I love the image of the crown of thorns. Sure, there is the idea that the physical suffering of Christ was a part of our redemption, but also the...
So you currently have a perfect life? What does perfect mean?
Yes, but where are eggs and rabbits in the Mass? Nowhere. Those are folk customs the Church tolerates. Okay, so the Apostles may not have...
This is highly simplistic.
Also could be described as mercy and justice. To continue what Okie had going on, whenever we speak of Gog we necessarily make it a metaphor. God...
So in English and German a name was co-opted. What about everyone else in the world. Latin, Greek, other Germanic and Slavic based languages have...
It is never mentioned to have a celebration of Christ's triumph over death? What then is the weekly Christian Sabbath? God did give us the Canon...
What specifically in Easter makes it pagan?
The Catholic Church teaches that suicide is a sin, though recognizes that in the vast majority of cases the conditions for sin are likely not met...
No, because Muslims do not believe that: Jesus was God Jesus died on the Cross Came to save humanity though his life, death, and Resurrection the...
I can create socially inflammatory stereotypes regarding atheists too.
Ditto for Christianity. Look at the many many ideologies regarding how Christian communities confront homosexuality. You have wholesale...
Tearing down church buildings, persecuting Ukrainian Catholics (which, for the duration of the USSR, was the largest illegal church in the...
Yeah, they are trying to make the argument that religion is a structure, an organization whereas Christianity is a "personal relationship in Jesus...
[img] This is a likely a later technology, but look at how two women could work at one handmill to increase productivity.
In an "I hate images" sort of way; or in an "I challenge status quo" sort of way?
Paul wrote: "I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps when I have preached to others I myself should be castaway" (I Cor....
What do you mean here? Yeah, we generally agree OWB. My original post generally goes back to when I at odd times listen to Protestant talk radio...
I read those from Proverbs and Jeremiah not so much as the heart is always treacherous, but that it can be treacherous in that those who walk...
Now, the issue I was getting at in my initial question was that distrust of the physical body, and the physical world, to me, seems unBiblical but...
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