian" here .. the rest of us heathens are under the influence of Satan the deciever ..
Yet you could not even respond to my quotation as a complete sentence...you had to cut it short in order to make it pliable.Sure we can .. perhaps you should read the book . What a joke of a response ... as this is not about whether or not you can do the things Jesus specifies as the "the will of the Father"
Paul knew the man who was also God but obviously you have never met Him.
Ever heard of Damascus?
Ever read 2 Peter 3:15-16 ?
and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 16 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
Looks like you are up a creek without a paddle.
Are you an Atheist ?
I take the whole of scripture into account....not just what is in Matthew/Mark.This is about what the will of the Father is - and clearly you can't handle the teachings of Jesus w/r to "the will of the Father" as after this pathetic non response to the issue you again go running to Pauline Scripture having nothing to do with the Teachings of Jesus in Matt.
Consider post #537 to be one last try...shake the dust off your feet and move on its not with the time @justbyfaith
some people are unteachable.
@Heyzeus,
Do you think that obeying what is written in the Sermon on the Mount saves you?
You ought to consider that Jesus said that if you do not forsake all that you have, you also cannot be His disciple (Luke 14:33)...
So if you are going to enter into the kingdom by obeying everything Jesus says you need to do...I'm sorry, but you are going to have to go and become a homeless person.