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For your part, for the time being hold on to what was said, remember it, and teach it to those who have not heard it. Let everyone meditate on it in church, in the marketplace and at home; nothing is sweeter than attention to the divine sayings. Listen, at any rate, to what the inspired author sa...
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The final passage regarding thanksgiving from the gospels is from John's gospel on the occasion of the raising of Lazarus. Only John's gospel mentions the raising of Lazarus.In this passage, Jesus thanks the Father for hearing Him. Jesus clarifies that He already knew that the Father had heard ...
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So much for them; now listen to what is said by us - or, rather, not by us but by the divine Scripture; it is not our teaching we cite but that of the Holy Spirit.- John Chrysostom (around A.D. 347 to around A.D. 407), Sermon 7 on Genesis, in St. John Chrysostom, Eight Sermons on the Book of Gene...
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What did you see that was worthy of a kingdom? A man crucified, flogged, mocked accused, spat upon, scourged - is this, tell me, worthy of a kingdom? Do you notice that he saw with the eyes of faith, and did not examine appearances? Hence God did not examine mere words, either; instead, just as t...
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In today's passage, there are two aspects of thanks. They are both, interestingly enough, about the thanks that it is not given.The passage is a particularly famous passage, because it speaks about loving our enemies and about being merciful in judgment ("judge not"). Leaving aside the abuses o...
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I recently came across the following comment: Protestant epistemology has lead to the creation of thousands upon thousands of divided Protestant sects that cannot come together and agree on a single point of doctrine. What is the source of that Protestant doctrinal chaos if it is not the doctrin...
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The following set of passages are some remaining examples of people giving thanks in the gospels. We've already seen Jesus giving thanks, but now we turn to others.The first passage is the account of Anna the prophetess. She had been a widow for eighty-four years, after having been married for ...
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The text of 1 Cor 3:15 has sometimes been used to support the notion of purgatory, though it does not envisage this.- New American Bible, 1 Corinthians 3, Footnote 8, at 1 Corinthians 3:11-15, Vatican's On-Line Edition (link)(same note at USCCB site)The New American Bible is a Roman Catholic tran...
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Today's segment addresses the many verses in which Jesus and Paul give thanks before eating. We, Jesus' disciples as Paul was, do the same when we eat.The first account below is the feeding of the 4,000 (together with a synoptic account of this feeding). The second account is the feeding of the...
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We cannot be sure that St Paul is here referring to purgatory; but it is quite in order to interpret “he will be saved, but only as through fire” in that sense.- Navarre Bible, Saint Paul's letters to the Corinthians, p. 47 (2005)The Navarre Bible is a production of Opus Dei and features commenta...
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The following are some thoughts of Robert Francis Romulus Bellarmine (Robert Bellarmine was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1930, and declared a Doctor of the Universal Church in 1931.) on 1 Corinthians 3:11-15. I don't present this as though it is the only thing that Roman Catholics have ever said...
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I came across a reaction to what Kadhafi had said (link to reaction) (link to my own previous post on what Kadhafi had said).Swordbearer writes: Kadhafi, in a one hour lesson on Islam, to a paid audience, stated in regard to Jesus' crucifixion: "They crucified someone who looked like him." And h...
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Today's segment is the first mention of thanksgiving, as such, in the gospels. The passage is an account of Jesus praying to the Father. Jesus is thanking God for a very interesting thing: for hiding from the wise, and revealing to "babes." The reason given is that "it seemed good in thy [the ...
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He enters the city, spends the first day just getting himself deeper into the city, and then preaches his message: Yet forty days, and the city shall be overthrown. He doesn't have any particular care for the people of the city, and you can see it on his face. He's just going through the motion...
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Reformed Chicks Blabbing recently brought to my attention an article about a party that Gaddafi held in Italy to try to convert young women to Islam (link). Gaddafi put out a call for "500 attractive girls between 18 and 35 years old, at least 1.70 meters (5 foot, 7 inches) tall," which was answ...
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The minor prophets provide us with two thanksgiving passages, one in Amos and one in Jonah. In Amos, God mocks those of Israel who are about to go into captivity with an ironic command for thanksgiving. As such, it is one of the few references (perhaps the only one in the Old Testament) to than...
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The following is a debate featuring Roman Catholics Archbishop John Onaiyekan and MP Anne Widdecombe (Conservative) against Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens. The debate went well for the Negative according to the poll results released during the debate. Patrick Madrid, who brought this to m...
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The following guest post from Pastor David King, is in response to Bryan Cross' remarks (#166) on the blog entry, "Solo Scriptura, Sola Scriptura, and the Question of Interpretive Authority."Cross’ misuse of Jerome…“Jerome in Context: A Case Study Surrounding Epistle 15 with respect to the Roman ...
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The two passages in today's segment come from the book of Daniel. The first passage is Daniel's prayer of thanks to God for showing him the meaning of the king's dream. The first thing Daniel does, even before going to telling Arioch the good news (the wise men of Babylon were going to be killed...
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Even Jeremiah, the weeping prophet, mentions thanksgiving. He mentions it in the context of the return of the captivity of the people of Israel. The biggest point of the passage is to point out that God is predicting the future. He is telling Jeremiah to write this down as proof, as it were, t...
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The next thanksgiving verse is found among three calls to hearken to the people of God in Isaiah 51. The first call mentions the joy and thanksgiving to which the people of God will be called, calling to mind the origins of men. The second call mentions the coming judgment and contrasts it with...
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Dear Prof. Horton,In view of your article "Can We Be Confessional and Catholic?" and in view of your recent blurb for a book on the theology of Benedict XVI by Roman Catholic apologist Scott Hahn, we are wondering: Do you agree or disagree that Trent declared the Gospel of Christ to be Anathema a...
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Eisegesis is not something that Roman Catholicism invented. It has been around almost since the beginning, having been practiced by the Valentinians: Such, then, is their system, which neither the prophets announced, nor the Lord taught, nor the apostles delivered, but of which they boast that b...
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I am surprised and disappointed by this report regarding Michael Horton (link).To God be the Glory!
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In this section we'll look at a number of verses in the psalms that mention thanks, although that is not necessarily the theme of the whole psalm. The first group of psalms are psalms where the primary request is one of mercy, restoration, help, salvation, or deliverance.In Psalm 6, in the conte...
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Joshua189 has provided a short but sweet quotation from the real Francis Turretin explaining why mere human merit can never be enough to serve as a ground for justification (link)Enjoy!-TurretinFanTo God be the Glory!
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The following texts get misquoted amazingly often. First, here are the texts.Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her win...
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Islam does not attempt to make likenesses of Allah. Nevertheless, there is something akin to idolatry in Islam, namely the worship of Hajar Aswad, the black stone. The black stone is the cornerstone of the Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The Kaaba is the black cubic building that is central to a...
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We come now to a first discussion of some of the thanks given in the book of Psalms, aka the Psalter. We have already reviewed Psalm 18 (in Part 3 of this series), Psalms 105, 96, and 106 (Part 4), Psalms 39, 62, and 77 (Part 6), Psalms 107, 118, and 136 (Part 8), Psalms 146 and 147 (Part 10), a...
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I like R. Scott Clark. He's a good guy, and smart guy. I don't know why he is so fond of what appears to be a practically Lutheran version of Two Kingdoms. It comes across pretty clearly in this post of his today (link to his post).RSC writes: If the real “problem” for the critics is religious...
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