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    Vatican Blasts Trans Surgery, Surogacy, Etc

    Unfortunately, yes. What you refer to as 'costume' are in the Church known as symbols or signs which effect what they symbolize. Also, most unfortunate are the many priests who are faithful to their vows but have lost the trust. The Church hierarchy was more interested in protecting the...
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    The Gospel - Is it only that Jesus died or is it that we celebrate The Resurrection?

    Lapide, a Jewish scholar agrees. Jesus is speaking completely within the confines of the arguments of the Judaism of His time. Jesus uses the common way of speaking to give His Torah explanation, and that He in no way intends to express Himself ‘antithetically’ about Torah and tradition, and...
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    Vatican Blasts Trans Surgery, Surogacy, Etc

    The Globe had brought the scandal to Rome's doorstep by forcing the then archbishop to face a deposition. In order to avoid this legal deposition the archbishop resigned, Pope Paul II called him back to Rome and gave him a rather presteguis church.
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    The Gospel - Is it only that Jesus died or is it that we celebrate The Resurrection?

    Yes. And these are only the Gospels that made the cut from the many written.
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    The Gospel - Is it only that Jesus died or is it that we celebrate The Resurrection?

    Politically and religiously, Jesus would have identified with the Pharisees, but not with the hypocrisy, as Jesus points out in the so-named woes. He did suggest they sit in 'Moses Seat', listen to him, not to 'do as they do'.
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    The Gospel - Is it only that Jesus died or is it that we celebrate The Resurrection?

    True, it ought to be read in stages as it was written, stages with many years between. unknown authors etc. Only John mentions himself as the author, and that is questionable. The other authors wrote anonymously, it was the Church that assigned the names as authors of their gospels.
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    Richard Dawkins says he is a Cultural Christian

    My husband, who is not a church goer or even interested, use to watch Billy Graham. Too bad his son was nothing like him.
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    The Gospel - Is it only that Jesus died or is it that we celebrate The Resurrection?

    Historically, that is the order. In the highly theological gospel of Jn, it is one event, Jesus glorified.
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    Vatican Blasts Trans Surgery, Surogacy, Etc

    As usual there is always something deeper than what appears on the surface. "For the church, questions about the morality of surrogacy transcend issues of market regulation, citizenship and parental authority claims. On April 8 in its declaration “Dignitas Infinita,” the Dicastery for the...
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    Leviticus 13:13-14

    from Catholic Bible * [13:1–14:57] These chapters deal with scaly or fungal infections (Hebrew ṣāra‘at). The older translation “leprosy” is misleading because ṣāra‘at refers to not just one but several chronic and enduring skin diseases in human beings. The disease known as “leprosy”...
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    The Gospel - Is it only that Jesus died or is it that we celebrate The Resurrection?

    The Gospel - Is it only that Jesus died or is it that we celebrate The Resurrection? Actually, they are one, as in John's Gospel, ONE event, D/R, Jesus 'Lifted" up in glory.
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    Why No Major Western Religions?

    Jerusalem, holy city to Jews, Christins, Muslims. Something sure happened there. Lot of complaints from Catholics when the priest no longer faced the Altar. Reasons given; the priest was to face the congregation. Mass had now become a sort of two-way conversation. Previously, the priest and...
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    What is the Bible?

    The Septuagint is the Bibles throughout the NT. As for the Church Latin was introduced with the Vulgate.
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    What is the Bible?

    I think the Gospels are pretty much the same but arranged differently concerning the pastorals. The biggest difference is the Hebrew Scriptures. Luther did not accept, as inspired, books of Hebrew Scripture in Greek, the Septuagint, neither did the Rabbis.
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    By the way -- if you claim to be a Christian...

    I fully believe in Jesus, historical and risen, and for Christians, the Messiah. But all the writing about Him came long after the oral tradition which the writers already experienced Him as the crucified and risen. What we read in the Gospels is written by the next generation, most Apostles...
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    By the way -- if you claim to be a Christian...

    As written?, no. The writers used all the writing skills developed over the centuries, including myth, folklore, parables etc,
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    WHERE IS THE SCRIPTURE THAT SAYS GOD'S 4th COMMANDMENT IS ABOLISHED?

    Not to the conversation but to 18 yrs on nursing staff of an Orthodox Jewish health care facility. Those who delivered the breakfast trays to the rooms on Sabbath must open the cereal boxes for the residents because, otherwise, they would have too 'tare' open the individual box of cereal.
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    what's your favorite movie at Easter?

    I satisfied my fix for Jesus Christ Superstar on Netflix. from the article; One lasting problem with this movie. as with the original play, is a fairly major omission: the resurrection. (This, one suspects, would probably not be St. Paul’s favorite video.) After the crucifixion, the players in...
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    By the way -- if you claim to be a Christian...

    The 'truth' of Christianity does not rest in a 'book' but in a 'person'.
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    WHERE IS THE SCRIPTURE THAT SAYS GOD'S 4th COMMANDMENT IS ABOLISHED?

    I believe not 'harvesting' applies today for Orthodox Jews, as it does not allow for opening a box of cold cereal and the like.
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