Now, then, and always, I can only throw myself upon His boundless grace: “Lord Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Posted in Reflections, Theology | Tagged assurance, Baptists, Catholic, Catholicism, Christian, Christianity, conversion, eternal security, Roman Catholicism, ...
49Here there is a rare mention of Jesus Christ in a curse tablet, though the inclusionof divinities from other traditions is frequent in Greek and Latin magical texts.50The author of this curse was Christian, while the opponents (thedefixi)werebe-lievers in Greco-Roman gods. The Christian ...
He believes the Roman Church is the ultimate authority established by Jesus and that her teachings are therefore authoritative. He says:Unless I capriciously cherry-picked the Catholic tradition, I could not justifiably accept the Early Church’s recognition and fixation of the canon of scripture—a...
For the Father gave to Peter the revelation of the Son; but the Son gave him to sow that of the Father and that of Himself in every part of the world; and to mortal man He entrusted the authority over all things in ...
“Immediately after Peter had earned commendation by his acknowledgement of Jesus as the Messiah, the doctrine of the crucified Messiah was proposed to him and he rejected it.” So if “…the Apostles had believed that the words ‘On this Rock I will build my church’ constituted Peter their...
A really in-depth treatment of the setting. Personally, I like picking the combat effects after rolling, the way armour work, the system for advancement, the simple way the game handles the importance of advantages, how magic is powered... and did I mention the work that went in ...
It was popular well before Constantine, at least enough to bear mention in historical writings down to the first century. But at the same time, there were plenty of other popular cults and sects in the Roman Empire and Christianity was just one of them. The reason the Romans persecuted the...
I will start with meat, perhapsthe most basic and obvious of martyrial“foods.”2.1 MeatClose to the ritual process of sacrifice is the processing of a raw, live humanbody into cooked meat. A number of early martyr narratives pick up this theme.The church historian Eusebius claims to ...
In short, Habito paints Catholic spirituality as a life led in the spirit (breath) of Jesus Christ. Notwithstanding the common views of the significance of breathing, there is a decided difference in the approach to breathing in Zen practice, which seeks to bring all this abstract and ...
(which seated 20,000), the aqueduct, and other ruins of Roman and later times. Of particular interest is a Roman inscription, found in 1961, which mentionsPontius Pilate, Roman procurator of Judaea at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion. This is the first mention of Pilate ever found that can...