Okay, I’ll have to watch sometime! Sounds interesting, something his people s/b aware of. Someday it’ll be rebuilt!

Mt 7:

21 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' 23 And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'

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They knew Jesus but Jesus didn't know them. Jesus didn't know them as someone who does the will of the Father. They used Jesus' name to prophesy, exorcize, and perform great works, but not according to the will of the Father. Jesus didn't send them to do all these showy works. They served themselves, not God. True discipleship involves not only outward actions but also an inward transformation of the heart that aligns with God's will.

RileyG said:

This might be going over my head, but is it essentially stating someone can save themselves without the grace of God and the Sacraments?

I think I completely misunderstood.

Blessings

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yes.

A new form of Pelagianism is spreading in our days, one in which the individual, understood to be radically autonomous, presumes to save oneself, without recognizing that, at the deepest level of being, he or she derives from God and from others. According to this way of thinking, salvation depends on the strength of the individual or on purely human structures, which are incapable of welcoming the newness of the Spirit of God.

On the other hand, a new form of Gnosticism puts forward a model of salvation that is merely interior, closed off in its own subjectivism. In this model, salvation consists in elevating oneself with the intellect beyond “the flesh of Jesus towards the mysteries of the unknown divinity.” It thus presumes to liberate the human person from the body and from the material universe, in which traces of the provident hand of the Creator are no longer found, but only a reality deprived of meaning, foreign to the fundamental identity of the person, and easily manipulated by the interests of man.

Following the publication of Dominus Iesus (2000), various theologians asked the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to further examine certain aspects already enunciated in that Declaration, suggesting a new Document on Christian salvation. In this respect, after having carefully studied this important issue, in collaboration with the Consulters of the Congregation, the Letter Placuit Deo on certain aspects of Christian salvation was presented. https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/03/01/180301b.pdf



I found this in Dominus Iesus in 20.
For those who are not formally and visibly members of the Church, “salvation in Christ is accessible by virtue of a grace which, while having a mysterious relationship to the Church, does not make them formally part of the Church, but enlightens them in a way which is accommodated to their spiritual and material situation. This grace comes from Christ; it is the result of his sacrifice and is communicated by the Holy Spirit”‌;81 it has a relationship with the Church, which “according to the plan of the Father, has her origin in the mission of the Son and the Holy Spirit”‌.

New King James Version, 2 Corinthians 5:

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

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Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges:

behold, all things are become new] Many MSS., versions and recent editors omit ‘all things.’ The passage then stands ‘behold, they are become new.’ If we accept this reading, the passage speaks more clearly of a conversion of the whole man as he is, thoughts, habits, feelings, desires, into the image of Christ. The old is not obliterated, it is renovated.

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English Standard Version

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

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Benson Commentary:

2 Corinthians 5:17. Therefore — Since all Christ’s true disciples do thus live to him, and not to themselves, and only know him in a spiritual manner; if any man be in Christ — By living faith and the indwelling of his Spirit; if any man have an interest in and union with him; he is a new creature — Καινη κτισις, there is a new creation, in the soul of that man. His understanding is enlightened, his judgment corrected, and he has new ideas and conceptions of things. His conscience is informed, awakened, and purged from guilt by the blood of Jesus, Hebrews 9:14. His will is subjected to the will of God, his affections drawn from earth to heaven, and his dispositions, words, and actions, his cares, labours, and pursuits, are all changed. Old things are passed away — All old principles and practices; behold — The present, visible, undeniable change! all things are become new — He has new life, namely, a spiritual and divine life; new spiritual senses, new faculties, new desires and designs, hopes and fears, joys and sorrows, passions and appetites. His whole tenor of action and conversation is new, and he lives as it were in a new world. God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, angels, men, sinners, saints, and the whole creation — heaven, earth, and all therein, appear in a new light, and stand related to him in a new manner, since he was created anew in Christ Jesus.

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After we are born of the Paraclete, we have a new spirit.

They disgust me to no end.

How long, O Lord?

Prayers for SF and all the unborn.

It's so sad to see how Western Europe has mostly abandoned Christianity and now bows down to the secular gods in this day and age. Prayer for a revival and an end to the culture of death.

Lord have mercy

Continued prayers for their safety

Thanks for posting

Basil the Great said:

As I recall, Pope Francis recently said that life's final test will be how we have treated the poor and the less fortunate. His statement seems to go along with what Jesus taught in the Gospel of Matthew.

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Following the Beatitudes in other words? Makes sense to me.

Nithavela said:

One can never tell with those things.

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Especially when you can't see the person's face.

God adopts his children according to His good pleasure the result of that action makes us His children ( as opposed to the children of the devil JN8).

By definition the adopted ones are called Christians to reflect the the result of Gods action in adopting them as His own.

who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

In Him,

Bill

Lord have mercy!

Prayers for the persecuted Church.

Lord have mercy!

Social media can be so toxic.

I think it will only get worse and time marches on

Enough is enough.

Leave the faithful alone.

So much for tolerance, eh?

The REAL Kamala is whoever gets the most votes

Emmett

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Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us.

Lord have mercy!

Glory to God!

Glory to God!

DavidTheGnome said:

One of Satan's biggest weapons is confusion. That includes confusing people about the Holy Bible and confusing people about their genders.

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Yup.