Because He want’s us to seek Him. He knows that if it is too easy we will simple invent questions. Onlly those who sincerely seek to find the answers will find the Truth.
PP this is pure assertion the truth of which is even harder to demonstrate than the difficulties this assertion is meant to bolster
. In other words its no more than a re-stating of the original issue (albeit in a different scenario) from the same point of view yo have re the original issue.The only difference is that , presumably, those who don’t agree with this allegedly “objective” justification are subtely lampooned and derided as “critical”, “not sympathetic”, “without faith”, “cynical”.
.Sure we can. This was an observation not a conclusion or even a premise. I never claimed it was anything more than that, but thanks for your sober reminder.PP this is pure assertion the truth of which is even harder to demonstrate than the difficulties this assertion is meant to bolster
Its the typical circular reasoning of a “true believer”. Surely we can do better than that
Boy, do I have a lot of answers to find…
This is a Catholic board. Of course the Church Fathers, as the keepers of Sacred Tradition and compilers of Sacred Scripture are regarded as reliable on the same.
Mt 15:23 Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.” 24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.” 25 The woman came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!” she said. 26 He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to their dogs.” 27 “Yes, lord,” she said, “but even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.” 28 Then Jesus answered, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.I was discussing with my friends about the church, and one of them is trying to convert to catholicism, but he have some doubts, he asked me: “Hey,* if Catholicism is true why there are still jews? Think about it, God chose a people and created a religion, Judaism, then he promised a messiah to his people and he sent this messiah, but he was not very specific in his scriptures and there are still people who find in his own scriptures that this messiah did not accomplish this pre-requirements to a messiah, and therefore they are still jews, so how could he create a religion, but he was not very clear in his own scriptures and left astray his own people waiting until today the messiah? Why he did not make very clear to don’t left astray his own people, the jews and left them waiting until today the messiah?* And Still, if catholicism is true, why he was not very specific that he wanted to create one, and one single church, one pope, so we would not have hundreds and hundreds of protestant nominations? Why he did not make specific in the bible that he would only make one Church, and just one instead to leave us astray?”
I tried to say that God would not force us to follow his religion, and he would try to freely attract us to the true church and religion, but i’m not into this business of Old Scriptures, and Early Christianity, someone could help me with this one? Thank you!
Yup, me too. It might take a lifetime, but the closer you get to The Truth, the closer you get to Him because He is The Way, The Truth and The Life.
Wall =/= Temple; moreover, Jerusalem and the Temple underwent at least three forms of destruction: once especially the Temple was ruined by the Romans in the 1st century, then all of Jerusalem and the surrounding area in the 2nd century, then a natural disaster under Julian the Apostate that destroyed and consumed the Temple area when they were trying to rebuild it - for Julian he was doing it for no other reason than to spite the Christians and reverse Christ’s prophecy or try to disredit it. Today the wailing wall at most attests to the historical reality of the Jerusalem Temples (1st/Solomon and the 2nd after the Exile and enlarged massively by one of the Herods).Hmmmn, I don’t think so. We of course glibly promote minor/obscure “prophecies” to top level if they can be in any way applied to Jesus and demote even the apparantly clearer ones if they cannot. An obvious case of victors (re-)writing the history.
I am not saying Jesus wasn’t prophecied in the OT. But there’s a lot of smoke and mirrors.
Isn’t life just the same? Which is why sincere Jews can be found in Judaism and sincere Protestantsd can be found in Protestantism and sincere Buddhists in Buddhism and sincere Muslims in Islam… and insincere Catholics in Catholicism. It isn’t rocket science
Jesus prophecied no stone would be left upon a stone in the destruction of Jerusalem…so what is the Jewish “wailing wall” then? Prophecy is tricky isn’t it
There are various prophecies in the OT. Of the Messianic, some deal with the first coming of Christ, others the second coming and the new heavens and earth. The Apostles were aware of this difference and hence emphasized in their preaching Christ’s Second Coming also, which later some (Christians even) mistook as their believing that Christ’s second coming was necessarily temporally/chronologically immanent, though in a sense it is for each invidual simply because we are mortal and death can come at any moment. Of the OT prophecies touching on what we today would call the Apocalypse, these are most easily interpreted as Christ bringing in his first coming a very earthly and very human utopia; whereas, we understand this definitive transformation of creation as being rather more radical. The “gap” between the two events is, for the Christian, a time to rake in as many souls as possible to the glory of God.
Hmm… one of these is a forum.