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Isn't the answer given in Matthew 18:17, "...if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican"? Aren't modern Israelis merely some of those who neglect to hear the Church?

And that we might participate in His divine nature, which we do in particular when we go to Mass in His Church, and licitly receive Him in Holy Communion. Go to Mass.

I agree, I think we lose something by using "you" for both singular and plural. Other languages retain this distinction, I think that it promotes ambiguity and confusion to have abandoned them.

I would just remind you of Matthew 18:17 where Christ teaches us, "...if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican." So the question is, how do we do that? Who is it who neglects to hear the Church? Who is the Church, and what does she say, such that...

I'm not someone who believes that God fails. The idea of Him failing is frankly preposterous. The notion that He could or that He might fail at whatever it is that He sets out to do is ridiculous. This is what Noncalvinists do not understand about Calvinists and Calvinism. It isn't just that...

I wouldn't mind a whole house battery, combine that with a natural gas generator for power outages and I wouldn't look back. But in all seriousness if you get a tip about obtaining some coal---China wants to hear from you.

China accepts your challenge!

For the intention of Grumix8 and his or her or neither his nor her mother and brother, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen

I would agree if the prayer of a righteous man is not powerful and does not accomplish much, but it does.

Untrue. Untrue. God chooses according to His good pleasure. The last part is Calvinism, the other stuff you just imported your own faulty notion of Calvinism. Where you say ordain and predestine, you do not mean what the Calvinists mean by those words, they simply mean choice. God has the...

If God doesn't will someone to perish, then He doesn't work to make that death happen, but what if He doesn't stop the death from occurring? Is He thereby guilty of the death anyway? The Calvinist and correct answer is no, of course not. God is not responsible for something coming to be if He...

Wow. I just read that. It amazes me how far away from such a simple principle that so many Catholics, including priests, seem to be. The simple principle is that the bishops' job is to transmit to us all that the Apostles taught, and they uniformly taught, captured in Scripture but also in...

I never saw where in any of those posts you mention or in any of your other posts, what your thoughts were on the Apostles as the authorized arbiters of what we should believe as believers in Christ and in God and as honest and unbiased Bible students. Did I miss it? Maybe I did not...

With universal background checks, violent criminals will just up and stop committing violent crime. That's how it works!

Right. So I hope you're seeing, because it's very plain by now, that there are passages of Scripture that are consistent with Jesus being Yahweh. And there are passages that are not inconsistent with Jesus not being Yahweh. And so what we have here is a Mexican standoff. You believe Jesus...

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. 19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily...

Initial question, basically, is there a crime problem? Her answer, basically, well there's a gun problem. Huh? So that's a no on the crime question? smh

Yes, it can, with extremely unlikely events happening, all by chance, and all happening one after another after another after another, each one extremely unlikely, and the whole chain of them strung together being the most preposterous improbability that could be imagined. There's nonfiction...

This is a real conversation, it is just one where you don't feel that it's going well for you because I won't just grant what you're saying. So you need to adjust, if you want the conversation to be constructive instead of just you insisting that I just accept what you're putting forth. That's...

I never invoked "scientific worldview", just atheism, which is the opposition to the God theory. Nobody did that. I just didn't suppose that God is not real, which is what you're suggesting here is the right way to argue. With clown-like slapstick improbabilities, of course---who couldn't do...