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Thanksgiving Verses – Part 22
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 him, but said this for those…
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Thanksgiving Verses – Part 21
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 of this text, let’s consider its discussion…
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Unity or Disunity?
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 doctrine of sola scriptura? Does the Baptist…
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Thanksgiving Verses – Part 20
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 seven years. This extremely…
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New American Bible on 1 Corinthians 3:11-15
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 translation, published under the…
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Thanksgiving Verses – Part 19
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 5,000 (with…
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Navarre Bible on 1 Corinthians 3:11-15
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…
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Bellarmine on 1 Corinthians 3:11-15
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 about this, nor as…
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Kadhafi Making Stuff Up?
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 his evidence is?????…
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Thanksgiving Verses – Part 18
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 Father’s] sight.”…