King Phenomenon
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When they preach/talk of Jesus are they really talking of someone who's living today who's death/birth brings about the destruction/creation of all things? On and on and on it goes...
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When they preach/talk of Jesus are they really talking of someone who's living today who's death/birth brings about the destruction/creation of all things? On and on and on it goes...
When they preach/talk of Jesus are they really talking of someone who's living today who's death/birth brings about the destruction/creation of all things? On and on and on it goes...
Ask them.When they preach/talk of Jesus are they really talking of someone who's living today who's death/birth brings about the destruction/creation of all things? On and on and on it goes...
Living today - yes.When they preach/talk of Jesus are they really talking of someone who's living today who's death/birth brings about the destruction/creation of all things? On and on and on it goes...
And exactly how do you supposedly know this?His death brought salvation and redemption to all who believe.
Destruction is chosen by those who don't choose to listen.
If you are a Catholic, how do you not know this?And exactly how do you supposedly know this?
BTW, if you have Netflix, maybe watch the movie "Come Sunday", which is based on a true story as it deals with this topic.
What does your comment have anything to do with what I wrote?If you are a Catholic, how do you not know this?
No. That's just plain silly.When they preach/talk of Jesus are they really talking of someone who's living today who's death/birth brings about the destruction/creation of all things? On and on and on it goes...
Where did I say that? Talk about positing.What does your comment have anything to do with what I wrote?
Secondly, apparently you are not aware of the Catechism's teaching that we have the right of personal discernment. Basically, you are positing God in a way of being a genocidal maniac who is more than willing to destroy even His own creation.
And that applies as well.Where did I say that? Talk about positing.
"Destruction" in the context was about hell.
Hell is one of the most basic and necessary doctrines in Catholicism.And that applies as well.
Again, we have the right of personal discernment, and to me "hell" simply does not make one iota of sense. Nor does it show up in the Tanakh but it does appear to be of Greek origin. "Sheol", as mentioned in the Tanakh, is not "hell":Hell is one of the most basic and necessary doctrines in Catholicism.
By definition, according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC), paragraph 1033, hell is “[the] state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed.Again, we have the right of personal discernment, and to me "hell" simply does not make one iota of sense. Nor does it show up in the Tanakh but it does appear to be of Greek origin. "Sheol", as mentioned in the Tanakh, is not "hell":
In classic Greek mythology, below heaven, Earth, and Pontus is Tartarus, or Tartaros (Greek Τάρταρος, deep place). It is either a deep, gloomy place, a pit or abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering that resides within Hades (the entire underworld) with Tartarus being the hellish component. In the Gorgias, Plato (c. 400 BC) wrote that souls of the deceased were judged after they paid for crossing the river of the dead and those who received punishment were sent to Tartarus.[38] As a place of punishment, it can be considered a hell. The classic Hades, on the other hand, is more similar to Old Testament Sheol. The Romans later adopted these views...
The Christian doctrine of hell derives from passages in the New Testament. The word hell does not appear in the Greek New Testament; instead one of three words is used: the Greek words Tartarus or Hades, or the Hebrew word Gehinnom.
In the Septuagint and New Testament, the authors used the Greek term Hades for the Hebrew Sheol, but often with Jewish rather than Greek concepts in mind. In the Jewish concept of Sheol, such as expressed in Ecclesiastes,[52] Sheol or Hades is a place where there is no activity. However, since Augustine, some[which?] Christians have believed that the souls of those who die either rest peacefully, in the case of Christians, or are afflicted, in the case of the damned, after death until the resurrection.[53] -- Hell - Wikipedia
As I mentioned in a previous post, I am not a literalist and I take a position of "Whatever was, was".
Yes, that is what it teaches.By definition, according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC), paragraph 1033, hell is “[the] state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed.
The Catechism concurs:
The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity (1035).
Gehenna is always used for eternal “hell,” as we see, for example, in Mark 9:43.