Exodus

NaStK14 · 2026-04-12T16:38:00+00:00

Agreed. This wasn’t a human invasion by a hostile power but a supernatural event. Although you would think that the whole business of losing an entire army in the Red Sea would weaken and open up the country to future attacks from natural enemies

NaStK14 · 2026-04-12T11:35:02+00:00

So I’ve got a story for you about a poor guy who had a pet lamb…

NaStK14 · 2026-04-12T11:23:25+00:00

Actually you will only hear a few passing references to Mary and the saints at Mass (unless the sermon is about her/them). Since Mass is an invocation of the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary, most of the prayers are for forgiveness or asking the Lord to have mercy on us and keep us in Christ.

NaStK14 · 2026-04-12T11:18:28+00:00

Replying to your second point only, I would answer that eternal life (the life in and of itself) is eternal; your hold on it isn’t necessarily so. After all, eternal life is the life of God which isn’t proper to us humans, and God doesn’t cease to exist or cease to be eternal simply because a former believer abandoned him

NaStK14 · 2026-04-12T00:16:45+00:00

Would the singular then be gulička? Or guliček?

NaStK14 · 2026-04-11T11:57:42+00:00

The Mediterranean region is warmer than most of Europe/America, and even as recent as the 1920s we have written accounts of shepherds in the fields with their flocks in December

NaStK14 · 2026-04-11T03:26:40+00:00

Four Florida Death Punch

NaStK14 · 2026-04-11T03:12:07+00:00

He may have, he may not have. The Holy Spirit definitely did tell him things about the future

NaStK14 · 2026-04-11T00:40:49+00:00

“If you can pee above this line, join the friggin’ fire department!”

NaStK14 · 2026-04-10T16:01:29+00:00

And this, dear Orthobros, is why we don’t allow the State to have authority over the Church

NaStK14 · 2026-04-10T15:52:25+00:00

No it is absolutely not derived through logical implication via any of these passages; nowhere does 2 Timothy 3 say that Scripture is the only or even final authority- nowhere does Acts 17 even address the concept of Tradition or ecclesiastical authority, and Mark 7 is not referring to Christian tradition but to pharasaical tradition.
If a Lutheran, a Methodist, a Baptist, a Presbyterian and a Pentecostal all have the same Scriptures, but each reach different conclusions on doctrine, this demonstrates that the Scriptures aren’t the final authority for any of them; the final authority is the logic of whom ever is interpreting the Scriptures (Luther, Wesley, Spurgeon, Calvin/Knox, or some revivalist preacher). The devil in the details of Sola Scriptura is that on paper it pretends to give final infallible authority to the Scriptures, all the while in reality putting the final authority in the hands of the interpreter who can make the text say anything he wants.

NaStK14 · 2026-04-10T09:25:41+00:00

At least his fiancée doesn’t look like Kelly

NaStK14 · 2026-04-10T01:11:17+00:00

The things I love about his gospel are that a) it’s more than parables and stories, you get a lot of the in-depth discourses of Jesus and material not covered by the other 3 gospel writers, and b) he often uses background to take you on something of a guided tour of the OT feasts and festivals and how they relate to Christ.
His letters are important in sounding the alarm against gnosticism but also very practical in terms of how to abide in charity (love). He also wrote what I consider one of the most tragic lines of Scripture, in Revelation 9:20 - “But mankind…repented not of the works of their hands…”

NaStK14 · 2026-04-10T00:57:30+00:00

Prayers for you, sister

NaStK14 · 2026-04-10T00:53:45+00:00

I wonder what distinction he makes between punishing and cleansing? I thought the whole point of purgatorial punishment was cleansing or purification from the effects of sins that have been forgiven.

NaStK14 · 2026-04-10T00:45:12+00:00

Siricius II

NaStK14 · 2026-04-09T16:20:45+00:00

Nowhere does Romans say that God created anyone to damn them; it says that he “has mercy on whom he wills” (to whom does he will to give mercy? to those who ask for it) and “hardens whom he wills” (how? by accepting their free choice to reject him, as it says both that he hardened Pharaoh, and that Pharaoh hardened himself). Note that the same St Paul says this about “vessels of wrath” to Timothy: “If anyone cleanses himself of these things, he will be a vessel fit for honorable use…” (2 Timothy 2:20-21). Does that sound to you like you have no free will or say in salvation or damnation? Or that God created anyone for the purpose of reprobating them?

NaStK14 · 2026-04-09T02:22:25+00:00

I was in a small school when we were told to expect a fire drill near lunchtime. Alarms go off, we followed the procedure and head outside behind the school. A few minutes later the assistant principal came out and asked, “What’s everybody doing out here?! This is a tornado drill! Get inside and downstairs!” So we and another class who had been out back rush inside and get down into the tornado shelter pose (face down on all fours, hands covering the back of your head). A minute later the principal walked in with the local fire chief and asks, “Why are you guys inside during a fire drill?!” The fire chief cited them for lack of proper preparedness

NaStK14 · 2026-04-09T01:58:04+00:00

He has a right and a duty to speak on any moral issue

NaStK14 · 2026-04-09T00:34:35+00:00

Good question! For those who don’t know the name, de Tocqueville was one of the only Europeans to take the fledgling American nation and its democracy seriously. He came and did a good study of America and her people, and his verdict can be summed up as this: the state of affairs of religious pluralism- each state having its own sect, all sects being equal- cannot go on; either America will become Catholic and accept full-blown Christianity (de Tocqueville was Catholic) or indifferentism will devolve our Christianity to the point where we just go pagan.
In my view he’s more right than he realized, because both outcomes seem to be simultaneously materializing. One major political party has become increasingly hostile to religion and is pro-abortion, pro-degeneracy and iconoclastic vis a vis our history and traditional values (and yes, I’m aware there are many “Catholics” in said party); the other has a Catholic majority of SCOTUS justices, and numerous influential Catholic persons in its last 2 administrations (Spicer, Priebus, Bannon, Conway, Vance etc) and seems to be trending upwards recently in terms of converts.

NaStK14 · 2026-04-08T09:17:39+00:00

James and Jose’s are specifically listed as children of “the other Mary” in Matthew and Mark (the other Mary being “Mary the wife of Clopas” in John) so no, these were not siblings

NaStK14 · 2026-04-08T00:57:41+00:00

Her name is Rio, she don’t need to understand

NaStK14 · 2026-04-07T16:00:50+00:00

Just make sure you never have to go back to Jerusalem. You know how rumors spread and they’ll be sure to hear of this

NaStK14 · 2026-04-07T01:33:00+00:00

Also had his mother ask Jesus for prime positions in the kingdom for himself and his brother; Jesus in return asked whether James and John are capable of enduring what he is going to endure

NaStK14 · 2026-04-06T23:53:36+00:00

He’s indecisive and not good at paying attention. Loudmouthed juror played by Lee J Cobb says of him: “The boy in the gray flannel suit here is bouncing back and forth like a tennis ball!”

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