In difficult texts, the teachings of tradition and the analogy of faith must lead the way. The Catholic exegete, conscious of his faith, recognizes the intimate relationship between Scripture and Tradition; he strives to explain Scriptural passages in such a way that the sacred writers will not...
When properly taught, theology is not confusing and is never be boring. When properly studied, theology sets the heart on fire and opens up the mind to imagination and wonder. Let me show you how. What is Theology? Here at Till He Comes, my goal is toBring Scripture and Theology to Li...
Treasury of Scripture But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; the prophet. Joel 2:28-32 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men...
The rest of my Christian friends and I were persuaded that the analogy of drunkenness applied to getting high on pot. Thus we believed marijuana use to be sinful.) Surely there is nothing in Scripture that prohibits one from observing Advent. No matter what you think of it, Advent surely ...
As I said earlier, it means the same thing as being. God’s essence is his being. To be even more precise, essence is what you are. At the risk of sounding too physical, essence can be understood as the “stuff” that you “consist of.” Of course we are speaking by analogy here...
Thus, the Sunnah is significant and authoritative in its own right. There are scholars of Islam who, by analogy, have compared the Qur’an to the Jewish Torah, and the Hadīth to Judaism’s Oral Torah—that second Jewish sacred text which comments on and clarifies the first. In essence,...
Going back to the earlier pendulum analogy with good news on one side and good works on the other, we can see why this is a bad paradigm of thinking. The goal is not a balance between good news and good works, where we limit good news in doing good works, or we limit good works ...
Apostle Paul, using an analogy, wrote that believers are “builders” whose foundation is Christ: “Their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work,” 1 ...
man was to triumph over Satan. But it evidently had a more specific reference. It refers to one individual, who in a sense peculiar to himself, was to be the seed of the woman. This is clear from the analogy of prophecy. When it was promised to Abraham that in his seed all the nat...
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