The Holiness Code in Leviticus, in which the proscription against homosexual behavior is included, was intended to keep the Hebrews separate from the Canaanites. Neither Jews nor Christians practice it today. More importantly, the ministry of Jesus was based on inclusion, rather than exclusion. ...
They must have understood that the oral teaching of the apostles, what Catholics call tradition, and the Bible not only failed to contradict the doctrine, but, in fact, confirmed it. It is no wonder, then, that those who deny the existence of purgatory tend to touch upon only briefly the...
as the Bible tells us that we are saved by grace through our“faith”in Jesus. So God has no other alternative but to give each person a certain measure of faith, otherwise we would never be able to get saved through His Son Jesus. ...
For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for
Hebrews 9:11-14 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and ...
It's wonderful to think that we have an eternity in which to learn more and more things, and these things will be more meaningful than anything we can learn on earth!! But the great thing is that we can make a start learning them NOW!! Let's all do it!
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The Eucharist is a true sacrifice, not just a commemorative meal, as “Bible Christians” insist. The first Christians knew that it was a sacrifice and proclaimed this in their writings. They recognized the sacrificial character of Jesus’ instruction, “Do this in remembrance of me” (Touto ...
ago the state exempted the truth of the Bible from the public square. As an example, Hammurabi’s one appearance of one pillar and his one code count as history but the multiple ancient Hebrew copies of Old Testament do not. This practice is a deliberate abridgement of the free speech ...
God says it this way, "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear" (Hebrews 11:3). Things which were made (that's you and me) were not made of things which do appear (that's...