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    How can Christianity & Islam be compatible enough to be the same God that we worship?

    -St. Peter Mavimenus (d. 8th century), martyr from Gaza. Response reported in the Martyriologum Romanum when he was asked to convert to Islam by a group of Muslims. “There is also the superstition of the Ishmaelites which to this day prevails and keeps people in error, being a forerunner...
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    Authority

    I think it's important, instead of taking ONE verse, to look at the entire passage in context: 1 Timothy 2:1-6 I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives...
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    Authority

    John 11:25-26 (New International Version) 25Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; 26and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?" Apparenly you don't. You have reminded me of the...
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    Authority

    According to scripture they are not dead. Here is an example I have personally known among many. Let me share Bob and Maureen Digan personal experiences with the Divine Mercy devotion.At age 14 Maureen was stricken with an incurable disease and, over the next several years, lost her faith...
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    Authority

    Matt. 10:1,40 - Jesus declares to His apostles, "he who receives you, receives Me, and he who rejects you, rejects Me and the One who sent Me." Jesus freely gives His authority to the apostles in order for them to effectively convert the world. Matt. ;:18 18: Truly, I say to you, whatever you...
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    Protestants: What happened for over 1000 years?

    This after Jesus Promised! "...and I will ask the Father and He will give you another Advocate to dwell with you forever, the Spirit of Truth..." John 14:16-17 "I will not leave you orphans." John 14:18 The Lord after promising to be with His Church till the end left it and ordained men who...
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    Thee and Rock

    “By transferring passages, and dressing them up anew, and making one thing out of another, they succeed in deluding many through their wicked art in adapting the oracles of the Lord to their opinions.” (Irenaeus, Against Heresies) AD 180- St. Irenaeus writes "When, however, they are...
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    Thee and Rock

    Enjoy! Eph. 2:20 - the Christian faith is built upon the foundation of the apostles. The word "foundation" proves that it does not die with apostles, but carries on through succession. Eph. 2:20; Rev. 21:9,14 - the words "household," "Bride of the Lamb," the "new Jerusalem" are all...
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    Why do Roman Catholics...

    "And He (Christ) is the of the body, the church (Col.1:18), "which is His body, the Fulness of Him the that Filleth all in all (Eph. 1:23) In the Holy Scriptures the Church is repeatedly called the Body of Christ."Who (Paul) now rejoice in my sufferings for you, ... for His Body's sake, which is...
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    Can anyone tell me what this is

    Even today Ethiopian Jews still use the Septuagint version, not the shorter Palestinian canon settled upon by the rabbis at Javneh. In other words, the Old Testament canon recognized by Ethiopian Jews is identical to the Catholic Old Testament, including the seven deuterocanonical books (cf...
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    Can we really rule out purgatory? (2)

    If the Jews believed it, and Jesus never rebuked them for this or taught otherwise, then Purgatory must exist. This Orthodox Jewish site proves what the Jews believed. The Yahrzeit Organization - PastQuestion’s and Answers Click on Is this what Catholics do and you will find this. Q) I...
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    the Pope and the Papacy

    How about Protestant patristic scholars. Protestant Church historian Philip Schaff comments on St. Augustine's views of Scripture and Tradition: Augustine, therefore, manifestly acknowledges a gradual advancement of the church doctrine, which reaches its corresponding expression from time to...
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    the Pope and the Papacy

    In no way do we as Catholics believe that Christ continues to be crucified physically or die a physical death in heaven over and over again. However, we do believe that the Mass does participate in the everlasting sacrifice of Christ. First, one must not separate the sacrifice of our Lord on...
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    the Pope and the Papacy

    Augustine Believed in Apostolic Succession "If the very order of episcopal succession is to be considered, how much more surely, truly, and safely do we number them [the bishops of Rome] from Peter himself, to whom, as to one representing the whole Church, the Lord said, 'Upon this rock I will...
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    the Pope and the Papacy

    Do we now? Augustine believed the canon of Scripture to contain the Greek OT canon also known today as the deuterocanonicals or "Apocrypha" "The whole canon of the Scriptures, however, in which we say that consideration is to be applied, is contained in these books: the five of Moses . . . and...
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    the Pope and the Papacy

    Jesus is clearly speaking here of those who live singly and chastely for the sake of the kingdom of God. As the Catholic commentary in the Douay Rheims Bible notes about this verse: “There are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs, for the kingdom of heaven...This text is not to be...
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    the Pope and the Papacy

    It is true that Catholic priests in the West may not be married, but no one is obliged to become a priest. Marriage is not forbidden to them as human beings, but as priests. A Catholic man is free to choose the celibate priesthood, the married life, or even the single life (which also is...
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    the Pope and the Papacy

    This charge is without foundation. It is customary to give the priest a stole fee for Requiem Masses, as it is customary to give him a stole fee for weddings and Baptisms. This isn't obligatory, of course -- noone ever has to pay for a Sacrament or a liturgical service, and the poor are exempt...
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    the Pope and the Papacy

    Luke.12 [37] Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes; truly, I say to you, he will gird himself and have them sit at table, and he will come and serve them. [38] If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants! [39]...
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    the Pope and the Papacy

    God uses suffering to purify the soul and to detach it from created things. Scripture more than once repeats the comparison: as gold or silver is purified by fire, so also the soul of the just is purified by tribulation (Ps. 66,10; Prov. 12,3; Wis. 3,6, EccL 2,5; Pet. 1,2). After...