[Prescient, it turns out] For Jesse who needs to mature in Christ
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DWGn2Ucuu/?mibextid=wwXIfr Answer the question he puts to you, Jesse: did God, the eternal God, go to a plan B for salvation because - God didn't know, or - did God go to plan B after wasting time since with the expulsion from Paradise and Noah, and Abraham, and Moses, and David, and exile, and the whole Israel thing, or - wasn't plan A - the Incarnation - simply the eternal plan of God's faithfulness with His Creation all along?
http://answeringcatholicclaims.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-mosaic-law-and-works.html
ReplyDeleteOff topic but then maybe you need to know this: “ if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.”
DeleteThat man has really hurt my faith in God. Please help me, sir. Could you confront him when you have some time? I don't have the words to say to him to explain why Russell is in the wrong, not being the brightest crayon in the box. I really need to heal spiritually and come back to the Church.
DeleteHi Russell
DeleteRussel, the greatest commandment isn’t to believe. Nor is the second greatest. Both are about the responsibilities of faith.
DeleteAnd failing the responsibilities puts you in jeapordy. “Not everyone who’s says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’…”
And as a matter of orthodoxy theology AND practice, I encourage you to reframe “responsibilities” as the spiritual and moral work of… love.
Protestants are horrible at loving the world. Protestants make it a duty, not an intention of living in communion with Christ and his example of selfless love. [not self wasting love, but often sacrificial.]
When protestants are able to experience the sacrificial as actually being glorified by the Spirit, then they’ve entered into real communion with Christ, the Father, the Holy Spirit, the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Joseph, and all the Saints who live in perfect communion even now in heaven.
This! is Christian life in its fullness. It matters less than zero where you worship.
If you have love, whole live, holy love, “ Russel, the greatest commandment isn’t to believe. Nor is the second greatest. Both are about the responsibilities of faith.
And failing the responsibilities puts you in jeapordy. “Not everyone who’s says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’…”
And as a matter of orthodoxy theology AND practice, I encourage you to reframe “responsibilities” as the spiritual and moral work of… love.
Protestants are horrible at loving the world. Protestants make it a duty, not an intention of living in communion with Christ and his example of selfless love. [not self wasting love, but often sacrificial.]
When protestants are able to experience the sacrificial as actually being glorified by the Spirit, then they’ve entered into real communion with Christ, the Father, the Holy Spirit, the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Joseph, and all the Saints who live in perfect communion even now in heaven.
This! is Christian life in its fullness. It matters less than zero where you worship.
If you have love, whole love, holy love, “love never ends… as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect… So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”
What’s wrong, Russell? Stumped?
DeleteStan and the other Thugs always complain about the Love ethic. Because they think of it only as an ethic. Negotiable, contextual to them.
ReplyDeleteThis is the epitome of dead faith: zero devotional spirituality - of which, the sacramental traditions tied to the historic church (Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican) excel. There are no devotional giants in radical protestantism. They are trapped in a book. No heart.
They ignore the Truth of Love, the greatest commandments