Agape, in the New Testament, the fatherly love of God for humans, as well as the human reciprocal love for God. The term necessarily extends to the love of one’s fellow humans as the love between God and humans is made manifest in one’s unselfish love
this view of the Scriptures. TheApostlesknew that “prophecy came not by the will of man at any time: but the holy men ofGodspoke, inspired by theHoly Ghost” (II Pet., i, 21); they regarded “all scripture, inspired ofGod” as “profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to ...
And now we recognize for the first time just how deeply shaped Moses has become by the new story into which he has been inducted, and by his convictions about the character of the God who is authoring it. For at this crucial moment in his life his trust in God issues, not in obedienc...
Todays description speaks of God as our everlasting light, and as we have noticed previously, to be everlasting is to lack the constraints of the past, future and present, to be beyond time. From our perspective, our Light, from our current existence in the present, has always been, and ...
Nevertheless, Jesus gave hope of eternal life with a real body, God has the best plan. “He doesn’t want any to perish…”2 Peter 3:9. Perish is the operative word here that is also included in that famous passage of John 3:16, where “perish” is the penalty for unbelief. One ...
…a Christian’s good works are performed in order that the grace that God has given us may be lived out so that we may become more like Christ. As I have said, the purpose of “good works” for the Catholic is not to get you into heaven, but to get heaven into you. The ...
“I considerChristianity to be a teaching that gives meaning to life … and thus it makes absolutely no difference to me whether Jesus Christ was God or not.”[16]But the Church has understood that to look at Christianity in this way is to bring it completely to nothing. It is not ...
It has always been expressed that humans are connected to the creation of God. We have the discipline of Apologetics that treats this connection and has shown the harmony between science and God’s Spirit expressed in His Word. We are to do all things unto the Lord – see the spiritual ...
“Since this is the case, in order that the truth may be adjudged to belong to us, “as many as walk according to the rule,” which the church has handed down from the apostles, the apostles from Christ, and Christ from God, the reason of our position is clear, when it determines...
witness when fully reproduced in His people. This underscores the importance of personal ongoing transformation as a result rather than the idea of salvation by reaching perfection. But I still don’t see from Scripture this as what God the Father is waiting on. Has anyone ever reached this ...