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It's no longer about land!

...ne from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! Galatians 6:15 For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything; but a new creation is everything! As Peter also wrote, those who believe in and follow Christ Jesus are "a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people" (1 Peter 2:9-10), Israel was once the vine and symbolically referred to as such (Ps 80:8-9; Joel 1:7) but we are now grafted into the tru...

What does the word "Catholic" mean?

...8/article/human-tradition-vs-apostolic.html Alexandria, Clement of. The Stromata. Ed. Kevin Knight. n.d. 2021 July 2021. . Augustine. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Series 1, Augustine: The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists. Ed. Philip Schaff. 2. Vol. 4. Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1995. BBC News. Catholic Church child sexual abuse scandal. 26 February 2019. 29 July 2021. . Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. Apostolic succession. 3 January 2020. 29 July 2021. . Brit...

How Old Was Jesus When He Died? A Fresh Look At The Historical Clues

...complete human experience, and by living longer, he sanctified each stage of life: He came to fulfill all righteousness, and for this reason did not reject the common human experience, but sanctified every age by His likeness to it. He came as an infant to sanctify infancy, as a child to sanctify childhood, as a youth to sanctify youth, and as an elder to sanctify old age. He therefore passed through every stage of life, so that He might be a perfect teacher for all, not merely in words but in age, sanctifying even the elderly because He reached their state as well. (Against Heresies 2.22.6) Historical Anchors: Birth, Pilate, and the Crucifixion Window Now t...

Lent: Day 15 - Justin Martyr: First Apology, Chaps. 36-47

...nless the human race have the power of avoiding evil and choosing good by free choice, they are not accountable for their actions He goes on to make the argument that if fate decides how people act, then it is fate which is the cause of evil, and not people, and this is not how God has made mankind to be. To borrow from the terminology of “fate”, Justin makes one final point that there is one thing in which the Christians “assert is inevitable fate” – that those who choose good, will be rewarded, and those who choose evil will be punished. By this, prophecy is not nullified by free will, and free will is not overcome by prophecy, but that all which...

Lent Day 28: Athanasius: Life of Anthony: Chaps. 71-80

...He took a human body for the salvation and well-being of man, that having shared in human birth He might make man partake in the divine and spiritual nature; or to liken the divine to senseless animals and consequently to worship four-footed beasts, creeping things and the likenesses of men?  For these things, are the objects of reverence of you wise men. But how do you dare to mock us, who say that Christ has appeared as man... He goes on to say that they talk endlessly about “the wanderings of Osiris and Isis, the plots of Typhon, the flight of Cronos, his eating his children and the slaughter of his father” as their form of wisdom, yet mock the cross...

Lent Day 36: Ambrose of Milan: Concerning the Mysteries: 5-9

..., nor the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Cor 2:9), for the invisible things of God cannot be comprehended by the human mind. As “water flowed from the rock” for the people of old (Num 20:11), Ambrose says, now “for you Blood flowed from Christ” – that water only satisfied them for a short time, the now the Blood of Christ satisfies us for all eternity; just as the Body of Christ is now far better than the manna, “for light is better than shadow” which these things prefigured. Ambrose finishes of his lecture with a lengthy explanation about the Eucharist and how it really is the body and blood of Christ,...