Boff's Liberation Theology in action? 😇
I wonder where the 1k BSV they made from $tendies went? @4 Tendie for your thoughts?
You should see the balance on your withdrawal address within a few seconds.
That explains your hate. Well, whatever happened to make you leave, I am truly sorry. If you want to be at peace, then make peace. God is love and anyone who loves is of God. God love you.
False. Constantine was a peacemaker who held the Council of Nicaea to settle tensions in the Church over the divinity of Jesus. By that time, the Church had already been established for hundreds of years. Constantine's own mother, Helena, was a Christian.
Over 2500 years of Judaism also has it wrong? Anyone else? Perhaps the scribes who translated the Hebrew into Greek in the Septuagint? How about the Qumran Texts? Only some of the most well preserved scrolls in existence. Are they all wrong?
Precisely my point: Scholars continue to debate over its meaning today. To say that any one person or Church or group or translation can provide a complete understanding of God is an act of theological hubris.
That literally translates to I AM WHO AM Ben I AM WHO AM. Sounds like a Dr. Seuss book. RIP Dr. Seuss. We'll miss them ham and eggs.
Exactly! And God gave us reason so we might discern that purpose and carry it out accordingly, namely, courtship, marriage, procreation and education of offspring.
Simple answer? Yes. Masturbation is a grave sin. Self-stimulation of the reproductive organs for the sake of personal pleasure is contrary to the purpose for which God intended them, namely, procreation.
Is it a sin to expose corruption?
If you're familiar with coding, you can follow Shua's tutorials. Instead of uploading an image, just substitute it with the audio file.
Before I became a priest, I played in a bunch of bands. It breaks my heart to see what covid did to so many musicians and artists. Whatever the motivation, never stop sharing your art!
Over time what this may lead to is "very, very expensive transactions." The median fee on BTC is already over $6. Houston, we have a problem.
At the time of Jesus, Greek was the common language, and Aramaic common among Semitic peoples. It was St. John the Evangelist who made the connection between Jesus and the λόγος. From there, Greek philosophical terms helped to conceptualize this reality.
You should look into the comparisons made between the Masoretic Texts and the Dead Sea Scrolls. They are remarkably similar. Scribes dedicated their lives to making near-perfect copies of the original texts so as to preserve them for generations.
Jesus was a historical person. We know this from multiple historical records and eyewitness accounts. I would posit that Jesus was not a combination of heroic people, but rather, the true hero that others, whether they realized it or not, were imitating.
Sure, there are letters in the NT attributed to Paul that were not written directly by him. There are also books in the OT attributed to Moses that were not written by him. Does that make them less inspired? And thanks for the welcome, glad to be here.
No, Scripture is not deity. That would be pantheistic, right? It does, however, as Jesus says, testify on his behalf, as the apostles did after the Resurrection, and ultimately do by their writings, i.e. Gospels, Epistles, etc. See 2 Pt. 1:12-21.
John 5:31-40 is part of an appeal to the Jews who were trying to kill him because he healed on the Sabbath. John is not making a distinction between Scripture & Christ so much as he is showing that Sacred Scripture has been pointing to Christ all along.
Well, Jesus is the Incarnate Word of God (Jn. 1:14). St. John made this connection with his use of the Greek word "logos". Sacred Scripture, contains the Word of God as transcribed by the sacred authors under the inspiration of the Spirit.
Thanks, @22899! I like the NRSV for English, Strong's for Greek, Vulgate for Latin, Grail for Psalms. The bottom line, however, is I love the Word of God.
