As usual there is always something deeper than what appears on the surface.
"For the church, questions about the morality of surrogacy transcend issues of market regulation, citizenship and parental authority claims. On April 8 in its declaration “Dignitas Infinita,” the Dicastery for the...
from Catholic Bible
* [13:1–14:57] These chapters deal with scaly or fungal infections (Hebrew ṣāra‘at). The older translation “leprosy” is misleading because ṣāra‘at refers to not just one but several chronic and enduring skin diseases in human beings. The disease known as “leprosy”...
The Gospel - Is it only that Jesus died or is it that we celebrate The Resurrection?
Actually, they are one, as in John's Gospel, ONE event, D/R, Jesus 'Lifted" up in glory.
Jerusalem, holy city to Jews, Christins, Muslims. Something sure happened there. Lot of complaints from
Catholics when the priest no longer faced the Altar. Reasons given; the priest was to face the congregation.
Mass had now become a sort of two-way conversation. Previously, the priest and...
I think the Gospels are pretty much the same but arranged differently concerning the pastorals. The biggest difference is the Hebrew Scriptures.
Luther did not accept, as inspired, books of Hebrew Scripture in Greek, the Septuagint, neither did the Rabbis.
I fully believe in Jesus, historical and risen, and for Christians, the Messiah. But all the writing about Him came long after the oral tradition which the
writers already experienced Him as the crucified and risen. What we read in the Gospels is written by the next generation, most Apostles...
Not to the conversation but to 18 yrs on nursing staff of an Orthodox Jewish health care facility. Those who
delivered the breakfast trays to the rooms on Sabbath must open the cereal boxes for the residents because,
otherwise, they would have too 'tare' open the individual box of cereal.
I satisfied my fix for Jesus Christ Superstar on Netflix.
from the article;
One lasting problem with this movie. as with the original play, is a fairly major omission: the resurrection. (This, one suspects, would probably not be St. Paul’s favorite video.) After the crucifixion, the players in...